Harold S. Kushner Quotes - Page 2

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• 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.

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  Grieving, Essence, People

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• I suspect that the happiest people you know are the ones who work at being kind, helpful and reliable - and happiness sneaks into their lives while they are busy doing those things. It is a by-product, never a primary goal.

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  People, Goal, Be Kind

  Harold S Kushner (2011). “When All You've Ever Wanted Isn't Enough: The Search For a Life That Matters”, p.12, Pan Macmillan

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• Caring about others, running the risk of feeling, and leaving an impact on people brings happiness.

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  Happiness, Running, Caring

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• I said in an interview at the time that God's job is not to make sick people healthy. That's the doctors' job. God's job is to make sick people brave.

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  God, Jobs, Doctors

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• There is no right way to do a wrong thing.

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  Way, Wrong Things, Right Way

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• 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.

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  God, Believe, Unlimited Love

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• 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.

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  God, Sorry, Prayer

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• 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

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  Years, Office, Balance

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• Many biblical verses are like inkblot tests, revealing more about us than about the text in question.

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  Biblical, Tests, Revealing

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• The soul is not a physical entity, but instead refers to everything about us that is not physical - our values, memories, identity, sense of humor. Since the soul represents the parts of the human being that are not physical, it cannot get sick, it cannot die, it cannot disappear. In short, the soul is immortal.

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  Memories, Sick, Soul

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• I'm not perfect, ... But i'm enough

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  Perfect, I'm Not Perfect, Enough

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• 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.

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  Believe, Responsibility, Numbers

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• You cannot control what happens to you in life, but you can always control what you will feel and do about what happens to you.

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  Mans Search For Meaning, Feels, Happens

  Viktor Emil Frankl, Harold S. Kushner, William J. Winslade (2006). “Man's Search for Meaning”, p.7, Beacon Press

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• What cannot be achieved in one lifetime will happen when one lifetime is joined to another.

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  Time, Achievement, Community

  Harold S Kushner (2011). “When All You've Ever Wanted Isn't Enough: The Search For a Life That Matters”, p.187, Pan Macmillan

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• None of us has the power to make someone else love us. But we all have the power to give away love, to love other people. And if we do so, we change the kind of world we live in.

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  Love, People, Giving

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• Our society puts too much emphasis on finding someone who will love you; our culture focuses too much on being loved and not enough on being a loving person.

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  Love You, Culture, Our Society

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• When a mentally retarded child is born, the religious question we often ask is, "Why does God let this happen?" The better question to pose is to ask, "What kind of community should we be so that mental retardation isn't a barrier to the enjoyment of one's full humanity?"

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  Religious, Children, Community

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• Love is not like a buffet line where the person in front of you threatens to take too much and leave too little for you. Love is like a muscle; the more it is exercised today, the more it can be used tomorrow.

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  Love Is, Lines, Littles

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• Prayer is simply coming into the presence of God. Because when you come into the presence of God, even the things you don't have matter a lot less.

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  God, Prayer, Matter

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• The God I believe in is not so fragile that you hurt Him by being angry at him, or so petty that He will hold it against you for being upset with Him.

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  Hurt, Believe, Upset

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• 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.

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  Inspirational Life, Age, Old Age

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• I think of life as a good book. The further you get into it, the more it begins to make sense.

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  Life, Book, Thinking

  Harold S Kushner (2011). “When All You've Ever Wanted Isn't Enough: The Search For a Life That Matters”, p.174, Pan Macmillan

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• 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.

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  Giving, Circumstances, Contribution

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• Everything that God created is potentially holy, and our task as humans is to find that holiness in seemingly unholy situations. When we can do this, we will have learned to nurture our souls.

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  Soul, Tasks, Holiness

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• 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.

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  Taken, People, Feelings

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