Benjamin Hall > Quotes

“When there is nowhere to run, the safest place you can be is in a conversation with God.”
― Benjamin Hall, Saved: A War Reporter's Mission to Make It Home

“They always say doctors save lives and nurses keep them alive, and physical therapy gives them a life,” he says. “Our whole thing is function.”
― Benjamin Hall, Saved: A War Reporter's Mission to Make It Home

“seems, will not be a short one. What I’ve learned, however, is that fighting for what is good and meaningful is perhaps our highest calling in life.”
― Benjamin Hall, Saved: A War Reporter's Mission to Make It Home

“We were being entrusted with something precious and fragile and ultimately all-important—the truth of what was happening.”
― Benjamin Hall, Saved: A War Reporter's Mission to Make It Home

“the warfighter. Truth is the first casualty of war, but it survives when good prevails.”
― Benjamin Hall, Saved: A War Reporter's Mission to Make It Home

“The foundation of everything is a small handful of people like you who have the extraordinary courage to bring this story to the world, and that is where it all starts.”
― Benjamin Hall, Saved: A War Reporter's Mission to Make It Home

“I was still determined to be strong and resilient, but that didn’t mean I couldn’t express my feelings or even cry now and then.”
― Benjamin Hall, Saved: A War Reporter's Mission to Make It Home

“you recognize something of your own journeys and setbacks and hard decisions, and take heart in an appreciation of your own strength and resiliency and goodness.”
― Benjamin Hall, Saved: A War Reporter's Mission to Make It Home

“Adapting is all about finding better methods. If one path is blocked, try another. Purposefully commit scale error—don’t let the size of the challenge get in the way of your certainty that you can conquer it.”
― Benjamin Hall, Resolute: How We Humans Keep Finding Ways to Beat the Toughest Odds—The Inspiring Story of a War Correspondent's Remarkable Recovery from a Life-Altering Missile Attack

“Nothing about self-discovery is simple or obvious—the journeys we take to truly understand ourselves are long and complex and often wrenching. We are products of what we inherit:”
― Benjamin Hall, Saved: A War Reporter's Mission to Make It Home

“I loved the idea of meeting new people, experiencing new things. I always wanted more—more travel, more sights to see, more feelings to feel. My mother had wanted us to see that the world was a much broader, more complex, and indeed more interesting place than we could fathom, and she accomplished this and then some, instilling in us our own wanderlust, our own curiosity about other people and places.”
― Benjamin Hall, Saved: A War Reporter's Mission to Make It Home