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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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Our degeneration, when it is traced back to its origin in our view of the world really consists in the fact that true optimism has vanished unperceived from our midst.
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A man is truly ethical only when he obeys the compulsion to help all life which he is able to assist, and shrinks from injuring anything that lives.
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Don't let your hearts grow numb. Stay alert. It is your soul which matters.
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Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.
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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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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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No one may shut his eyes to think the pain, which is therefore not visible to him, is non-existent.
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I must forgive without noise or fuss.
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The stronger the reverence for natural life, the stronger grows also that for spiritual life.
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Do something for somebody everyday for which you do not get paid.
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To work for the common good is the greatest creed.
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Even if it is a little thing, do something for those who have need of help.
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It seemed to me a matter of course that we should all take our share of the burden of pain which lies upon the world.
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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.
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Man's ethics must not end with man, but should extend to the universe. He must regain the consciousness of the great Chain of Life from which he cannot be separated.
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The highest knowledge is to know that we are surrounded by mystery. Neither knowledge nor hope for the future can be the pivot of our life or determine its direction. It is intended to be solely determined by our allowing ourselves to be gripped by the ethical God, who reveals Himself in us, and by our yielding our will to His.
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The witch doctor succeeds for the same reason all the rest of us succeed. Each patient carries his or her own doctor inside him or her. They come to us not knowing that truth. We are at our best when we give the doctor who resides within each patient a chance to go to work.
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