100 Quotes by Elizabeth Smart

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. Or we can allow our experiences to push us forward, to make us grateful for every day we have and to be all the more thankful for those who are around us.

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.

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.

I am overrun, infested with a menagerie of desires.

I am over-run, jungled in my bed, I am infested with a menagerie of desires: my heart is eaten by a dove, a cat scrambles in the cave of my sex, hounds in my bed obey a whipmaster who cries nothing but havoc as the hours test my endurance with an accumulation of tortures. Who, if I cried, would hear me among the angelic orders?

All of the children out there deserve to come home to their parents the way, the way Elizabeth has come back to us, ... And I just hope and pray that Congress will quickly pass the Amber alert so those children will have a better chance.

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.