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“Sometimes our light goes out, but is
blown again into instant flame by an encounter with another human
being.”
- Albert Schweitzer |
“Success is not the key to happiness.
Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be
successful.”
- Albert Schweitzer |
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“The only escape from the miseries of
life are music and cats...”
- Albert Schweitzer |
“Eventually all things fall into place.
Until then, laugh at the confusion, live for the moments, and know EVERYTHING
HAPPENS FOR A REASON.”
- Albert Schweitzer |
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“If you love something so much let it go.
If it comes back it was meant to be; if it doesn't it never was”
- Albert Schweitzer |
“Think occasionally of the suffering of
which you spare yourself the sight.”
- Albert Schweitzer |
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“Until he extends the circle of his
compassion to all living things, man will not himself find peace.”
- Albert Schweitzer |
“Happiness is nothing more than good
health and a bad memory.”
- Albert Schweitzer |
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“Example is not the main thing in
influencing others. It is the only thing.”
- Albert Schweitzer |
“Man is a clever animal who behaves like
an imbecile.”
- Albert Schweitzer |
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“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.”
- Albert Schweitzer |
“The only thing of importance, when we
depart, will be the traces of love we have left behind.”
- Albert Schweitzer |
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“We are all so much together, but we are
all dying of loneliness.”
- Albert Schweitzer |
“A man does not have to be an angel to
be a saint.”
- Albert Schweitzer |
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“In the hopes of reaching the moon men
fail to see the flowers that blossom at their feet.”
- Albert Schweitzer |
“The quiet conscience is an invention of
the devil”
- Albert Schweitzer |
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“He who does not reflect his life back
to God in gratitude does not know himself.”
- Albert Schweitzer |
“As we understand life in ourselves, we
want to understand life in the universe. in order to enter into harmony with
it.”
- Albert Schweitzer |
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“The the question whether I am a
pessimist or an optimist, I answer that my knowledge is pessimistic, but my
willing and hope are optimistic.”
- Albert Schweitze |
“By ethical conduct toward all
creatures, we enter into a spiritual relationship with the universe.”
- Albert Schweitzer |
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“O heavenly Father,protect and bless all
things that have breath: guard themfrom all evil and let them sleep in
peace.”
- Albert Schweitzer |
“Just as the wave cannot exist for
itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I
never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on
around me.”
- Albert Schweitzer |
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“Constant kindness can accomplish much.
As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and
hostility to evaporate. ”
- Albert Schweitzer |
“Do something wonderful, people may
imitate it.”
- Albert Schweitzer |
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“True philosophy must start from the most
immediate and comprehensive fact of consciousness: 'I am life that wants to
- Albert Schweitzer
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“Seek always to do some good,
somewhere... Even if it's a little thing, so something for those that need
help, something for which you get no pay but the privilege of doing
it.”
- Albert Schweitzer |
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“True philosophy must start from the
most immediate and comprehensive fact of consciousness: 'I am life that wants
to live, in the midst of life that wants to live”
- Albert Schweitzer |
“No ray of sunshine is ever lost but the
green that it awakens takes time to sprout, and it is not always given the
sower to see the harvest.”
- Albert Schweitzer |
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“The purpose of human life is to serve
and to show compassion and the will to help others.”
- Albert Schweitzer |
“Soldiers' graves are the greatest
preachers of peace.”
- Albert Schweitzer |
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“Anyone who proposes to do good must not
expect people to roll stones out of his way, but must accept his lot calmly
if they even roll a few more upon it.”
- Albert Schweitzer |
“If a man loses his reverence for any
part of life, he will lose his reverence for all of life.”
- Albert Schweitzer |
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“I am life that wants to live, in the
midst of life that wants to live.”
- Albert Schweitzer |
“The tragedy of life is what dies inside
a man while he lives.
- Albert Schweitzer |
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“You must give time to your fellow men
-- even if it's a little thing, do something for others -- something for
which you get no pay but the privilege of doing it. --”
- Albert Schweitzer |
“It's not enough merely to exist. Every
man has to seek in his own way to make his own self more noble and to relize
his own true worth.”
- Albert Schweitzer |
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“As soon as man does not take his
existence for granted, but beholds it as something unfathomably mysterious,
thought begins.”
- Albert Schweitzer |
“Man has the lost the capacity to
foresee and to forestall. He will end up destroying the earth.”
- Albert Schweitzer |
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“Every patient carries her or his own
doctor inside.”
- Albert Schweitzer |
“Example is not the main thing in
influencing others. It's the only thing.”
- Albert Schweitzer |
