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Grow into your ideals so that life cannot rob you of them.
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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Affirmation of the world, which means affirmation of the will-to-live that manifests itself around me, is only possible if I devote myself to other life.
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The first step in the evolution of ethics is a sense of solidarity with other human beings.
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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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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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I must forgive without noise or fuss.
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Don't let your hearts grow numb. Stay alert. It is your soul which matters.
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In the same way as the tree bears the same fruit year after year, but each time new fruit, all lastingly valuable ideas in thinking must always be reborn.
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The gratitude ascending from man to God is the supreme transaction between earth and heaven.
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Thought is the strongest thing we have.
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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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Only an ethical movement can rescue us from barbarism, and the ethical comes into existence only in individuals.
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By ethical conduct toward all creatures, we enter into a spiritual relationship with the universe.
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The most difficult thing I have ever had to do is follow the guidance I prayed for.
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Compassion, in which all ethics must take root, can only attain its full breadth and depth if it embraces all living creatures and does not limit itself to mankind.
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One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.
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Even if it is a little thing, do something for those who have need of help.
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A man does not have to be an angel in order to be saint.
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Seek always to do some good, somewhere... Even if it's a little thing, so something for those that need help, something for which you get no pay but the privilege of doing it.
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In modern European thought a tragedy is occurring in that the original bonds uniting the affirmative attitude towards the world with ethics are, by a slow but irresistible process, loosening and finally parting. Out of my life and Thought.
Albert Schweitzer
You ask me for a motto. Here it is: SERVICE.
Albert Schweitzer
