It's not what happens to us that defines us. It's what we choose to do with what happens to us that defines… — Elizabeth Smart Copy Share Image
My children have brought so much happiness and joy. To me, they're the very definition of love. — Elizabeth Smart Copy Share Image
My parents have raised me to believe in a kind and a loving God and someone who cares about me, who is… — Elizabeth Smart Copy Share Image
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… — Elizabeth Smart Copy Share Image
“It is enough, the now, and though it comes without anything, it gives me everything. With it I can repopulate the world.… — Elizabeth Smart Copy Share Image
“I also believe in faith. Faith in a loving and kind heavenly Father who will always care about me. Faith that my… — Elizabeth Smart Copy Share Image
“My love, why did you leave me on Lexington Avenue in the Ford that had no brakes? It stalled in the traffic… — Elizabeth Smart Copy Share Image
“Under the redwood tree my grave was laid, and I beguiled my true love to lie down. The stream of our kiss… — Elizabeth Smart Copy Share Image
Always that tyrannical love reaches out. Soft words shrivel me like quicklime. She will not allow me to be cold, hungry. She… — 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 Image
“. . 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“... 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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
