Free men and women. . . can think across time, viewing their own lives, inclusive of past, present, … - Robert Grudin

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Would you really dig into yesterday's garbage to make tonight's meal? Do you dig into yesterday's mental garbage to create today's experiences?

Robert Grudin

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.

Future, Life, Repeated, Stress

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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 in time.

Details, Extent, Gauges, Impoverishment, Intent, Time

Fast drivers can see no further than slow drivers, but they must look further down the road to time their reactions safely. Similarly, people with great projects afoot habitually look further and more clearly into the future than people who are mired in day-to-day concerns.

Future, Habitually, Mired, People, Road, Vision

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.

Differences, Drawing, Life, Precious, Presuppose

Happiness may well consist primarily of an attitude toward time.

Attitude, Happiness, Inspirational Birthday, May, Primarily

At pains to define liberty, that most resolute of indefinables, our minds fall back on spatial images; on birds, sailboats, and mountains; the untethered balloon, the blue sky, the nude figure.

Blue, Fall, Figure, Indefinables, Pain, Sky