True intimacy is a human constant. People of all types find it equally hard to achieve, equally precious to hold. Age, education, social status, make little difference here; even genius does not presuppose the talent to reveal one's self completely and completely absorb one's self in another personality. Intimacy is to love what concentration is to work: a simultaneous drawing together to attention and release of energy.
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 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.
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.
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.
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