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At that point in life where your talent meets the needs of the world, that is where God wants you to be.
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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Jesus as a concrete historical personality remains a stranger to our time, but His spirit, which lies hidden in His words, is known in simplicity, and its influence is direct.
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Nature compels us to recognize the fact of mutual dependence, each life necessarily helping the other lives who are linked to it. In the very fibers of our being, we bear within ourselves the fact of the solidarity of life.
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Love ... is a living reality.
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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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A man can do only what he can do. But if he does that each day he can sleep at night and do it again the next day.
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Set a great example. Someone may imitate it.
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Very little of the great cruelty shown by men can really be attributed to cruel instinct. Most of it comes from thoughtlessness or inherited habit. Extract from 'Memories of childhood and youth.'
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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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Don't blame, forgive, All healing is self-healing
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Ethics is in its unqualified form extended responsibility with regard to everything that has life.
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Because I have confidence in the power of truth, and of the spirit, I have confidence in the future of mankind.
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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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Ethical existence [is] the highest manifestation of spirituality.
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Only those who respect the personality of others can be of real use to them.
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I see in him (Dr. Max Gerson) one of the most eminent medical geniuses in the history of medicine...he was greatly impeded by adverse political conditions.
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Where principles and heart stand in conflict with each other, let us make the law of the spirit free from the law of principles.
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It seemed incredible to me, that physical courage should be so commonplace and revered, while moral courage . . . is so rare and despised.
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