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Eventually all things fall into place. Until then, laugh at the confusion, live for the moments, and know EVERYTHING HAPPENS FOR A REASON.

Eventually all things fall into place. Until then, laugh at the confusion, live for the moments, and know EVERYTHING HAPPENS FOR A REASON.

Albert Schweitzer
Life, Fall, Everything Happens For A Reason

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

Albert Schweitzer
Inspirational, Life, Importance

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
Inspirational, Life, Motivational

The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.

Albert Schweitzer
Inspirational, Life, Sympathy
Albert Schweitzer (1958). “A Selection of Writings of and about Albert Schweitzer”, Boston : [s.n.], 1958 (Boston : H.N. Sawyer Company)

Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier.

Albert Schweitzer
Life, Grief, Bad Ass

Any religion or philosophy which is not based on a respect for life is not a true religion or philosophy.

Albert Schweitzer
Life, Death, Respect
Albert Schweitzer (1984). “The Words of Albert Schweitzer”

Until he extends his circle of compassion to include all living things, man will not himself find peace.

Albert Schweitzer
Love, Life, Peace
"Kulturphilosophie". Book by Albert Schweitzer, 1923.

A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him, that of plants and animals as that of his fellow men, and when he devotes himself helpfully to all life that is in need of help.

Albert Schweitzer
Life, Death, Animal
Albert Schweitzer (2014). “A Treasury of Albert Schweitzer”, p.67, Open Road Media

True philosophy must start from the most immediate and comprehensive fact of consciousness: "I am life that wants to live, in the midst of life that wants to live."

Albert Schweitzer
Life, Philosophy, Want
"Kulturphilosophie"(Philosophy of Civilisation) by Albert Schweitzer, translated by C. T. Campion, Chapter 26, 1949.

Reverence for Life affords me my fundamental principle of morality, namely, that good consists in maintaining, assisting, and enhancing life and that to destroy, harm, or to hinder life is evil. Affirmation of the world - that is affirmation of the will to live, which appears in phenomenal forms all around me - is only possible for me in that I give myself out for other life.

Albert Schweitzer
Life, Evil, Giving

Ethics cannot be based upon our obligations toward people, but they are complete and natural only when we feel this Reverence for Life and the desire to have compassion for and to help all creatures insofar as it is in our power. I think that this ethic will become more and more recognized because of its great naturalness and because it is the foundation of a true humanism toward which we must strive if our culture is to become truly ethical.

Albert Schweitzer
Life, Thinking, Compassion

Anyone who has accustomed himself to regard the life of any living creature as worthless is in danger of arriving also at the idea of worthless human lives.

Albert Schweitzer
Life, Cat, Animal

Affirmation of life is the spiritual act by which man ceases to live unreflectively and begins to devote himself to his life with reverence in order to raise it to its true value. To affirm life is to deepen, to make more inward, and to exalt the will.

Albert Schweitzer
Life, Spiritual, Men
Albert Schweitzer (2014). “Reverence for Life: The Ethics of Albert Schweitzer for the Twenty-First Century”, p.49, Open Road Media

If a man loses his reverence for any part of life, he will lose his reverence for all of life.

Albert Schweitzer
Life, Men, Honor

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.

Albert Schweitzer
Life, Ambition, Past

Profound love demands a deep conception and out of this develops reverence for the mystery of life. It brings us close to all beings, to the poorest and smallest as well as all others.

Albert Schweitzer
Life, Compassion, Profound
"Reverence for Life". Book by Albert Schweitzer, 1969.

The mistake made by all previous systems of ethics has been the failure to recognize that life as such is the mysterious value with which they have to deal. All spiritual life meets us within natural life. Reverence for life, therefore, is applied to natural life and spiritual life alike. In the parable of Jesus, the shepherd saves not merely the soul of the lost sheep but the whole animal. The stronger the reverence for natural life, the stronger grows also that for spiritual life.

Albert Schweitzer
Life, Strength, Spiritual
Albert Schweitzer, Charles Rhind Joy (1947). “Albert Schweitzer: An Anthology”, Boston : Beacon Press

The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it; and so in great calamities, it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner than those of a loftier character.

Albert Schweitzer
Life, Character, Adversity

Most men are scantily nourished on a modicum of happiness and a number of empty thoughts which life lays on their plates. They are kept in the road of life through stern necessity by elemental duties which they cannot avoid.

Albert Schweitzer
Life, Happiness, Men
Albert Schweitzer (1956). “An anthology”

The man who has become a thinking being feels a compulsion to give every will-to-live the same reverence for life that he gives to his own. He experiences that other life in his own.

Albert Schweitzer
Life, Men, Thinking
Albert Schweitzer (2015). “The Light Within Us”, p.31, Open Road Media

Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me.

Albert Schweitzer
Inspirational, Life, Beach
Albert Schweitzer (1929). “Civilization and Ethics”

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.

Albert Schweitzer
Life, Attitude, Men
Albert Schweitzer (2005). “Albert Schweitzer: Essential Writings”

Love ... is a living reality.

Albert Schweitzer
Life, Reality, Love Is

The ethic of Reverence for Life is the ethic of Love widened into universality.

Albert Schweitzer
Life, Ethics, Reverence
Albert Schweitzer (2014). “Out of My Life and Thought: An Autobiography”, p.237, Henry Holt and Company

Reverence for life is the highest court of appeal.

Albert Schweitzer
Life, Court, Appeals
Albert Schweitzer (1929). “Civilization and Ethics”

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