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Harold S. Kushner Quotes: Our society puts too much emphasis on finding someone who will love you; our culture focuses too much on being loved and not enough on being a loving person.
         

Our society puts too much emphasis on finding someone who will love you; our culture focuses too much on being loved and not enough on being a loving person.


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



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



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