Viorst Australia Quotes & Sayings

Abjure all accretions and turn off the lights. Put on some music - Leonard Cohen, say, perhaps his 'Various Positions' - and let your mind cool down. Soon you'll forget there's a word called 'stress.' — Pico Iyer

At Lackland Air Force Base, they make an effort to retrain military dogs that suffer from PTSD. It's a lengthy, long process. The treatment is much the same as it would be for people, but it's a difficult road back. — Robert Crais

One has ideas, does experiments, meets people, seeks advice, calls old friends, runs into unexpected remarks, meets new people with new ideas, and in the process finds a career of shifts and often serendipitous meanders that may be rewarding and rich, but is seldom marked by guideposts glimpsed very far in advance. — Charles H. Townes

Los Angeles is peopled by waiters and carpenters and drivers who are there to be actors. — Patrick Duffy

There is a sort of gratification in doing good which makes us rejoice in ourselves. — Michel De Montaigne

I hope the next time you get a double-decker strawberry ice-cream cone the ice cream part falls off the cone and lands in Australia. — Judith Viorst

But there was little heart to our lust,
only the confusion of not knowing
how long we'd have in our bodies. — Joseph Bathanti

I love cleaning. I love mopping the floor. If you need your floor mopped, I'm there. — Saoirse Ronan

The fire in you burns as fiercely as it did when I first met you. — Marie Lu

Some days are like that. Even in Australia. — Judith Viorst

The philosopher's lecture room is a 'hospital': you ought not to walk out of it in a state of pleasure, but in pain; for you are not in good condition when you arrive. — Epictetus

Stop being a mystery, discover yourself! — Stephen Richards

I saw my husband in his cell for ten minutes. During the interview the cell was packed with officers and a sergeant, who kept a watch in his hand and closed the interview by saying, 'Your ten minutes is now up.' — Grace Gifford

...in our own hearts we trust for our salvation, in the men that
surround us, in the sights that fill our eyes, in the sounds
that fill our ears, and in the air that fill our lungs. — Joseph Conrad

No Christian is safe when his soul is slothful, and his God is far from him. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

I think I'll move to Australia. — Judith Viorst

Mr. Keating: Carpe Diem! Sieze the day! — Robin Williams