Adults Quotes by Robert Bly

8 Adults quotes by Robert Bly

Robert Bly’s eight short lines on adults blend lyrical language with introspective themes, inviting readers to consider the deeper currents of mature life.

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The models of adulthood are disappearing fast. How can two people have a new marriage if neither of them is an adult?

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In the sibling society, both the adult and the elder get lost, and no one knows where they are.

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We are living at an important and fruitful moment now, for it is clear to men that the images of adult manhood…

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I think more and more people are recognizing how much adults and elders are actually needed. That's a gift of the sibling…

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To me, the hope lies in adults forgetting about their retirement and turning toward the adolescents and helping pull the adolescents over…

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We know that the adult in a certain sense has an attitude toward life exactly opposite to the attitude of commercials. Commercials…

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The distance between the adolescent and the true adult is about five thousand miles, but the distance between the adult and the…

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There are very few adults in our culture able to imagine any genuine life coming from the vertical plane - tradition, religion,…

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I have spent many years trying to recover a common language, one that can cross the distance between people.

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We spend our life until we’re twenty deciding what parts of ourself to put into the bag, and we spend the rest of our…

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Every modern male has, lying at the bottom of his psyche, a large, primitive being covered with hair down to his feet. Making contact…

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The ancestors are very much invested in the children, because the children are the ones who are going to continue the world that the…

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