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Don't stop to ask whether the animal or plant you meet deserves your sympathy, or how much it feels, or even whether it can feel at all: respect it and consider all life sacred.
Albert Schweitzer
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Albert Schweitzer
Age: 90 †
Born: 1875
Born: January 14
Died: 1965
Died: September 4
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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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What the activity of this disposition of ours means in the evolution of the world, we do not know. Nor can we regulate this activity from outside we must leave entirely to each individual its shaping and its extension. From every point of view, then, world- and life-affirmation and ethics are non-rational, and we must have the courage to admit it.
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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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Thought is the strongest thing we have.
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The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it and so in great calamities, it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner than those of a loftier character.
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Animal protection is education to the humanity.
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Set a great example. Someone may imitate it.
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...try to tell the people of America about Dr. Gerson's merits and ...results...I wish you the best in your difficult task.
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The true worth of a man is not to be found in man himself, but in the colours and textures that come alive in others.
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I still remain convinced that truth, love, peaceableness, meekness, and kindness are the violence which can master all other violence. The world will be theirs as soon as ever a sufficient number of people with purity of heart, with strength, and with perseverance think and live out the thoughts of love and truth, of meekness and peaceableness.
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I always think that we live, spiritually, By what others have given us in the significant hours of our life. These significant hours do not announce themselves as coming, but arrive unexpected.
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Only through love can we obtain communion with God.
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The city of truth cannot be built on the swampy ground of skepticism.
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The only thing of importance, when we depart, will be the traces of love we have left behind.
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If you study life deeply, its profundity will seize you suddenly with dizziness.
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A heavy guilt rests upon us for what the whites of all nations have done to the colored peoples. When we do good to them, it is not benevolence--it is atonement.
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The gratitude ascending from man to God is the supreme transaction between earth and heaven.
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To educate yourself for the feeling of gratitude means to take nothing for granted.
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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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