Reverence for life affords me my fundamental principle of morality, namely that good consists in maintaining, assisting, and enhancing life, and that to destroy, to harm, or to hinder life is evil.
-Albert Schweitzer "Albert Schweitzer"
Quotations
Life
-Albert Schweitzer "Albert Schweitzer"
Sing your life; any fool can think of words that rhyme.
-Morrissey
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
-Anaïs Nin
Be like a tree. The tree gives shade even to him who cuts off its boughs.
-Sri Chaitanya "Sri Chaitanya"
Live simply that others might simply live.
-Elizabeth Ann Seton
Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-Søren Kierkegaard
I can choose either to be a victim of the world or an adventurer in search of treasure. It's all a question of how I view my life.
-Paulo Coelho
"Eleven Minutes"
My philosophy of life is that if we make up our mind what we are going to make of our lives, then work hard toward that goal, we never lose - somehow we win out.
-Ronald Reagan
Surely my prayer and my sacrifice and my life and my death are (all) for Allah, the Lord of the worlds.
-Quran "Quran 6.162"
You ask: What is the meaning or purpose of life? I can only answer with another question: Do you think we are wise enough to read God's mind?
-Freeman Dyson
"The Meaning of Life"
