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I look back upon my youth and realize how so many people gave me help, understanding, courage - very important things to me - and they never knew it. They entered into my life and became powers within me.
Albert Schweitzer
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Albert Schweitzer
Age: 90 †
Born: 1875
Born: January 14
Died: 1965
Died: September 4
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Kindness works simply and perseveringly it produces no strained relations which prejudice its working strained relations which already exist it relaxes. Mistrust and misunderstanding it puts to flight, and it strengthens itself by calling forth answering kindness. Hence it is the furthest reaching and the most effective of all forces.
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The quiet conscience is the invention of the devil. No one of us may permit any preventable pain to be inflicted even though the responsibility for that pain is not ours. No one may shut his eyes and think that the pain which is therefore not visible, is non-existent.
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The harvested fields bathed in the autumn mist speak of God and his goodness far more vividly than any human lips.
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Aim for service and success will follow!
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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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By having a reverence for life, we enter into a spiritual relation with the world By practicing reverence for life we become good, deep, and alive.
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Only when an ideal of peace is born in the minds of the peoples will the institutions set up to maintain this peace effectively fulfill the function expected of them.
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Pain is a more terrible lord of mankind than even death itself.
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Happiness is the only thing that multiplies when you share it.
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Animal protection is education to the humanity.
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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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The gratitude that we encounter helps us believe in the goodness of the world, and strengthens us thereby to do what's good.
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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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Let us rejoice in the truth, wherever we find its lamp burning.
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Don't blame, forgive, All healing is self-healing
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The spirit of the age is filled with the disdain for thinking.
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That's my private ant. You're liable to break its legs.
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Every patient carries her or his own doctor inside.
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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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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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