Recognize joy when it arrives in the plain brown wrappings of everyday life. — Judith Viorst Copy Share Image
the lives we lead are determined, for better and worse, by our loss experiences. — Judith Viorst Copy Share Image
Losing is the price we pay for living. It is also the source of much of our growth and gain. — Judith Viorst Copy Share Image
It's very hard when I've seen a couple of people very beloved in my life with terrible degenerative diseases. — Judith Viorst Copy Share Image
Sun lighting a child's hair. A friend's embrace. Slow dancing in a safe and quiet place. The pleasures of an ordinary life. — Judith Viorst Copy Share Image
We begin life with loss. We are cast from the womb without an apartment, a charge plate, a job or a car.… — Judith Viorst Copy Share Image
There is a time in our life when we need to strut our stuff and groove on grandiosity, when we need to… — Judith Viorst Copy Share Image
Not listening is probably the commonest unkindness of married life, and one that creates - more devastatingly than an eternity of forgotten… — Judith Viorst Copy Share Image
as we acquire new aches and new pains, our health care is, of necessity, being supplied by internists, cardiologists, dermatologists, podiatrists, urologists,… — Judith Viorst Copy Share Image
Somewhere slightly before or after the close of our second decade, we reach a momentous milestone--childhood's end. We have left asafe place… — Judith Viorst Copy Share Image
I always credited my mother with inspiring me to be a writer because she was such a passionate reader. She read poetry… — Judith Viorst Copy Share Image
Serious skeptics, true believers, and seekers of every stripe will want to read Mitch Horowitz's vibrant, probing, and richly researched account of… — Judith Viorst Copy Share Image
Our daily existence requires both closeness and distance, the wholeness of self, the wholeness of intimacy. — Judith Viorst Copy Share Image
Friends broaden our horizons. They serve as new models with whom we can identify. They allow us to be ourselves-and accept us… — Judith Viorst Copy Share Image
I actually sat down and started three Alexanders at the same time. Two of them went in the trash and got stomped on because… — Judith Viorst Copy Share Image
I don't intend to stop showing a little cleavage. Nor do I intend to stop flashing a little thigh. — Judith Viorst Copy Share Image
as we acquire new aches and new pains, our health care is, of necessity, being supplied by internists, cardiologists, dermatologists, podiatrists, urologists, periodontists, gynecologists… — Judith Viorst Copy Share Image
There is a time to separate from our mother. But unless we are ready to separate-unless we are ready to leave her and be… — Judith Viorst Copy Share Image
“I didn't really notice that he had a funny nose. And he certainly looked better all dressed up in fancy clothes. He's not nearly… — Judith Viorst Copy Share Image
I had lived with my mother in anger and love - I suppose most daughters do - but my children only knew her in… — Judith Viorst Copy Share Image
Love is when you realize that he's as sexy as Woody Allen, as smart as Jimmy Connors, as funny as Ralph Nader, as athletic… — Judith Viorst Copy Share Image
We will have to give up the hope that, if we try hard, we somehow will always do right by our children. The connection… — Judith Viorst Copy Share Image
Recognize joy when it arrives in the plain brown wrappings of everyday life. — Judith Viorst Copy Share Image
“Strength is the capacity to break a Hershey bar into four pieces with your bare hands - and then eat just one of the… — Judith Viorst Copy Share Image
The best I can do is, it's like a 'ding!' You're writing, and then something starts falling into place, and you hear or feel… — Judith Viorst Copy Share Image
Don't let anything sneak past you. Don't say, 'Well, oh, I'll take a picture and put it in my photograph album.' I notice it… — Judith Viorst Copy Share Image
