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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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Good people will do good things, lots of them, because they are good people. They will do bad things because they are human.
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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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God is like a mirror. The mirror never changes, but everybody who looks at it sees something different.
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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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Life is like the baseball season, where even the best team loses at least a third of its games, and even the worst team has its days of brilliance. The goal is not to win every game but to win more than you lose, and if you do that often enough, in the end you may find you have won it all.
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Do things for people not because of who they are or what they do in return, but because of who you are.
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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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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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When you are kind to others, it not only changes you, it changes the world.
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. . .We are here to finish God's labors. . .so that we could be His partners in completing the work of creation.
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Our human bodies are miracles, not because they defy laws of nature, but precisely because they obey them.
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