Albert Schweitzer Quotes

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 only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.

When I see people that are my age and reaching 50, the ones that are really sparkly and full of joy are the ones that are committed to something bigger than themselves.

I just serve others through entertaining. That's when I am happy.

I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.

I think for me, happiness is crucial, but I think we think that happiness comes from amassing goods and getting things and being loved and being successful, when in fact my experience of happiness comes when you give everything away, when you serve people, when you're watching something you do make somebody happy - that's when happiness happens.

Being of service to others is what brings true happiness.

What greater bliss than to look back on days spent in usefulness, in doing good to those around us.

If life only has the meaning you bring to it, we have the opportunity to bring rich meaning to our lives by the service we do for others.

It feels good to know you contributed positively to another's life, to their happiness, to their survival. It gives us a sense of purpose.

All of us are born for a reason, but all of us don't discover why. Success in life has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others.

Joy can only be real if people look upon their life as a service and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness.

Experience praises the most happy the one who made the most people happy.

Whoever renders service to many puts himself in line for greatness - great wealth, great return, great satisfaction, great reputation, and great joy.

The purpose of human life and the sense of happiness is to give the maximum what the man is able to give.

People used to ask me how I got my jollies, and I guess I'm happy when what I'm doing is helping people and unhappy when what I'm doing isn't helping people.

The secret of happiness is: Find something more important than you are and dedicate your life to it.

The great happiness in life is not to donate but to serve.

To have a meaningful life, you have to be of service …

I'm not an ambitious person. I'm very content, and I have no pending dreams. God has given me so much, and if there's one thing I really want to do, it's to serve the people.

I get true joy out of that, being able to help people.

What's fulfilling is being happy and being able to help other people. The simple things.

When I help people around me. It gives me immense happiness.

If you serve others as fully as you can, what you do will be a source of inner joy.

I think that people will find a tremendous joy and fulfillment in service to other human beings, and that often this is what is missing in their lives.