Albert Schweitzer Quotes

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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.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Love, Inspirational, Motivational

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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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  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.

  Albert Schweitzer

  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 the question whether I am a pessimist or an optimist, I answer that my knowledge is pessimistic, but my willing and hope are optimistic.

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  God, Faith, Hope

  Albert Schweitzer (1953). “Out of My Life and Thought: An Autobiography: Postscript 1932-1949 by Everett Skillings”

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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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• 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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  Heart, Hands, Light

  Albert Schweitzer (2015). “The Light Within Us”, p.14, Open Road Media

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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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• Good is that which promotes life, evil is that which destroys life

  Albert Schweitzer

  Evil

  Source: acedmagazine.com

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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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• 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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• A good example has twice the value of good advice

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  Advice, Example, Values

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

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  Share

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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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• The path of awakening is not about becoming who you are. Rather it is about unbecoming who you are not.

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  Self, Becoming Who You Are, Awakening

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• The witch doctor succeeds for the same reason all the rest of us succeed. Each patient carries his or her own doctor inside him or her. They come to us not knowing that truth. We are at our best when we give the doctor who resides within each patient a chance to go to work.

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  Health, Witch Doctors, Knowing

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• Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate.

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  Relationship, Karma, Kindness

  Albert Schweitzer (1966). “The Teaching of Reverence for Life”

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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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• The result of the voyage does not depend on the speed of the ship, but on whether or not it keeps a true course.

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  Doe, Voyages, Ships

  Albert Schweitzer (1956). “An anthology”

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• Open your eyes and look for some man, or some work for the sake of men, which needs a little time, a little friendship, a little sympathy, a little sociability, a little human toil....It is needed in every nook and corner. Therefore search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity.

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  Eye, Men, Humanity

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• The only way out of today's misery is for people to become worthy of each other's trust.

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  People, Today, Way

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

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• An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while a pessimist sees only the red stoplight... the truly wise person is colorblind.

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  Wise, Wisdom, Attitude

  1965 Quoted in CBS News tribute,14 Jan.

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