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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.

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Elizabeth Smart
Age: 37
Born: 1987
Born: November 3
Activist
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Harpist
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Salt Lake City
Utah
Elizabeth Ann Gilmour
Elizabeth Ann Smart
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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 the door, they will know too much and crowd in to overcome me.
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Go to the ant, thou sluggard, learn to live, and by her busy ways, reform thy own.
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It's because I'm only interested in the big things that I'm not interested in politics.
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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.
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I am possessed by love and have no options.
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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.
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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.
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Work is the only only only remedy for life: for happiness, for interest, for stability, for security. Hard, willed work. Oh work!
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Sleep tries to seduce me by promising a more reasonable tomorrow.
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What you forget is that plants themselves want to live as much as you want them to. More.
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What is poetry? Do not enquire. The secret dies by prying. How does the heart beat? I fainted when I saw it on the screen, opening and closing like a flower ... Poetry is like this, it is life moving, terrible, vivid. Look the other way when you write, or you might faint.
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I feel helpless, hopeless, too low to call out, too weak to think. Impotent tears dribble down.
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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 also the masters of our fate. We are the ones who decide how we are going to react to life.
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The long days seduce all thought away, and we lie like the lizards in the sun, postponing our lives indefinitely.
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