All Elizabeth Smart Quotes
- 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… Destroy
- 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.… Encourage
- 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… Bird
- Work is the only only only remedy for life: for happiness, for interest, for stability, for security. Hard, willed work. Oh work! Happiness
- 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… All
- The long days seduce all thought away, and we lie like the lizards in the sun, postponing our lives indefinitely. All
- Music is the unspoken language that can convey feelings more accurately than talking ever could. Accurately
- Knowing it can always get worse, I try to be grateful for whatever good I have. Always Get
- 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… Ability
- 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… Beyond
- 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.… Achieve
- Sleep tries to seduce me by promising a more reasonable tomorrow. Me
- 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. Choose
- 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… Accomplished
- You will always have value and nothing can change that. Change
- What you forget is that plants themselves want to live as much as you want them to. More. Birth
- Go to the ant, thou sluggard, learn to live, and by her busy ways, reform thy own. Ant
- 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. Absolutely
- I am overrun, infested with a menagerie of desires. Desire
- 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… April
- Once upon a time there was a woman who was just like all women. And she married a man who was just like all men.… All
- I have learned to smoke because I need something to hold onto. Hold
- 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
- I feel helpless, hopeless, too low to call out, too weak to think. Impotent tears dribble down. Call
- Yesterday from my office window I saw a crippled girl negotiating her way across the street, her shoulders squarely braced. At each jerky movement her… Across