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“What cannot be achieved in one lifetime will happen when one lifetime is joined to another.”
-- Harold S. Kushner

#Community #Lifetime
“Our souls are not hungry for fame, comfort, wealth, or power. 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

#Soul #Comfort #Matter
“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 call soul and others, personality... The nonphysical part cannot die and cannot decay because it's not physical.”
-- Harold S. Kushner

#Grieving #Essence #People
“The purpose in life is not to win. The purpose in life is to grow and to share. "When you come to look back on all that you have done in life, you will get more satisfaction from the pleasure you have brought into other people's lives than you will from the times that you outdid and defeated them.”
-- Harold S. Kushner

#Inspirational #Motivational #Winning
“Given the unfairness that strikes so many people in life, I would rather believe in a God of limited power and unlimited love and justice, rather than the other way around.”
-- Harold S. Kushner

#God #Believe #Justice
“The idea is to find some bit of holiness in everything-food, sex, earning and spending money, having children, conversations with friends. Everything can be seen as a miracle, as part of God's plan. When we can truly see this, we nourish our souls.”
-- Harold S. Kushner

#Sex #Children #Ideas
“When you carry out acts of kindness you get a wonderful feeling inside. It is as though something inside your body responds and says, yes, this is how I ought to feel.”
-- Harold S. Kushner

#Kindness #Feelings #Body
“Our inability to see the beauty doesn't suggest in the slightest that beauty is not there. Rather, it suggests that we are not looking carefully enough or with broad enough perspective to see the beauty.”
-- Harold S. Kushner

#Beauty #Perspective #Inability
“If you concentrate on finding whatever is good in every situation, you will discover that your life will suddenly be filled with gratitude, a feeling that nurtures the soul”
-- Harold S. Kushner

#Life #Gratitude #Positivity
“Caring about others, running the risk of feeling, and leaving an impact on people brings happiness.”
-- Harold S. Kushner

#Happiness #Running #Caring
“We have confused God with Santa Claus. And we believe that prayer means making a list of everything you don't have but want and trying to persuade God you deserve it. Now I'm sorry, that's not God, that's Santa Claus.”
-- Harold S. Kushner

#God #Sorry #Prayer
“God is like a mirror. The mirror never changes, but everybody who looks at it sees something different.”
-- Harold S. Kushner

#Mirrors #Different #Looks
“There is no right way to do a wrong thing.”
-- Harold S. Kushner

#Way
“If we put our soul into our work, if, rather than just going through the motions, what we do flows from the deepest part of our being, then after a burst of creativity, we need to replenish our souls.”
-- Harold S. Kushner

#Creativity #Soul #Needs
“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 hurt them to see me in pain; others because I reminded them of their own vulnerability, and that was more than they could handle. But real friends overcame their discomfort and came to sit with me. If they had not words to make me feel better, they sat in silence (much better than saying, "You'll get over it," or "It's not so bad; others have it worse") and I loved them for it.”
-- Harold S. Kushner

#Hurt #Pain #Real
“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 happiness sort of sneaks in the back window while they are busy doing good.”
-- Harold S. Kushner

#Happiness #Thinking #People
“One of the most sublime experiences we can ever have is to wake up feeling healthy after we have been sick.”
-- Harold S. Kushner

#Health #Sick #Feelings
“Many biblical verses are like inkblot tests, revealing more about us than about the text in question.”
-- Harold S. Kushner

#Biblical #Tests #Revealing
“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 be afraid of pain. Grit your teeth and let it hurt. Don't deny it, don't be overwhelmed by it. It will not last forever. One day, the pain will be gone and you will still be there.”
-- Harold S. Kushner

#Hurt #Pain #Grief
“Good people will do good things, lots of them, because they are good people. They will do bad things because they are human.”
-- Harold S. Kushner

#People #Good People #Good Things
“We are here to change the world with small acts of thoughtfulness done daily rather than with one great breakthrough.”
-- Harold S. Kushner

#Done #World #Thoughtfulness
“When you are kind to others, it not only changes you, it changes the world.”
-- Harold S. Kushner

#Kindness #World #Changing The World
“You nourish your soul by fulfilling your destiny.”
-- Harold S. Kushner

#Destiny #Soul #Purpose
“Being kind to others is a way of being good to yourself.”
-- Harold S. Kushner

#Charity #Way #Be Kind
“It is tempting at one level to believe that bad things happen to people (especially other people) because God is a righteous judge who gives them exactly what they deserve. By believing that we keep the world orderly and understandable.... But [this belief] has a number of serious limitations.... It teaches people to blame themselves. It creates guilt when there is no basis for guilt. And most disturbing of all, it does not even fit the facts.”
-- Harold S. Kushner

#Believe #Responsibility #Numbers
“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 as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived.”
-- Harold S. Kushner

#Adventure #Sleep #World
“But at the end, if we are brave enough to love, if we are strong enough to forgive, if we are generous enough to rejoice in another's happiness, and if we are wise enough to know that there is enough love to go around for us all, then we can achieve a fulfillment that no other living creature will ever know, we can reenter paradise.”
-- Harold S. Kushner

#Wise #Strong #Brave
“One of the basic needs of every human being is the need to be loved, to have our wishes and feelings taken seriously, to be validated as people who matter.”
-- Harold S. Kushner

#Taken #People #Feelings
“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 process of life begins to nourish your soul.”
-- Harold S. Kushner

#Spiritual #Soul #Everyday
“The circumstances of your life have uniquely qualified you to make a contribution. And if you don't make that contribution, nobody else can make it.”
-- Harold S. Kushner

#Giving #Circumstances #Contribution

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