Harold S. Kushner Quotes

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.

Is there an answer to the question of why bad things happen to good people?...The response would be"¦to forgive the world for not being perfect, to forgive God for not making a better world, to reach out to the people around us, and to go on living despite it all"¦no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it has happened.

I think of life as a good book. The further you get into it, the more it begins to make sense.

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

Do things for people not because of who they are or what they do in return, but because of who you are

God is the light shining in the midst of darkness, not to deny that there is darkness in the world but to reassure us that we do not have to be afraid of the darkness because darkness will always yield to light. As theologian David Griffin puts in, God is all-powerful, His power enables people to deal with events beyond their control and He gives us the strength to do those things because He is with us.

You don't become happy by pursuing happiness. You become happy by living a life that means something.

When facing a dilemma, choose the more morally demanding alternative.