Free men and women... can think across time, viewing their own lives, inclusive of past, present, and future, as architectural wholes, static in mental space. They can therefore see, as others cannot, the cracks and buttresses of repeated action, the points of stress, the established framework. They are not perfect; but they are less imperfect than we by a full dimension of being.
We are wistful about the golden days of the past and dream of a distant future unclouded by necessity. But I suspect that if our inner souls were ask… - Robert Grudin
We are wistful about the golden days of the past and dream of a distant future unclouded by necessity. But I suspect that if our inner souls were ask…
- Robert Grudin
All great experience has a guarded entrance and a windowless facade. - Robert Grudin
All great experience has a guarded entrance and a windowless facade.
Such self-transformation is the most difficult and dangerous challenge to the imagination, and it is the most rewarding. Meeting it is only possible … - Robert Grudin
Such self-transformation is the most difficult and dangerous challenge to the imagination, and it is the most rewarding. Meeting it is only possible …
We pamper the present like a spoiled child, obeying its superficial demands but ignoring its real needs. - Robert Grudin
We pamper the present like a spoiled child, obeying its superficial demands but ignoring its real needs.
We struggle with, agonize over and bluster heroically about the great questions of life when the answers to most of these lie hidden in our attitude … - Robert Grudin
We struggle with, agonize over and bluster heroically about the great questions of life when the answers to most of these lie hidden in our attitude …
The happy individual is able to renew daily and with full consciousness all the basic expressions of human identity: work, love, communication, play,… - Robert Grudin
The happy individual is able to renew daily and with full consciousness all the basic expressions of human identity: work, love, communication, play,…
Happiness may well consist primarily of an attitude toward time. - Robert Grudin
Happiness may well consist primarily of an attitude toward time.
Excellence of mind itself, rightly conceived, is expertise in beauty; creativity is wise love. - Robert Grudin
Excellence of mind itself, rightly conceived, is expertise in beauty; creativity is wise love.
The extent to which we live from day to day, from week to week, intent on details and oblivious to larger presences, is a gauge of our impoverishment… - Robert Grudin
The extent to which we live from day to day, from week to week, intent on details and oblivious to larger presences, is a gauge of our impoverishment…
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