Elizabeth Smart
Elizabeth Smart
Elizabeth Ann Smart-Gilmouris an American activist and contributor for ABC News. She first gained national attention at the age of 14 when she was abducted from her home in Salt Lake City and rescued nine months later. Smart is also a musician who has played harp on national television in the United States...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionOther
Date of Birth3 November 1987
CitySalt Lake City, UT
CountryUnited States of America
spring moon bird
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 and bicycles and a thin new moon.
past forgiving looks
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 instead of back.
thinking decision choices
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’re defined by our choices and our decisions.
lying long lizards
The long days seduce all thought away, and we lie like the lizards in the sun, postponing our lives indefinitely.
needs i-have-learned smoke
I have learned to smoke because I need something to hold onto.
stability interest remedy
Work is the only only only remedy for life: for happiness, for interest, for stability, for security. Hard, willed work. Oh work!
time all-time can-do
All time is now, and time can do no better. Nothing can ever be more now than now, and before this nothing was.
coats cold hungry
Always that tyrannical love reaches out. Soft words shrivel me like quicklime. She will not allow me to be cold, hungry. She will insist that I take her own coat, her own food.
vanity earth way
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.
possessed
I am possessed by love and have no options.
grateful knowing trying
Knowing it can always get worse, I try to be grateful for whatever good I have.
grateful greatness achieve
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.
sleep trying tomorrow
Sleep tries to seduce me by promising a more reasonable tomorrow.
break-off red bleeding
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.