Albert Schweitzer Quotes

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  We must fight against the spirit of unconscious cruelty with which we treat the animals. Animals suffer as much as we do. True humanity does not allow us to impose such sufferings on them. It is our duty to make the whole world recognize it. Until we extend our circle of compassion to all living things, humanity will not find peace.

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  Fighting, Compassion, Animal

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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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  Love, Inspirational, Motivational

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  In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.

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  Inspirational, Motivational, Friendship

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  The purpose of human life is to serve, and to show compassion and the will to help others.

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  Inspirational, Sympathy, Helping Others

  The Schweitzer Album It is our duty to remember at all times and anew that medicine is not only a science, but also the art of letting our own individuality interact with the individuality of the patient.

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• Eventually all things fall into place. Until then, laugh at the confusion, live for the moments, and know EVERYTHING HAPPENS FOR A REASON.

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  Life, Fall, Everything Happens For A Reason

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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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  Inspirational, Life, Importance

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• We must never allow the voice of humanity within us to be silenced. It is humanity's sympathy with all creatures that first makes us truly human.

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  Sympathy, Animal, Voice

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• Just as white light consists of colored rays, so reverence for life contains all the components of ethics: love, kindliness, sympathy, empathy, peacefulness and power to forgive.

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  Light, White, Empathy

  Albert Schweitzer (1965). “The Teaching of Reverence for Life”, New York : Holt, Rinehart and Winston

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  I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.

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  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Wherever you turn, you can find someone who needs you. Even if it is a little thing, do something for which there is no pay but the privilege of doing it. Remember, you don't live in a world all of your own

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  Attitude, Remember You, Remembers You

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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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  Needs, World, Want

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  Any religion or philosophy which is not based on a respect for life is not a true religion or philosophy.

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  Life, Death, Respect

  Albert Schweitzer (1984). “The Words of Albert Schweitzer”

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• Do something good and someone might imitate it.

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  Might

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• There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.

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  Love, Funny, Music

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• When man learns to respect even the smallest being of creation...nobody has to teach him to love his fellow man. Compassion for animals is intimately connected with goodness of character, and it may be confidently asserted that he who is cruel to animals cannot be a good man.

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  Character, Animal, Men

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• If you own something you cannot give away, then you don't own it, it owns you.

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  Giving, Ifs

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• For animals that are overworked, underfed, and cruelly treated; for all wistful creatures in captivity that beat their wings against bars; for any that are hunted or lost or deserted or frightened or hungry; for all that must be put to death...and for those who deal with them we ask a heart of compassion and gentle hands and kindly words.

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  Heart, Animal, Compassion

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• Do something wonderful, people may imitate it.

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  Inspirational, Fun, Kindness

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• The three most important ways to lead people are:... by example... by example... by example.

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  Leadership, People, Important

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• Let your life be your argument.

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  Basketball, Argument, Life Is

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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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  Happiness, Gratitude, Thank God

  "Reverence for Life".

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• Happiness is the only thing that multiplies when you share it.

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  Share

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• Do something for somebody everyday for which you do not get paid.

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  Motivational, Happiness, Helping Others

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• The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.

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  Inspirational, Life, Sympathy

  Albert Schweitzer (1958). “A Selection of Writings of and about Albert Schweitzer”, Boston : [s.n.], 1958 (Boston : H.N. Sawyer Company)

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• I can do no other than be reverent before everything that is called life. I can do no other than to have compassion for all that is called life. That is the beginning and the foundation of all ethics.

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  Compassion, Foundation, Reverence For Life

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