Elizabeth Smart Quotes

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• O I know they make war because they want peace; they hate so that they may live; and they destroy the present to make the…
• If I had my wilderness, nature could be my lover. What can I do in the paved streets for my thirsty roots? I waste time.…
• 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…
• Work is the only only only remedy for life: for happiness, for interest, for stability, for security. Hard, willed work. Oh work!
• Life is a journey for us all. We all face trials. We all have ups and downs. All of us are human. But we are…
• The long days seduce all thought away, and we lie like the lizards in the sun, postponing our lives indefinitely.
• Music is the unspoken language that can convey feelings more accurately than talking ever could.
• Knowing it can always get worse, I try to be grateful for whatever good I have.
• 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…
• 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 can choose to allow our experiences to hold us back, and to not allow us to become great or achieve greatness in this life.…
• Sleep tries to seduce me by promising a more reasonable tomorrow.
• 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.
• I review all I know, but can synthesize no meaning. When I doze, the Fact, the certain accomplished calamity, wakes me roughly like a brutal…
• You will always have value and nothing can change that.
• What you forget is that plants themselves want to live as much as you want them to. More.
• Go to the ant, thou sluggard, learn to live, and by her busy ways, reform thy own.
• 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.
• I am overrun, infested with a menagerie of desires.
• 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…

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