Judith Viorst Quotes

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

Judith Viorst

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• Surreal can be exciting and good, and it can be like living inside an alien landscape, and it can be completely interesting, or you can be alienated from your own life - inside your own life, it doesn't feel familiar any more.

  

  Feist
  • Life
  • Good
  • Interesting

• I have one son. Of everything I've done in my life, nothing matches the feeling of having life growing inside you.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Life
  • Done
  • Feeling

• Rap culture is interesting and different and has purpose but it has a non-romantic view of life and of social feelings. There may be a void in that.

  

  Hal David
  • Life
  • Different
  • May

• I told as much of my life as I could to encourage people: to encourage others to get to where they should be, where they want to be.

  

  Folorunsho Alakija
  • People
  • Life
  • My Life

• I try to deal with the complexities of power and social life, but as far as the visual presentation goes I purposely avoid a high degree of difficulty.

  

  Barbara Kruger
  • Life
  • Power
  • High

• When meeting difficult situations, one should dash forward bravely and with joy.

  

  Yamamoto Tsunetomo
  • Joy
  • Forward
  • Meeting

• I think everyone should live in New York City if they ever get the chance at least once in their life. It's such a great place to live; there's a different energy about living in the city.

  

  Odette Annable
  • Life
  • Great
  • Different

• It's quite difficult for me to imagine my life without chess.

  Garry Kasparov
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Chess

• I have never struggled for anything in my life because I never thought I will be an actress. Film just walked up to my house with 'Abodh.'

  

  Madhuri Dixit
  • Life
  • Up
  • House

• Certainly the life of a dancer is very difficult. The training is very hard and relentlessly grueling.

  

  Bebe Neuwirth
  • Life
  • Training
  • Difficult

• The liberal feminist movement never imagined that women would take seriously the encouragement to become our own heroes and claim life for ourselves, on our terms, no matter who we are. Pro-choice and pro-life, Christian and not, poor and rich, black, white, gay and straight. It is a dream we all hold dear, and it's called the Tea Party.

  

  Tammy Bruce
  • Life
  • Women
  • Dream

• In life, you have people that love to party. That's me. People that love God. That's me. People that love sex. That's me. People that love people. That's me. And people that make mistakes. That's me also.

  

  R. Kelly
  • People
  • Life
  • God

• I needed a lot of the good things that church provided. But as I grew older, it became increasingly hard for me to rationalize the importance of church in my life with the beliefs that it required that were at odds with modern science.

  

  J. D. Vance
  • Life
  • Good
  • Science

• The feeling of your baby taking nourishment from your body for the first time is amazing, and it remains the most touching moment of my life.

  

  Laura Schlessinger
  • Life
  • Time
  • Feeling

• I hated Kerner, and one day I met him and we became friends. He was young and gloriously melancholy because his spirits were so high and life had so much in store for him. Yes, he was almost riotously sad. That was his youth. When a man begins to be hilarious in a sorrowful way you can bet a million that he is dyeing his hair.

  

  O. Henry
  • Life
  • Friends
  • High

• The more difficult a man's life had been before the camp, the more furiously he lied. This lie had no practical purpose; it served simply to glorify freedom. How could a man be unhappy outside the camp?

  

  Vasily Grossman
  • Life
  • Freedom
  • Purpose

• Art is not life, but in a sense something contrary to life, since life is transient and changing, while art is permanent.

  

  Daniel Bell
  • Life
  • Art

• To rejoice in life, to find the world beautiful and delightful to live in, was a mark of the Greek spirit, which distinguished it from all that had gone before. It is a vital distinction.

  

  Edith Hamilton
  • Life
  • World
  • Live

• Tabloids invoke freedom of speech, but they're not interested in that, they're just interested in who's shagging whom, who's got drunk. And if you take that pretend, faux moral standpoint, you end up with people in public life being completely boring. Like they've had their genitals removed.

  

  Jarvis Cocker Pulp
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• Everyone is always going through tough things, the irony in it is that everyone thinks what they're going through is just as hard as what you are. Life isn't about surviving this, it's about understanding this.

  

  Nicholas Sparks
  • Life
  • Understanding
  • Tough

• I used to go on chat rooms on AOL, back when those things existed, and argue with believers in evolution and argued with them that it was against God's law to believe in evolution. It was something I believed really personally.

  

  J. D. Vance
  • God
  • Believe
  • Law

• You never really know a man until you have divorced him.

  

  Zsa Zsa Gabor
  • Man
  • You
  • Know

• It is assumed by many reformers that the principal and major cause of unhappiness is economic insecurity, but this theory forgets that there are economic problems only because men have not solved the problems of their own souls. Economic disorder is a symptom of spiritual disorder.

  

  Fulton J. Sheen
  • Men
  • Spiritual
  • Insecurity

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

  

  Judith Viorst
  • Life
  • Joy
  • Recognize