"Where there is peace, God is." ~George Herbert

"Carve your blessings in stone." ~Anon
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11/2/10

Albert Schweitzer Quotes

"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

OTHERS

“Adults teach children in three important ways: The first is by example, the second is by example, and the third is by example". ~Albert Schweitzer

“Animal protection is education to the humanity.” ~Albert Schweitzer

"By having a reverence for life, we enter into a spiritual relation with the world By practicing reverence for life we become good, deep, and alive." ~Albert Schweitzer

"Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate." ~Albert Schweitzer

"Do something wonderful, people may imitate it." ~Albert Schweitzer

"Example is not the main thing in influencing others, it is the only thing." ~Albert Schweitzer

"I still remain convinced that truth, love, peaceableness, meekness, and kindness are the violence which can master all other violence. The world will be theirs as soon as ever a sufficient number of people with purity of heart, with strength, and with perseverance think and live out the thoughts of love and truth, of meekness and peaceableness." ~Albert Schweitzer

"In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit." ~Albert Schweitzer

"Joy, sorrow, tears, lamentation, laughter -- to all these music gives voice, but in such a way that we are transported from the world of unrest to a world of peace, and see reality in a new way, as if we were sitting by a mountain lake and contemplating hills and woods and clouds in the tranquil and fathomless water." ~Albert Schweitzer

"Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful." ~Albert Schweitzer

"The only escape from the miseries of life are music and cats." ~Albert Schweitzer

"The only thing of importance when we depart, will be the traces of love we have left behind." ~Albert Schweitzer

"The purpose of human life is to serve and to show compassion and the will to help others." ~Albert Schweitzer

"...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." ~Albert Schweitzer

"The true worth of a man is not to be found in man himself, but in the colors and texture that come alive in others." ~Albert Schweitzer

"There can be no Kingdom of God in the world without the Kingdom of God in our hearts." ~Albert Schweitzer

"To educate yourself for the feeling of gratitude means to take nothing for granted, but to always seek out and value the kind that will stand 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." ~Albert Schweitzer

"Until he extends the circle of his compassion to all living things, man will not himself find peace." ~Albert Schweitzer

"We are all so much together, but we are all dying of loneliness." ~Albert Schweitzer

"When man learns to respect even the smallest being of creation, whether animal or vegetable, nobody has to teach him to love his fellow man. Compassion for animals is intimately connected with goodness of character, and it may be confidently asserted that he who is cruel to animals cannot be a good man." ~Albert Schweitzer

"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 the world all of your own.” ~Albert Schweitzer

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