A Quote by Elizabeth Smart

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

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Elizabeth Smart
American - Activist
Born: November 3, 1987

We are members of one another. What binds us together is far greater than what separates us... because of our interconnectivity, what happens to the least of us happens to all of us. Whatever you do for the least of us, you do for all of us.

Bennet Omalu

In the space between stimulus (what happens) and how we respond, lies our freedom to choose. Ultimately, this power to choose is what defines us as human beings. We may have limited choices but we can always choose. We can choose our thoughts, emotions, moods, our words, our actions; we can choose our values and live by principles. It is the choice of acting or being acted upon.

Stephen Covey

the spiritual meaning of every situation [is] not what happens to us, but what we do with what happens to us and who we decide to become because of what happens to us. The only real failure is the failure to grow from what we go through.

Marianne Williamson

Life happens to all of us. It's not what happens to us, but how we respond to what happens to us that really decides if we're going to be victims or if we're going to get and have everything we've ever dreamed of.

Eric Thomas

What defines us as Christians is not most profoundly that we have come to know him but that he took note of us and made us his own.

John Piper

Equality, absolutely, that's what defines us. It's what makes us great. If it doesn't sit well with your religion, let your God sort it out in the end, but that's us. We're equal

Brad Pitt

When we deny what comes through us, it defines us. When we honestly face what comes through us, then who we are grows.

Mark Nepo

In short, liturgies make us certain kinds of people, and what defines us is what we love.

James K. A. Smith

Every reading is partial, but that does not absolve us from the quest for meaning, which defines us as a species.

Camille Paglia

The very shape of our dreams defines us. We learn about the world and try out our thoughts and visions in them. Our dreams goad us and drive us and summon and sustain us and when we are old they comfort us. Magic is a kind of dream, and love is a dream, and hope is a dream. Without our dreams, there is no sweetness, no purpose to life.

Isobelle Carmody

The challenges and how we deal with them: that's what defines us. Problems don't define us; it's our ability to overcome and transform.

Jared Leto

Dreams are what guide us, art is what defines us, math is what makes it all possible, and love is what lights our way.

Mike Norton

Art is what defines us, what makes us human.

Jan Vogler

It took me a long time to realize this: We get to choose what defines us.

Sarah Addison Allen

Health, happiness and success depend upon the fighting spirit of each person. The big thing is not what happens to us in life, but what we do about what happens to us.