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. - Albert Schweitzer
It's not enough merely to exist. Every man has to seek in his own way to make his own self more noble and to relize his own true worth. - Albert Schweitzer
The interior joy we feel when we have done a good deed is the nourishment the soul requires. - Albert Schweitzer
The thinking (person) must oppose all cruel customs, no matter how deeply rooted in tradition and surrounded by a halo. When we have a choice, we must avoid bringing torment and injury into the life of another. - Albert Schweitzer
There are only three ways to teach a child. The first is by example, the second is by example, the third is by example. - Albert Schweitzer
If you wanted to put the world to rights, who should you begin with: yourself or others? - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
It is not our level of prosperity that makes for happiness but the kinship of heart to heart and the way we look at the world. Both attitudes lie within our power, so that a man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy, and no one can stop him. - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
It is within the power of writers and artists to do much more: to defeat the lie! - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
No one can bar the road to truth, and to advance its cause I am prepared to accept even death. - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Own only what you can always carry with you: know languages, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag. Use your memory! Use your memory! It is those bitter seeds alone which might sprout and grow someday. Look around you - there are people around you. Maybe you will remember one of them all your life and later eat your heart out because you didn't make use of the opportunity to ask him questions. And the less you talk, the more you'll hear. - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Talent is always conscious of its own abundance, and does not object to sharing. - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
The simple step of a courageous individual is not to take part in the lie. One word of truth outweighs the world. - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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