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Sleep tries to seduce me by promising a more reasonable tomorrow.
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Music is the unspoken language that can convey feelings more accurately than talking ever could.
Elizabeth Smart
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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.
Elizabeth Smart -
But those with shattered souls find it very difficult to speak.
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 -
You have to be slightly blind to believe in any cause.
Elizabeth Smart -
Once upon a time there was a woman who was just like all women. And she married a man who was just like all men. And they had some children who were just like all children. And it rained all day. The woman had to skewer the hole in the kitchen sink, when it was blocked up. The man went to the pub every Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. The other nights he mended his broken bicycle, did the pool coupons, and longed for money and power. The woman read love stories and longed for things to be different. The children fought and yelled and played and had scabs on their knees. In the end they all died.
Elizabeth Smart -
O I know they make war because they want peace; they hate so that they may live; and they destroy the present to make the world safe for the future. When have they not done and said they did it for that?
Elizabeth Smart
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I am overrun, infested with a menagerie of desires.
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I am over-run, jungled in my bed, I am infested with a menagerie of desires: my heart is eaten by a dove, a cat scrambles in the cave of my sex, hounds in my bed obey a whipmaster who cries nothing but havoc as the hours test my endurance with an accumulation of tortures. Who, if I cried, would hear me among the angelic orders?
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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.
Elizabeth Smart