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Kindness
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Until he extends his circle of compassion to include all living things, man will not himself find peace.
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Knowledge
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As we acquire more knowledge, things do not become more comprehensible, but more mysterious.
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Life
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I must interpret the life around me as I interpret the life that is my own. My life is full of meaning to me. The life around me must be full of significance to itself. If I am to expect others to respect my life, then I must respect the other life I see, however strange it may be to mine.
-Albert Schweitzer
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Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me.
-Albert Schweitzer
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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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Responsibility
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Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will -- his personal responsibility.
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Reverence
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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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Reverence for life affords me my fundamental principle of morality, namely that good consists in maintaining, assisting, and enhancing life, and that to destroy, to harm, or to hinder life is evil.
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Sacrifice
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Humanitarianism consists in never sacrificing a human being to a purpose.
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Service
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There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed.
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Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light.
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I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I do know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who have sought and found how to serve.
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Spirituality
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Impart as much as you can of your spiritual being to those who are on the road with you, and accept as something precious what comes back to you from them.
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One truth stands firm. All that happens in world history rests on something spiritual. If the spiritual is strong, it creates world history. If it is weak, it suffers world history.
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Success & Failure
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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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A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.
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The great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.
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Torture
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We must all die. But that I can save him from days of torture, that is what I feel as my great and ever new privelege. Pain is a more terrible lord of mankind than even death himself.
-Albert Schweitzer, On the Edge of the Primeval Forest, Ch. 5
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Truth
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Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now -- always.
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Books by and about Albert Schweitzer