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The stronger the reverence for natural life, the stronger grows also that for spiritual life.
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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Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.
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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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Creative energy is the essence of all healing...We physicians do nothing, we only help and encourage the physician within.
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A man does not have to be an angel in order to be saint.
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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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Let me give you a definition of ethics: It is good to maintain and further life it is bad to damage and destroy life.
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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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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 elemental fact, present in our consciousness every moment of our existence, is: I am life that wills to live, in the midst of life that wills to live.... The essence of the humane spirit is: Preserve life, promote life, help life to achieve its highest destiny. The essence of Evil is: Destroy life, harm life, hamper the development of life
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Until he extends his circle of compassion to include all living things, man will not himself find peace.
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I am certain and have always stressed that the destination of mankind is to become more and more humane. The ideal of humanity has to be revived.
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O heavenly Father, protect and bless all things that have breath: guard them from all evil and let them sleep in peace.
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Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now - always.
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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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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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