Harold S. Kushner Quotes

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• It explains why people come home from work or school and immediately switch on the television. They are not interested in the program much of…
• I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending, that haunts our sleep so much as the fear that…
• Seek something outside your nine-to-five job as an additional source of fulfillment and as a way to feel the joy of helping others.
• I am quite confident that the most important part of a human being is not his physical body but his nonphysical essence, which some people…
• When you are kind to others, it not only changes you, it changes the world.
• You don't become happy by pursuing happiness. You become happy by living a life that means something.
• Our souls are hungry for meaning, for the sense that we have figured out how to live so that our lives matter, so that the…
• What cannot be achieved in one lifetime will happen when one lifetime is joined to another.
• The happiest people I know are people who don't even think about being happy. They just think about being good neighbors, good people. And then…
• We can endure much more than we think we can; all human experience testifies to that. All we need to do is learn not to…
• At some of the darkest moments in my life, some people I thought of as friends deserted me-some because they cared about me and it…
• Pain is a part of being alive, and we need to learn that. Pain does not last forever, nor is it necessarily unbeatable, and we…
• Integrity is not something that grownups have and adolescents can aspire to. Integrity is something that all of us, at all ages, are constantly striving…
• When your life is filled with the desire to see the holiness in everyday life, something magical happens: Ordinary life becomes extraordinary, and the very…
• We do ourselves and others a disservice when we make old age something to be feared...The longer we live, the more life we possess.
• Our responding to life's unfairness with sympathy... may be the surest proof of all of God's reality.
• In all my years of counselling those near death, I've yet to hear anyone say they wish they had spent more time at the office
• Never attribute to malice or other deliberate decision what can be explained by human frailty, imperfection, or ignorance.
• When I talk to people who feel this emptiness and lack of fulfillment, I recommend they find a source of balance in their lives. I…
• I believe that God is totally moral, but nature, one of God's creatures, is not moral. Nature is blind.

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