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 …

- Elizabeth Smart

Work is the only only only remedy for life: for happiness, for interest, for stability, for security. Hard, willed work. Oh work!

- Elizabeth Smart

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.

- Elizabeth Smart

Sleep tries to seduce me by promising a more reasonable tomorrow.

- Elizabeth Smart

Music is the unspoken language that can convey feelings more accurately than talking ever could.

- Elizabeth Smart

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

I have learned to smoke because I need something to hold onto.

- Elizabeth Smart

Knowing it can always get worse, I try to be grateful for whatever good I have.

- 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 ex…

- Elizabeth Smart