Albert Schweitzer Quotes

If you love something so much let it go. If it comes back it was meant to be; if it doesn't it never was

Sometimes our light goes out, but is blown again into instant flame by an encounter with another human being.

The only escape from the miseries of life are 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.

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.

Man is a clever animal who behaves like an imbecile.

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.

True philosophy must start from the most immediate and comprehensive fact of consciousness: 'I am life that wants to live, in the midst of life that wants to live

It's not enough merely to exist. Every man has to seek in his own way to make his own self more noble and to relize his own true worth.

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 have sought and found how to serve.

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

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

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.

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

O heavenly Father,
protect and bless all things
that have breath: guard them
from all evil and let them sleep in peace.

Whoever is spared personal pain must feel himself called to help in diminishing the pain of others. We must all carry our share of the misery which lies upon the world.

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

Wherever you turn, you can find someone who needs you. Even if it is a little thing, do something for which there is no pay but the privilege of doing it. Remember, you don't live in a world all of your own.

Joy, sorrow, tears, lamentation, laughter - to all these music gives voice, but in such a way that we are transported from the world of unrest to a world of peace, and see reality in a new way, as if we were sitting by a mountain lake and contemplating hills and woods and clouds in the tranquil and fathomless water.

The interior joy we feel when we have done a good deed is the nourishment the soul requires.