Harold Kushner Quotes

We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot survive without human affection.

One person caring about another represents life's greatest value.

Looking at the pattern of our existence from birth to death, we can see the way in which we are fundamentally nurtured by other's affection.

All of us are better when we're loved.

The only thing we never get enough of is love; and the only thing we never give enough of is love.

I love being around people who care about me, and I care about them.

Care is a state in which something does matter; it is the source of human tenderness.

The one thing we can never get enough of is love. And the one thing we never give enough is love.

The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.

We all have that capacity to reach out to people we don't even know and care about them ...

Wanting to be loved and appreciated connects us all.

I really care about people around me, and I can't live without my family and friends.

We can cure physical diseases with medicine, but the only cure for loneliness, despair, and hopelessness is love. There are many in the world who are dying for a piece of bread, but there are many more dying for a little love.

The greatest gift you can give someone is your time, your attention, your love, your concern.

This is the part of us that makes our brief, improbable little lives worth living: the ability to reach through our own isolation and find strength, and comfort, and warmth for and in each other. This is what human beings do. This is what we live for, the way horses live to run.

To be sure, theory is useful. But without warmth of heart and without love it bruises the very ones it claims to save.

Of all the needs that we have right now, more than anything we need a time for love.

Mother Theresa said it is not how much we give that is important but how much love you put into doing it. So it is not just how many units of housing we create or how good our health care system is, it is that people have someone to eat dinner with and that people have someone to hold their hand when they die. That is what we are called to do and it is the love of Christ. It is relationships.

The capacity for friendship is God's way of apologizing for our families.

I really like feeling connected to people and feeling like I have a good, solid sense of empathy.

We can bring positive energy into our daily lives by smiling more, talking to strangers in line, replacing handshakes with hugs, and calling our friends just to tell them we love them.

Never let a problem to be solved become more important than a person to be loved.

We need to pay attention to each other. We are our brother's keepers. We are our sister's keepers.

I also think that what's wrong with all of us is that we don't show enough love toward each other.

Everybody needs somebody.