Amanda Lindhout, A House In The Sky Quotes

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.

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

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

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.