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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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Albert Schweitzer
Age: 90 †
Born: 1875
Born: January 14
Died: 1965
Died: September 4
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Philosopher
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Ludwig Philipp Albert Schweitzer
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The highest knowledge is to know that we are surrounded by mystery.
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We must fight against the spirit of unconscious cruelty with which we treat the animals. Animals suffer as much as we do. True humanity does not allow us to impose such sufferings on them. It is our duty to make the whole world recognize it. Until we extend our circle of compassion to all living things, humanity will not find peace.
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Your soul suffers if you live superficially.
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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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No man need fear death, he need fear only that he may die without having known his greatest power: the power of his free will to give his life for others
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Do not lose heart, even if you must wait a bit before finding the right thing. Be prepared for disappointment also, but do not abandon the quest.
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There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.
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Knowing all truth is less than doing a little bit of good.
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Let us rejoice in the truth, wherever we find its lamp burning.
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My life is full of meaning to me. The life around me must be full of significance to itself. If I am to expect others to respect my life, then I must respect the other life I see.
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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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There is much coldness among men because we do not dare to be as cordial as we really are.
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For those who sincerely seek the truth should not fear the outcome.
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In the hearts of people today there is a deep longing for peace. When the true spirit of peace is thoroughly dominant, it becomes an inner experience with unlimited possibilities. Only when this really happens - when the spirit of peace awakens and takes possession of men's hearts, can humanity be saved from perishing.
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A heavy guilt rests upon us for what the whites of all nations have done to the colored peoples. When we do good to them, it is not benevolence--it is atonement.
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The quiet conscience is the invention of the devil. No one of us may permit any preventable pain to be inflicted even though the responsibility for that pain is not ours. No one may shut his eyes and think that the pain which is therefore not visible, is non-existent.
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Not one of us knows what effect his life produces, and what he gives to others that is hidden from us and must remain so, though we are often allowed to see some little fraction of it, so that we may not lose courage.
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Do something for somebody everyday for which you do not get paid.
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