"You don't live in a world all..." - Quote by Albert Schweitzer
You don't live in a world all alone. Your brothers are here too.
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“Our degeneration, when it is traced back to its origin in our view of the world really consists in the fact that true optimism has vanished unperceived from our midst.”
“Who can describe the injustice and the cruelties that in the course of centuries the peoples of color of the world have suffered at the hands of Europeans?... We and our civilization are burdened, really, with a great debt. We are not free to confer benefits on these men, or not, as we please; it is our duty. Anything we give them is not benevolence but atonement.”
“Animal protection is education to the humanity.”
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“Your countenance perfectly informs me that you were in company last night with the person, whom you think the most agreeable in the world, the person who interests you at this present time, more than all the rest of the world put together.”
“People who feel empowered by your presence become kindred spirits.”
“When you are fully present with everyone you meet, you relinquish the conceptual identity you made for them - your interpretation of who they are and what they did in the past - and are able to interact without the egoic movements of desire and fear. Attention, which is alert stillness, is the key.”
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“The only way out of today's misery is for people to become worthy of each other's trust.”
“Until the great mass of the people shall be filled with the sense of responsibility for each other's welfare, social justice can never be attained.”
“I please myself with imagining a State at last which can afford to be just to all men, and to treat the individual with respect as a neighbor.”