It says that when you cross the valley of tears, and you arrive to the oasis, the reward of God is not success, it’s not money, it’s not admiration or fame, it’s not power. His reward is rest. So that’s what I want for me now.

~ Ingrid Betancourt
Even Silence Has An End
NPR’s Ingrid Betancourt’s Six Years In The Jungle (Sept. 2010)