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Albert Schweitzer

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Albert Schweitzer, OM was a French-German theologian, organist, philosopher, and physician. He was born in the German province of Alsace-Lorraine and although that region had been reintegrated into the German Empire four years earlier, and remained a German province until 1918, he considered himself French and wrote mostly in French. His mother-tongue was Alsatian German.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

“Do something wonderful, people may imitate it.”

“Do something wonderful, people may imitate it.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

“Ethics is nothing else than reverence for life.”

“Ethics is nothing else than reverence for life.”

“Let me give you a definition of ethics: It is good to maintain and further life it is bad to damage and destroy life.”

“Let me give you a definition of ethics: It is good to maintain and further life it is bad to damage and destroy life.”

“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.”

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

“One truth stands firm. All that happens in world history rests on something spiritual. If the spiritual is strong, it creates world history. If it is weak, it suffers world history.”

“One truth stands firm. All that happens in world history rests on something spiritual. If the spiritual is strong, it creates world history. If it is weak, it suffers world history.”

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

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

“Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier.”

“Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier.”

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

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

“As soon as man does not take his existence for granted, but beholds it as something unfathomably mysterious, thought begins.”

“As soon as man does not take his existence for granted, but beholds it as something unfathomably mysterious, thought begins.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Day by day we should weigh what we have granted to the spirit of the world against what we have denied to the spirit of Jesus, in thought and especially in deed.”

“Day by day we should weigh what we have granted to the spirit of the world against what we have denied to the spirit of Jesus, in thought and especially in deed.”

“Reverence for life is the highest court of appeal.”

“Reverence for life is the highest court of appeal.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Reverence for life affords me my fundamental principle of morality.”

“Reverence for life affords me my fundamental principle of morality.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

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

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

“A man does not have to be an angel in order to be saint.”

“A man does not have to be an angel in order to be saint.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“My life is my argument.”

“My life is my argument.”

“Think occasionally of the suffering of which you spare yourself the sight.”