111 Quotes by Harold S. Kushner

There are some things we should feel guilty about, but the guilt feelings should attach to the deed, not to the doer.

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.

Good people will do good things, lots of them, because they are good people. They will do bad things because they are human.

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

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.

Fun can be the dessert of our lives but never its main course.

Seek something outside your nine-to-five job as an additional source of fulfillment and as a way to feel the joy of helping others.

History is written by winners, so most history books are about people who win.

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.