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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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What cannot be achieved in one lifetime will happen when one lifetime is joined to another.
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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 souls are not hungry for fame, comfort, wealth, or power. Our souls are hungry for meaning, for the sense that we have figured out how to live so that our lives matter.
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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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One man alone can't defeat the forces of evil, but many good people coming together can.
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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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The idea is to find some bit of holiness in everything-food, sex, earning and spending money, having children, conversations with friends. Everything can be seen as a miracle, as part of God's plan. When we can truly see this, we nourish our souls.
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God, who neither causes nor prevents tragedies, helps by inspiring people to help.
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We cannot live without the knowledge that someone cares about us.
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Caring about others, running the risk of feeling, and leaving an impact on people brings happiness.
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History is written by winners, so most history books are about people who win.
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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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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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Everything that God created is potentially holy, and our task as humans is to find that holiness in seemingly unholy situations. When we can do this, we will have learned to nurture our souls.
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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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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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God is like a mirror. The mirror never changes, but everybody who looks at it sees something different.
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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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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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