Integrity is not something that grownups have and adolescents can aspire to. Integrity is something that all of us, at all ages, are constantly striving for. Harold S. Kushner More Quotes by Harold S. Kushner More Quotes From Harold S. Kushner 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. Harold S. Kushner helping-others joy jobs 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. Harold S. Kushner perfection may people It explains why people come home from work or school and immediately switch on the television. They are not interested in the program much of the time, they do not even know what is on. But they are desperate for the sound of another human voice in their lives Harold S. Kushner voice home school Our responding to life's unfairness with sympathy... may be the surest proof of all of God's reality. Harold S. Kushner may life reality God is the One who is with us when we have to do something we don't think we are capable of doing. Harold S. Kushner capable thinking There seems to be something in the human soul that causes us to think less of ourselves every time we do something wrong... And maybe it is good for us to feel that way. It may make us more sensitive to what we do wrong and move us to repent and grow. Harold S. Kushner soul moving thinking No good deed ever goes wasted. Harold S. Kushner good-deeds deeds The path to God is rarely a steady climb upward. We climb, we fall back, and we climb higher again. Harold S. Kushner higher path fall Only a life of goodness and honesty leaves us feeling spiritually healthy and human. Harold S. Kushner honesty healthy spiritual One of the sages of the Talmud taught nearly 200 years ago that God could have created a plant that would grow loaves of bread. Instead He created wheat for us to mill and bake into bread. Why? So that we could be HIs partners in completing the work of creation. Harold S. Kushner sage work years When I talk to people who feel this emptiness and lack of fulfillment, I recommend they find a source of balance in their lives. I suggest they find a way to "give back" to the world in order to feel a sense of completeness. Harold S. Kushner giving order people We cannot live without the knowledge that someone cares about us. Harold S. Kushner care There is a Jewish notion that holiness is found with other people. To understand what life really is, one has to share it. Harold S. Kushner holiness share people Sometimes we are simply "blown away" and in awe by finding ourselves in the presence of God. Other times, however, even when we are participating in acts of kindness-complimenting others, writing a check to charity, donating time to a good cause-we are oblivious to the miracle of what is happening at that moment. Harold S. Kushner miracle kindness writing I believe that God is totally moral, but nature, one of God's creatures, is not moral. Nature is blind. Harold S. Kushner moral god believe History is written by winners, so most history books are about people who win. Harold S. Kushner winning book people I wish i spent more time at the office. Harold S. Kushner more-time office wish
