{"author":"Ingrid Betancourt","author_id":"Ingrid+Betancourt","total_quotes":16,"quotes":[{"text":"I have to forget in order to find peace in my soul and be able to forgive.","author":"Ingrid Betancourt","tags":["soul","forgive","forget "],"id":7332,"author_id":"Ingrid+Betancourt"},{"text":"I knew of no instruction manual for reaching a higher level of humanity and a greater wisdom. But I felt intuitively that laughter was the beginning of wisdom, as is was indispensable for survival.","author":"Ingrid Betancourt","tags":["laughter"],"id":16164,"author_id":"Ingrid+Betancourt"},{"text":"Now I realized that life supplies us with everything we need for the journey. Everything I had acquired either actively or passively, everything I had learned either voluntarily or by osmosis, was coming back to me as the real riches of my life, even though I had lost everything.","author":"Ingrid Betancourt","tags":["learning"],"id":43150,"author_id":"Ingrid+Betancourt"},{"text":"After six years without seeing one, I love just seeing a smile - every smile I see gives me hope.","author":"Ingrid Betancourt","tags":["love","hope","me "],"id":62993,"author_id":"Ingrid+Betancourt"},{"text":"We can't continue with a justice of vengeance. Peace will require us to accept a certain degree of impunity it's inevitable. ","author":"Ingrid Betancourt","tags":["justice","accept","vengeance "],"id":110756,"author_id":"Ingrid+Betancourt"},{"text":"The only thing I've settled in my mind is that I want to forgive, and forgiveness comes with forgetting.","author":"Ingrid Betancourt","tags":["mind","forgive","want "],"id":162933,"author_id":"Ingrid+Betancourt"},{"text":"If you believe what you say, words become reality.","author":"Ingrid Betancourt","tags":["words"],"id":167220,"author_id":"Ingrid+Betancourt"},{"text":"We're humans. Why always turn human attitude into political behaviours? I hate that.","author":"Ingrid Betancourt","tags":["hate","political","why "],"id":168836,"author_id":"Ingrid+Betancourt"},{"text":"I was discovering that the most precious gift someone can give us is time, because what gives time its value is death.","author":"Ingrid Betancourt","tags":["death","gifts"],"id":192316,"author_id":"Ingrid+Betancourt"},{"text":"The book in my hands became my trusted companion. What was written there had so much power that it forced me to stop avoiding myself, to make my own choices as well. And through some sort of vital intuition, I understood that I had a long way to go, that it would bring about a profound transformation within me, even though I could not determine it's essence, or its scope. In that book there was a voice, and behind that voice threw was an intelligence that sought to establish contact with me. It was not merely the company of written words that distiller my boredom. It was a living voice, speaking. To me.","author":"Ingrid Betancourt","tags":["bible"],"id":223359,"author_id":"Ingrid+Betancourt"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":16,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}