Privacy is so sacred, and any time a victim is returned, a survivor is found and rescued, privacy is one of the greatest gifts we can give them because if they decide to share, that's up to them, and they will come forward.
Elizabeth SmartRead
How 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.
Interpretation
What this quote means
The quote reflects on the struggles of finding kindness and love amidst the challenges of daily life.
In this quote, Elizabeth Smart expresses the difficulty of maintaining kindness and tenderness in the face of daily struggles. The metaphor of 'bird-relief' signifies seeking solace and joy in mundane tasks, while acknowledging that necessity often constrains our ability to escape or to express love freely. Ultimately, it highlights the deep emotional impact of love and its interplay with life's burdens.
Themes
KindnessLoveDaily LifeStruggleSolace
In practice
Example use cases
In a motivational speech about overcoming hardships, you could use this quote to illustrate the power of kindness.
More from Elizabeth Smart
All quotes →I'm grateful for rain because, when I was kidnapped, that meant that I had something to drink.
Elizabeth SmartRead
Yesterday 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 SmartRead
That happened to me, but I'm so much more than that girl that was kidnapped.
Elizabeth SmartRead
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.
Elizabeth SmartRead
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.
Elizabeth SmartRead
Similar quotes
Where there is no love, pour love in, and you will draw love out.
John Of The CrossRead
You don't need to justify your love, you don't need to explain your love, you just need to practice your love. Practice creates the master.
Miguel Angel RuizRead
Locked together in hatred. But I can't hate you Louis. Louis my love, I was mortal till you gave me your immortal kiss. You became my mother, and my father, and so I'm yours forever. But now it's time to end it, Louis. Now it's time to leave him.
Anne RiceRead
Love is the pursuit of the whole.
PlatoRead
Besides, our nearness to the King in love_x000D_ _x000D_ Is near the hate of those love not the King.
William ShakespeareRead
Coherence and closure are deep human desires that are presently unfashionable. But they are always both frightening and enchantingly desirable. "Falling in love," characteristically, combs the appearances of the word, and of the particular lover's history, out of a random tangle and into a coherent plot.
A. S. ByattRead