Quotes about Perspective
I'm a traditional Jew, and I observe the biblical dietary laws. … I suspect most of you assume I go around all day saying to myself, 'Boy, would I love to eat pork chops, but that mean old God won't let me.' Not so. The fact … is, I go around all day saying, 'Isn't it incredible? There are five billion people on this planet and God cares what I have for lunch [and] what kind of language I use.
— Harold S. Kushner
That insight, that God is to be found not in the crisis but in our response to the crisis, is the key to understanding one of the most important passages in the entire Bible.
— Harold S. Kushner
Typically, if a book has one passage, one idea with the power to change a person's life, that alone justifies reading it, rereading it, and finding room for it on one's shelves
— Harold S. Kushner
Much of the time, we cannot control what happens to us. But we can always control how we respond to what happens to us. If we cannot choose to be lucky, to be talented, to be loved, we can choose to be grateful, to be content with who we are and what we have, and to act accordingly.
— Harold S. Kushner
Religion is not primarily a set of beliefs, a collection of prayers, or a series of rituals. Religion is first and foremost a way of seeing. It can't change the facts about the world we live in, but it can change the way we see those facts, and that in itself can often make a real difference.
— Harold S. Kushner
People are so busy chasing happiness- if they would slow down and turn around, they would give it a chance to catch up with them.
— Harold S. Kushner
If you concentrate on finding whatever is good in every situation, you will discover that your life will suddenly be filled with gratitude, a feeling that nurtures the soul
— Harold S. Kushner
Many biblical verses are like inkblot tests, revealing more about us than about the text in question.
— Harold S. Kushner
There is nothing new in the world except the history you do not know.
— Harry S. Truman
The only thing new in the world is the history you don't know.
— Harry S. Truman
It is understanding that gives us an ability to have peace. When we understand the other fellow's viewpoint, and he understands ours, then we can sit down and work out our differences.
— Harry S. Truman
When a leader is in the Democratic Party he is a boss, and when he is in the Republican Party he is a leader.
— Harry S. Truman