M. Kushner Quotes

Our souls are not hungry for fame, comfort, wealth, or power. Our souls are hungry for meaning, for the sense that we have figured out how to live so that our lives matter.

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

Do things for people not because of who they are or what they do in return, but because of who you are.

Think about it: it is easy to see God's beauty in a glorious sunset or in ocean waves crashing on a beach. But can you find the holiness in a struggle for life?

My father always told me, 'Don't waste energy worrying about things you can't control. Spend your energy focusing on solutions'.

We are here to change the world with small acts of thoughtfulness done daily rather than with one great breakthrough.

What cannot be achieved in one lifetime will happen when one lifetime is joined to another.

In all my years of counselling those near death, I've yet to hear anyone say they wish they had spent more time at the office

Why bad things happen to good people

When you are kind to others, it not only changes you, it changes the world.

God is like a mirror. The mirror never changes, but everybody who looks at it sees something different.

I said in an interview at the time that God's job is not to make sick people healthy. That's the doctors' job. God's job is to make sick people brave.

You don't become happy by pursuing happiness. You become happy by living a life that means something.

As a playwright, you are a torturer of actors and of the audience as well. You inflict things on people.

A mystic is anyone who has the gnawing suspicion that the apparent discord, brokenness, contradictions and discontinuities that assault us every day might conceal a hidden unity.

Across the troubled maelstrom of time, people always need a beer.

I'm not perfect, ... But i'm enough

There is no right way to do a wrong thing.

People shouldn't trust artists and they shouldn't trust art. Part of the fun of art is that it invites you to interpret it.

Everyone carries with them at least one piece to someone else's puzzle.

I make my living now as a screenwriter! Which I’m surprised and horrified to find myself saying, but I don’t think I can support myself as a playwright at this point. I don’t think anybody does.

We do ourselves and others a disservice when we make old age something to be feared...The longer we live, the more life we possess.

One of the most sublime experiences we can ever have is to wake up feeling healthy after we have been sick.

The smallest indivisible human unit is two people, not one; one is a fiction. From such nets of souls societies, the social world, human life springs.

In this world, there is a kind of painful progress. Longing for what we've left behind, and dreaming ahead.

Given the unfairness that strikes so many people in life, I would rather believe in a God of limited power and unlimited love and justice, rather than the other way around.

When you carry out acts of kindness you get a wonderful feeling inside. It is as though something inside your body responds and says, yes, this is how I ought to feel.

Integrity is not something that grownups have and adolescents can aspire to. Integrity is something that all of us, at all ages, are constantly striving for.

[Charles ] Kushner engaged in a conspiracy, with co-conspirators, to hire prostitutes to entice witnesses who were cooperating with the federal investigation.

Caring about others, running the risk of feeling, and leaving an impact on people brings happiness.

I ran my own business when I was 19, buying condos and renovating apartment buildings.

The only things that are really permanent are love, family, friendship, and that is a lesson. At the end of the day, that's really what it boils down to. The rest of it is just stuff.

Forgiveness is a favor we do for ourselves, not a favor we do to the other party.

The first mystery is simply that there is a mystery, a mystery that can never be explained or understood, only encountered from time to time. Nothing is obvious. Everything conceals something else.

I tend to be sort of quiet and shy and awkward in social situations.

Believing that you can move mountains sometimes is more important than actually having the ability to do so.

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.

Hold up your hands before your eyes. You are looking at the hands of God.

Many biblical verses are like inkblot tests, revealing more about us than about the text in question.

I think Jared [Kushner] is an unusually polished person.

Every Observer writer wants to be a novelist.

None of us has the power to make someone else love us. But we all have the power to give away love, to love other people. And if we do so, we change the kind of world we live in.

Prayer is simply coming into the presence of God. Because when you come into the presence of God, even the things you don't have matter a lot less.

Never attribute to malice or other deliberate decision what can be explained by human frailty, imperfection, or ignorance.

The white cracker who wrote the National Anthem knew what he was doing. He set the word "free" to a note so high nobody could reach it. That was deliberate.

Torture yourself about your failures. And then get back to work.

I think, as everyone knows, Charles Kushner is one of the most successful businessmen in the United States and one of the great philanthropists of this century.

Our tolerance for forms of religious expression we disagree with is a precise barometer of our own spiritual security.

There's a kind of a fundamental irresponsibility in playwriting, and the strength of playwriting comes from that irresponsibility.

The circumstances of your life have uniquely qualified you to make a contribution. And if you don't make that contribution, nobody else can make it.