Albert Schweitzer Quotes

Life doesn't make any sense without interdependence. We need each other, and the sooner we learn that, the better for us all.

There are moments when the heart is generous, and then it knows that for better or worse our lives are woven together here, one with one another and with the place and all the living things.

Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality-not as we expect it to be but as it is-is to see that unless we live for each other and in and through each other, we do not really live very satisfactorily; that there can really be life only where there really is, in just this sense, love.

We are united with all life that is in nature. Man can no longer live his life for himself alone.

Man does not weave this web of life. He is merely a strand of it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself.

We don't accomplish anything in this world alone... and whatever happens is the result of the whole tapestry of one's life and all the weavings of individual threads form one to another that creates something.

Love is the expansion of two natures in such fashion that each include the other, each is enriched by the other.

The whole idea of compassion is based on a keen awareness of the interdependence of all these living beings, which are all part of one another, and all involved in one another.

It is well to remember that the entire universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others.

I have an interesting perspective on depending on others. I think it gives people a chance to serve. And I'm not so much big on independence, as I am on interdependence. I'm not talking about co-dependency, I'm talking about giving people the opportunity to practicing love with its sleeves rolled up.

No man is an Island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main.

Life is relationship, living is relationship. We cannot live if you and I have built a wall around ourselves and just peep over that wall occasionally. Unconsciously, deeply, under the wall, we are related.

You are because I am and I am because you are. We are one another's strength.

Isn't everyone a part of everyone else?

Compassion is the keen awareness of the interdependence of all things.

May my soul bloom in love for all existence.

Even things which seem separate and finished are infinitely connected and will infinitely connect. This connection happens as soon as you let it, as soon as you engage - as soon as you even attempt to engage.

If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.

In nature we never see anything isolated, but everything in connection with something else which is before it, beside it, under it and over it.

We are increasingly open to understanding how we are all connected and that if we sink the ship that we are all on, we all drown. However, we have simultaneously become so focused on our own life experiences that we think we are alone.

Each life reverberates in every other life. Whether or not we acknowledge it, we are connected, woven together in our needs and desires, rich and poor, men and women alike.

The universe is an example of love. Like a tree. Like the ocean. Like my body. Like my wheelchair. I see the love.

Love is the substance of all life. Everything is connected in love, absolutely everything.

Just as the individual is not alone in the group, nor any one in society alone among the others, so man is not alone in the universe.

We all need each other.