Quote #107
The only important thing in life are the traces of love that we leave behind when we have to leave unasked and say farewell.
More from Albert Schweitzer
- The future of civilization depends on our overcoming the meaninglessness and hopelessness that characterizes the thoughts of men today.
- The purpose of human life is to serve, and to show compassion and the will to help others.
- The first step in the evolution of ethics is an enlargement of the sense of solidarity with other human beings.
- The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
- Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.
- The true worth of a man is not to be found in man himself, but in the colours and textures that come alive in others.
- Serious illness doesn't bother me for long because I am too inhospitable a host.
- The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it; and so in great calamities, it sometimes happens…