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.

Eric Greitens
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  1. All I ever wanted was to reach out and touch another human being not just with my hands but with my heart. - Tahereh Mafi

  2. If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other. - Mother Teresa

  3. Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them, humanity cannot survive. - Dalai Lama Xiv

  4. As long as Man continues to be the ruthless destroyer of lower living beings, he will never know health or peace. For as long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other. Indeed, he who sows the seed of murder and pain cannot reap... - Pythagoras

  5. I never lie, " I said offhand. "At least not to those I don't love. - Anne Rice

More Quotes By Eric Greitens
  1. Warriors are warriors not because of their strengh, but because of their ability strengh to good purpose

  2. Across the globe, even in the world's "worst places, " people found ways to turn pain into wisdom and suffering into strength. They made their own actions, their very lives, into a memorial that honored the people they had lost.

  3. The world needs many more humanitarians than it needs warriors, but there can be none of the former without enough of the latter.

  4. I thought buying at the local market would be an excellent way to build positive relationships with the local villagers.

  5. Take care of your people" is one of the principle lessons of military leadership. If we take care of our people on deployment, why should that change when we come home?

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