If the estimated age of the cosmos were shortened to seventy-two years, a human life would take about ten seconds. But look at time the other way. Each day is a minor eternity of over 86,000 seconds. During each second,… — Robert Grudin Copy Share Image
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 toward the thousand minor details of each day. — Robert Grudin Copy Share Image
If the estimated age of the cosmos were shortened to seventy-two years, a human life would take about ten seconds. But look at time… — Robert Grudin Copy Share Image
Truth is rhythmical: if it implies stasis, it is platitude. Truth is syncopated: if it supplies all the terms, there is one term too… — Robert Grudin Copy Share Image
“Because we believe that one moment is more or less like the next, we lose touch with the essential urgency of the present, the… — Robert Grudin Copy Share Image
To be open to inspiration, one must cultivate a leaning for the problematic, a chronic attraction to things that do not totally fit, agree,… — Robert Grudin Copy Share Image
“...like gravity, beauty is a force whose existence is inferred from its apparent effects.” — Robert Grudin Copy Share Image
Those who labor for bread or money alone are condemned to their reward. — Robert Grudin Copy Share Image
The happy individual is able to renew daily and with full consciousness all the basic expressions of human identity: work, love, communication, play, and… — Robert Grudin Copy Share Image
No psychological message is so open to question as that which tells us that we have nothing left to do or to give. — Robert Grudin Copy Share Image
Psychologically time is seldom homogenous but rather is as full of shapes as space. — Robert Grudin Copy Share Image
Individuals we consider happy commonly seem complete in the present and we see them constantly in their wholeness: attentive, cheerful, open rather than closed… — Robert Grudin Copy Share Image
The extent to which we live from day to day, from week to week, intent on details and oblivious to larger presences, is a… — Robert Grudin Copy Share Image
