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Until he extends his circle of compassion to include all living things, man will not himself find peace.
Albert Schweitzer
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Albert Schweitzer
Age: 90 †
Born: 1875
Born: January 14
Died: 1965
Died: September 4
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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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Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.
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Reverence for life, veneratio vitæ, is the most direct and at the same time the profoundest achievement of my will-to-live.
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Whoever is spared personal pain must feel himself called to help in diminishing the pain of others. We must all carry our share of the misery which lies upon the world.
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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.
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Think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flames within us.
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The gratitude ascending from man to God is the supreme transaction between earth and heaven.
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Every person I have known who has been truly happy has learned how to serve others.
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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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Our degeneration, when it is traced back to its origin in our view of the world really consists in the fact that true optimism has vanished unperceived from our midst.
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Just as white light consists of colored rays, so reverence for life contains all the components of ethics: love, kindliness, sympathy, empathy, peacefulness and power to forgive.
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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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Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.
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The purpose of human life is to serve, and to show compassion and the will to help others.
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Your life is something opaque, not transparent, as long as you look at it in an ordinary human way. But if you hold it up against the light of God's goodness, it shines and turns transparent, radiant and bright. And then you ask yourself in amazement: Is this really my own life I see before me?
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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.
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