The best Quotes by Albert Schweitzer

The best Quotes by Albert Schweitzer

Ludwig Philipp Albert Schweitzer (14 January 1875 – 4 September 1965) was an Alsatian polymath. He was a theologian, organist, musicologist, writer, humanitarian, philosopher, and physician.

The only important things in life are the traces of love we leave behind.
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No future can hold up to the things that you miss in the present.
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Happiness is the only thing that doubles when you share it.
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Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.
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Many people know that they're unhappy. But even more people don't know that they're happy.
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Random is a nickname that God chooses to be incognito.
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The grave of a soldier is the biggest preacher for peace.
Every minute that you're angry, you're losing 60 happy seconds of your life.
There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.

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When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life.
When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up.
I wrote down "happy". They told me I didn't understand the assignment, and I told them they didn't understand life.
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That's the best revenge of all: happiness. Nothing drives people crazier than seeing someone have a good f*cking life.
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The happiest people don't worry too much about whether life is fair ot not, they just get on with it.
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Don't wish me happiness - I don't expect to be happy it's gotten beyond that, somehow. Wish me courage and strength and a sense of humor - I will need them all.
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It was right then that I started thinking about Thomas Jefferson, the Declaration of Independence and the part about our right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. And I remember thinking: How did he know to put the pursuit part in there? That maybe happiness is something that we can only pursue. And maybe we can actually never have it, no matter what. How did he know that?
Chris Gardner in The Pursuit of Happyness
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"But don't you think," I persist, "that it's better to be extremely happy for a short while, even if you lose it, than to be just okay for your whole life?"
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Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass. It's about learning to dance in the rain.
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Nothing's gonna save our lifes, so... we're breathing borrowed air.
Will Newman in Five Feet Apart
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I think the thing to do is enjoy the ride while you're on it.
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You see things; and you say 'Why?"
But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?"
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It takes much more courage to be in love than it does for war.
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You say you love rain, but you use an umbrella to walk under it. You say you love sun, but you seek shade when it is shining. You say you love wind, but when it comes, you close your window. So that's why I'm scared when you say you love me.
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I'm walking away from the troubles in my life
I'm walking away, oh, to find a better day
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Left leg, right leg, your body will follow. They call it walking.
The future is easy because it doesn't exist; but the past is painful because it lives forever.
The future is coming so fast, we can't possibly predict it; we can only learn to respond quickly.
Saphira: "Live in the present, remember the past, and fear not the future, for it doesn't exist and never shall. There is only now."
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The future starts today, not tomorrow.
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Sometimes, strangers can become more like family than blood ever could.
It's a mystery of human chemistry and I don't understand it, some people, as far as their senses are concerned, just feel like home.
Success is all about having the confidence to shoot for something even if it seems impossible.
The secret behind success isn't as much of a secret as people think. It's pretty simple. It's working as hard as you can to accomplish what you want.
Anything is possible if you got enough nerve.
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To me, the very definition of the word "broken" suggests that something can be fixed.
Elijah Mikaelson in The Originals - Season 1 Episode 8
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There are no coincidences, Delia... only the illusion of coincidence.
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'Destiny, chance, fate, fortune -they're all just ways of claiming your success without claiming your failures.'
- Gerrard of the Weatherlight
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Peace is not absence of conflict, it is the ability to handle conflict by peaceful means.
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Fighting for peace is like screwing for virginity.
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Only the dead have seen the end of war.
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In every grave, there's the history of a lifetime.
For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity.
The soldier above all others prays for peace, for it is the soldier who must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war.
I wanted to do it. I wanted to take out all my anger at him. But... I couldn't. I don't know if it's because I'm too weak to do it, or if it's because I'm strong enough not to.
"It's no use fretting for what you can't get," croaked the raven. "Does being angry make any difference? Be sensible! What can you do about it?"
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If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.
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I can choose either to be a victim of the world or an adventurer in search of treasure. It's all a question of how I view my life.
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The soldier's minute. In a battle that's all you get. One minute of everything at once. And anything before it nothing. Everything after, nothing. Nothing in comparison to that one minute.
Thomas Shelby in Peaky Blinders - Season 1 Episode 6
I'd think of him one minute less a day. It'd be one minute less of sorrow.
Songs are as sad as the listener.
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One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.
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I believe cats to be spirits come to earth. A cat, I am sure, could walk on a cloud without coming through.
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