111 Quotes by Harold S. Kushner

The happiest people I know are people who don’t even think about being happy. They just think about being good neighbors, good people. And then happiness sort of sneaks in the back window while they are busy doing good.

We teach children how to measure and how to weigh. We fail to teach them how to revere, how to sense wonder and awe.

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.

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?”

If we put our soul into our work, if, rather than just going through the motions, what we do flows from the deepest part of our being, then after a burst of creativity, we need to replenish our souls.

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.

I believe that God is totally moral, but nature, one of God’s creatures, is not moral. Nature is blind.

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.

No good deed ever goes wasted.