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Forgiveness is a favor we do for ourselves, not a favor we do to the other party.
Harold S. Kushner
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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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The path to God is rarely a steady climb upward. We climb, we fall back, and we climb higher again.
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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.
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God is like a mirror. The mirror never changes, but everybody who looks at it sees something different.
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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.
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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.
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Our responding to life's unfairness with sympathy... may be the surest proof of all of God's reality.
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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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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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When you are kind to others, it not only changes you, it changes the world.
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Other people may complicate our lives, but life without them would be unbearably desolate. None of us can be truly human in isolation. The qualities that make us human emerge only in the ways we relate to other people.
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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.
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I believe that God is totally moral, but nature, one of God's creatures, is not moral. Nature is blind.
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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
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People who pray for miracles usually don't get miracles. But people who pray for courage, for strength to bear the unbearable, for the grace to remember what they have left instead of what they have lost, very often find their prayers answered. Their prayers help them tap hidden reserves of faith and courage that were not available to them before.
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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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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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There are some things we should feel guilty about, but the guilt feelings should attach to the deed, not to the doer.
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One man alone can't defeat the forces of evil, but many good people coming together can.
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We cannot live without the knowledge that someone cares about us.
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