Eventually all things fall into place. Until then, laugh at the confusion, live for the moments, and know EVERYTHING HAPPENS FOR A REASON. - Britney Spears
Everyone must work to live, but the purpose of life is to serve and to show compassion and the will to help others. Only then have we ourselves become true human beings. - Albert Schweitzer
If you love something so much let it go. If it comes back it was meant to be; if it doesn't it never was. - 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
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. - Albert Schweitzer
In the hopes of reaching the moon men fail to see the flowers that blossom at their feet. - Albert Schweitzer
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. - Albert Schweitzer
Never say there is nothing beautiful in the world anymore. There is always something to make you wonder in the shape of a tree, the trembling of a leaf. - Albert Schweitzer
One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity. - Albert Schweitzer
Sometimes our light goes out, but is blown again into instant flame by an encounter with another human being. - Albert Schweitzer
The Full Measure of a man is not to be found in the man himself, but in the colors and textures that come alive in others because of him. - Albert Schweitzer
The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it; and so in great calamities, it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner than those of a loftier character. - Albert Schweitzer
Direct [people] towards mutual affection. A beast gnawing at its prey can be happy too, but only human beings can feel affection for each other, and this is the highest achievement they can aspire to. - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
I have always had that inner drive, since my birth. And I have always devoted myself gladly to work - to work and to the struggle. - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Lord, give me the strength to accomplish what You've given me to do and the faith to trust You that what I haven't been able to accomplish You've already assigned to someone else. - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
No one can bar the road to truth, and to advance its cause I am prepared to accept even death. - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Submissiveness to fate, the total abdication of your own will in the shaping of your life, the recognition that it was impossible to guess the best and the worst ahead of time but that it was easy to take a step you would reproach yourself for-all this freed the prisoner from any bondage, made him calmer, and even ennobled him. - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
The foundation stones of a great building are destined to groan and be pressed upon; it is not for them to crown the edifice. - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
The task of the artist is to sense more keenly than others the harmony of the world, the beauty and the outrage of what man has done to it, and poignantly to let people know. - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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