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
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 purpose of human life is to serve, and to show compassion and the will to help others.
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.
There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.
Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.
Do something wonderful, people may imitate it.
Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.
Never say there is nothing beautiful in the world anymore. There is always something to make you wonder in the shape of a tree, the trembling of a leaf.
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.
Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier.
Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate.
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.
The first step in the evolution of ethics is a sense of solidarity with other human beings.
Think occasionally of the suffering of which you spare yourself the sight.
An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while a pessimist sees only the red stoplight... the truly wise person is colorblind.
One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.
Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth.
Example is leadership.
The only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.
Man can hardly even recognize the devils of his own creation.
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.
Do not let Sunday be taken from you. If your soul has no Sunday, it becomes an orphan.
The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
Ethics is the activity of man directed to secure the inner perfection of his own personality.
We are all so much together, but we are all dying of loneliness.
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.
Until he extends his circle of compassion to include all living things, man will not himself find peace.
Ethics is nothing else than reverence for life.
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.
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.
My life is my argument.
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.
A man does not have to be an angel in order to be saint.
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.
A man is truly ethical only when he obeys the compulsion to help all life which he is able to assist, and shrinks from injuring anything that lives.
The African is my brother but he is my younger brother by several centuries.
Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now - always.
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.
Do something for somebody everyday for which you do not get paid.
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.
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.
Wherever a man turns he can find someone who needs him.
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.
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.
Humanitarianism consists in never sacrificing a human being to a purpose.
A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.
I can do no other than be reverent before everything that is called life. I can do no other than to have compassion for all that is called life. That is the beginning and the foundation of all ethics.
Reverence for life affords me my fundamental principle of morality.
Man is a clever animal who behaves like an imbecile.
