Where There's Hope Quotes

“...your attitude is not your mood.”
― Elizabeth Smart, Where There's Hope: Healing, Moving Forward, and Never Giving Up

“two types of survivors: the ones who did not die, and the ones who live. There will be those who will always remember and be the victim, and ones who just won’t. You have to go on, you have to learn, and you have to heal. Resentment and holding on to the past is so toxic.”
― Elizabeth Smart, Where There's Hope: Healing, Moving Forward, and Never Giving Up

“He begins by repeating a wise saying that’s been attributed in various forms to everyone from Confucius to Oprah: Forgiveness is giving up hope of a better past.”
― Elizabeth Smart, Where There's Hope: Healing, Moving Forward, and Never Giving Up

“Our bodies are to be celebrated, despite our individual limitations.”
― Elizabeth Smart, Where There's Hope: Healing, Moving Forward, and Never Giving Up

“If my mission and my religion have taught me anything, its that faith isn’t just what you believe in; its how you live, how you love, and how you move forward.
My faith- and this religion thats been the vehicle for my faith- has played a huge role in my life. Its always been there for me when I needed something to hold on to. At the end of the day, if all religions prove to be wrong, I won’t regret believing, because it has made me a better person and has helped me live my life in such a way that I will never need to be ashamed of any part of it. A set of beliefs that help provide hope, healing, and a meaningful way of life. It really is something quite beautiful and extraordinary.”
― Elizabeth Smart, Where There's Hope: Healing, Moving Forward, and Never Giving Up

“Each one of us strives to find peace and happiness in this life, and we hope for a better future in the next. For me, my faith and my religion provide me with that peace and happiness. Its not always easy, and I have been asked how I would feel if I found out it wasn’t true.
My answer is simple: Its my truth. It makes me a better person. If at the end of my life I die and I find out it isn’t true, I will have lived a life being the best person that I can be-hopefully someone who is kind, compassionate, and patient. I will never regret my dedication to these ideals.”
― Elizabeth Smart, Where There's Hope: Healing, Moving Forward, and Never Giving Up

“Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead. —LOUISA MAY ALCOTT”
― Elizabeth Smart, Where There's Hope: Healing, Moving Forward, and Never Giving Up

“Forgiveness is very important in healing,” he goes on, “because forgiveness is not whitewashing, or pretending something didn’t happen, or floating on the Good Ship Lollipop as if everything is great. In reality, everything isn’t great. We have murder, rape, terrorism, bigotry, suffering. I think forgiveness is the ability to look at life the way it is, to accept that it’s not perfect, and to go on. It admits the problem, and it moves forward.”
― Elizabeth Smart, Where There's Hope: Healing, Moving Forward, and Never Giving Up

“There is so much to be said about being strong, finding your inner strength, but our time is limited, so I cut to the chase. “How do we protect and grow that inner strength?” “By not lying to yourself. Ever,” she says with certainty. “By not being delusional. By always saying the truth. By practicing the truth.”
― Elizabeth Smart, Where There's Hope: Healing, Moving Forward, and Never Giving Up

“I think of a line from my all-time favorite book, Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë. There is a part in the book when Mr. Rochester is speaking to Jane very passionately, and he says, “Whatever I do with its cage, I cannot get at it—the savage, beautiful creature! If I tear, if I rend the slight prison, my outrage will only let the captive loose. Conqueror I might be of the house; but the inmate would escape to heaven before I could call myself possessor of its clay dwelling-place. And it is you … I want: not alone your brittle frame.”
― Elizabeth Smart, Where There's Hope: Healing, Moving Forward, and Never Giving Up

“To be asked to relive this horribly painful part of our lives and then be questioned on whether we could have or should have done more than we did to help ourselves is, frankly put, insulting. The truth of the matter is, the person being questioned survived. So that in and of itself is a big deal.”
― Elizabeth Smart, Where There's Hope: Healing, Moving Forward, and Never Giving Up

“Forgiveness is a choice that presents itself to us in the form of three critical questions:
1) Can I give up the hope of a better past?
2) What is the day, the hour, the now - when I fulfill the promise to myself to let it go?
3) How will I integrate what's happened into who I choose to become in the future?
(Summarized)”
― Elizabeth Smart, Where There's Hope: Healing, Moving Forward, and Never Giving Up