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