Seth Adam Smith Quotes

Our lives are a journey. As we move forward, we will not only figuratively experience the geography of life: the exhilaration of high mountains, the tranquility of calm meadows, the isolation of treacherous canyons, but we will also experience the seasons of life: the hope of spring, the abundance of summer, the harvest of autumn, and yes, the darkness and depression of winter.

I am Mother Nature. All of creation bows before me. When people leave their cities and learn of me - walk in my woods, bathe in my rivers, eat of my harvest - they will find healing to their souls. But stray from me and return to the supposed wisdom of men, and they will find themselves in chains once more.

Each of us is like seed, planted by the Good Gardener so we might grow into something majestic.

We always have a choice. Only you can decide what you become.

It is only through seeking that we find what we are looking for.

A bruised apple is not all bad. It still has tremendous potential.

If you're feeling discouraged and defeated - don't quit. Play on, hope on, and move forward. The music you play - even in the midst of incredible darkness - can and will turn the tide of your own battles.

That woman's been riding the same broomstick for almost a hundred years.

Paradoxically, the more you truly love that person, the more love you receive.

Faith is the deepest and truest form of magic.

To love the creations of the Earth is to worship the Being who created them.

Everything you see is merely a symbol for things you do not see.

I want you to know that marriage isn't for you. No true relationship of love is for you. Love is about the person you love.

In the quiet of the graveyard, the couple knelt together in soul-stretching silence - wishing, waiting, hoping, praying.

Abundance in life is achieved only when we tear down walls and fill our lives with light.

There is nothing more real than light.

But in the midst of our greatest pains we can find comfort and encouragement in the fact that others with similar struggles have successfully gone before us.

Those who cling to the shadows will always hate and despise the light.

The only way to fight the darkness around us is to light a fire within us.

Have faith in the light you carry.

The Good Gardener planted each of us here for a reason.

All churches are an echo of this - the Cathedral of Nature.

Our joy in life is inexorably determined by the degree to which we love.

Honesty is the only way to fight the inner demons.

We can achieve the fullest measure of life by living it for others.

No key, no tool, no resource is more liberating than love.

I refuse to believe that the only reason we are here is to pay taxes and die.

Men and women are what they make of themselves.

This is the miracle of all miracles - when life sacrifices itself to become something greater. When it awakens to its potential and rises in power. That is true magic.

For each of us, there comes a time when we must awaken and become what we were born to become.

Abandon the idea that you will forever be the victim of the things that have happened to you. Choose to be a victor.

I have seen the light in the wilderness and I must follow it.

Have you spent so much time in the darkness that you cannot understand the light?

Like small seeds, small deeds can make a big difference.

Where does your soul walk? Does it walk in the sunlit woods or hide in the shadowy forest?

In lifting another person, we also lift ourselves.

Every life has immense value.

You are taking things far too literally. Everything you see is merely a symbol for things you do not see. Most of the people of this world are asleep in their minds.

When we're constantly thinking about ourselves, our world shrinks.

Don't give in to the darkness, for there is so much life ahead of you.

If you truly love someone, have the faith to 'let them go.' Encourage them to be the fullest measure of themselves, and you will be overwhelmed by the love that your spouse returns to you.

There are two forces at work in the world: the power of light and the power of darkness.

One day, you will stand at the summit of a figurative mountain and look back on your life's journey. And, to your utter amazement, you will see how your experiences with depression, dark and painful as they were, only added to the overall beauty of your life.

There's nothing more important in this world than caring for a child.

Your life - your very existence - is a light!

Perhaps we are not really sinners in the hands of an angry God, after all. Perhaps we are all more like seedlings in the hands of a wise gardener.

Mortal minds are always unsettled by eternal things; they want to catch the infinite and nail it down to something finite. Impossible!

Life is difficult and painful, but if you keep moving forward the final destination makes all of the pain worth it.

We simply can't abandon ship every time we encounter a storm in our marriage. Real love is about weathering the storms of life together.

One human life is worth more than all the treasures of the earth.

I believe each of us is a pilgrim in our own way; we are all lost souls, trying to find our way home.

Everything that is given to us in life is either a blessing or a curse.

This garden is your life. Of course, there are the occasional weeds - but more than anything, this garden is filled with so much life!

A garden is beautiful only when it is filled with people; they determine its beauty

Thus bound together, they sheltered the child from the cold, dark night, enveloping him in warmth.

This process of taking ownership of my life and circumstances has always been worth the fight. In a quote attributed to author Robert Louis Stevenson, he said: "In each of us, two natures are at war - the good and the evil. All our lives the fight goes on between them, and one of them must conquer. But in our own hands lies the power to choose - what we want most to be, we are.

You are worth infinitely more than you could possibly imagine.

Don't be afraid to be the person who loves the most

Fear is destructive and defeating, but faith is constructive and creative.

Only you can decide what you become.