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It was a lesson the world had already taught me and was teaching me still. You don't know what's possible until you actually see it.

~ Amanda Lindhout

Amanda Lindhout Life Society War

By concentrating on what I was grateful for, I was able to stave off despair.

~ Amanda Lindhout

Amanda Lindhout Gratefulness Positive Thinking

It is an obvious fact that you can never look ahead with clarity at your own future or anybody else's. You can't know what will happen until it happens. Or maybe it dawns on you the split second before, when you get a glimpse of your own fate.

~ Amanda Lindhout

Amanda Lindhout Destiny Fate

I, too, was carrying around my own fate. All the things I couldn't know sat somewhere inside, embroidered into me-maybe not quite fixed to the point of inevitability but waiting, in any event, for a chance to unspool.

~ Amanda Lindhout

Amanda Lindhout Embroidered Fate Future

What was reckless, I decided, was the way people were writing off huge swaths of the world as unsafe, unstable, unfriendly, when all they needed to do was go and see for themselves

~ Amanda Lindhout

Amanda Lindhout Travel

Something happens when you are alone most of the time, when there are no distractions. Your mind grows more powerful--muscular, even. It takes over and starts to carry you.

~ Amanda Lindhout

Amanda Lindhout Loneliness

After spending 460 days as a hostage, I did emerge a fundamentally changed person. But I think, like everyone does as they grow older and probably wiser, I can look back at my earlier life - my history, my mistakes, the joy I felt as a young woman traveling the world - with some objectivity and even some humor.

~ Amanda Lindhout

Amanda Lindhout Life History Joy

Contemplating Christmas when you are isolated and far from home brings its own unique pain.

~ Amanda Lindhout

Amanda Lindhout Home Pain Unique

Christmas was the one time of year when my brothers surfaced at home, when my parents and grandparents congregated to eat my mother's roast turkey.

~ Amanda Lindhout

Amanda Lindhout Time Home Mother

The road to recovery will not always be easy, but I will take it one day at a time, focusing on the moments I've dreamed about for so long.

~ Amanda Lindhout

Amanda Lindhout Day Road Moments

Because travel has always been such a vital part of myself and so essential to who I am, I have made the decision to continue to put myself back out into the world. And that's not an easy decision to make.

~ Amanda Lindhout

Amanda Lindhout Myself I Am World

Getting on a plane is hard for me, but I do it, because travel is vital to me.

~ Amanda Lindhout

Amanda Lindhout Me Because Hard

The greatest gift you have been given is the gift of your imagination - what do you dream of wanting to do?

~ Amanda Lindhout

Amanda Lindhout Dream Gift Greatest

It was a slow understanding that the lack of education in a country like Somalia creates these huge social problems.

~ Amanda Lindhout

Amanda Lindhout Problems Understanding

Sometimes, you have to make the choice to forgive 10 times a day when you have these pockets of anger come up. That's a lot of work, but to me it's worthwhile.

~ Amanda Lindhout

Amanda Lindhout Work Day Choice
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