He was the famous Alsatian-born German theologian, philosopher, organist, and mission doctor. His family for generations had been devoted to religion, music, and education.He was the great humanitarian, inspirational person and writer.
In 1952 he received the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts on behalf of "the Brotherhood of Nations." Two years before his death, his hospital and leper colony were serving 500 patients. His philosophical books discuss his famous principle of "reverence for life."
(1875-1965))
Example is leadership.
~ Albert Schweizer
The great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.
~ Albert Schweizer
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.
~ 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
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.
~ Albert Schweitzer
Man can hardly even recognize the devils of his own creation.
~ Albert Schweitzer
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.
~ Albert Schweitzer
Until he extends his circle of compassion to include all living things, man will not himself find peace.
~ Albert Schweitzer
If a man loses his reverence for any part of life, he will lose his reverence for all of life.
~ Albert Schweitzer
Serious illness doesn't bother me for long because I am too inhospitable a host.
~ Albert Schweitzer
One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.
~ 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
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.
~ Albert Schweitzer
Do something wonderful, people may imitate it.
~ Albert Schweitzer
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.
~ Albert Schweitzer
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.
~ 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
Do something for somebody everyday for which you do not get paid.
~ Albert Schweizer
As soon as man does not take his existence for granted, but beholds it as something unfathomably mysterious, thought begins.
~ Albert Schweizer
Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.
~ Albert Schweizer
Revenge... is like a rolling stone, which, when a man hath forced up a hill, will return upon him with a greater violence, and break those bones whose sinews gave it motion.
~ Albert Schweitzer
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.
~ Albert Schweitzer
Think occasionally of the suffering of which you spare yourself the sight.
~ Albert Schweitzer
Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will - his personal responsibility in the realm of faith and morals.
~ Albert Schweitzer
Do not let Sunday be taken from you If your soul has no Sunday, it becomes an orphan.
~ Albert Schweitzer
A German philosopher who was deeply influenced by the ideas of the German Dominican theologian, mystic, and eclectic philosopher Meister Eckhart,
the German mystic and theosophist Jakob Boehme, and other great scholars of the Renaissance and the Enlightenment.
He is most famous for his work The World as Will and Representation. He is commonly known for having espoused a sort of philosophical pessimism
that saw life as being essentially evil and futile.
He was also influenced by Eastern thought, so he saw hope in aesthetics, sympathy for others and ascetic living. His ideas profoundly
influenced the fields of philosophy, psychology, and literature.
(1788-1860)
There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart.
~ Charles Dickens
Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
~ George Bernard Shaw
You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.
~ Friedrich NietzscheMore Proverbs
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