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The path to God is rarely a steady climb upward. We climb, we fall back, and we climb higher again.

Harold S. Kushner

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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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What cannot be achieved in one lifetime will happen when one lifetime is joined to another.
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The God I believe in is not so fragile that you hurt Him by being angry at him, or so petty that He will hold it against you for being upset with Him.
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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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Only a life of goodness and honesty leaves us feeling spiritually healthy and human.
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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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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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Never attribute to malice or other deliberate decision what can be explained by human frailty, imperfection, or ignorance.
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