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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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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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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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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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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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When facing a dilemma, choose the more morally demanding alternative.
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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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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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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.
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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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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
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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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Caring about others, running the risk of feeling, and leaving an impact on people brings happiness.
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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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No good deed ever goes wasted.
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Integrity means being whole, unbroken, undivided. It describes a person who has united the different parts of his or her personality, so there is no longer a split in the soul ... For the person of integrity, life may not be easy but it is simple: Figure out what is right and do it. All other considerations come in second.
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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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One man alone can't defeat the forces of evil, but many good people coming together can.
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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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