You end up as you deserve. In old age you must put up with the face, the friends, the health, and the children you have earned.
Judith ViorstSerious skeptics, true believers, and seekers of every stripe will want to read Mitch Horowitz's vibrant, probing, and richly researched account of the impact of the positive-thinking movement on every aspect of American life today. Filled with a cast of remarkable characters and many lively tales, One Simple Idea is a readable, responsible examination of the limits and possibilities of mind-power as a source of constructive transformation.
Judith ViorstLiving with golden fantasies of an endlessly nurtured infancy can be a neurotic refusal to grow up.
Judith ViorstSun lighting a child's hair. A friend's embrace. Slow dancing in a safe and quiet place. The pleasures of an ordinary life.
Judith ViorstStrength is the capacity to break a chocolate bar into four pieces with your bare hands - and then eat just one of the pieces.
Judith ViorstFriends broaden our horizons. They serve as new models with whom we can identify. They allow us to be ourselves-and accept us that way. They enhance our self-esteem because they think we're okay, because we matter to them. And because they matter to us-for various reasons, at various levels of intensity-they enrich the quality of our emotional life.
Judith Viorst