"If we want to change something, we must……" — Eric Greitens
"If we want to change something, we must begin with understanding. But if we want to love something, we must begin with acceptance."
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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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More Acceptance Quotes
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It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
— Aristotle
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Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do…
— Marcus Aurelius
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Confine yourself to the present.
— Marcus Aurelius
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He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.
— Francis Bacon
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And as I stumbled onto Eastern philosophy and Buddhism, it was the first time I had ever read any sort…
— Alan Ball
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Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yourself.
— Honore de Balzac
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The antiquity and general acceptance of an opinion is not assurance of its truth.
— Pierre Bayle
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Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance,…
— Melody Beattie
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To make oneself an object, to make oneself passive, is a very different thing from being a passive object.
— Simone de Beauvoir
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It's not only the most difficult thing to know one's self, but the most inconvenient.
— Josh Billings
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I've probably understood men too well. I realise they are predatory by nature, and I have a certain acceptance of…
— Jacqueline Bisset
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It is on the acceptance or rejection of the theory of the Unity of all in Nature, in its ultimate…
— H. P. Blavatsky
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