Harold Kushner Quotes

Life is measured in love and positive contributions and moments of grace.

I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.

Happiness does not consist in self-love.

Love, and do what you like.

Compassion is the key to living outside the confines of your lower self.

Compassion enables you to reach to the heavens and look through the heart of God.

Did I offer peace today? Did I bring a smile to someone's face? Did I say words of healing? Did I let go of my anger and resentment? Did I forgive? Did I love? These are the real questions. I must trust that the little bit of love that I sow now will bear many fruits, here in this world and the life to come.

Yoga is about compassion and generosity towards others. It means being mindful of the world around us.

I know that some of the spiritual beliefs that I have are that if I come from a place of love, and I try to get out of my ego and my desire to want more and be selfish in any shape or form, then whatever I'm doing is not good.

We experience God to the extent to which we love, forgive, and focus on the good in others and ourselves.

Evident in every small act of kindness, it was love as a verb. Love that made me feel more complete than I had ever felt in my glamorous, Jimmy Choo filled past.

Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love.

Here are three things you can do, even when you feel like there isn't a friend in sight. You can be curious, you can be clean, and you can be Christlike.

You cease to move into yourself, away from others. You give up your antagonism. You begin to move toward others in love. God moved toward you in gracious, outgoing love, and you move toward others in that same outgoing love.

My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we'll change the world.

Truth is a deep kindness that teaches us to be content in our everyday life and share with the people the same happiness.

But I can say that life is good to me. Has been and is good. So I think my task is to be good to it. So how do you be good to life? You live it.

I always tell people I want to see the world through His eyes, and I want people to see Him in me.

The brave love mercy, and delight to save.

A grateful heart is a beginning of greatness. It is an expression of humility. It is a foundation for the development of such virtues as prayer, faith, courage, contentment, happiness, love, and well-being.

As long as you understand that you find happiness through family, friends and love, then money is just a nice bonus.

You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have truly lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.

I enjoy what I'm able to give my family.

Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.

Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier.