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 GreitensMots clés compassion
If you respected someone, then you had to ask something of them.
Eric GreitensYet the basic fact remains: we live in a world marked by violence, and if we want to protect others, we sometimes have to be willing to fight.
Eric GreitensMots clés love
I had been given the greatest gift an education could provide: I had a better idea of what it meant to live a good life
Eric GreitensMots clés life-lessons
Alone, human beings can feel hunger. Alone, we can feel cold. Alone, we can feel pain. To feel poor, however, is something we do only in comparison to others.
Eric GreitensMots clés poverty
...it's not enough to fight for a better world; we also have to live lives worth fighting for.
Eric GreitensMots clés live-in-the-moment
I thought of Pericles' speech to the families of the Athenian war dead, in which he said, "What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others.
Eric GreitensMots clés pericles navy-seals greek-history
Life is short. Life is uncertain. But we know that we have today. And we have each other. I believe that for each of us, there is a place on the frontlines.
Eric GreitensMots clés morals peace humanitarian mantra humanitarianism
Viktor Frankl, a Holocaust survivor and the author of Man's Search for Meaning, wrote that human beings create meaning in three ways: thought their work, though their relationships, and by how they choose to meet unavoidable suffering. Every life brings hardship and trial, and every life also offers deep possibilities for meaningful work and love... I've learned that courage and compassion are two sides of the same coin.
Eric GreitensI was worried that all the corners of the earth had been explored, all the great battles fought. The famous people on TV were athletes and actresses and singers. What did they stand for? I wondered: Had the time for heroes passed?
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