Quote #84

Grow into your ideals so that life cannot rob you of them.

More from Albert Schweitzer

  1. From naive simplicity we arrive at more profound simplicity.
  2. Happiness? That's nothing more than health and a poor memory.
  3. Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It's the only thing.
  4. I can do no other than be reverent before everything that is called life. I can do no other than to have compassion for all that is called …
  5. Example is leadership.
  6. 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 soug…
  7. 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 …
  8. 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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