Amanda Lindhout Quotes

A little goes a long way in Somalia: $5 will feed a person there for about two weeks.
Accompanied by an Australian photographer named Nigel Brennan, I'd gone to Somalia to work as a freelance journalist, on a trip that was meant to last only ten days.
After being in captivity for so long, I can't begin to describe how wonderful it feels to be home in Canada.
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.
Being in the dark, there's a real weight to it. It's heavy.
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.
Contemplating Christmas when you are isolated and far from home brings its own unique pain.
Every day I have many choices to make about who I want to be.
For a while, the world for me was like a set of monkey bars. I swung from one place to the next, sometimes backward, sometimes forward, capitalizing on my own momentum, knowing that at some point my arms... would give out, and I'd fall to the ground.
Forgiving is not an easy thing to do.
Friendships that don't fit my life anymore have faded away, and new ones have come in.
Getting on a plane is hard for me, but I do it, because travel is vital to me.
Going into Somalia, I didn't anticipate how many people's lives would be affected by it. In hindsight, I certainly wish I had taken more time to think about that, but I can't change it.
Hamdi Ulukaya and Chobani have made the decision to feed 250,000 victims of the Somali famine. Their compassion speaks for itself, and is a shining example of how the business community can have an enormous positive impact on the world.
Hillary Clinton has a strong and powerful voice regarding ending violence against women and girls.
I am so proud to be a Canadian.
I don't only long for the thrill of being in the middle of a war, I must understand it; I must make other people understand.
I don't think I'm unusual in that, in my 20s, like many people, I felt invincible.
I have a general sense of excitement about the future, and I don't know what that looks like yet. But it will be whatever I make it.
I have watched lives change. I have seen women gain confidence.
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