The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.

Religion is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.

As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.

When a man is wrapped up in himself, he makes a pretty small package.

Those who face that which is actually before them, unburdened by the past, undistracted by the future, these are they who live, who make the best use of their lives; these are those who have found the secret of contentment.

When you want to believe in something, you also have to believe in everything that's necessary for believing in it.

I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

I am only one,
But still I am one.
I cannot do everything,
But still I can do something;
And because I cannot do everything
I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.

The playwright and Nobel laureate George Bernard Shaw said, "The person I miss most is the one I could have been."

The results of the AA 12-step program of recovery make it more likely I'll become the person I should have been.

Anyone who wants to know the human psyche will learn next to nothing from experimental psychology. He would be better advised to abandon exact science, put away his scholar's gown, bid farewell to his study, and wander with human heart through the world. There in the horrors of prisons, lunatic asylums and hospitals, in drab suburban pubs, in brothels and gambling-hells, in the salons of the elegant, the Stock Exchanges, socialist meetings, churches, revivalist gatherings and ecstatic sects, through love and hate, through the experience of passion in every form in his own body, he would reap richer stores of knowledge than text-books a foot thick could give him, and he will know how to doctor the sick with a real knowledge of the human soul.

It is on being the caterpillar that you become the butterfly.

For those who believe, no proof is necessary.
For those who don’t believe, no proof is possible.

To be at peace in any endeavour, we must release our need to control the outcome.

"Dr. Carl Jung told Rowland Hazard, 'I believe that every human being has an inner search for wholeness. I have never been able to help a person who found that wholeness in alcohol. It requires a power greater than human power.'

I think God created us with that emptiness so we would find it has to be filled by spirituality."

Through pride we are ever deceiving ourselves. But deep down below the surface of the average conscience a still, small voice says to us, 'Something is out of tune.'