"The need to become a separate self is……" — Judith Viorst
"The need to become a separate self is as urgent as the yearning to merge forever. And as long as we, not our mother, initiate parting, and as long as our mother remains reliably there, it seems possible to risk, and even to revel in, standing alone."
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Judith Viorst
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42 Quotes by Judith Viorst
Judith Viorst has 42 quotes on this site.
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It has been a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day. My mom says some days are like that.
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Growing up means letting go of the dearest megalomaniacal dreams of our childhood. Growing up means knowing they can't be…
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Friends broaden our horizons. They serve as new models with whom we can identify. They allow us to be ourselves-and…
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For some it takes a lifetime to find true love, But for the lucky ones a lifetime is merely enough…
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Recognize joy when it arrives in the plain brown wrappings of everyday life.
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Love is when you realize that he's as sexy as Woody Allen, as smart as Jimmy Connors, as funny as…
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We will have to give up the hope that, if we try hard, we somehow will always do right by…
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I don't intend to stop showing a little cleavage. Nor do I intend to stop flashing a little thigh.
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Passionate investment leaves us vulnerable to loss. And sometimes, no matter how clever we are, we must lose.
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Absence makes the heart grow frozen, not fonder.
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If ambitious fantasies make people blush, and sexual fantasies make people blush and feel guilty, fantasies of violence and death…
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There is a time in our life when we need to strut our stuff and groove on grandiosity, when we…
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I try to push ideas away, and the ones that will not leave me alone are the ones that ultimately…
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There's love, and certainly children you care about more than yourself. But nevertheless, we're alone in our heads.
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I really enjoy being single again. I spent a lot of time in a relationship and the nearer we came…
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India is the meeting place of the religions and among these Hinduism alone is by itself a vast and complex…
— Sri Aurobindo
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Woman is fine for her own satisfaction alone. No man will admire her the more, no woman will like her…
— Jane Austen
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I hate cameras. They interfere, they're always in the way. I wish: if I could work with my eyes alone.
— Richard Avedon
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Mental prayer in my opinion is nothing else than an intimate sharing between friends; it means taking time frequently to…
— Teresa of Avila
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While the soul is in mortal sin, nothing can profit it; none of its good works merit an eternal reward,…
— Teresa of Avila
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The further we distance ourselves from the spell of the present, explored by our senses, the harder it will be…
— Diane Ackerman
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The average Nigerian person has come to reconcile himself with the fact that his or her social progress remain essentially…
— Ibrahim Babangida
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In today's interdependent world, a threat to one becomes a menace to all. And no state can defeat these challenges…
— Michelle Bachelet
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We neither laugh alone, nor weep alone, why then should we pray alone?
— Anna Letitia Barbauld
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