The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.

The present moment is filled with joy and happiness. If you are attentive, you will see it.

If most of us remain ignorant of ourselves, it is because self-knowledge is painful and we prefer the pleasures of illusion.

Much of the evil in the world is due to the fact that man in general is hopelessly unconscious.

As the traveler who has once been from home is wiser than he who has never left his own doorstep, so a knowledge of one other culture should sharpen our ability to scrutinize more steadily, to appreciate more lovingly, our own.

Jealousy feeds upon suspicion, and it turns into fury or it ends as soon as we pass from suspicion to certainty.

Don't be in a hurry to condemn because he doesn't do what you do or think as you do or as fast. There is a time when you didn't know what you know today.

Most people are on the world, not in it—have no conscious sympathy or relationship to anything about them—undiffused, separate, and rigidly alone like marbles of polished stone, touching but separate.

No one returns with good will to the place which has done him a mischief.

Every act you have ever performed since the day you were born was performed because you wanted something.

As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light of meaning in the darkness of mere being.

My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style.

It is not uncommon for people to spend their whole life waiting to start living.

Keep your mind off the things you don’t want by keeping it on the things you do want.

When a person can't find a deep meaning, they distract themselves with pleasure.