When All You've Ever Wanted Isn't Enough Quotes

“You don’t become happy by pursuing happiness. You become happy by living a life that means something.”
― Harold S. Kushner, When All You've Ever Wanted Isn't Enough: The Search For a Life That Matters

“We totally misunderstand what it means to be alive when we think of our lives as time we can use in search of rewards and pleasure. Frantically and in growing frustration, we search through our days, our years, looking for the reward, for the success that will make our lives worthwhile, like the security guard looking through the trash in the wheelbarrow for something of value and all the while missing the obvious answer. When you have learned how to live, life itself is the reward.”
― Harold S. Kushner, When All You've Ever Wanted Isn't Enough: The Search For a Life That Matters

“I thought to myself, How sad to have to earn your living like that, by pretending to like everyone until you forget what it really feels like genuinely to enjoy someone’s company as a friend, not just as a potential customer. Contrived emotion (What am I supposed to feel now?) replaces genuine emotion (How do I really feel about this person?) until the ability to know what you are really feeling disappears.”
― Harold S. Kushner, When All You've Ever Wanted Isn't Enough: The Search For a Life That Matters

“Several recent authors have written of “the imposter phenomenon,” describing the feeling of many apparently successful people that their success is undeserved and that one day people will unmask them for the frauds they are. For all the outward trappings of success, they feel hollow inside. They can never rest and enjoy their accomplishments. They need one new success after another. They need constant reassurance from the people around them to still the voice inside them that keeps saying, If other people knew you the way I know you, they would know what a phony you are.”
― Harold S. Kushner, When All You've Ever Wanted Isn't Enough: The Search For a Life That Matters

“Para mim, a vida é como um bom livro. Quanto mais avançamos nele, mais sentido começa a fazer.”
― Harold S. Kushner, When All You've Ever Wanted Isn't Enough: The Search for a Life That Matters

“About a third of my cases are suffering from no clinically defineable neurosis, but from the senselessness and emptiness of their lives. This can be described as the general neurosis of our time.”
― Harold S. Kushner, When All You've Ever Wanted Isn't Enough: The Search For a Life That Matters

“Several recent authors have written of “the imposter phenomenon,” describing the feeling of many apparently successful people that their success is undeserved and that one day people will unmask them for the frauds they are.”
― Harold S. Kushner, When All You've Ever Wanted Isn't Enough: The Search For a Life That Matters