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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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• In the hearts of people today there is a deep longing for peace. When the true spirit of peace is thoroughly dominant, it becomes an inner experience with unlimited possibilities. Only when this really happens - when the spirit of peace awakens and takes possession of men's hearts, can humanity be saved from perishing.

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  Peace, Heart, Men

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• Aim for service and success will follow!

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  Aim

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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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• Serious illness doesn't bother me for long because I am too inhospitable a host.

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  Serious Illness, Long, Host

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• The Bhagavad-Gita has a profound influence on the spirit of mankind by its devotion to God which is manifested by actions.

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  Profound, Devotion To God, Gita

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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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• All work that is worth anything is done in faith.

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  Work, Done

  Albert Schweitzer (2015). “The Light Within Us”, p.19, Open Road Media

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• To work for the common good is the greatest creed.

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  Careers, Community Service, Helping

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• The spirit of the age is filled with the disdain for thinking.

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  Thinking, Age, Spirit

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• For those who sincerely seek the truth should not fear the outcome.

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  Outcomes, Should, Sincerely

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• I have always held firmly to the thought that each one of us can do a little to bring some portion of misery to an end.

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  Kindness, Farewell, Humble

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

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• Whatever you have received more than others-in health, in talents, in ability, in success, in a pleasant childhood, in harmonious conditions of home life-all this you must not take to yourself as a matter of course. In gratitude for your good fortune, you must remember in return some sacrifice of your own life for another life.

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  Gratitude, Home, Sacrifice

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• The destiny of man is to be more and more human.

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  Destiny, Men, Humans

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• It's not enough merely to exist. Every man has to seek in his own way to make his own self more noble and to relize his own true worth.

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  Men, Self, Noble

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• The great secret of success is to go through life as a person who never gets used up. That is possible for those who never argue and strive with people and facts, but in all experience retires upon themselves, and look for the ultimate cause of things in themselves.

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  Character, People, Secret

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

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  Leadership, Sports, Healing

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• Constant Kindness can accomplish much.

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  Karma, Kindness, Compassion

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

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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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• The time will come when public opinion will no longer tolerate amusements based on the mistreatment and killing of animals. The time will come, but when? When will we reach the point that hunting, the pleasure in killing animals for sport, will be regarded as a mental aberration?

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  Sports, Animal, Hunting

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

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• World-view is a product of life-view, not vice versa.

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  Views, Vices, World

  Albert Schweitzer (1929). “Civilization and Ethics”

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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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• For us the great men are not those who solved the problems, but those whodiscovered them.

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  Men, Problem, Great Men

  Albert Schweitzer (2012). “The Quest of the Historical Jesus”, p.159, Courier Corporation

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• My life is my argument.

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  Argument, Life Is

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