Words matter. These are the best Elizabeth Smart Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I’m grateful for rain because, when I was kidnapped, that meant that I had something to drink.
Usually, my husband is a pretty good rock, a pretty good sounding board… He definitely brings a center of gravity into my life.
I will never regret being there for my children, watching them, making sure they’ll be okay. But I might regret not being there for them.
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.
My parents have raised me to believe in a kind and a loving God and someone who cares about me, who is always there for me, and who would never wish harm or illness or any kind of tragedy upon me.
That happened to me, but I’m so much more than that girl that was kidnapped.
That was very comforting to me to hold onto that belief, that I did have a heavenly Father who was watching over me.
I think forgiveness is probably one of the greatest forms of self-love there is because you don’t do forgiveness for anybody else. My captors will never care if I forgive them… It will not make a day of difference to them at all, but it will make a huge difference to me.
My children have brought so much happiness and joy. To me, they’re the very definition of love.
I see myself as a survivor, and I’m not ashamed to say I’m a survivor. To me, survivor implies strength, implies that I have been through something and I made it out the other side.
Even when I get on airplanes, very often, as I walk down the aisle, I notice a lot of people staring or whispering. I recognize the fact that yes, to a lot of people, I will always be that 14-year-old girl who was kidnapped and who was held captive.
I’ve got great dogs. I’ve got a great family. I mean, I couldn’t be happier.
Religion has been a huge part of my life.
I was broken beyond repair.
