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Albert Schweitzer
Age: 90 †
Born: 1875
Born: January 14
Died: 1965
Died: September 4
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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.
Albert Schweitzer
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At 20 everyone has the face that God gave them, at 40 the face that life gave them, and at 60 the face they earned.
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We all owe to others much of the gentleness and wisdom that we have made our own and we may well ask ourselves what will others owe to us
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Do not let Sunday be taken from you. If your soul has no Sunday, it becomes an orphan.
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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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The only ones who will find real happiness are those who find a way to serve
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In the past we have tried to make a distinction between animals which we acknowledge have some value and other which, having none, can be liquidated when we wish. This standard must be abandoned. Everything that lives has value simply as a living thing, as one of the manifestations of the mystery that is life.
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If the extension of your compassion does not include all living beings, then you will be unable to find peace by yourself.
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The Bhagavad-Gita has a profound influence on the spirit of mankind by its devotion to God which is manifested by actions.
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Think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flames within us.
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Every patient carries his or her own doctor inside.
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It is the fate of every truth to be an object of ridicule when it is first acclaimed.
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I wanted to be a doctor that I might be able to work without having to talk because for years I had been giving myself out in words.
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When people have light in themselves, it will shine out from them. Then we get to know each other as we walk together in the darkness, without needing to pass our hands over each other's faces, or to intrude into each other's hearts.
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God much are the truly wealthy. So our inner happiness depends not on what we experience but on the degree of our gratitude to God, Gratitude — the Secret of Life.
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To educate yourself for the feeling of gratitude means to take nothing for granted.
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Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me.
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It is only through love that we can attain to communion with God. All living knowledge of God rests upon this foundation: that we experience him in our lives as Will-to-love.
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We are gripped by God’s will of love, and must help carry out that will in this world, in small things as in great things, in saving as in pardoning. To be glad instruments of God’s love in this imperfect world is the service to which we are called.
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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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