Quoting People Wiser Than Me

"The lesson I learned is that if you have all the fresh water that you want and enough food to eat then you don't have anything to complain about."

Eddie Rickenbacker (An airman shot down over the Pacific who spent three weeks floating in a lifeboat before being rescued.)

"The more attached you are to something, the more your vision is obscured and narrowed, sometimes to the point at which you are convinced that there is only one way to proceed.  Your attachment to a specific belief cuts off your ability to see beyond that one possibility."

The Toltecs

"Many of us have spent time thinking that our spirituality makes us superior people.  Eventually, we see that this is childish.  That attitude is replaced by a great sense of purpose, and a growing understanding of the power of God in our lives."

Plain Language Big Book PP 116-17