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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  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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• 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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  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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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  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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• There can be no Kingdom of God in the world without the Kingdom of God in our hearts.

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  God, Heart, World

  Albert Schweitzer (1956). “An anthology”

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• Do something wonderful, people may imitate it.

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  Inspirational, Fun, Kindness

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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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• Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier.

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  Life, Grief, Bad Ass

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

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  Share

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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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  Cute, Destiny, Essence

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• If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.

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  Happiness, Success, Happy

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