"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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Source : Eric Greitens (2011). “The Heart and the Fist: The education of a humanitarian, the making of a Navy SEAL”, p.13, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Eric Greitens

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“The law of levity is allowed to supersede the law of gravity.”

Source : "Space Chantey" by R. A. Lafferty, (Ch. 4), 1968.
“If you want to really understand about a tumor, you've got be be a tumor.”
“Imagination allows us to conceive of delightful future possibilities, pick the most amazing one, and pull the present forward to meet it.”
“The reality is that most of North America knows next to nothing of the 20th centurys first genocide - the systematic slaughter of 1.5 million Armenians in the First World War.”
“Routes rate me, not the other way around.”
“When you have friends, donâ€™t expect your friends to fill your emptiness. When you get married, donâ€™t expect your spouse to fulfill your every need. When youâ€™re an activist, donâ€™t put your hope in the results. When youâ€™re in trouble donâ€™t depend on yourself. Donâ€™t depend on people. Depend on Allah.”
“It is neither a culture of confrontation nor a culture of conflict which builds harmony within and between peoples, but rather a culture of encounter and a culture of dialogue; this is the only way to peace.”
“Why are you more concerned with where you're going than where you are? Why are you more concerned with what you're going to do than what you're doing? Why aren't you paying attention to how you live your life right this very moment? Why are you wasting this moment? Why are you wasting your life?”

Source : Colin Beavan (2009). “No Impact Man: The Adventures of a Guilty Liberal Who Attempts to Save the Planet, and the Discoveries He Makes About Himself and Our Way of Life in the Process”, p.45, Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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