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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
#Grow
#History
#Humor
#Joy
#Life
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
#Anger
#Choice
#Day
#Me
#Work
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
#Decision
#I Am
#Myself
#Travel
#World
The countries with the greatest problems have the kindest people.
- Amanda Lindhout
#Countries
#Greatest
#People
#Problems
My captors were definitely aware that what they were doing was wrong. It came out in small ways - occasionally through a show of guilt or compassion. One of the boys bought me a gift. Another used to sneak me acetaminophen tablets.
- Amanda Lindhout
#Compassion
#Doing
#Gift
#Guilt
#Me
It was a slow understanding that the lack of education in a country like Somalia creates these huge social problems.
- Amanda Lindhout
#Country
#Education
#Like
#Problems
#Slow
Friendships that don't fit my life anymore have faded away, and new ones have come in.
- Amanda Lindhout
#Away
#Come
#Life
#My Life
#New
My faith in human decency was sorely tested at times during my captivity; however, after my release, I am humbly reminded that mankind is inherently good by the tremendous efforts and support of fellow Canadians.
- Amanda Lindhout
#Faith
#Good
#Human
#I Am
#Support
I would like to especially acknowledge my home community of Calgary, and the people of central Alberta who made my dream of freedom a reality.
- Amanda Lindhout
#Community
#Dream
#Freedom
#Home
#Reality
Women in Somalia face almost unimaginable oppression.
- Amanda Lindhout
#Almost
#Face
#Oppression
#Somalia
#Women
I went through an extremely trying ordeal, but I never forgot the world outside was a beautiful place.
- Amanda Lindhout
#Beautiful Place
#Beautiful
#Place
#World
The book is called 'A House in the Sky' because during the very, very darkest times, that was how I survived. I had to find a safe place to go in my mind where there was no violence being done to my body and where I could reflect on the life I had lived and the life that I still wanted to live.
- Amanda Lindhout
#Body
#Life
#Live
#Mind
#Sky
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
#Day
#Long
#One Day At A Time
#Road
#Time
I think it's the human spirit inside of all of us that has an enormous capacity to survive.
- Amanda Lindhout
#Human Spirit
#Human
#Spirit
#Survive
#Us
Contemplating Christmas when you are isolated and far from home brings its own unique pain.
- Amanda Lindhout
#Christmas
#Home
#Own
#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
#Christmas
#Home
#Mother
#Parents
#Time
The greatest gift you have been given is the gift of your imagination - what do you dream of wanting to do?
- Amanda Lindhout
#Dream
#Gift
#Greatest Gift
#Imagination
Many, including the Canadian and U.S. governments, try to provide family support while also maintaining a hard line about further fuelling terrorism and hostage-taking through ransom payments ... Still, try telling that to a mother, or a father, or a husband or wife caught in the powerless agony of standing by.
- Amanda Lindhout
#Family
#Father
#Support
#Terrorism
#Wife
With awareness come responsibility and choice.
- Amanda Lindhout
#Awareness
#Choice
#Come
#Responsibility
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