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You ask me for a motto. Here it is: SERVICE.

Albert Schweitzer

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Albert Schweitzer
Age: 90 †
Born: 1875
Born: January 14
Died: 1965
Died: September 4
Composer
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Music Historian
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Philosopher
Physician
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Mont-Libre
Ludwig Philipp Albert Schweitzer
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Example is leadership.
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Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.
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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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Reverence for life brings us into a spiritual relation with the world which is independent of all knowledge of the universe.
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Love ... is a living reality.
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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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Don't let your hearts grow numb. Stay alert. It is your soul which matters.
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Our age is bent on trying to make the barren tree of skepticism fruitful by tying the fruits of truth on its branches.
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I always think that we live, spiritually, By what others have given us in the significant hours of our life. These significant hours do not announce themselves as coming, but arrive unexpected.
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The three most important ways to lead people are:... by example... by example... by example.
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A man who possesses a veneration of life will not simply say his prayers. He will throw himself into the battle to preserve life, if for no other reason than that he himself is an extension of life around him.
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If you truly desire happiness, seek and learn how to serve.
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The Bhagavad-Gita has a profound influence on the spirit of mankind by its devotion to God which is manifested by actions.
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Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me.
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I am life which wants to live admidst of lives that want to live.
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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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Never for a moment do we lay aside our mistrust of the ideals established by society, and of the convictions which are kept by it in circulation. We always know that society is full of folly and will deceive us in the matter of humanity. ... humanity meaning consideration for the existence and the happiness of individual human beings.
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Pain is a more terrible lord of mankind than even death itself.
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A thinking man feels compelled to approach all life with the same reverence he has for his own.
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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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