Ingrid Betancourt Quotes

A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety.

Peace is its own reward.

Every breath we take, every step we make, can be filled with peace, joy and serenity.

I'm on my way to happiness, where I can find some peace and rest.

I often paint tranquility. If you stop thinking and rest, then a little happiness comes into your mind. At perfect rest you are comfortable.

If we are not able to smile, then the world will not have peace.

Most people think of peace as a state of Nothing Bad Happening, or Nothing Much Happening. Yet if peace is to overtake us and make us the gift of serenity and well-being, it will have to be the state of Something Good Happening.

Having the certitude of a succession of days... equally free and beautiful, peace descends on me.

When I have come to you, at last (as I have always done), I have come to peace and happiness. I come home, now, like a tired traveller, and find such a blessed sense of rest!

Many people think excitement is happiness.... But when you are excited you are not peaceful. True happiness is based on peace.

If ever you do go back, what is it you want of Evesham?" "Do I know? [...] The silence, it might be ... or the stillness. To have no more running to do ... to have arrived, and have no more need to run. The appetite changes. Now I think it would be a beautiful thing to be still.

Rest, rest at the heart's core . . . till joy shall overtake.

The life of inner peace, being harmonious and without stress, is the easiest type of existence.

My ambition is peace and perfection.

What I really try to do is photograph people at rest, in a state of serenity.

Peace is when time doesn't matter as it passes by.

I just want to live in peace and quiet.

First keep peace with yourself, then you can also bring peace to others.

Peace begins with a smile.

I'm at a point in my life where I have something solid now. I'm a peaceful person, and I want to be surrounded by peace no matter what I'm doing.

Many a happiness in life, as many a disaster, can be due to chance, but the peace within us can never be governed by chance.

Smiling is very important. If we are not able to smile, then the world will not have peace. It is not by going out for a demonstration against nuclear missiles that we can bring about peace. It is with our capacity of smiling, breathing, and being peace that we can make peace.

It is neither wealth nor splendor; but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness.

I really love peace and quiet.

Sometimes the most important thing in a whole day is the rest we take between two deep breaths.