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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  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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• 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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  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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• You must not expect anything from others. It's you, of yourself, of whom you must ask a lot. Only from oneself has one the right to ask everything and anything. This way it's up to you - your own choices - what you get from others remains a present, a gift.

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  Choices, Up To You, Way

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• To me, good health is more than just exercise and diet. Its really a point of view and a mental attitude you have about yourself.

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  Attitude, Exercise, Views

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• Do not lose heart, even if you must wait a bit before finding the right thing. Be prepared for disappointment also, but do not abandon the quest.

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  Disappointment, Heart, Waiting

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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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• 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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