Perspective

RIC_6961-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

Concentrate on what you have left, not just on what you have lost.

Harold S. Kushner, Overcoming Life's Disappointments

True Success

RC1_4443, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


True success consists not in becoming the person you dreamed of
being when you were young, but in becoming the person you were meant to be, the person you are capable of being when you are at
your best. 

Harold S. Kushner, Overcoming Life's Disappointments: Learning from Moses How to Cope with Frustration

To Dream

RIC_6806-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

To dream is to imagine a world and a life better

than the one we know now.

Harold S. Kushner, Overcoming Life's Disappointments: Learning from Moses

How to Cope with Frustration 

The difference we make

DSC_5561, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


     The difference we make in other people's lives is not always visible,
     not always articulated to us, but it is real.

       Harold S. Kushner, Overcoming Life's Disappointments: Learning from Moses How to Cope with Frustration

God

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     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, Overcoming Life's Disappointments

Choice

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     When facing a dilemma, choose the 

     more morally demanding alternative. 

       Harold S. Kushner, Living a Life That Matters

Between people

RIC_0002-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

When Martin Buber, the great Jewish philosopher and theologian, was asked “Where is God?” he was wise enough not to give the cliché answers: God is everywhere; God is found in churches and synagogues. Buber would answer that God is found in relationships. God is not found in people; God is found between people.

Harold S. Kushner, Living a Life That Matters

Living

RIC_9999-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

Most people are not afraid of dying;

they are afraid of not having lived. 

Harold S. Kushner, Living a Life That Matters

To be complete

RIC_0014-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

   You can’t be a complete person without having to

   wrestle with your own demons – and, for that matter,

   with your own angel. 

     Harold S. Kushner, Living a Life That Matters

God's promise

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Originally uploaded by rchoephoto

God’s promise was never that life would be fair. God’s promise was that, when we had to confront the unfairness of life, we would not have to do it alone for God would be with us.

Harold S. Kushner, The Lord Is My Shepherd: Healing Wisdom of the Twenty-Third Psalm