“The greatest discovery of any generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitude.”
“Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth.”
“A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.”
“To think out in every implication the ethic of love for all creation… this is the difficult task which confronts our age.”
“There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.”
“A man can do only what he can do. But if he does that each day, he can sleep at night and do it again the next day.”
“Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.”
“We are all so much together, but we are all dying of loneliness.”
“Until he extends his circle of compassion to include all living things, man will not himself find peace.”
“A man does not have to be an angel to be a saint.”
“Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now – always.”
“My life is my argument.”
“Any religion or philosophy which is not based on a respect for life is not a true religion or philosophy.”
“Just as white light consists of colored rays, so reverence for life contains all the components of ethics: love, kindness, sympathy, empathy, peacefulness, power to forgive.”
“The purpose of human life is to serve and to show compassion and the will to help others.”
“Let your life be your argument.”
“By having a reverence for life, we enter into a spiritual relation with the world.”
“Ethics is nothing else than reverence for life.”
“He who does not reflect his life back to God in gratitude does not know himself.”
“Sometimes our light goes out, but is blown again into instant flame by an encounter with another human being.”
“Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.”
“A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him.”
“Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier.”
“Humanitarianism consists in never sacrificing a human being to a purpose.”
“One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.”
“We cannot possibly let ourselves get frozen into regarding everyone we do not know as an absolute stranger.”
“To educate yourself for the feeling of gratitude means to take nothing for granted, but to always seek out and value the kind that will stand behind the action.”
Albert Schweitzer Quotes :
“Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.”
“The only escape from the miseries of life are music and cats.”
“There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed.”
“In the hopes of reaching the moon, men fail to see the flowers that blossom at their feet.”
“The first step in the evolution of ethics is a sense of solidarity with other human beings.”
“Seek always to do some good, somewhere.”
“Do something wonderful, people may imitate it.”
“Think occasionally of the suffering of which you spare yourself the sight.”
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“The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it.”
“The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.”
“Example is leadership.”
“Whoever is spared personal pain must feel himself called to help in diminishing the pain of others.”
“Reverence for life affords me my fundamental principle of morality.”