Judith Viorst Quotes

Truth is a deep kindness that teaches us to be content in our everyday life and share with the people the same happiness.

I think it's important to find the little things in everyday life that make you happy.

Happiness is a simple everyday miracle, like water, and we are not aware of it.

It's really not about what you have. It's about how you're able to enjoy life in general.

Joy comes to us in moments--ordina ry moments. We risk missing out on joy when we get too busy chasing down the extraordinary.

We have to get back to the beauty of just being alive in this present moment.

Happiness is knowing and appreciating what you've got. I am very, very, very grateful for what, to me, is dead easy.

Everyone is trying to accomplish something big, not realizing that life is made up of little things.

I never lose sight of the fact that just being is fun.

If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it, as the old woman did her lost spectacles, safe on her own nose all the time.

Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.

I enjoyed my life when I had nothing... and kinda like the idea of just being happy with me.

It is so small a thing to have enjoyed the sun, to have lived light in the spring, to have loved, to have thought, to have done.

I'm living my future as long as you're living in the present and realize how beautiful life is.

If you are paying attention, then the day is going to be pretty joyful, and a lot of delight will fill it.

I like to stay happy, and I like to live life light and make the best of life.

There is more to life than increasing its speed.

In between goals is a thing called life, that has to be lived and enjoyed.

The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life.

I like living, breathing better than working... Each second, each breath is a work which is inscribed nowhere, which is neither visual nor cerebral. It's a kind of constant euphoria.

Enjoy the moment and appreciate what you have.

I guess I don't think there's any reason to feel guilty about having joy in your life, regardless of how bad things are in the world.

Contentment is the only real wealth.

With a warm drink, in a rocking chair and family and friends around, I am working on finding peace and joy in the moments we have been given. It doesn't have to all make sense. I don't have all the answers.

At some point in life the world's beauty becomes enough. You don't need to photograph, paint or even remember it. It is enough.