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.
Elizabeth SmartWhat you forget is that plants themselves want to live as much as you want them to. More.
Elizabeth SmartYesterday from my office window I saw a crippled girl negotiating her way across the street, her shoulders squarely braced. At each jerky movement her hair flew back like an annunciatory angel, and I saw she was the only dancer on the street.
Elizabeth SmartHow can I be kind? How can I find bird-relief in the nest-building of day-to-day? Necessity supplies no velvet wing with which to escape. I am indeed and mortally pierced with the seeds of love.
Elizabeth Smart