Harold Kushner - Lives Quotes

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We cannot live without the knowledge that someone cares about us.

Harold Kushner

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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I suspect that the happiest people you know are the ones who work at being kind, helpful and reliable - and happiness sneaks into their lives while they are busy doing those things. It is a by-product, never a primary goal.

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I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending, that haunts our sleep so much as the fear that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived.

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Our souls are hungry for meaning, for the sense that we have figured out how to live so that our lives matter, so that the world will be at least a little bit different for our having passed through it.... What frustrates us and robs our lives of joy is this absence of meaning.... Does our being alive matter?

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The small choices and decisions we make a hundred times a day add up to determining the kind of world we live in.

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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.

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

Harold Kushner