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Only a life of goodness and honesty leaves us feeling spiritually healthy and human.

Harold S. Kushner

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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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When facing a dilemma, choose the more morally demanding alternative.
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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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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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God is like a mirror. The mirror never changes, but everybody who looks at it sees something different.
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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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Never attribute to malice or other deliberate decision what can be explained by human frailty, imperfection, or ignorance.
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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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We pray to you, O God ... for strength, determination, and willpower, to do instead of just to pray, to become instead of merely to wish.
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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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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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What cannot be achieved in one lifetime will happen when one lifetime is joined to another.
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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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Think about it: it is easy to see God's beauty in a glorious sunset or in ocean waves crashing on a beach. But can you find the holiness in a struggle for life?
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The purpose in life is not to win. The purpose in life is to grow and to share. When you come to look back on all that you have done in life, you will get more satisfaction from the pleasure you have brought into other people's lives than you will from the times that you outdid and defeated them.
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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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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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If that were God's plan, it's a bad bargain I don't want to have to deal with a God like that...My sense is God and I came to an accommodation with each other a couple of decades ago, where he's gotten used to the things that I'm not capable of and I've come to terms with things he's not capable of...and we care very much about each other.
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History is written by winners, so most history books are about people who win.
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I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending, that haunts our sleep so much as the fear that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived.
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