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.
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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.
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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.
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Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now - always.
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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.
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Humanitarianism consists in never sacrificing a human being to a purpose.
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