Close friends contribute to our personal growth. They also contribute to our personal pleasure, making the music sound sweeter, the wine taste richer…

- Judith Viorst

READ! Books can be as delicious as hot-fudge sundaes, as funny as clowns, as exciting as a baseball game that's tied in the 9th inning, and as beauti…

- Judith Viorst

Growing up means letting go of the dearest megalomaniacal dreams of our childhood. Growing up means knowing they can't be fulfilled. Growing up means…

- Judith Viorst

One advantage of marriage is that, when you fall out of love with him or he falls out of love with you, it keeps you together until you fall in again.

- Judith Viorst

Lust is what keeps you wanting to do it even when you have no desire to be with each other. Love is what makes you want to be with each other even wh…

- Judith Viorst

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

- Judith Viorst

Strength is the capacity to break a chocolate bar into four pieces with your bare hands - and then eat just one of the pieces.

- Judith Viorst

Losing is the price we pay for living. It is also the source of much of our growth and gain.

- Judith Viorst

the lives we lead are determined, for better and worse, by our loss experiences.

- Judith Viorst