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All people are endowed with the faculty of compassion, and for this reason can develop the humanitarian spirit.
Albert Schweitzer
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Albert Schweitzer
Age: 90 †
Born: 1875
Born: January 14
Died: 1965
Died: September 4
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At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us.
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I still remain convinced that truth, love, peaceableness, meekness, and kindness are the violence which can master all other violence. The world will be theirs as soon as ever a sufficient number of people with purity of heart, with strength, and with perseverance think and live out the thoughts of love and truth, of meekness and peaceableness.
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Today . . . we know that all living beings who strive to maintain life and who long to be spared pain - all living beings on earth - are our neighbors.
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Man's ethics must not end with man, but should extend to the universe. He must regain the consciousness of the great Chain of Life from which he cannot be separated.
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We are united with all life that is in nature. Man can no longer live his life for himself alone.
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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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The thinking (person) must oppose all cruel customs, no matter how deeply rooted in tradition and surrounded by a halo. When we have a choice, we must avoid bringing torment and injury into the life of another.
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A man does not have to be an angel in order to be saint.
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Constant Kindness can accomplish much.
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The great enemy of morality is indifference.
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The ethic of Reverence for Life is the ethic of Love widened into universality.
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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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As soon as man does not take his existence for granted, but beholds it as something unfathomably mysterious, thought begins.
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Your soul suffers if you live superficially.
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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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The gratitude ascending from man to God is the supreme transaction between earth and heaven.
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