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Do something for somebody everyday for which you do not get paid.

Albert Schweitzer

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Albert Schweitzer
Age: 90 †
Born: 1875
Born: January 14
Died: 1965
Died: September 4
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A heavy guilt rests upon us for what the whites of all nations have done to the colored peoples. When we do good to them, it is not benevolence--it is atonement.
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By ethical conduct toward all creatures, we enter into a spiritual relationship with the universe.
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At 20 everyone has the face that God gave them, at 40 the face that life gave them, and at 60 the face they earned.
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A man can do only what he can do. But if he does that each day he can sleep at night and do it again the next day.
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Wherever you turn, you can find someone who needs you. Even if it is a little thing, do something for which there is no pay but the privilege of doing it. Remember, you don't live in a world all of your own
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The deeper we look into nature, the more we recognize that it is full of life, and the more profoundly we know that all life is a secret and that we are united with all life that is in nature.
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Don't let your hearts grow numb. Stay alert. It is your soul which matters.
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It is through the idealism of youth that man catches sight of truth, and in that idealism he possesses a wealth which he must never exchange for anything else.
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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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Therapy is the boat across the river, but most don't want to get off. Don't blame, forgive, All healing is self-healing
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It is not enough to merely exist. It's not enough to say, 'I'm earning enough to live and support my family. I do my work well. I'm a good parent.' That's all very well. But you must do something more.
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What really matters is that we should all of us realize that we are guilty of inhumanity. The horror of this realization should shakes us out of our lethargy so that we can direct our hopes and our intentions to the coming of an era in which war will have no place.
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I am certain and have always stressed that the destination of mankind is to become more and more humane. The ideal of humanity has to be revived.
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We all owe to others much of the gentleness and wisdom that we have made our own and we may well ask ourselves what will others owe to us
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As soon as man does not take his existence for granted, but beholds it as something unfathomably mysterious, thought begins.
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It is the fate of every truth to be an object of ridicule when it is first acclaimed.
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I am conscious that meat eatingis not in accordance with the finer feelings,and I abstain from it whenever I can.
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Reverence for life brings us into a spiritual relation with the world which is independent of all knowledge of the universe.
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The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
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The only ones who will find real happiness are those who find a way to serve
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