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“His conviction that everything happened for a reason, and would come to good, gave him laughing equanimity even in hard times.”
― Laura Hillenbrand, Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption

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“In a single, silent moment, his rage, his fear, his humiliation and helplessness, had fallen away. That morning, he believed, he was a new creation. Softly, he wept.”
― Laura Hillenbrand, Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption

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“The heart has its reasons which reason knows not.”
― Blaise Pascal

tags: heart, love, quip, reason

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“My tongue will tell the anger of my heart, or else my heart concealing it will break.”
― William Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew

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“Dignity is as essential to human life as water, food, and oxygen. The stubborn retention of it, even in the face of extreme physical hardship, can hold a man's soul in his body long past the point at which the body should have surrendered it.”
― Laura Hillenbrand, Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption

tags: dignity, life, survival

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