Albert Schweitzer Quotes

Please know that being 80 is not a scary thing. When you're 80, your life is much freer.

[H]appy or miserable, life is the only blessing which man possesses[.

What I wear is pants. What I do is live. How I pray is breathe.

I am life. I have no name. I am as the fresh breeze of the mountains.

There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state with another, nothing more. He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness. We must of felt what it is to die, Morrel, that we may appreciate the enjoyments of life. " Live, then, and be happy, beloved children of my heart, and never forget, that until the day God will deign to reveal the future to man, all human wisdom is contained in these two words, 'Wait and Hope.

He was in love with life as an ant on a summer blade of grass.

Sorrow is one of the vibrations that prove the fact of living.

From the moment you entered this world of existence, a ladder was put in front of you so you could escape.

No man's fortune can be an end worthy of his being.

Without dreams we would be cows in a field, and I don't want to live like that. I live my life or I end my life with this project.

Moby lives the simplest of any person I think I know.

I love Death because he breaks the human pattern and frees us from pleasures too prolonged as well as from the pains of this world. It is pleasant, too, to remember that Death lies in our hands; he must come if we call him. ... I think if there were no death, life would be more than flesh and blood could bear.

True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is sufficient, for he that is so wants nothing. The greatest blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach. A wise man is content with his lot, whatever it may be, without wishing for what he has not.

And let that day be lost to us on which we did not dance once! And let that wisdom be false to us that brought no laughter with it!

Life is a joyous thing essentially, but when you bind life by all these rigid moralities and traditions, and dogmas and creeds, then there is misery.

It is not peace that I seek, but life.

Dying was nothing and he had no picture of it nor fear of it in his mind. But living was a field of grain blowing in the wind on the side of a hill. Living was a hawk in the sky. Living was an earthen jar of water in the dust of the threshing with the grain flailed out and the chaff blowing. Living was a horse between your legs and a carbine under one leg and a hill and a valley and a stream with trees along it and the far side of the valley and the hills beyond.

Happiness is a hound dog in the sun. We aren't on Earth to be happy, but to experience incredible things. - Hannah Schneider

Outside of that single fatality of death, everything, joy or happiness, is liberty.

Be happy for no reason, like a child. If you are happy for a reason, you’re in trouble, because that reason can be taken from you.

We are men without ambition, and all we want is to be left alone, in peace so that we can try and be happy. So few people will understand this simplicity.

Wherever comes man comes tragedy and comedy also.

Live your life, no matter what that life is.

This dance is the joy of existence.

If desire causes suffering, it may be because we do not desire wisely, or that we are inexpert at obtaining what we desire. Instead of hiding our heads in a prayer cloth and building walls against temptation, why not get better at fulfilling desire? Salvation is for the feeble, that's what I think. I don't want salvation, I want life, all of life, the miserable as well as the superb.