Quotes of Albert Schweitzer

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Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.

- Albert Schweitzer

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“ Love is blind, they say–but isn’t it more that love makes us see too much? Isn’t it more that love floods our brain with sights and sounds, so that everything looks bigger, brighter, more lovely than ever before? ”

- Susan Fletcher Eve Green

“ We are mathematical equations where your life is the sum of all choices you've made until now. The good news is you can change the equation so that you start making a difference in your life. ”

- Steve Maraboli

“ Battered was my heart in the deep search, branded with cracks like slices of silver birch. An ignorant dream, a wish, just fool's gold that was the tale that love had sold. ”

- Sara Secora

“ Growing up in wartorn country like South Sudan wasn't hard and unbearable, but I'm always thankful for the experiences I encountered; cos with them I had realized my full potential to walked in seek of change and make impact on lives of others. ”

- Luka J. Riek

“ Hope is a waking dream. ”

- Aristotle

“ Sitting too long produces trees. ”

- Lorin MorganRichards

“ I can't make someone stay, but I can make me stay with someone. A successful relationship needs a constant decision to remain committed. ”

- Jeffrey Alcuizar Igot

“ Sometimes when I'm alone, I take the pearl from where it lives in my pocket and try to remember the boy with the bread, the strong arms that warded off nightmares on the train, the kisses in the arena. ”

- Suzanne Collins

“ Do not yearn to be popular; be exquisite. Do not desire to be famous; be loved. Do not take pride in being expected; be palpable, unmistakable. ”

- C. JoyBell C.

“ When someone beats a rug, the blows are not against the rug, but against the dust in it. ”

- Gandhi

“ Pet names are a persistant remnant of childhood, a reminder that life is not always so serious, so formal, so complicated. They are a reminder, too, that one is not all things to all people. ”

- Jhumpa Lahiri

“ I love you and it’s getting worse. ”

- Joseph E. Morris

“ In meetings philosophy might work, on the field practicality works. ”

- Amit Kalantri

“ Be supportive of others the way you would want them to be supportive of you. ”

- Ken Poirot

“ A blooming relationship even if it’s someone else’s, makes me so happy and reinstates my faith in love... ”

- Nitya Prakash

“ A failure is always in the passenger seat in his or her life. ”

- Stephen Richards

“ Sometimes, as we're stumbling along in the dark, we hit something good. ”

- Susan Ee

“ How many slams in an old screen door? Depends how loud you shut it. How many slices in a bread? Depends how thin you cut it. How much good inside a day? Depends how good you live 'em. How much love inside a friend? Depends how much you give 'em. ”

- Shel Silverstein

“ Often, we fabricate the people we love to make loving them more palatable; the fictionalized version of them reduces the awareness of truth. ”

- RJ Intindola

“ the saddest thing is to be a minute to someone, when you've made them your eternity. ”

- Sanober Khan

“ If every life is a river, then it's little wonder that we do not even notice the changes that occur until we are far out in the darkest sea. One day you look around and nothing is familiar, not even your own face. My name once meant daughter, grandaughter, friend, sister, beloved. Now those words mean only what their letters spell out; Star in the night sky. Truth in the darkness. I have crossed over to a place where I never thought I'd be. I am someone I would have never imagined. A secret. A dream. I am this, body and soul. Burn me. Drown me. Tell me lies. I will still be who I am. ”

- Alice Hoffman

“ I spend most nights at home falling in love with the idea of you. ”

- Michael Faudet

“ A good idea always attracts other good ideas. ”

- Patrick Ness

“ I love women, but I feel like you can’t trust some of them. Some of them are liars, you know? Like I was in the park and I met this girl, she was cute and she had a dog. And I went up to her, we started talking. She told me her dog’s name. Then I said, ‘Does he bite?’ She said, ‘No.’ And I said, ‘Oh yeah? Then how does he eat?’ Liar. ”

- Demetri Martin