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If you truly desire happiness, seek and learn how to serve.

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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The greatest thing is to give thanks for everything. He who has learned this knows what it means to live. He has penetrated the whole mystery of life: giving thanks for everything.
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Only through love can we obtain communion with God.
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To me, good health is more than just exercise and diet. Its really a point of view and a mental attitude you have about yourself.
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I have always held firmly to the thought that each one of us can do a little to bring some portion of misery to an end.
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Reverence for life is the highest court of appeal.
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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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No one may shut his eyes to think the pain, which is therefore not visible to him, is non-existent.
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You must not expect anything from others. It's you, of yourself, of whom you must ask a lot. Only from oneself has one the right to ask everything and anything. This way it's up to you - your own choices - what you get from others remains a present, a gift.
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The quiet conscience is an invention of the devil.
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True philosophy must start from the most immediate and comprehensive fact of consciousness: I am life that wants to live, in the midst of life that wants to live.
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When people have light in themselves, it will shine out from them. Then we get to know each other as we walk together in the darkness, without needing to pass our hands over each other's faces, or to intrude into each other's hearts.
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For us the great men are not those who solved the problems, but those whodiscovered them.
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It is through the idealism of youth that man catches sight of truth, and in that idealism he possesses a wealth which he must never exchange for anything else.
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In the past we have tried to make a distinction between animals which we acknowledge have some value and other which, having none, can be liquidated when we wish. This standard must be abandoned. Everything that lives has value simply as a living thing, as one of the manifestations of the mystery that is life.
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Hear our humble prayer, O God. Make us, ourselves, to be true friends to the animals.
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O heavenly Father, protect and bless all things that have breath: guard them from all evil and let them sleep in peace.
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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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We ought all to make an effort to act on our first thoughts and let our unspoken gratitude find expression. Then there will be more sunshine in the world, and more power to work for what is good.
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Not less strong than the will to truth must be the will to sincerity. Only an age, which can show the courage of sincerity, can possess truth, which works as a spiritual force within it.
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The result of the voyage does not depend on the speed of the ship, but on whether or not it keeps a true course.
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