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I am life which wants to live admidst of lives that want to live.
Albert Schweitzer
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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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Love ... is a living reality.
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To the truly ethical man, all of life is sacred, including forms of life that from the human point of view may seem lower than ours.
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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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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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At 20 everyone has the face that God gave them, at 40 the face that life gave them, and at 60 the face they earned.
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Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier.
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Whoever is spared personal pain must feel himself called to help in diminishing the pain of others. We must all carry our share of the misery which lies upon the world.
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The stronger the reverence for natural life, the stronger grows also that for spiritual life.
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Help me to fling my life like a flaming firebrand into the gathering darkness of the world.
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The thinking man must oppose all cruelties no matter how deeply rooted in tradition or surrounded by a halo.
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The purpose of human life is to serve, and to show compassion and the will to help others.
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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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Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.
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Reverence for life, veneratio vitæ, is the most direct and at the same time the profoundest achievement of my will-to-live.
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Any religion or philosophy which is not based on a respect for life is not a true religion or philosophy.
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Joy, sorrow, tears, lamentation, laughter -- to all these music gives voice
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We are gripped by God’s will of love, and must help carry out that will in this world, in small things as in great things, in saving as in pardoning. To be glad instruments of God’s love in this imperfect world is the service to which we are called.
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Humanitarianism consists in never sacrificing a human being to a purpose.
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The spirit of the age is filled with the disdain for thinking.
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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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