Albert Schweitzer Quotes - Page 3

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• Sincerity is the foundation of the spiritual life.

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  Spiritual, Foundation, Sincerity

  Albert Schweitzer (2015). “The Light Within Us”, p.33, Open Road Media

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• Aim for service and success will follow!

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  Aim

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

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  Leadership, Sports, Healing

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• Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth.

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  Nature, Men, Society

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

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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 do not know what your destiny may be, but I do know this, that not one of you will find the happiness that each of you is seeking until you have first sought and found a way in which to unselfishly serve others.

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  Destiny, May, Way

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• Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now - always.

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  Time, Truth, Integrity

  Zwischen Wasser und Urwald (On the Edge of the Primeval Forest, 1922) ch. 11

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• Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.

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  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  Albert Schweitzer, William Larimer Mellon (1996). “Brothers in Spirit: The Correspondence of Albert Schweitzer and William Larimer Mellon, Jr”, p.18, Syracuse University Press

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• Train yourself never to put off the word or action for the expression of gratitude.

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  Thankful, Gratitude, Expression

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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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• 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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• An idea is, in the end, always stronger than circumstances.

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  Ideas, Stronger, Ends

  Albert Schweitzer, Ernest Newman (1911). “J. S. Bach”, p.36, Courier Corporation

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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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• 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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• Think occasionally of the suffering of which you spare yourself the sight.

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  Philosophical, Animal, Thinking

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• We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.

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  Friendship, Thanksgiving, Thank You

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• Man is a clever animal who behaves like an imbecile.

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  Clever, Fun, Animal

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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 truly desire happiness, seek and learn how to serve.

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  Joy, Desire, Ifs

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• He who does not reflect his life back to God in gratitude does not know himself.

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  Gratitude, Grateful, Doe

  Albert Schweitzer (1979). “Reverence for Life”, p.40, Ardent Media

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• Not one of us knows what effect his life produces, and what he gives to others; that is hidden from us and must remain so, though we are often allowed to see some little fraction of it, so that we may not lose courage.

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  Giving, May, Littles

  Albert Schweitzer (2015). “The Light Within Us”, p.13, Open Road Media

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• Love is the only thing that increases twofold every time it is shared.

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  Love, Love Is, Increase

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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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• Our age is bent on trying to make the barren tree of skepticism fruitful by tying the fruits of truth on its branches.

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  Tree, Age, Trying

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

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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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