Albert Schweitzer Quotes and Quotations
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.
Happiness? That's nothing more than health and a poor memory.
Man can hardly even recognize the devils of his own creation.
We wander through this life together in a semi-darkness in which none of us can distinguish exactly the features of his neighbour. Only from time to time, through some experience that we have of our companion, or through some remark that he passes, he stands for a moment close to us, as though illuminated by a flash of lightning. Then we see him as he really is.
As we acquire more knowledge, things do not become more comprehensible, but more mysterious.
A man does not have to be an angel in order to be a saint.
A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.
Thought is the strongest thing we have. Work done by true and profound thought - that is a real force.
The only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.
Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier.
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.
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 more upon it.
You don't live in a world all your own. Your brothers are here, too.
Even if it's a little thing, do something for those who have need of help, something for which you get no pay but the privilege of doing it.
Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier.
Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment and learn again to exercise ... his personal responsibility in the realm of faith and morals.
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.
Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.
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.
The only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.
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.
Love . . . includes fellowship in suffering, in joy and in effort.
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.
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.
It is only through love that we can attain to communion with God. All living knowledge of God rest upon this foundation: that we experience Him in our lives as Will-to-love.
There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.
Until he extends his circle of compassion to all living things, man will not find peace.
Happiness? That's nothing more than health and a poor memory.
Humanitarianism consists in never sacrificing a human being to a purpose.
A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.
A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.
A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.
A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.
A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.
A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.
A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.
A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.