I look back upon my youth and realize how so many people gave me help, understanding, courage — very important things to me — and they never knew it. They entered into my life and became powers within me. All of us live spiritually by what others have given us, often unwittingly, in the significant hours of our life. At the time these significant hours may not even be perceived. We may not recognize them until years later when we look back, as one remembers some long-ago music or a boyhood landscape. We all owe to others much of the gentleness and wisdom that we have made our own; and we may well ask ourselves what will others owe to us. Albert Schweitzer
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  1. Sometimes our light goes out, but is blown again into instant flame by an encounter with another human being.
  2. There are two means of refuge from the misery of life – music and cats.
  3. Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.
  4. 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.
  5. True philosophy must start from the most immediate and comprehensive fact of consciousness: 'I am life that wants to live, in the midst of life that wants to live
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