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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. "

Albert Schweitzer

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" Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory. "

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" Compassion, in which all ethics must take root, can only attain its full breadth and depth if it embraces all living creatures and does not limit itself to mankind. "

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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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" Let me give you a definition of ethics: It is good to maintain and further life it is bad to damage and destroy life. "

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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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" By respect for life we become religious in a way that is elementary, profound and alive. "

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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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" 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 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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" We cannot possibly let ourselves get frozen into regarding everyone we do not know as an absolute stranger. "

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" A man is truly ethical only when he obeys the compulsion to help all life which he is able to assist, and shrinks from injuring anything that lives. "

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" My life is my argument. "

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" Everything deep is also simple and can be reproduced simply as long as its reference to the whole truth is maintained. But what matters is not what is witty but what is true. "

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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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