Albert Schweitzer

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. ”

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

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. ”

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. ”

Let me give you a definition of ethics: It is good to maintain and further life it is bad to damage and destroy life. ”

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. ”

My life is my argument. ”

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

A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up. ”

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