Famous Quotes & Sayings

Albert Schweitzer

The future of civilisation depends on our overcoming the meaninglessness and hopelessness that characterizes the thoughts of men today.

Mark Baldassare

None of the propositions favored by the governor's administration are inspiring much passion,

Chris Evert

You can't give up! If you give up, you're like everybody else.

Diane Lane

Catholics have guilt and Jews have guilt, fine. But mothers can trump them all.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

We must be ready to allow ourselves to be interrupted by God.

Edgar Allan Poe

Thank Heaven! The crisis /The danger is past, and the lingering illness, is over at last /, and the fever called ''Living'' is conquered at last.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home - so close and so small that they cannot be seen on any maps of the world ... Such are the places where every man, woman and child seeks equal justice, equal opportunity, equal dignity without discrimination. Unless these rights have meaning there, they have little meaning anywhere.

Eleanor Roosevelt

All of life is a constant education.

Elbert Hubbard

How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience would have achieved success.

Albert Schweitzer

The stronger the reverence for natural life, the stronger grows also that for spiritual life.

Albert Schweitzer

Rational thinking which is free from assumptions ends therefore in mysticism. To relate oneself in the spirit of reverence for life to the multiform manifestations of the will-to-live which together constitute the world is ethical mysticism. All profound world-view is mysticism, the essence of which is just this: that out of my unsophisticated and naïve existence in the world there comes, as a result of thought about self and the world, spiritual self-devotion to the mysterious infinite Will which is continuously manifested in the universe.

Albert Schweitzer

Not less strong than the will to truth must be the will to sincerity. Only an age, which can show the courage of sincerity, can possess truth, which works as a spiritual force within it.

Albert Schweitzer

Ethics are complete, profound and alive only when addressed to all living beings. Only then are we in spiritual connection with the world. Any philosophy not representing this, not based on the indefinite totality of life, is bound to disappear.

Albert Schweitzer

Sincerity is the foundation of the spiritual life.

Albert Schweitzer

Impart as much as you can of your spiritual being to those who are on the road with you, and accept as something precious what comes back to you from them.

Albert Schweitzer

Reverence for life brings us into a spiritual relation with the world which is independent of all knowledge of the universe.

Albert Schweitzer

By having a reverence for life, we enter into a spiritual relation with the world By practicing reverence for life we become good, deep, and alive.

Albert Schweitzer

I always think that we live, spiritually, By what others have given us in the significant hours of our life. These significant hours do not announce themselves as coming, but arrive unexpected.

Charles Spurgeon

It's a good thing God chose me before I was born, because he surely would not have afterwards.

Eike Batista

Nobody is happy alone. To share experiences is always a good thing.

Charles Dickens

A good thing can't be cruel.

Bertolt Brecht

What rapture, oh, it is to know A good thing when you see it And having seen a good thing, oh, What rapture 'tis to flee it.

Billy Collins

It's a good thing to get poetry off the shelves and more into public life.

Amanda Beard

I know that I do deserve good things.

Doug Stanhope

I do good things in my life, too. It's just that none of them are funny.

Crispin Glover

A good thing to live by is to go after what truly interests you.

Alex Rodriguez

Therapy can be a good thing; it can be therapeutic.