"Recognize joy when it arrives in the plain……" — Judith Viorst

"Recognize joy when it arrives in the plain brown wrappings of everyday life."

— Judith Viorst

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42 Quotes by Judith Viorst

Judith Viorst has 42 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

It has been a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day. My mom says some days are like that.
Growing up means letting go of the dearest megalomaniacal dreams of our childhood. Growing up means knowing they can't be…
Friends broaden our horizons. They serve as new models with whom we can identify. They allow us to be ourselves-and…
The need to become a separate self is as urgent as the yearning to merge forever. And as long as…
For some it takes a lifetime to find true love, But for the lucky ones a lifetime is merely enough…
Love is when you realize that he's as sexy as Woody Allen, as smart as Jimmy Connors, as funny as…
We will have to give up the hope that, if we try hard, we somehow will always do right by…
I don't intend to stop showing a little cleavage. Nor do I intend to stop flashing a little thigh.
Passionate investment leaves us vulnerable to loss. And sometimes, no matter how clever we are, we must lose.
Absence makes the heart grow frozen, not fonder.
If ambitious fantasies make people blush, and sexual fantasies make people blush and feel guilty, fantasies of violence and death…
There is a time in our life when we need to strut our stuff and groove on grandiosity, when we…

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This veridic nose arrives everywhere a quarter of an hour before its master. Ten shoemakers, good round fat ones too,… — Cyrano de Bergerac
Autumn arrives in early morning, but spring at the close of a winter day. — Elizabeth Bowen
Poets and songwriters speak highly of spring as one of the great joys of life in the temperate zone, but… — Barbara Holland
By the streets of 'by and by,' one arrives at the house of 'never'. — Miguel de Cervantes
Those who came to the United States didn't realize they were white until they got here. They were told they… — Cornel West
There are strange moments in life when the mind rests without any kind of worries. When our mind is quiet,… — Samael Aun Weor
...as soon as we examine suicide from the standpoint of religion we immediately see it in its true light. We… — Immanuel Kant
How interesting it would be to write the story of the experiences in this life of a man who killed… — Leo Tolstoy
Whatever is formed for long duration arrives slowly to its maturity. — Samuel Johnson
Age seldom arrives smoothly or quickly. It's more often a succession of jerks. — Jean Rhys
Some people do wait their whole lives for something, and it's only when that thing arrives that they find out… — Jane Smiley
Articulate words are a harsh clamor and dissonance. When man arrives at his highest perfection, he will again be dumb. — Nathaniel Hawthorne

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