As one who tries to remain youthful in his thinking and feeling, I have struggled against facts and experience on behalf of belief in the good and the true.
At the present time, when violence, clothed in life, dominates the world more cruelly than it ever has before, I still remain convinced that truth, love, peaceableness, meekness and kindness are the violence, which can master all other violence.
The world will be theirs, as soon as ever a sufficient number of men with purity of heart, with strength, and with perseverance, think and live out the thoughts of love and truth, of meekness and peaceableness.
The knowledge of life, therefore, which we grown-ups have to pass on to the younger generation will not be expressed thus—
Reality will soon give way before your ideals, but grow into your ideals, so that life can never rob you of them.
If all of us could become what we were at fourteen, what a different place the world would be!
—Albert Schweitzer
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