"If my goal is to change Colombia, which it is because I really think Columbia has to change in many, many ways - I think it has to be a very profound, nearly spiritual maturing process in the Colombian society because I think you have to first be aware of what's happening and it's not easy because many people don't want to see what's happening."

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Source : "Big Think Interview With Ingrid Betancourt". Interview with Max Miller, bigthink.com. October 19, 2010.

Ingrid Betancourt

#Spiritual Quotes #Thinking Quotes #People Quotes

“Street posters allowed you to have the last word. If you put them up in your neighborhood, you were speaking to your neighbor.”
“Happiness is never a negative affair; it is to be won by men who are fully alive, full of the joy of living”

Source : Aga Khan III (1998). “Aga Khan III: Selected Speeches and Writings of Sir Sultan Muhammad Shah”
“Which idiot put the GOP convention the same time as 'Burning Man' in Nevada? Is there time to change this?”
“I won't do something just for the sake of working.”
“Your true potential will speak as loud as your willingness to listen will allow it.Â If you simply breathe for the next 365 days, your life is going to be different, but is that the â€œdifferentâ€ you want to create in your life?Â You have to make your possibilities welcome in your life.”
“Here I am trying to live, or rather, I am trying to teach the death within me how to live.”
“There must be more to life than having everything.”

Source : Maurice Sendak, William Knowlton Zinsser (1998). “Worlds of Childhood: The Art and Craft of Writing for Children”, p.25, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“His name is Marcus: he is four and a half and possesses that deep gravity and seriousness that only small children and mountain gorillas have ever been able to master.”

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