Albert Schweitzer Quotes

I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.

But I can say that life is good to me. Has been and is good. So I think my task is to be good to it. So how do you be good to life? You live it.

The only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.

The purpose of human life and the sense of happiness is to give the maximum what the man is able to give.

Never will I pursue happiness, because it is not a goal, just a by-product, and there is no happiness in having or in getting, only in giving.

Truth is a deep kindness that teaches us to be content in our everyday life and share with the people the same happiness.

I am in constant search of charitable work and thank Allah that I am happy, that my children are happy, and I like that all of my family is happy.

As long as you understand that you find happiness through family, friends and love, then money is just a nice bonus.

The exercise of benevolence is joy to loving hearts: the more pain it costs, the more joy it is. Kind actions make us happy, and in such joy we find communion with the great heart of Jesus.

I think love and beauty are what life is all about.

The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity.

As the purse is emptied, the heart is filled.

It is for others one must learn to do everything; for there lies the secret of happiness.

Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything. The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.

Happiness does not consist in self-love.

In contentment and joy are found the height and perfection of all love towards our neighbor.

I knew everything and received everything. But real happiness, is giving.

Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so.

I think for me, happiness is crucial, but I think we think that happiness comes from amassing goods and getting things and being loved and being successful, when in fact my experience of happiness comes when you give everything away, when you serve people, when you're watching something you do make somebody happy - that's when happiness happens.

Christmas is the spirit of giving without a thought of getting. It is happiness because we see joy in people. It is forgetting self and finding time for others. It is discarding the meaningless and stressing the true values.

I just want to be happy. You know what I'm saying? I just want to be happy, and I want to be able to make somebody else happy.

Service which is rendered without joy helps neither the servant nor the served. But all other pleasures and possessions pale into nothingness before service which is rendered in a spirit of joy.

I believe that if, at the end of it all, according to our abilities, we have done something to make others a little happier, and something to make ourselves a little happier, that is about the best we can do.

Experience praises the most happy the one who made the most people happy.

Whoever labors for the happiness of those he loves elevates himself, no matter whether he works in the dreary shop or the perfumed field.