Amanda Lindhout Zitate auf Englisch

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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.

Amanda Lindhout

It's difficult to put into words what freedom feels like. You only know what freedom feels like if you know what it feels like to not be free.

Amanda Lindhout

I have watched lives change. I have seen women gain confidence.

Amanda Lindhout

It was a slow understanding that my kidnappers really are a product of their environment.

Amanda Lindhout

My confidence came from the way I grew up, and I'm grateful for it.

Amanda Lindhout

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.

Amanda Lindhout

Somalia is very dangerous, and no one knows that better than I.

Amanda Lindhout

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.

Amanda Lindhout

I think it's the human spirit inside of all of us that has an enormous capacity to survive.

Amanda Lindhout

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

I must try desperately to absorb all information I can about the Middle East. I want to excel. I want to speak articulately about the politics of the Middle East and its religion.

Amanda Lindhout

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.

Amanda Lindhout

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.

Amanda Lindhout

I must thank my good friend Nigel Brennan. His strength of character in the midst of extreme hardship inspired me during the darkest days. Despite our separation, he always managed to find small ways to remind me that there are gentlemen in the world, even when I was surrounded by just the opposite.

Amanda Lindhout

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

Amanda Lindhout

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

Every day I have many choices to make about who I want to be.

Amanda Lindhout

Somalia is an important story in the world, and it needed to be told.

Amanda Lindhout

With awareness come responsibility and choice.

Amanda Lindhout

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.

Amanda Lindhout

What a woman is taught, she shares with her family.

Amanda Lindhout