Vanity is a vital aid to nature: completely and absolutely necessary to life. It is one of nature's ways to bind you… — Elizabeth Smart Copy Share Image
Usually, my husband is a pretty good rock, a pretty good sounding board... He definitely brings a center of gravity into my… — Elizabeth Smart Copy Share Image
The long days seduce all thought away, and we lie like the lizards in the sun, postponing our lives indefinitely. — Elizabeth Smart Copy Share Image
This life is a test, and we're put down here to make choices. The truth is, the bad choices of other people… — Elizabeth Smart Copy Share Image
“I am alive, but I’m not living, I remember thinking as I walked. I am the living dead. I am nothing but… — Elizabeth Smart Copy Share Image
Work is the only only only remedy for life: for happiness, for interest, for stability, for security. Hard, willed work. Oh work! — Elizabeth Smart Copy Share Image
What you forget is that plants themselves want to live as much as you want them to. More. — Elizabeth Smart Copy Share Image
We can choose to allow our experiences to hold us back, and to not allow us to become great or achieve greatness… — Elizabeth Smart Copy Share Image
If I get to the end of my life, if I die, and I find out religion is one big lie, I… — Elizabeth Smart Copy Share Image
Life is a journey for us all. We all face trials. We all have ups and downs. All of us are human.… — Elizabeth Smart Copy Share Image
“What is going to happen? Nothing. For everything has happened. All time is now, and time can do no better. Nothing can… — Elizabeth Smart Copy Share Image
“You be happy, Elizabeth. Just be happy. If you go and feel sorry for yourself, or if you dwell on what has… — Elizabeth Smart Copy Share Image
“No, my advocates, my angels with sadist eyes, this is the beginning of my life, or the end. So I lean affirmation… — Elizabeth Smart Copy Share Image
“Elizabeth, what this man has done is terrible. There aren't any words that are strong enough to describe how wicked and evil… — Elizabeth Smart Copy Share Image
The #MeToo campaign is monumental. It is giving a voice to so many too scared to speak out before. — Elizabeth Smart Copy Share
“. . when we have passed our great test, we are then given opportunities to reach out to other people. We are able to… — Elizabeth Smart Copy Share
All time is now, and time can do no better. Nothing can ever be more now than now, and before this nothing was. — Elizabeth Smart Copy Share
If I had my wilderness, nature could be my lover. What can I do in the paved streets for my thirsty roots? I waste… — Elizabeth Smart Copy Share
“Well get a furious weapon. Look how the springs are whirling round and you with your hat askew, without time to catch your breath… — Elizabeth Smart Copy Share
“... I have ceased to care about anything. I have no personal ambition, or even the desire that people call me nice, or pretty,… — Elizabeth Smart Copy Share
I think forgiveness is probably one of the greatest forms of self-love there is because you don't do forgiveness for anybody else. My captors… — Elizabeth Smart Copy Share
“I also believe in faith. Faith in a loving and kind heavenly Father who will always care about me. Faith that my worth will… — Elizabeth Smart Copy Share
“I didn't understand most of what he was saying. I should have had to understand what he was saying. I was still so young.… — Elizabeth Smart Copy Share
It is wrong for any person to ever judge someone in any situation saying, 'Well, why didn't you try to run? Why didn't you… — Elizabeth Smart Copy Share
“When we are faced with a challenge, it is very easy to be mad or upset. But when we have passed our great test,… — Elizabeth Smart Copy Share
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… — Elizabeth Smart Copy Share
But the human spirit is resilient. God made us so. He gave us the ability to forgive. To leave our past behind. To look… — Elizabeth Smart Copy Share
“I am alive, but I’m not living, I remember thinking as I walked. I am the living dead. I am nothing but a shell.” — Elizabeth Smart Copy Share
