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> [“He looked at the world from above. Where I saw threatening waves, he saw tranquil water.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ingrid-betancourt/he-looked-at-the-world-from-above-where-i-saw-threatening-waves-he/)

[Ingrid Betancourt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ingrid-betancourt/)

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## More by Ingrid Betancourt

> [“I often think about her. One thing she said stayed with me, a dagger in my heart: "You know for me the most horrible…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ingrid-betancourt/i-often-think-about-her-one-thing-she-said-stayed-with-me-a-dagger-in/)

[Ingrid Betancourt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ingrid-betancourt/)

> [I think there is this sensation of being deprived of something that you are entitled to have.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ingrid-betancourt/i-think-there-is-this-sensation-of-being-deprived-of-something-that/)

[Ingrid Betancourt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ingrid-betancourt/)

> [Sometimes I'm fragile, sometimes too emotional, but I'm putting everything I can on my side to be a happy person.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ingrid-betancourt/sometimes-i-m-fragile-sometimes-too-emotional-but-i-m-putting/)

[Ingrid Betancourt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ingrid-betancourt/)

> [If you believe what you say, words will become reality.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ingrid-betancourt/if-you-believe-what-you-say-words-will-become-reality/)

[Ingrid Betancourt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ingrid-betancourt/)

> [I think that the security in the cities is a lot better, but I think that outside the cities the peasants have no security,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ingrid-betancourt/i-think-that-the-security-in-the-cities-is-a-lot-better-but-i-think/)

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> [“I had not suffered enough to find the rage in my guts I needed to struggle to death for my freedom.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ingrid-betancourt/i-had-not-suffered-enough-to-find-the-rage-in-my-guts-i-needed-to/)

[Ingrid Betancourt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ingrid-betancourt/)

> [Before I was abducted, I think that happiness was related to success. Nowadays happiness is related, for me, to rest, peace, serenity.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ingrid-betancourt/before-i-was-abducted-i-think-that-happiness-was-related-to-success/)

[Ingrid Betancourt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ingrid-betancourt/)

> [“I already knew that I had the ability to free myself from hatred, and I viewed this as my most significant conquest.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ingrid-betancourt/i-already-knew-that-i-had-the-ability-to-free-myself-from-hatred-and/)

[Ingrid Betancourt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ingrid-betancourt/)

> [I was struggling against corruption and the only thing... my only weapon was to put the truth in the medias and of course it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ingrid-betancourt/i-was-struggling-against-corruption-and-the-only-thing-my-only-weapon/)

[Ingrid Betancourt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ingrid-betancourt/)

> [If my goal is to change Colombia, which it is because I really think Columbia has to change in many, many ways - I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ingrid-betancourt/if-my-goal-is-to-change-colombia-which-it-is-because-i-really-think/)

[Ingrid Betancourt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ingrid-betancourt/)

> [Our life capital is measured in seconds. Once those seconds are gone, we never get them back!](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ingrid-betancourt/our-life-capital-is-measured-in-seconds-once-those-seconds-are-gone/)

[Ingrid Betancourt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ingrid-betancourt/)

> [For me the very important thing was never to forget that they had no right to have me there, that my duty was to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ingrid-betancourt/for-me-the-very-important-thing-was-never-to-forget-that-they-had-no/)

[Ingrid Betancourt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ingrid-betancourt/)

> [People need space to survive.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ingrid-betancourt/people-need-space-to-survive/)

[Ingrid Betancourt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ingrid-betancourt/)

> [“The book in my hands became my trusted companion. What was written there had so much power that it forced me to stop avoiding…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ingrid-betancourt/the-book-in-my-hands-became-my-trusted-companion-what-was-written/)

[Ingrid Betancourt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ingrid-betancourt/)

> [I was discovering that the most precious gift someone can give us is time, because what gives time its value is death.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ingrid-betancourt/i-was-discovering-that-the-most-precious-gift-someone-can-give-us-is/)

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