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If you own something you cannot give away, then you don't own it, it owns you.

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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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As we acquire knowledge, things do not become more comprehensible, but more mysterious.
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Awakening of Western thought will not be complete until that thought steps outside itself and comes to an understanding with the search for a world-view as this manifests itself in the thought of mankind as a whole.
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Impart as much as you can of your spiritual being to those who are on the road with you, and accept as something precious what comes back to you from them.
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We all know how important love is, yet how often is it really emoted or exhibited? What so many sick people in this world suffer from-loneliness, boredom and fear-can't be cured with a pill.
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The gratitude that we encounter helps us believe in the goodness of the world, and strengthens us thereby to do what's good.
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Living truth is that alone which has its origins in thinking. Just as a tree bears year after year the same fruit which is each year new, so must all permanently valuable ideas be continually born again in thought.
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I do not believe that we can put into anyone ideas which are not in him already. As a rule there are in everyone all sorts of good ideas, ready like tinder. But much of this tinder catches fire, or catches it successfully, only when it meets some flame or spark from outside, i.e., from some other person.
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Man has become a superman ... because he not only disposes oinnate, physical forces, but because he is in command ... olatent forces in nature and because he can put them to his service.... But the essential fact we must surely all feel in our hearts ... is that we are becoming inhuman in proportion as we become supermen.
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Every patient carries her or his own doctor inside.
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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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A good example has twice the value of good advice
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You ask me for a motto. Here it is: SERVICE.
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It's not enough merely to exist. Every man has to seek in his own way to make his own self more noble and to relize his own true worth.
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The most difficult thing I have ever had to do is follow the guidance I prayed for.
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Thought is the strongest thing we have. Work done by true and profound thought - that is a real force.
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Let us rejoice in the truth, wherever we find its lamp burning.
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The fellowship of those who bear the mark of pain: who are the members of this Fellowship? Those who have learnt by experience what physical pain and bodily anguish mean, belong together all the world over they are united by a secret bond.
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World-view is a product of life-view, not vice versa.
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Creative energy is the essence of all healing...We physicians do nothing, we only help and encourage the physician within.
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