Harold Kushner Quotes

The course of our lives is not determined by great, awesome decisions. Our direction is set by the little day-to-day choices which chart the track on which we run.

Many of us don’t realize that we have a choice about which aspect of ourselves we will use as the foundation upon which we build our lives.

Private choices are not private; they all have public consequences...Our society is the sum total of what millions of individuals do in their private lives. That sum total of private behavior has worldwide public consequences of enormous magnitude. There are no completely private choices.

Choice by choice, moment by moment, I build the necklace of my day, stringing together the choices that form artful living.

The small day-to-day decisions will determine the course of your lives.

One thing about me, when I make a decision about something, I realize when you make choices in life, that dictates your life.

Our lives are made up of thousands of everyday choices. Over the years these little choices will be bundled together and show clearly what we value.

The choices we make, dictate the lives we lead.

I think about my own daily choices every day in terms of how to find happiness.

It is not so much the major events as the small day-to-day decisions that map the course of our living. . . Our lives are, in reality, the sum total of our seemingly unimportant decisions and of our capacity to live by those decisions.

We have a gift of life. What we do with that gift is dependent on the choices we make. The people who we spend time with. The things that we go out to do every day.

Be assured that our individual actions, collectively, make a huge difference.

Either you set your goals and, in doing so, have your life governed by choice or you do nothing and have your life governed by chance.

Take responsibility for making conscious choices.

The whole trend and quality of anyone's life is determined in the long run by the choices that are made.

To make the right choices in life, you have to get in touch with your soul.

We make choices and are in turn made by them.

The quality of success you will experience in your life ultimately depends upon the tiny choices you make every minute of every hour of every day.

With each of the choices that we make, we create consequences and we ourselves experience those consequences. If you harm another soul. If you cause pain or trauma in another soul, you yourself will experience that trauma.

I look at Los Angeles and I ask myself, How can this ever be sustainable? And what are we contributing to that? Because we are all complicit. None of us is without blame. It's so difficult and it's so overwhelming and I think we have to make small choices in our own lives that can loom large collectively.

Just because you have a choice, it doesn't mean that any of them 'has' to be right.

The issues of the choice between right and wrong has to be an ongoing concern for everybody, at every age. There is no magical point in a human life when anyone is or becomes immune to the second-by-second choice to do right instead of wrong.

When you present people with things from the heart and from the soul, they make better choices: They make better choices about their bodies, they make better choices about their partners, they make better choices about the environment.

You have been created with the ability to change the world. Every single choice you make ... every single action you take ... matters. But remember, the converse is also true. Every choice you do not make ... every action you do not take ... matters just as much.

You realize in life, not that many things matter that much, but your choice of a spouse is everything.