"If people can live through genocide and retain……" — Eric Greitens
"If people can live through genocide and retain compassion, if they can take strength in pain, if they are able, still, to laugh, then certainly we can learn something from them."
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14 Quotes by Eric Greitens
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I was worried that all the corners of the earth had been explored, all the great battles fought. The famous…
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Yet the basic fact remains: we live in a world marked by violence, and if we want to protect others,…
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I've learned that courage and compassion are two sides of the same coin, and that every warrior, every humanitarian, every…
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The best definition I have ever heard of a vocation is that it's the place where your great joy meets…
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FEARLESS is a vivid account of one man's journey from all-American boy to all-American hero. Blehm's writing takes you beyond…
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Alone, human beings can feel hunger. Alone, we can feel cold. Alone, we can feel pain. To feel poor, however,…
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Life is short. Life is uncertain. But we know that we have today. And we have each other. I believe…
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Viktor Frankl, a Holocaust survivor and the author of Man's Search for Meaning, wrote that human beings create meaning in…
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There were a number of definitions of courage, but now I was seeing it in its simplest form: you do…
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A good peace, a solid peace, a peace in which communities can flourish, can only be built when we ask…
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As warriors, as humanitarians, they've taught me that without courage, compassion falters, and that without compassion, courage has no direction.
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If we want to change something, we must begin with understanding. But if we want to love something, we must…
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