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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.
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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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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Our responding to life's unfairness with sympathy... may be the surest proof of all of God's reality.
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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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Many biblical verses are like inkblot tests, revealing more about us than about the text in question.
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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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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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Never attribute to malice or other deliberate decision what can be explained by human frailty, imperfection, or ignorance.
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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.
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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.
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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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The path to God is rarely a steady climb upward. We climb, we fall back, and we climb higher again.
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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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One of the most sublime experiences we can ever have is to wake up feeling healthy after we have been sick.
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Caring about others, running the risk of feeling, and leaving an impact on people brings happiness.
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When facing a dilemma, choose the more morally demanding alternative.
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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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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.
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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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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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