Harold S. Kushner Quotes - Page 4

That is why we have to make room in our lives for people who may sometimes disappoint or exasperate us. If we hold our friends to a standard of perfection, or if they do that to us, we will end up far lonelier than we want to be.

There seems to be something in the human soul that causes us to think less of ourselves every time we do something wrong... And maybe it is good for us to feel that way. It may make us more sensitive to what we do wrong and move us to repent and grow.

Our awareness of God starts where self-sufficiency ends.

You don't have to be religious to have a soul; everybody has one. You don't have to be religious to perfect your soul; I have found saintliness in avowed atheists.

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.

The path to God is rarely a steady climb upward. We climb, we fall back, and we climb higher again.

Why bad things happen to good people

We tend to take on the coloration of the setting in which we find ourselves.

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

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

Our human bodies are miracles, not because they defy laws of nature, but precisely because they obey them.

We don't have to be afraid of dying because it's not really death that scares us. We are afraid of not having lived.

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

Fun can be the dessert of our lives but never its main course.

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.

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 for.

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

I believe that God is totally moral, but nature, one of God's creatures, is not moral. Nature is blind.

Sometimes we are simply "blown away" and in awe by finding ourselves in the presence of God. Other times, however, even when we are participating in acts of kindness-complimenting others, writing a check to charity, donating time to a good cause-we are oblivious to the miracle of what is happening at that moment.

History is written by winners, so most history books are about people who win.

I wish i spent more time at the office.

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 the time, they do not even know what is on. But they are desperate for the sound of another human voice in their lives

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 suggest they find a way to "give back" to the world in order to feel a sense of completeness.