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" The only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve. "
Albert Schweitzer
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" The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it; and so in great calamities, it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner than those of a loftier character. "
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" Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will - his personal responsibility in the realm of faith and morals. "
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" A man can do only what he can do. But if he does that each day he can sleep at night and do it again the next day. "
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" Humanitarianism consists in never sacrificing a human being to a purpose. "
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" Do something for somebody everyday for which you do not get paid. "
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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. "
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" The African is my brother but he is my younger brother by several centuries. "
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" Never say there is nothing beautiful in the world anymore. There is always something to make you wonder in the shape of a tree, the trembling of a leaf. "
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