Albert Schweitzer quotes

In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.

Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now - always.

Everything deep is also simple and can be reproduced simply as long as its reference to the whole truth is maintained. But what matters is not what is witty but what is true.

Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth.

Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.

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

Do something wonderful, people may imitate it.

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.

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

In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.

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

In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.

At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us.

The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it; and so in great calamities, it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner than those of a loftier character.

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.

A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.

In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.

Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light.

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.

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

A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him, that of plants and animals as that of his fellow men, and when he devotes himself helpfully to all life that is in need of help.

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

Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will - his personal responsibility in the realm of faith and morals.

Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.

Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.