Harold S. Kushner

No good deed ever goes wasted.

— Harold S. Kushner

Being kind to others is a way of being good to yourself.

— Harold S. Kushner

Why bad things happen to good people

— Harold S. Kushner

You nourish your soul by fulfilling your destiny.

— Harold S. Kushner

There is no right way to do a wrong thing.

— Harold S. Kushner

Our awareness of God starts where self-sufficiency ends.

— Harold S. Kushner

I wish i spent more time at the office.

— Harold S. Kushner

I'm not perfect, ... But i'm enough

— Harold S. Kushner

Do things for people not because of who they are or what they do in return, but because of who you are.

— Harold S. Kushner

. . .We are here to finish God's labors. . .so that we could be His partners in completing the work of creation.

— Harold S. Kushner

We cannot live without the knowledge that someone cares about us.

— Harold S. Kushner

Only a life of goodness and honesty leaves us feeling spiritually healthy and human.

— Harold S. Kushner

One of the most sublime experiences we can ever have is to wake up feeling healthy after we have been sick.

— Harold S. Kushner

Our responding to life's unfairness with sympathy... may be the surest proof of all of God's reality.

— Harold S. Kushner

Forgiveness is a favor we do for ourselves, not a favor we do to the other party.

— Harold S. Kushner

When facing a dilemma, choose the more morally demanding alternative.

— Harold S. Kushner

“Perhaps they suspected that I thought less of them because I knew it. (I'm too aware of human frailty to have let…

— Harold S. Kushner

Seek something outside your nine-to-five job as an additional source of fulfillment and as a way to feel the joy of helping…

— Harold S. Kushner

There is a Jewish notion that holiness is found with other people. To understand what life really is, one has to share…

— Harold S. Kushner

The God I believe in is not so fragile that you hurt Him by being angry at him, or so petty that…

— Harold S. Kushner

The circumstances of your life have uniquely qualified you to make a contribution. And if you don't make that contribution, nobody else…

— Harold S. Kushner

“I realized that “Why is God doing this to me?” was not really a question about God. It was a cry of…

— Harold S. Kushner

Other people may complicate our lives, but life without them would be unbearably desolate. None of us can be truly human in…

— Harold S. Kushner

Pain is a part of being alive, and we need to learn that. Pain does not last forever, nor is it necessarily…

— Harold S. Kushner

We do ourselves and others a disservice when we make old age something to be feared. Life is not a resource to…

— Harold S. Kushner

“There will be dark days, days of loss and days of failure, but they will not last forever. The light will always…

— Harold S. Kushner

Life is like the baseball season, where even the best team loses at least a third of its games, and even the…

— Harold S. Kushner

“We cheat death, not by living forever, but by bearing, raising, and educating children to keep our souls, our values, and even…

— Harold S. Kushner

“when He tells Moses, “When you go to Pharaoh, I will be with you” (italics added). For me, that is God’s name,…

— Harold S. Kushner

Our souls are hungry for meaning, for the sense that we have figured out how to live so that our lives matter,…

— Harold S. Kushner

“We may not ever understand why we suffer or be able to control the forces that cause our suffering, but we can…

— Harold S. Kushner

There seems to be something in the human soul that causes us to think less of ourselves every time we do something…

— Harold S. Kushner

God does not cause our misfortunes. Some are caused by bad luck, some are caused by bad people, and some are simply…

— Harold S. Kushner

“You shall not hate the Egyptians for having mistreated you so badly, not because they deserve your forgiveness but because you deserve…

— Harold S. Kushner

“In the final analysis, the question of why bad things happen to good people translates itself into some very different questions, no…

— Harold S. Kushner

“Forgiveness is not a matter of exonerating people who have hurt you. They may not deserve exoneration. Forgiveness means cleansing your soul…

— Harold S. Kushner

At some of the darkest moments in my life, some people I thought of as friends deserted me-some because they cared about…

— Harold S. Kushner

“I find God not in the tests that life imposes on us but in the ability of ordinary people to rise to…

— Harold S. Kushner

A personal relationship with God enhances life. First, it enables us to accept our limitations without being frustrated by them. It assures…

— Harold S. Kushner

“(Many religions, from Judaism to Zoroastrianism, use light and fire as symbols for the presence of God, perhaps because light, like God,…

— Harold S. Kushner