Elizabeth Smart Quotes

Sleep tries to seduce me by promising a more reasonable tomorrow.

Knowing it can always get worse, I try to be grateful for whatever good I have.

I have learned to smoke because I need something to hold onto.

All time is now, and time can do no better. Nothing can ever be more now than now, and before this nothing was.

There was a point that I stopped crying. It's not just because I didn't feel pain anymore, not because I didn't feel sorrow. It was just to keep going. I mean, it just was to survive, to live.

The long days seduce all thought away, and we lie like the lizards in the sun, postponing our lives indefinitely.

Vanity is a vital aid to nature: completely and absolutely necessary to life. It is one of nature's ways to bind you to the earth.

Work is the only only only remedy for life: for happiness, for interest, for stability, for security. Hard, willed work. Oh work!

I am overrun, infested with a menagerie of desires.

Always that tyrannical love reaches out. Soft words shrivel me like quicklime. She will not allow me to be cold, hungry. She will insist that I take her own coat, her own food.

It's not what happens to us that defines us. It's what we choose to do with what happens to us that defines us.

Music is the unspoken language that can convey feelings more accurately than talking ever could.

I am possessed by love and have no options.

I must spin good ghosts out of my hope to oppose the hordes at my window. If those who look in see me condescend to barricade the door, they will know too much and crowd in to overcome me.

But the human spirit is resilient. God made us so. He gave us the ability to forgive. To leave our past behind. To look forward instead of back.

I like to think that we’re not defined by what happens to us…because so many times they’re beyond our control. I like to think that we’re defined by our choices and our decisions.

You have to have short fingernails or they'd just break off, and you can't wear red polish - it looks like your fingers are bleeding.

It's because I'm only interested in the big things that I'm not interested in politics.

You have to be slightly blind to believe in any cause.

Go to the ant, thou sluggard, learn to live, and by her busy ways, reform thy own.

What you forget is that plants themselves want to live as much as you want them to. More.

April 19 And now it is spring. Birds are singing. Wistful notes and jubilant. And bare streets and no need for coats, and skipping ropes and bicycles and a thin new moon.

How can I be kind? How can I find bird-relief in the nest-building of day-to-day? Necessity supplies no velvet wing with which to escape. I am indeed and mortally pierced with the seeds of love.

I feel helpless, hopeless, too low to call out, too weak to think. Impotent tears dribble down.

But those with shattered souls find it very difficult to speak.

You will always have value and nothing can change that.

Go to the ant thou sluggard learn to live and by her busy ways reform thy own.

When faced with pain and evil, we have to make a choice.We can choose to be taken by the evil.Or we can try to embrace the good.

Moon, moon, rise in the sky to be a reminder of comfort and the hour when I was brave.