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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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Man is a clever animal who behaves like an imbecile.
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Every person I have known who has been truly happy has learned how to serve others.
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The stronger the reverence for natural life, the stronger grows also that for spiritual life.
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A good example has twice the value of good advice
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It is not enough to merely exist. It's not enough to say, 'I'm earning enough to live and support my family. I do my work well. I'm a good parent.' That's all very well. But you must do something more.
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Don't blame, forgive, All healing is self-healing
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Thought is the strongest thing we have. Work done by true and profound thought - that is a real force.
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Those who experiment on animals should never be able to quiet their own conscience by telling themselves that these cruelties have a worthy aim.
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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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Only an ethical movement can rescue us from barbarism, and the ethical comes into existence only in individuals.
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In the hopes of reaching the moon men fail to see the flowers that blossom at their feet.
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Anyone who has accustomed himself to regard the life of any living creature as worthless is in danger of arriving also at the idea of worthless human lives.
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I decided that I would make my life my argument.
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The awareness that we are all human beings together has become lost in war and through politics.
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My life carries its own meaning in itself.
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A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him, that of plants and animals as that of his fellow men, and when he devotes himself helpfully to all life that is in need of help.
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Seek always to do some good, somewhere. Every man has to seek in his own way to realize his true worth. You must give some time to your fellow man. For remember, you don't live in a world all your own. Your brothers are here too.
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The man who has become a thinking being feels a compulsion to give every will-to-live the same reverence for life that he gives to his own. He experiences that other life in his own.
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Let me give you a definition of ethics: It is good to maintain and further life it is bad to damage and destroy life.
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For those who sincerely seek the truth should not fear the outcome.
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