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Albert Schweitzer Inspirational Quotes (313)

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You don't live in a world all alone. Your brothers are here too.
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One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.
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Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier.
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There slowly grew up in me an unshakable conviction that we have no right to inflict suffering and death on another living creature, unless there is some unavoidable necessity for it.
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We cannot abdicate our conscience to an organization, nor to a government. 'Am I my brother's keeper?' Most certainly I am! I cannot escape my responsibility by saying the State will do all that is necessary. It is a tragedy that nowadays so many think and feel otherwise.
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The quiet conscience is an invention of the devil.
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Do not let Sunday be taken from you. If your soul has no Sunday, it becomes an orphan.
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Every start on an untrodden path is a venture which only in unusual circumstances looks sensible and likely to succeed.
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Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.
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There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.
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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.
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Every patient carries his or her own doctor inside.
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Ethics is the activity of man directed to secure the inner perfection of his own personality.
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The last fact which knowledge can discover is that the world is a manifestation, and in every way a puzzling manifestation, of the universal will to live.
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My life is full of meaning to me. The life around me must be full of significance to itself. If I am to expect others to respect my life, then I must respect the other life I see.
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Thinking about death... produces love for life. When we are familiar with death, we accept each week, each day, as a gift. Only if we are able thus to accept life bit by bit does it become precious.
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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.
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To work for the common good is the greatest creed.
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To the truly ethical man, all of life is sacred, including forms of life that from the human point of view may seem lower than ours.
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Because I have confidence in the power of truth, and of the spirit, I have confidence in the future of mankind.
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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.
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The Bhagavad-Gita has a profound influence on the spirit of mankind by its devotion to God which is manifested by actions.
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If there is anything I have learned about men and women, it is that there is a deeper spirit of altruism than is ever evident. Just as the rivers we see are minor compared to the underground streams, so, too, the idealism that is visible is minor compared to what people carry in their hearts unreleased or scarcely released.
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Pablo Casals is a great musician in all he does: a cellist without equal, and extraordinary conductor and composer with something to say. I have been profoundly impressed by all I have heard of his work, but he is a musician of this stature because he is also a great man.
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