Sometimes our light goes out, but is blown again into instant flame by an encounter with another human being.
There are two means of refuge from the misery of life — music and cats.
Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.
At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us.
True philosophy must start from the most immediate and comprehensive fact of consciousness: ‘I am life that wants to live, in the midst of life that wants to live
It’s not enough merely to exist. Every man has to seek in his own way to make his own self more noble and to relize his own true worth.
Man is a clever animal who behaves like an imbecile.
Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will – his personal responsibility in the realm of faith and morals.
I don’t know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who have sought and found how to serve.
Das Glück ist das einzige, das sich verdoppelt, wenn man es teilt.
He who does not reflect his life back to God in gratitude does not know himself.
There are only three ways to teach a child. The first is by example, the second is by example, the third is by example.
O heavenly Father,protect and bless all thingsthat have breath: guard themfrom all evil and let them sleep in peace.
Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.
Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.
Until he extends the circle of his compassion to all living things, man will not himself find peace.
Whoever is spared personal pain must feel himself called to help in diminishing the pain of others. We must all carry our share of the misery which lies upon the world.
Compassion, in which all ethics must take root, can only attain its full breadth and depth if it embraces all living creatures and does not limit itself to mankind.
Think occasionally of the suffering of which you spare yourself the sight.
As we know life in ourselves we want to understand life in the universe in order to enter into harmony with it.
The interior joy we feel when we have done a good deed is the nourishment the soul requires.
The thinking (person) must oppose all cruel customs, no matter how deeply rooted in tradition and surrounded by a halo. When we have a choice, we must avoid bringing torment and injury into the life of another.
Wherever you turn, you can find someone who needs you. Even if it is a little thing, do something for which there is no pay but the privilege of doing it. Remember, you don’t live in a world all of your own.
The tragedy in a man’s life is what dies inside of him while he lives.
We are all so much together, but we are all dying of loneliness.
Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me.
Man can no longer live for himself alone. We must realize that all life is valuable and that we are united to all life. From this knowledge comes our spiritual relationship with the universe.
Anyone who proposes to do good must not expect people to roll stones out of his way but must accept his lot calmly even if they roll a few more upon it.
Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light.
The only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.
A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.
A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.
A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.
A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.
A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.
A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.
A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.
A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.
One thing I know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.
Happiness? That’s nothing more than health and a poor memory.
The only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.
Life becomes harder for us when we live for others but it also becomes richer and happier.
One thing I know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.
Happiness? That’s nothing more than health and a poor memory.
Man can hardly even recognize the devils of his own creation.
You don’t live in a world all your own. Your brothers are here too.
Even if it’s a little thing do something for those who have need of help something for which you get no pay but the privilege of doing it.
Life becomes harder for us when we live for others but it also becomes richer and happier.
Humanitarianism consists in never sacrificing a human being to a purpose.
As we acquire more knowledge things do not become more comprehensible but more mysterious.
Love . . . includes fellowship in suffering in joy and in effort.
One thing I know the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.
It is only through love that we can attain to communion with God. All living knowledge of God rest upon this foundation: that we experience Him in our lives as Will-to-love.
A man does not have to be an angel in order to be a saint.
A man can do only what he can do. But if he does that each day he can sleep at night and do it again the next day.
There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.
Until he extends his circle of compassion to all living things man will not find peace.
A man can do only what he can do. But if he does that each day he can sleep at night and do it again the next day.
Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.
Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment and learn again to exercise … his personal responsibility in the realm of faith and morals.
A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.
A man can do only what he can do. But if he does that each day he can sleep at night and do it again the next day.
Thought is the strongest thing we have. Work done by true and profound thought – that is a real force.
By respect for life we become religious in a way that is elementary, profound and alive.
Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now – always.
Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth.
One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.
In everyone’s life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.
One truth stands firm. All that happens in world history rests on something spiritual. If the spiritual is strong, it creates world history. If it is weak, it suffers world history.
Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light.
Everything deep is also simple and can be reproduced simply as long as its reference to the whole truth is maintained. But what matters is not what is witty but what is true.
The purpose of human life is to serve, and to show compassion and the will to help others.
Until he extends his circle of compassion to include all living things, man will not himself find peace.
Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier.
A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.
A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him, that of plants and animals as that of his fellow men, and when he devotes himself helpfully to all life that is in need of help.