Sometimes our light goes out, but is blown again into instant flame by an encounter with another human being.
There are two means of refuge from the misery of life — music and cats.
If you love something so much let it go. If it comes back it was meant to be; if it doesn't it never was
Until he extends the circle of his compassion to all living things, man will not himself find peace.
Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.
Eventually all things fall into place. Until then, laugh at the confusion, live for the moments, and know EVERYTHING HAPPENS FOR A REASON.
Think occasionally of the suffering of which you spare yourself the sight.
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.
Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.
Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.
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 have sought and found how to serve.
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.
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.
The only thing of importance, when we depart, will be the traces of love we have left behind.
We are all so much together, but we are all dying of loneliness.
Man is a clever animal who behaves like an imbecile.
In the hopes of reaching the moon men fail to see the flowers that blossom at their feet.
A man does not have to be an angel to be a saint.
He who does not reflect his life back to God in gratitude does not know himself.
The greatest discovery of any generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering the attitudes of their minds.
 must oppose all cruel customs, no matter how deeply rooted in tradition and surrounded by a halo. When we have a choice, we must avoid bringing torment and injury into the life of another. )
The thinking (person) must oppose all cruel customs, no matter how deeply rooted in tradition and surrounded by a halo. When we have a choice, we must avoid bringing torment and injury into the life of another.
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.
The the question whether I am a pessimist or an optimist, I answer that my knowledge is pessimistic, but my willing and hope are optimistic.
O heavenly Father, protect and bless all things that have breath: guard them from all evil and let them sleep in peace.
Seek always to do some good, somewhere... Even if it's a little thing, so something for those that need help, something for which you get no pay but the privilege of doing it.
Do something wonderful, people may imitate it.
Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate.
Man can no longer live for himself alone. We must realize that all life is valuable and that we are united to all life. From this knowledge comes our spiritual relationship with the universe.
The purpose of human life is to serve and to show compassion and the will to help others.
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
Sometimes our light goes out but is blown again into flame by an encounter with another human being. Each of us owes the deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this inner light.
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 a world all of your own.
Anyone who proposes to do good must not expect people to roll stones out of his way, but must accept his lot calmly if they even roll a few more upon it.
The doctor of the future will be oneself.
No ray of sunshine is ever lost but the green that it awakens takes time to sprout, and it is not always given the sower to see the harvest.
The demands of Jesus are difficult because they require us to do something extraordinary. At the same time He asks us to regard these [acts of goodness] as something usual, ordinary.
Soldiers' graves are the greatest preachers of peace.
The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives. -Albert Schweitzer
If a man loses his reverence for any part of life, he will lose his reverence for all of life.
I am life that wants to live, in the midst of life that wants to live.
Everyone must work to live, but the purpose of life is to serve and to show compassion and the will to help others. Only then have we ourselves become true human beings.
The interior joy we feel when we have done a good deed is the nourishment the soul requires.
As soon as man does not take his existence for granted, but beholds it as something unfathomably mysterious, thought begins.
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.
Man has the lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end up destroying the earth.
You must give time to your fellow men -- even if it's a little thing, do something for others -- something for which you get no pay but the privilege of doing it. --
I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I do know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who have sought and found how to serve.
As we acquire knowledge, things do not become more comprehensible, but more mysterious.
It's not enough merely to exist. Every man has to seek in his own way to make his own self more noble and to relize his own true worth.
Every patient carries her or his own doctor inside.
Die Liebe stirbt meistens and den kleinen Fehlern, die man am Anfang so entzückend findet.
The quiet conscience is an invention of the devil
As we know life in ourselves we want to understand life in the universe in order to enter into harmony with it.
Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It's the only thing.
The Full Measure of a man is not to be found in the man himself, but in the colors and textures that come alive in others because of him.
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.
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.
There are only three ways to teach a child. The first is by example, the second is by example, the third is by example.
As we understand life in ourselves, we want to understand life in the universe. in order to enter into harmony with it.
Eventually all the pieces fall into place. until then, laugh at the confusion, live for the moment and know that everything happens for a reason.
There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
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.
It isn't for the moment you are struck that you need courage, but for the long uphill climb back to sanity and faith and security. Anne Morrow Lindbergh
By ethical conduct toward all creatures, we enter into a spiritual relationship with the universe.
There are two refuges from the miseries of life: music and cats.
A man can do only what he can do. But if he does that each day he can sleep at night and do it again the next day.
Do not let Sunday be taken from you. If your soul has no sunday, it becomes an orphan.
One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.
...But you must do something more. Seek always to do some good, somewhere
