Albert Schweitzer

“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 will have sought and found how to serve.”

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

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

“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.”

“Das Glück ist das einzige, das sich verdoppelt, wenn man es teilt.”

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

“Compassion, in which all ethics must take root, can only attain its full breadth and depth if it embraces all living creatures and does not limit itself to mankind.”

“Anyone who proposes to do good must not expect people to roll stones out of his way, but must accept his lot calmly, even if they roll a few stones upon it.”

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

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

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

“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 doctor of the future will be oneself.”

“The fundamental principle of morality which we seek as a necessity for thought is not, however, a matter only of arranging and deepening current views of good and evil, but also of expanding and extending these. A man is really ethical only when he obeys the constraint laid on him to help all life which he is able to succour, and when he goes out of his way to avoid injuring anything living. He does not ask how far this or that life deserves sympathy as valuable in itself, nor how far it is capable of feeling. To him life as such is sacred. He shatters no ice crystal that sparkles in the sun, tears no leaf from its tree, breaks off no flower, and is careful not to crush any insect as he walks. If he works by lamplight on a summer evening, he prefers to keep the window shut and to breathe stifling air, rather than to see insect after insect fall on his table with singed and sinking wings.”

“I have always held firmly to the thought that each one of us can do a little to bring some portion of misery to an end.”

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

“By having a reverence for life, we enter into a spiritual relation with the world By practicing reverence for life we become good, deep, and alive.”

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

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