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

Laura Hillenbrand

#Hard Times Quotes #Laughing Quotes #Reason Quotes

“The slave girl is reared in an atmosphere of licentiousness and fear.”

Source : Harriet Ann Jacobs (2006). “Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl - Literary Touchstone Classic”, p.62, Prestwick House Inc
“The prose as such has to be singing the song the story is telling.”
“To be simple is not always as easy as it seems.”

Source : "Die Kunst Ferdinand Hodlers". Book by Ewald: Bender, 1923.
“There is this idea of history as something you make, as a meaningful narrative with a beginning and an end, the end being a utopia of happiness that we'll reach through socialism or free trade or democracy, and then it will all be wonderful.”
“To get to that next level, you gotta learn to get comfortable being uncomfortable.”
“Among the arts of conversation no one pleases more than mutual deference or civility, which leads us to resign our own inclinations to those of our companions, and to curb and conceal that presumption and arrogance so natural to the human mind.”
“Portland has influenced me in that it is very much where I feel most "at home" in the world. I grew up there. My family is there, my closest friends are there; my favorite bookstore, record store and coffee joint are there. Portland changed a lot during the eight years I lived in Bellingham but, every time I went back, it always felt like home.”
“When a man knows that the abstraction ten exists - nothing on earth can stop him from looking for the fact of eleven.”

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