"Contemplating Christmas when you are isolated and far……" — Amanda Lindhout
"Contemplating Christmas when you are isolated and far from home brings its own unique pain."
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49 Quotes by Amanda Lindhout
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I've realized that the world is, in essence, full of banana peels - loaded with things that may unwittingly trip…
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We all waited on an afterlife. Only I planned to be alive for mine.
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Because that’s the thing about the exact moment when you get somewhere that has required effort: There’s a freeze-frame instant…
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I, too, was carrying around my own fate. All the things I couldn't know sat somewhere inside, embroidered into me-maybe…
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In my version of paradise, the air was always cold and the rivers ran with candy.
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I swung from one place to the next, sometimes backward, sometimes forward, capitalizing on my own momentum, knowing that at…
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I think that I find a lot of my healing out in the world.
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I think it's the human spirit inside of all of us that has an enormous capacity to survive.
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I know firsthand how critical support systems are.
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I'm afraid of elevators, because they are an enclosed space, but I get in.
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I'm not afraid of IED's, bullets, mortars.
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Christmas was the one time of year when my brothers surfaced at home, when my parents and grandparents congregated to…
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The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil…
— Aristotle
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Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do…
— Marcus Aurelius
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Hurricane season brings a humbling reminder that, despite our technologies, most of nature remains unpredictable.
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Lies are sufficient to breed opinion, and opinion brings on substance.
— Francis Bacon
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A family on the throne is an interesting idea. It brings down the pride of sovereignty to the level of…
— Walter Bagehot
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For passion, be it observed, brings insight with it; it can give a sort of intelligence to simpletons, fools, and…
— Honore de Balzac
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Many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head, and knows not that it brings abundance to drive…
— Saint Basil
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Now, if you notice how the swan, putting its neck down into the deep water, brings up food for itself…
— Saint Basil
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Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.
— Melody Beattie
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It is not in giving life but in risking life that man is raised above the animal; that is why…
— Simone de Beauvoir
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Every day brings new choices.
— Martha Beck
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The science of the mind can only have for its proper goal the understanding of human nature by every human…
— Alfred Adler
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