Quote #112

There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.

More from Albert Schweitzer

  1. The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it; and so in great calamities, it sometimes happens…
  2. There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed.
  3. 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.
  4. Therefore search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity.
  5. The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
  6. This new form of activity medicine I could not represent to myself as talking about the religion of love, but only as an actual putting it …
  7. The purpose of human life is to serve, and to show compassion and the will to help others.
  8. To affirm life is to deepen, to make more inward, and to exalt the will to live.

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