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

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.
Albert Schweitzer

One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.
Albert Schweitzer

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

Reverence for life affords me my fundamental principle of morality.
Albert Schweitzer

Reverence for life is the highest court of appeal.
Albert Schweitzer

Seek always to do some good, somewhere. Every man has to seek in his own way to realize his true worth. You must give some time to your fellow man. For remember, you don't live in a world all your own. Your brothers are here too.
Albert Schweitzer

Serious illness doesn't bother me for long because I am too inhospitable a host.
Albert Schweitzer

Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light.
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 African is my brother but he is my younger brother by several centuries.
Albert Schweitzer

The first step in the evolution of ethics is a sense of solidarity with other human beings.
Albert Schweitzer

The great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.
Albert Schweitzer

The highest proof of the spirit is love. Love the eternal thing which can already on earth possess as it really is.
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

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

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

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

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

There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.
Albert Schweitzer