"We begin life with loss. We are cast from the womb without an apartment, a charge plate, a job or a car. We are sucking, sobbing, clinging, helpless babies."

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Source : Judith Viorst (2010). “Necessary Losses: The Loves Illusions Dependencies and Impossible Ex”, p.21, Simon and Schuster

Judith Viorst

#Baby Quotes #Jobs Quotes #Loss Quotes

“Build and they will comeâ€™ is not a strategy, itâ€™s a prayer.”
“A skyscraper is at the same time a triumph of the machine and a tremendous emotional experience, almost breath-taking. Not merely its height but its mass and proportions are the result of an emotion, as well as of calculation.”
“Religions do not teach doubt.”

Source : Gregory Benford (2010). “Timescape”, p.322, Spectra
“Every corporeal substance, so far forth as it is corporeal, has a natural fitness for resting in every place where it may be situated by itself beyond the sphere of influence of a body cognate with it.”
“The minute anyone's getting anxious I say, You must eat and you must sleep. They're the two vital elements for a healthy life.”
“Whence, if ever, shall come the actualityOf a voice speaking the mind's knowing,The sunlight bright on the green windowshade,And the self articulate, affectionate, and flowing,Ease, warmth, light, the utter showing,When in the white bed all things are made.”

Source : Delmore Schwartz (1967). “Selected Poems (1938-1958): Summer Knowledge”, p.52, New Directions Publishing
“You should only be doing the thing that makes you happy. Not just surface happy.”

Source : Interview with Reina Shay Broussard, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.
“I don't consider myself attractive. I'm an academic, and in academia, people will write you off if you look younger.”

Source : Source: www.cosmopolitan.com

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