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.

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  Love, Inspirational, Motivational

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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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  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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• A good example has twice the value of good advice

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  Advice, Example, Values

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

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  Share

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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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• 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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• Even if it is a little thing, do something for those who have need of help.

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  Helping Others, Volunteer, Needs

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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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  War, Together, Lost

  Radio appeal for peace, Oslo, Norway, April 30, 1958.

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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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  God, Faces

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• As we acquire knowledge, things do not become more comprehensible, but more mysterious.

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  Learning, Knowledge, Intelligence

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

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• At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us.

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  Friendship, Basketball, Thank You

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• Don't blame, forgive, All healing is self-healing

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  Leadership, Sports, Healing

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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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• We cannot abdicate our conscience to an organization, nor to a government.

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  Government, Organization, Conscience

  Albert Schweitzer (1956). “An anthology”

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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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• Thinking about death... produces love for life. When we are familiar with death, we accept each week, each day, as a gift. Only if we are able thus to accept life bit by bit does it become precious.

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  Love Life, Thinking, Doe

  Albert Schweitzer (1979). “Reverence for Life”, p.73, Ardent Media

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• The only ones who will find real happiness are those who find a way to serve

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  Happiness, Real, Way

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• It is not always granted to the sower to see the harvest.

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  Granted, Harvest

  Albert Schweitzer, Kurt Bergel, Alice R. Bergel (1997). “Memoirs of Childhood and Youth”, p.94, Syracuse University Press

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