The purpose of human life is to serve, and to show compassion and the will to help others.
— Albert Schweitzer
Do something wonderful, people may imitate it.
— Albert Schweitzer
There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.
— Albert Schweitzer
Never say there is nothing beautiful in the world anymore. There is always something to make you wonder in the shape of a tree, the trembling of a leaf.
— Albert Schweitzer
Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.
— Albert Schweitzer
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.
— Albert Schweitzer
Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate.
— Albert Schweitzer
Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.
— Albert Schweitzer
Do not let Sunday be taken from you. If your soul has no Sunday, it becomes an orphan.
— Albert Schweitzer
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.
— Albert Schweitzer
We are all so much together, but we are all dying of loneliness.
— Albert Schweitzer
An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while a pessimist sees only the red stoplight… the truly wise person is colorblind.
— Albert Schweitzer
The first step in the evolution of ethics is a sense of solidarity with other human beings.
— Albert Schweitzer
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.
— Albert Schweitzer
Man can hardly even recognize the devils of his own creation.
— Albert Schweitzer
Ethics is nothing else than reverence for life.
— Albert Schweitzer
Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier.
— 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.
— Albert Schweitzer
Seek always to do some good, somewhere. Every man has to seek in his own way to realize his true worth. You must give some time to your fellow man. For remember, you don’t live in a world all your own. Your brothers are here too.
— Albert Schweitzer
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.
— Albert Schweitzer
Reverence for life affords me my fundamental principle of morality.
— Albert Schweitzer
A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.
— Albert Schweitzer
Let me give you a definition of ethics: It is good to maintain and further life it is bad to damage and destroy life.
— Albert Schweitzer
The true worth of a man is not to be found in man himself, but in the colours and textures that come alive in others.
— Albert Schweitzer
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.
— Albert Schweitzer
By respect for life we become religious in a way that is elementary, profound and alive.
— Albert Schweitzer
I can do no other than be reverent before everything that is called life. I can do no other than to have compassion for all that is called life. That is the beginning and the foundation of all ethics.
— Albert Schweitzer
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.
— Albert Schweitzer
The only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.
— Albert Schweitzer
Wherever a man turns he can find someone who needs him.
— Albert Schweitzer
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