By respect for life we become religious in a way
by Albert Schweitzer
By respect for life we become religious in a way
that is elementary, profound and alive.
- Albert Schweitzer
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Sayings by Albert Schweitzer
Humanitarianism consists in never sacrificing
a human being to a purpose.
- Albert Schweitzer
Reverence for life is the highest court of appeal.
- Albert Schweitzer
Wherever a man turns he can find someone who needs him.
- Albert Schweitzer
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Reverence for life affords me my fundamental principle of morality.
- Albert Schweitzer
Example is leadership.
- Albert Schweitzer
Do not let Sunday be taken from you.
If your soul has no Sunday, it becomes an orphan.
- Albert Schweitzer
Example is not the main thing in influencing others.
It is the only thing.
- Albert Schweitzer
My life is my argument.
- Albert Schweitzer
We cannot possibly let ourselves get frozen into regarding
everyone we do not know as an absolute stranger.
- 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
The only ones among you who will be really happy
are those who will have sought and found how to serve.
- Albert Schweitzer
The first step in the evolution of ethics
is a sense of solidarity with other human beings.
- Albert Schweitzer
If a man loses his reverence for any part of life,
he will lose his reverence for all of life.
- Albert Schweitzer
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.
- Albert Schweitzer
The purpose of human life is to serve,
and to show compassion and the will to help others.
- Albert Schweitzer
Think occasionally of the suffering
of which you spare yourself the sight.
- Albert Schweitzer
Do something for somebody everyday
for which you do not get paid.
- Albert Schweitzer
A great secret of success is to go through life
as a man who never gets used up.
- Albert Schweitzer
We are all so much together,
but we are all dying of loneliness.
- Albert Schweitzer
As soon as man does not take his existence for granted,
but beholds it as something
unfathomably mysterious, thought begins.
- Albert Schweitzer
One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles
possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.
- Albert Schweitzer
The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
- Albert Schweitzer
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
Ethics is nothing else than reverence for life.
- Albert Schweitzer
There are two means of refuge
from the miseries of life:
music and cats.
- Albert Schweitzer
Do something wonderful, people may imitate it.
- Albert Schweitzer
Life becomes harder for us when we live for others,
but it also becomes richer and happier.
- Albert Schweitzer
The highest proof of the spirit is love.
Love is the eternal thing which men can already
on earth possess as it really is.
- Albert Schweitzer
Truth has no special time of its own.
Its hour is now - always.
- Albert Schweitzer
Ethics is the activity of man directed to secure
the inner perfection of his own personality.
- Albert Schweitzer
Until he extends the circle of
his compassion to all living things,
man will not himself find peace.
- Albert Schweitzer
Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall.
He will end by destroying the earth.
- 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
Respect Sayings
Forgiveness is an act of self-love and respect.
- don Miguel Ruiz
As we grow as unique persons, we learn to respect
the uniqueness of others.
- Robert H. Schuller
Happiness blooms
in the presence of self-respect,
and the absence of ego.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.
- Albert Camus
It is not desirable to cultivate
a respect for the law,
so much as for the right.
- Henry David Thoreau
Today, I Respect And Enforce The Boundaries I Have Set.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There are other measures of self-respect for a man,
than the number of clean shirts he puts on every day.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing,
and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.
- George Bernard Shaw
When you are content to be simply yourself
and don't compare or compete,
everybody will respect you.
- Lao Tzu
Football is like life - it requires perseverance,
self-denial, hard work, sacrifice,
dedication and respect for authority.
- Vince Lombardi
A friend encourages your dreams and offers advice -
but when you don't follow it,
they still respect and love you.
- Doris Wild Helmering
To be one, to be united is a great thing.
But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.
- Bono
Men have a respect for scholarship and learning
greatly out of proportion to the use they commonly serve.
- Henry David Thoreau
Part of our essential humanity is paying respect to what God gave us
and what will be here a long time after we're gone.
- William J. Clinton
Life Sayings
Anger is like a thorn in the heart.
- Yiddish Proverb
Happiness depends upon ourselves.
- Aristotle
Life is a reflection of intent.
Love reflects love.
Hate reflects hate.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life's burdens are lighter when I laugh at myself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass...
It's about learning to Dance in the Rain.
- Vivian Greene
Joy is a choice - but it isn't an easy choice.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The way I see it, if you want the rainbow,
you gotta put up with the rain.
- Dolly Parton
Life is really simple,
but we insist on making it complicated.
- Confucius
The purpose of our lives is to be happy.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
The essence of life is not in
the great victories and grand failures,
but in the simple joys.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is as easy or as hard as you think it is.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is always lived in the eye-of-the-storm
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Happiness walks on busy feet.
- Kitte Turmell
Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Simply do your best, and you will avoid
self-judgment, self-abuse and regret.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Life expands to fill your dreams.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
One can never consent to creep when one feels the impulse to soar.
- Helen Keller
You don't have the power to make life "fair,"
but you do have the power to make life joyful.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is a succession of lessons
which must be lived to be understood.
- Helen Keller
Be the Melody in the Symphony of Your Life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There are no facts, only interpretations.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
The life of inner peace,
being harmonious and without stress,
is the easiest type of existence.
- Norman Vincent Peale
Life is a sum of all your choices.
- Albert Camus
Set Life's Rhythm with Your Heart-Drum
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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