Albert Schweitzer Quotes

“The purpose of human life is to serve and to show compassion and the will to help others.”

“Happiness is the only thing that multiplies when you share it.”

“Reverence for life affords me my fundamental principle of morality.”

“Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success.”

“A man does not have to be an angel to be a saint.”

“Wherever a man turns he can find someone who needs him.”

“There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.”

“The only ones among you who will be truly happy are those who have sought and found how to serve.”

“The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.”

“Do something wonderful; people may imitate it.”

“Think occasionally of the suffering of which you spare yourself the sight.”

“Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier.”

“Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will—his personal responsibility.”

“Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.”

“One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.”

“Until he extends the circle of his compassion to all living things, man will not himself find peace.”

“I don’t know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who have sought and found how to serve.”

“In the hopes of reaching the moon men fail to see the flowers that blossom at their feet.”

“To educate yourself for the feeling of gratitude means to take nothing for granted.”

“Ethics is nothing else than reverence for life.”

“Sometimes our light goes out, but is blown again into instant flame by an encounter with another human being.”

“An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while a pessimist sees only the red stoplight.”

“True philosophy must start from the most immediate and comprehensive fact of consciousness.”

“He who does not reflect his life back to God in gratitude does not know himself.”

“Humanitarianism consists in never sacrificing a human being to a purpose.”

“Think of the world you carry within you.”

“We are all so much together, but we are all dying of loneliness.”

“The path of awakening is not about becoming who you are. Rather it is about unbecoming who you are not.”

“Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now—always.”

“Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier.”

“Do not let Sunday be taken from you. If your soul has no Sunday, it becomes an orphan.”

“Compassion, in which all ethics must take root, can only attain its full breadth and depth if it embraces all living creatures.”

“Ethics alone is insufficient. To act, one needs a heart.”

“Let us join together in doing good, never in doing harm.”

“The greatest thing is to give thanks for everything. He who has learned this knows what it means to live.”

“Reverence for life means to see life in all living creatures.”

“An ethical person does not ask how far they can go, but how much they can give.”

“To affirm life is to deepen, to make more inward, and to exalt the will to live.”

“The interior joy we feel when we have done a good deed is the nourishment the soul requires.”

“The only thing of importance, when we depart, will be the traces of love we have left behind.”

“Let your life be a counter-friction to stop the machine.”

“If a man loses reverence for any part of life, he will lose his reverence for all of life.”

“Compassion becomes real when we recognize our shared humanity.”

“The spiritual crisis of humanity is that it has forgotten reverence for life.”

“The first step in the evolution of ethics is a sense of solidarity with other human beings.”

“The future of mankind lies waiting for those who will come to understand their lives and take up their responsibilities.”

“Reverence for life brings us into a spiritual relationship with the world.”

“Everything which gives light must endure burning.”

“Do not let your conscience be weakened by the example of others.”

“Joy, sorrow, tears, lamentation, laughter—to all these music gives voice.”

“One thing I know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.”

“What we call love is in its essence reverence for life.”

“By respect for life we become religious in a way that is elementary, profound, and alive.”

“The deepest and most wonderful insight we can have is to realize that we are not strangers in this world.”

“To work for the common good is the greatest creed.”

“The more we work on behalf of others, the better we understand ourselves.”

“The purpose of human life is to serve, and to show compassion and the will to help others.”

“Example is not the main thing in influencing others; it is the only thing.”

“The spirit of the age is filled with distrust.”

“The fundamental fact of human awareness is this: I am life that wills to live, in the midst of life that wills to live.”

“The highest knowledge is reverence for life.”

“At that point in life where your talent meets the needs of the world, that is where God wants you to be.”

“The greatest beauty is not in what is seen but in what is felt by the heart.”

“If man loses his reverence for any part of life, he will lose his reverence for all of life.”

“One who has found the way cannot ever be alone in this world again.”

“It is man’s role to respect and protect all life.”

“What we have to fight for is not to save our civilization, but to save ourselves.”

“To awaken each morning with a sense of gratitude is to live a life of reverence.”

“The spirit of reverence can lead humanity back to itself.”

“Reverence for life is the only true basis for morality.”

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