Quotes from Albert Schweitzer

Thinking about death... produces love for life. When we are familiar with death, we accept each week, each day, as a gift. Only if we are able thus to accept life bit by bit does it become precious.

Love ... is a living reality.

We all know how important love is, yet how often is it really emoted or exhibited? What so many sick people in this world suffer from-loneliness, boredom and fear-can't be cured with a pill.

At that point in life where your talent meets the needs of the world, that is where God wants you to be.

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."

The African is my brother but he is my younger brother by several centuries.

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

Therapy is the boat across the river, but most don't want to get off. Don't blame, forgive, All healing is self-healing

I am life which wants to live admidst of lives that want to live.

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.

Happiness? That's nothing more than health and a poor memory.

The only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.

Man can hardly even recognize the devils of his own creation.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

Thought is the strongest thing we have. Work done by true and profound thought - that is a real force.

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.