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.
A man is truly ethical only when he obeys the compulsion to help all life which he is able to assist, and shrinks from injuring anything that lives.
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.
Do something for somebody everyday for which you do not get paid.
The great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.
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.
If a man loses his reverence for any part of life, he will lose his reverence for all of life.
As soon as man does not take his existence for granted, but beholds it as something unfathomably mysterious, thought begins.
Let me give you a definition of ethics: It is good to maintain and further life it is bad to damage and destroy life.
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.
A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.
A man does not have to be an angel in order to be saint.
Impart as much as you can of your spiritual being to those who are on the road with you, and accept as something precious what comes back to you from them.
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.
I wanted to be a doctor that I might be able to work without having to talk because for years I had been giving myself out in words.
A good example has twice the value of good adviceCollection: Advice
Eventually all things fall into place. Until then, laugh at the confusion, live for the moments, and know EVERYTHING HAPPENS FOR A REASON.Collection: Life
We must fight against the spirit of unconscious cruelty with which we treat the animals. Animals suffer as much as we do. True humanity does not allow us to impose such sufferings on them. It is our duty to make the whole world recognize it. Until we extend our circle of compassion to all living things, humanity will not find peace.Collection: Fighting
The only thing of importance, when we depart, will be the traces of love we have left behind.Collection: Inspirational
If you own something you cannot give away, then you don't own it, it owns you.Collection: Giving
All work that is worth anything is done in faith.Collection: Work
Happiness is the only thing that multiplies when you share it.Collection: Share
At that point in life where your talent meets the needs of the world, that is where God wants you to be.Collection: Needs
The awareness that we are all human beings together has become lost in war and through politics.Collection: War
The path of awakening is not about becoming who you are. Rather it is about unbecoming who you are not.Collection: Self
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 ownCollection: Attitude
We cannot abdicate our conscience to an organization, nor to a government.Collection: Government
In the hopes of reaching the moon men fail to see the flowers that blossom at their feet.Collection: Inspirational
The interior joy we feel when we have done a good deed is the nourishment the soul requires.Collection: Joy
No one can give a definition of the soul. But we know what it feels like. The soul is the sense of something higher than ourselves, something that stirs in us thoughts, hopes, and aspirations which go out to the world of goodness, truth and beauty. The soul is a burning desire to breathe in this world of light and never to lose it--to remain children of light.Collection: Children
Do something good and someone might imitate it.Collection: Might
Mysticism occurs whenever a human being sees the separation between the natural and the supernatural, between the temporal and the eternal, as overcome.Collection: Overcoming
The friend of nature is the man who feels himself inwardly united with everything that lives in nature, who shares in the fate of all creatures, helps them when he can in their pain and need, and as far as possible avoids injuring or taking life.Collection: Nature
Grow into your ideals so that life cannot rob you of them.Collection: Grows
Affirmation of the world, which means affirmation of the will-to-live that manifests itself around me, is only possible if I devote myself to other life.Collection: Mean
In the past we have tried to make a distinction between animals which we acknowledge have some value and other which, having none, can be liquidated when we wish. This standard must be abandoned. Everything that lives has value simply as a living thing, as one of the manifestations of the mystery that is life.Collection: Animal
Only through love can we obtain communion with God.Collection: Spirituality
We need a boundless ethic, one which will include the animals, too. Until we extend the circle of his compassions to all living things, we will not find peace.Collection: Animal
There is much coldness among men because we do not dare to be as cordial as we really are.Collection: Carpe Diem
We are united with all life that is in nature. Man can no longer live his life for himself alone.Collection: Men
In modern European thought a tragedy is occurring in that the original bonds uniting the affirmative attitude towards the world with ethics are, by a slow but irresistible process, loosening and finally parting. Out of my life and Thought.Collection: Attitude
We ought all to make an effort to act on our first thoughts and let our unspoken gratitude find expression. Then there will be more sunshine in the world, and more power to work for what is good.Collection: Gratitude
The demands of Jesus are difficult just because they require us to do something extraordinary. At the same time he asks us to regard these as something usual, ordinary.Collection: Jesus
We all owe to others much of the gentleness and wisdom that we have made our own; and we may well ask ourselves what will others owe to usCollection: May
...try to tell the people of America about Dr. Gerson's merits and ...results...I wish you the best in your difficult task.Collection: Dark
I must forgive without noise or fuss.Collection: Knowing Who You Are
The stronger the reverence for natural life, the stronger grows also that for spiritual life.Collection: Spiritual
Man's ethics must not end with man, but should extend to the universe. He must regain the consciousness of the great Chain of Life from which he cannot be separated.Collection: Life
Today . . . we know that all living beings who strive to maintain life and who long to be spared pain - all living beings on earth - are our neighbors.Collection: Life