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Man is a clever animal who behaves like an imbecile.
Albert Schweitzer
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Albert Schweitzer
Age: 90 †
Born: 1875
Born: January 14
Died: 1965
Died: September 4
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Serious illness doesn't bother me for long because I am too inhospitable a host.
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When people have light in themselves, it will shine out from them. Then we get to know each other as we walk together in the darkness, without needing to pass our hands over each other's faces, or to intrude into each other's hearts.
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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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Late on the third day, at the very moment when, at sunset, ..., there flashed upon my mind, unforeseen and unsought, the phrase “Ehrfurcht vor dem Leben” (“reverence for life”).
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The great fault of all ethics hitherto has been that they believed themselves to have to deal only with the relations of man to man. In reality, however, the question is what is his attitude to the world and all life that comes within his reach.
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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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To me, good health is more than just exercise and diet. Its really a point of view and a mental attitude you have about yourself.
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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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The greatest thing is to give thanks for everything. He who has learned this knows what it means to live. He has penetrated the whole mystery of life: giving thanks for everything.
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Think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flames within us.
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The great secret of success is to go through life as a person who never gets used up. That is possible for those who never argue and strive with people and facts, but in all experience retires upon themselves, and look for the ultimate cause of things in themselves.
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Let us rejoice in the truth, wherever we find its lamp burning.
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Set a great example. Someone may imitate it.
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Happiness is the only thing that multiplies when you share it.
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The interior joy we feel when we have done a good deed is the nourishment the soul requires.
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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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A man does not have to be an angel in order to be saint.
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The highest knowledge is to know that we are surrounded by mystery. Neither knowledge nor hope for the future can be the pivot of our life or determine its direction. It is intended to be solely determined by our allowing ourselves to be gripped by the ethical God, who reveals Himself in us, and by our yielding our will to His.
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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.
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World-view is a product of life-view, not vice versa.
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