Albert Schweitzer
To educate yourself for the feeling of gratitude means to take nothing for granted, but to always seek out and value the kindness that stands behind the action. Nothing that is done for you is a matter of course. Everything originates in a will for the good, which is directed at you. Train yourself never to put off the word or action for the expression of gratitude.Collection: Inspirational
You must not expect anything from others. It's you, of yourself, of whom you must ask a lot. Only from oneself has one the right to ask everything and anything. This way it's up to you - your own choices - what you get from others remains a present, a gift.Collection: Choices
If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.Collection: Happiness
If you truly desire happiness, seek and learn how to serve.Collection: Joy
Renunciation of thinking is a declaration of spiritual bankruptcy.Collection: Spiritual
One person can and does make a difference.Collection: Hero
Sincerity is the foundation of the spiritual life.Collection: Spiritual
There is no higher religion than human service.Collection: Community Service
Animal protection is education to the humanity.Collection: Ocean
It doesn't matter if an animal can reason. It matters only that it is capable of suffering and that is why I consider it my neighbor.Collection: Animal
For those who sincerely seek the truth should not fear the outcome.Collection: Outcomes
The only ones who will find real happiness are those who find a way to serveCollection: Happiness
The disastrous feature of our civilization is that it is far more developed materially than spiritually. Its balance is disturbed.Collection: Civilization
The great enemy of morality is indifference.Collection: Enemy
Even if it is a little thing, do something for those who have need of help.Collection: Helping Others
There can be no Kingdom of God in the world without the Kingdom of God in our hearts.Collection: God
Thought is the strongest thing we have. Work done by true and profound thought - that is a real force.Collection: Real
We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.Collection: Friendship
The result of the voyage does not depend on the speed of the ship, but on whether or not it keeps a true course.Collection: Doe
It is the fate of every truth to be an object of ridicule when it is first acclaimed.Collection: Fate
Love is the only thing that increases twofold every time it is shared.Collection: Love
He who does not reflect his life back to God in gratitude does not know himself.Collection: Gratitude
I do not know what your destiny may be, but I do know this, that not one of you will find the happiness that each of you is seeking until you have first sought and found a way in which to unselfishly serve others.Collection: Destiny
The spirit of the age is filled with the disdain for thinking.Collection: Thinking
Good is that which promotes life, evil is that which destroys lifeCollection: Evil
Train yourself never to put off the word or action for the expression of gratitude.Collection: Thankful
Any religion or philosophy which is not based on a respect for life is not a true religion or philosophy.Collection: Life
It is not always granted to the sower to see the harvest.Collection: Granted
Your soul suffers if you live superficially.Collection: Soul
I see in him (Dr. Max Gerson) one of the most eminent medical geniuses in the history of medicine...he was greatly impeded by adverse political conditions.Collection: Dark
Love ... is a living reality.Collection: Life
I am life which wants to live admidst of lives that want to live.Collection: Want
The great fault of all ethics hitherto has been that they believed themselves to have to deal only with the relations of man to man. In reality, however, the question is what is his attitude to the world and all life that comes within his reach.Collection: Life
We need a boundless ethics which will include animals also.Collection: Philosophical
A thinking man feels compelled to approach all life with the same reverence he has for his own.Collection: Men
O heavenly Father, protect and bless all things that have breath: guard them from all evil and let them sleep in peace.Collection: Father
I have given up the ambition to be a great scholar. I want to be more- simply a human. . . . We are not true humans, but beings who live by a civilization inherited from the past, that keeps us hostage, that confines us. No freedom of movement. Nothing. Everything in us is killed by our calculations for our future, by our social position and cast. You see, I am not happy-yet I am happy. I suffer, but that is part of life. I live, I don't care about my existence, and that is the beginning of wisdom.Collection: Life
When we observe contemporary society one thing strikes us. We debate but make no progress. Why? Because as peoples we do not yet trust each other.Collection: Progress
Creative energy is the essence of all healing...We physicians do nothing, we only help and encourage the physician within.Collection: Healing
It is not enough to merely exist. It's not enough to say, 'I'm earning enough to live and support my family. I do my work well. I'm a good parent.' That's all very well. But you must do something more.Collection: Volunteer
Today it is considered as exaggeration to proclaim constant respect for every form of life as being the serious demand of a rational ethic. But the time is coming when people will be amazed that the human race existed so long before it recognized that thoughtless injury to life is incompatible with real ethics. Ethics is in its unqualified form extended responsibility to everything that has life.Collection: Respect
Reverence for life brings us into a spiritual relation with the world which is independent of all knowledge of the universe.Collection: Spiritual
Your life is something opaque, not transparent, as long as you look at it in an ordinary human way. But if you hold it up against the light of God's goodness, it shines and turns transparent, radiant and bright. And then you ask yourself in amazement: Is this really my own life I see before me?Collection: Light
Never for a moment do we lay aside our mistrust of the ideals established by society, and of the convictions which are kept by it in circulation. We always know that society is full of folly and will deceive us in the matter of humanity. ... humanity meaning consideration for the existence and the happiness of individual human beings.Collection: Humanity
Ideals are thoughts. So long as they exist merely as thoughts, the power in them remains ineffective.Collection: Long
We cannot understand what happens in the universe. What is glorious in it is united with what is full of horror. What is full of meaning is united to what is senseless. The spirit of the universe is at once creative and destructive — it creates while it destroys and destroys while it creates, and therefore it remains to us a riddle. And we must inevitably resign ourselves to this.Collection: Creative
A man who possesses a veneration of life will not simply say his prayers. He will throw himself into the battle to preserve life, if for no other reason than that he himself is an extension of life around him.Collection: Prayer
The ethic of Reverence for Life is the ethic of Love widened into universality.Collection: Life
It is through the idealism of youth that man catches sight of truth, and in that idealism he possesses a wealth which he must never exchange for anything else.Collection: Birthday