Íngrid Betancourt Quotes

The relationship with time changes when you're captive.

We're humans. Why always turn human attitude into political behaviours? I hate that.

After six years without seeing one, I love just seeing a smile - every smile I see gives me hope.

Forgiveness is a very personal and intimate thing. Forgiveness is not something that you can speak f...

I have to forget in order to find peace in my soul and be able to forgive.

As a Colombian, the only way I can relate to my country is through suffering. I hope that my childre...

The only thing I've settled in my mind is that I want to forgive, and forgiveness comes with forgett...

We can't continue with a justice of vengeance. Peace will require us to accept a certain degree of i...

I was beginning to think that in life there might be some suffering that was worth enduring.

The book in my hands became my trusted companion. What was written there had so much power that it f...

If you believe what you say, words become reality.

I was discovering that the most precious gift someone can give us is time, because what gives time i...

I already knew that I had the ability to free myself from hatred, and I viewed this as my most signi...

I knew of no instruction manual for reaching a higher level of humanity and a greater wisdom. But I ...

I am alone. I am here. No one is watching me. In these hours of silence that I cherish, I talk to my...

Now I realized that life supplies us with everything we need for the journey. Everything I had acqui...