Individuals we consider happy commonly seem complete in the present and we see them constantly in their wholeness: attentive, cheerful, open rather than closed to events, integral in the moment rather than distended across time by regret or anxiety.
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 …
- 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 … - 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 …
Happiness may well consist primarily of an attitude toward time. - Robert Grudin
Happiness may well consist primarily of an attitude toward time.
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,…
All great experience has a guarded entrance and a windowless facade. - Robert Grudin
All great experience has a guarded entrance and a windowless facade.
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…
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.
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.
Plans made swiftly and intuitively are likely to have flaws. Plans made carefully and comprehensively are sure to. - Robert Grudin
Plans made swiftly and intuitively are likely to have flaws. Plans made carefully and comprehensively are sure to.
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