Amanda Lindhout Quotes

If there's one thing I'd say to anyone out there, is that if you're in this game, it's a rollercoaster. There's a lot of ups and downs.

It's a little like wrestling a gorilla. You don't quit when you're tired - you quit when the gorilla is tired.

In my early days in school, I had no shoes, no school bags. There were days I had only one meal... I walked miles and crossed rivers to school every day. Didn't have power, didn't have generators, studied with lanterns, but I never despaired.

I've always believed in survival.

But the beginning of things, of a world especially, is necessarily vague, tangled, chaotic, and exceedingly disturbing. How few of us ever emerge from such beginning! How many souls perish in its tumult!

So give me a turbulent world as opposed to a quiet world and I'll take the turbulent one.

There was no indication of panic. The broken files marched back in steady step. The effort was nobly made and failed from the blows that could not be fended.

I just really am trying, trying, all the time. But I like to be scared. I love to suddenly feel out of control.

I was terrified and confused every day of my life until I started Nasty Gal, and for a good while after as well.

We shall have to pass through many a valley, many a narrow defile. Many will grow tired on the way. Of course they will mostly be those who have no reason to do so.

I don't know if it's naivete or just narcissism, but I start out with this notion that I can do anything. It's not until I get into it that I realize what I've thrown myself into, and then I will do anything not to humiliate myself. And that, I think, is the secret to my success.

Well, I'm wrestling alligators.

Life's a roller coaster, but I feel a change.

The swimmer adrift on the open seas measures his strength, and strives with all his muscles to keep himself afloat. But what is he to do when there is no land on the horizon, and none beyond it?

You have to fall. You have to understand what that feels like. For what I want in my life, and for where I want to go with this music, you gotta be humiliated, man. You gotta understand what that feels like. It just makes you stronger.

Life is a horizontal fall.

If I'm left high and dry at the end of this wild journey, just taking it is a great feeling.

Juggling is the word. I'm a bad juggler, and there are often balls dropped. There is no balance. The idea of work/life balance is a myth. There's teetering from one end and running to the other and hoping not to fall off.

Living in Chicago, you have got to not be afraid about failing at something.

I'm not someone who throws the towel in, although I think there are many times when I could have and should have thrown the towel in, and nobody would have thought any worse of me.

The first quality of courage is the willingness to launch with no guarantees. The second quality of courage is the ability to endure when there is no success in sight.

Unrest is the mark of existence.

Life hurls us like a stone, and we sail through the air saying, "look at me move.

One who does not fall, does not stand up.

The struggles I'm facing, The chances I'm taking, Sometimes might knock me down, But no, I'm not breaking.