Laura Hillenbrand Quotes

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It's easy to talk to a horse if you understand his language. Horses stay the same from the day they are born until the day they die. They are only changed by the way people treat them.

Laura Hillenbrand

Horse, People, Way

Laura Hillenbrand (2002). “Seabiscuit: The True Story of Three Men and a Racehorse”, HarperCollins UK

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Without dignity, identity is erased. In its absence, men are defined not by themselves, but by their captors and the circumstances in which they are forced to live.

Laura Hillenbrand

Men, Identity, Unbroken

Laura Hillenbrand (2010). “Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption”, p.183, Random House

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The paradox of vengefulness is that it makes men dependent upon those who have harmed them, believing that their release from pain will come only when their tormentors suffer.

Laura Hillenbrand

Life, Pain, Believe

Laura Hillenbrand (2010). “Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption”, p.366, Random House

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... character reigns preeminent in determining potential.

Laura Hillenbrand

Character, Reign

Laura Hillenbrand (2003). “Seabiscuit: An American Legend”, p.408, Ballantine Books

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This self-respect and sense of self-worth, the innermost armament of the soul, lies at the heart of humanness; to be deprived of it is to be dehumanized, to be cleaved from, and cast below, mankind.

Laura Hillenbrand

Lying, Heart, Self Worth

Laura Hillenbrand (2010). “Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption”, p.182, Random House

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I just thought I was empty and now I'm being filled...and I just wanted to keep being filled.

Laura Hillenbrand

Empty, Filled, Wanted

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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.

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Men, Past, Oxygen

Laura Hillenbrand (2010). “Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption”, p.183, Random House

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His books were the closest thing he had to furniture and he lived in them the way other men live in easy chairs.

Laura Hillenbrand

Book, Men, Way

Laura Hillenbrand (2003). “Seabiscuit: An American Legend”, p.49, Ballantine Books

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Without dignity, identity is erased.

Laura Hillenbrand

Identity, Dignity

Laura Hillenbrand (2010). “Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption”, p.183, Random House

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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.

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Hard Times, Laughing, Unbroken

Laura Hillenbrand (2010). “Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption”, p.384, Random House

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When he thought of his history, what resonated with him now was not all that he had suffered but the divine love that he believed had intervened to save him.

Laura Hillenbrand

Unbroken, Divine, Divine Love

Laura Hillenbrand (2010). “Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption”, p.376, Random House

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I am in an altogether new world now. I can think of nothing more wonderful. It is a real touch of all that heaven means.

Laura Hillenbrand

Real, Mean, Thinking

Laura Hillenbrand (2010). “Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption”, p.266, Random House

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In 1938... the year's #1 newsmaker was not FDR, Hitler, or Mussolini. Nor was it Lou Gehrig or Clark Gable. The subject of the most newspaper column inches in 1938 wasn't even a person. It was an undersized, crooked-legged racehorse named Seabiscuit.

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Years, Newspapers, Inches

"Seabiscuit: An American Legend". Book by Laura Hillenbrand, 2001.

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What God asks of men, said [Billy] Graham, is faith. His invisibility is the truest test of that faith. To know who sees him, God makes himself unseen.

Laura Hillenbrand

Men, Unseen, Unbroken

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Though all three men faced the same hardship, their differing perceptions of it appeared to be shaping their fates. Louie and Phil's hope displaced their fear and inspired them to work toward their survival, and each success renewed their physical and emotional vigor. Mac's resignation seemed to paralyze him and the less he participated in their efforts to survive, the more he slipped. Though he did the least, as the days passed, it was he who faded the most. Louie and Phil's optimism, and Mac's hopelessness, were becoming self-fulfilling.

Laura Hillenbrand

Fate, Men, Emotional

Laura Hillenbrand (2010). “Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption”, p.148, Random House

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Dignity is as essential to human life as water, food, and oxygen.

Laura Hillenbrand

Oxygen, Water, Essentials

Laura Hillenbrand (2010). “Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption”, p.183, Random House

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I'm attracted to subjects who overcome tremendous suffering and learn to cope emotionally with it

Laura Hillenbrand

Suffering, Overcoming, Subjects

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Fatigue is what we experience, but it is what a match is to an atomic bomb.

Laura Hillenbrand

Hydrogen Bomb, Bombs, Atomic Bomb

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...maybe it was better to break a man's leg than to break his heart.

Laura Hillenbrand

Heart, Men, Legs

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But with nonfiction, the task is very straightforward: Do the research, tell the story

Laura Hillenbrand

Tasks, Stories, Research

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He had no money and no home; he lived entirely on the road of the racing circuit, sleeping in empty stalls, carrying with him only a saddle, his rosary, and his books...The books were the closest thing he had to furniture, and he lived in them the way other men live in easy chairs.

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Book, Home, Sleep

"Seabiscuit: An American Legend". Book by Laura Hillenbrand, 2001.

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Every day after lunch when I was writing my first book, I'd nibble a square of fine chocolate and meditate on all that had gone into its creation: the sun and rain that spilled on the cocoa plant, the soil that nourished it, the hands that picked the beans, and so on. My taste of chocolate became a lesson on the interconnectedness of things, and the infinite blessings for which I am grateful.

Laura Hillenbrand

Rain, Book, Grateful

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I am actually in poor health due to chronic fatigue and immune dysfunction syndrome, and my ability to work is greatly diminished right now, so I have to get better before I can start another big project

Laura Hillenbrand

Dysfunction, Get Better, Poor

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My illness is excruciating and difficult to cope with. It takes over your entire life and causes more suffering than I can describe.

Laura Hillenbrand

Suffering, Causes, Illness

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I've used a cellphone exactly twice. Things move on. The world changes. And I don't know it

Laura Hillenbrand

Moving, World, Used

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