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Albert Schweitzer Inspirational Quotes (313)

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No ray of sunlight is ever lost, but the green which it awakes into existence needs time to sprout, and it is not always granted to the sower to see the harvest. All work that is worth anything is done in faith.
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You must learn to understand the secret of gratitude. It is more than just so-called virtue. It is revealed to you as a mysterious law of existence. In obedience to it we have to fulfill our destiny.
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We ought all to make an effort to act on our first thoughts and let our unspoken gratitude find expression. Then there will be more sunshine in the world, and more power to work for what is good.
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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.
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For animals that are overworked, underfed, and cruelly treated for all wistful creatures in captivity that beat their wings against bars for any that are hunted or lost or deserted or frightened or hungry for all that must be put to death...and for those who deal with them we ask a heart of compassion and gentle hands and kindly words.
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Soldiers' graves are the greatest preachers of peace.
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O heavenly Father, protect and bless all things that have breath: guard them from all evil and let them sleep in peace.
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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.
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Don't let your hearts grow numb. Stay alert. It is your soul which matters.
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Seek always to do some good, somewhere. Every man has to seek in his own way to realize his true worth. You must give some time to your fellow man. For remember, you don't live in a world all your own. Your brothers are here too.
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If you study life deeply, its profundity will seize you suddenly with dizziness.
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A man who possesses a veneration of life will not simply say his prayers. He will throw himself into the battle to preserve life, if for no other reason than that he himself is an extension of life around him.
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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.
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I can do no other than be reverent before everything that is called life. I can do no other than to have compassion for all that is called life. That is the beginning and the foundation of all ethics.
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The only way out of today's misery is for people to become worthy of each other's trust.
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The highest knowledge is to know that we are surrounded by mystery.
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Reverence for life is the highest court of appeal.
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If you own something you cannot give away, then you don't own it, it owns you.
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No man need fear death, he need fear only that he may die without having known his greatest power: the power of his free will to give his life for others
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That's my private ant. You're liable to break its legs.
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We cannot possibly let ourselves get frozen into regarding everyone we do not know as an absolute stranger.
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The path of awakening is not about becoming who you are. Rather it is about unbecoming who you are not.
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The highest proof of the spirit is love. Love the eternal thing which can already on earth possess as it really is.
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My view is that we stand up for treating the animals in a considerate way, for completely renouncing the eating of meat and also for speaking out against it. This is what I do myself. And in this way many a one becomes aware of a problem that was put forward so late.
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