We're too passive. We're feeding on too much rubbish and I think we should strive to just shrug away that comfort zone and be able to get the most of each one of us, which means restructuring the way we… — Ingrid Betancourt Copy Share Image
“I often think about her. One thing she said stayed with me, a dagger in my heart: "You know for me the most horrible… — Ingrid Betancourt Copy Share Image
I think there is this sensation of being deprived of something that you are entitled to have. — Ingrid Betancourt Copy Share Image
Sometimes I'm fragile, sometimes too emotional, but I'm putting everything I can on my side to be a happy person. — Ingrid Betancourt Copy Share Image
I think that the security in the cities is a lot better, but I think that outside the cities the peasants have no security,… — Ingrid Betancourt Copy Share Image
“I had not suffered enough to find the rage in my guts I needed to struggle to death for my freedom.” — Ingrid Betancourt Copy Share Image
Before I was abducted, I think that happiness was related to success. Nowadays happiness is related, for me, to rest, peace, serenity. — Ingrid Betancourt Copy Share Image
“I already knew that I had the ability to free myself from hatred, and I viewed this as my most significant conquest.” — Ingrid Betancourt Copy Share Image
I was struggling against corruption and the only thing... my only weapon was to put the truth in the medias and of course it… — Ingrid Betancourt Copy Share Image
If my goal is to change Colombia, which it is because I really think Columbia has to change in many, many ways - I… — Ingrid Betancourt Copy Share Image
Our life capital is measured in seconds. Once those seconds are gone, we never get them back! — Ingrid Betancourt Copy Share Image
For me the very important thing was never to forget that they had no right to have me there, that my duty was to escape and that I needed to get back to my family and to my children no matter what. And that I could not accept to just see them as an authority, that I had to always… — Ingrid Betancourt Copy Share
