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The true worth of a man is not to be found in man himself, but in the colours and textures that come alive in others.
Albert Schweitzer
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Albert Schweitzer
Age: 90 †
Born: 1875
Born: January 14
Died: 1965
Died: September 4
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Ludwig Philipp Albert Schweitzer
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Aim for service and success will follow!
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The elemental fact, present in our consciousness every moment of our existence, is: I am life that wills to live, in the midst of life that wills to live.... The essence of the humane spirit is: Preserve life, promote life, help life to achieve its highest destiny. The essence of Evil is: Destroy life, harm life, hamper the development of life
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Open your eyes and look for some man, or some work for the sake of men, which needs a little time, a little friendship, a little sympathy, a little sociability, a little human toil....It is needed in every nook and corner. Therefore search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity.
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Jesus as a concrete historical personality remains a stranger to our time, but His spirit, which lies hidden in His words, is known in simplicity, and its influence is direct.
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Help me to fling my life like a flaming firebrand into the gathering darkness of the world.
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Be faithful to your love and you mill be recompensed beyond measure.
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Good is that which promotes life, evil is that which destroys life
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By ethical conduct toward all creatures, we enter into a spiritual relationship with the universe.
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I decided that I would make my life my argument.
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Kindness works simply and perseveringly it produces no strained relations which prejudice its working strained relations which already exist it relaxes. Mistrust and misunderstanding it puts to flight, and it strengthens itself by calling forth answering kindness. Hence it is the furthest reaching and the most effective of all forces.
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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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Happiness is the only thing that multiplies when you share it.
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A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him.
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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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Love ... is a living reality.
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The awareness that we are all human beings together has become lost in war and through politics.
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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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