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- Man
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The true worth of a man is not to be found in man himself, but in the colours and textures that come alive in others.
- Leadership
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Example is leadership.
- Behaves
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Man is a clever animal who behaves like an imbecile.
- Life
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My life is my argument.
- Life
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By respect for life we become religious in a way that is elementary, profound and alive.
- Man
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Ethics is the activity of man directed to secure the inner perfection of his own personality.
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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.
- Love
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The highest proof of the spirit is love. Love the eternal thing which can already on earth possess as it really is.
- Help
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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.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Light
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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.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.
- Friendship
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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.
- Know
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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.
- Light
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier.
- Embraces
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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.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
Wherever a man turns he can find someone who needs him.
- Man
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As soon as man does not take his existence for granted, but beholds it as something unfathomably mysterious, thought begins.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
Day by day we should weigh what we have granted to the spirit of the world against what we have denied to the spirit of Jesus, in thought and especially in deed.
- Court
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- Nov 07, 2020
Reverence for life is the highest court of appeal.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him, that of plants and animals as that of his fellow men, and when he devotes himself helpfully to all life that is in need of help.
- Doctor
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
Serious illness doesn't bother me for long because I am too inhospitable a host.
- Green Light
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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.
- Character
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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.
- Kindness
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- Nov 07, 2020
Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate.
- Each Day
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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.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
By having a reverence for life, we enter into a spiritual relation with the world By practicing reverence for life we become good, deep, and alive.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Let me give you a definition of ethics: It is good to maintain and further life it is bad to damage and destroy life.
- First Step
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- Nov 07, 2020
The first step in the evolution of ethics is a sense of solidarity with other human beings.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ethics is nothing else than reverence for life.
- Compassion
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- Nov 07, 2020
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 life. That is the beginning and the foundation of all ethics.
- Happy
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- Nov 07, 2020
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 sought and found how to serve.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
Seek always to do some good, somewhere. Every man has to seek in his own way to realize his true worth. You must give some time to your fellow man. For remember, you don't live in a world all your own. Your brothers are here too.
- Help Others
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- Nov 07, 2020
The purpose of human life is to serve, and to show compassion and the will to help others.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
Whoever is spared personal pain must feel himself called to help in diminishing the pain of others. We must all carry our share of the misery which lies upon the world.
- Each One
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Lose
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- Nov 07, 2020
If a man loses his reverence for any part of life, he will lose his reverence for all of life.
- Does
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- Nov 07, 2020
A man does not have to be an angel in order to be saint.
- Living
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- Nov 07, 2020
Until he extends his circle of compassion to include all living things, man will not himself find peace.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Everyone
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- Nov 07, 2020