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Quote by Albert Schweitzer
Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of th

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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In everyone’s life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit. – Albert Schweitzer

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Friendship
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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

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Torture
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I wanted to be a doctor that I might be able to work without having to talk because for years I had been giving myself out in words. – Albert Schweitzer

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work
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Nothing which has entered into our experience is ever lost. – William Ellery Channing

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Whenever something happens that makes me laugh or if I remember something in the middle of the night that I want to share, I jot the experience down. – Tori Spelling

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Experience is determined by yourself — not the circumstances of your life. – Gita Bellin

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Experience

Most people go through life dreading theyll have a traumatic experience. Freaks were born with their trauma. Theyve already passed their test in life. Theyre aristocrats. – Diane Arbus

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Experience

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If you treat people right they will treat you right… ninety percent of the time. – Franklin D. Roosevelt

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If a woman hasnt got a tiny streak of a harlot in her, shes a dry stick as a rule. – D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

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The secret of life is not to do what you like, but to like what you do. – Proverb

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You know, its not the world that was my oppressor, because what the world does to you, if the world does it to you long enough and effectively enough, you begin to do to yourself. – James Baldwin

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