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

Amanda Lindhout
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The great poet William Wordsworth said, “I felt the best thing I could do with my life was to be useful.” In other words, to him the most important thing in life is what you do with your time on Earth. So it's important that we don't let our circumstances get in the way of what we ought to be doing. Instead, we should look for the good things in life and try to make a difference with them. By concentrating on what he was grateful for, he was able to stave off despair.

Source: A House In The Sky

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