Alice Steinbach Quotes
Top 20 wise famous quotes and sayings by Alice Steinbach
Alice Steinbach Famous Quotes & Sayings
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What is the purpose of memory? Is it a trick to make sure we don't forget who we are by reminding us of who we were?
It is one of the strongest bonds, I think, that can spring up between people: sharing a passion for certain books and their authors.
I suppose that, after the passion of love, water rights have caused more trouble than anything else to the human species.
I guess the idea of stepping out from behind the "camouflage of routine," as someone once described it, still intimated me.
As promised, Kyoto Station turned out to be an ordeal. For ninety minutes I searched for a way out of the sixteen-story train station,
In many ways I was an independent woman. For years I'd made my own choices, paid my own bills, shoveled my own snow.
I had surprised myself this year by jumping in to reshape my life before life stepped in to reshape it for me.
What if more of life could be like that? Like the last slow dance, where, to echo T.S. Eliot, a lifetime burns in every moment.
Except for the primitive markers of day and night, time lay ahead of me in continuous, undefined mass.
After all, watching a child march successfully into the larger world is one of the greatest satisfactions parenthood has to offer.
There's such joy and fearless in that face, isn't there? It's like the look you see on a child's face before the age of reason sets in.
Freedom has its dangers as well as its joys. And the sooner we learn to get up after a fall, the better off we'll be.
After all, the word "travel" comes from the Latin "trepalium." Which, loosely translated, means "instrument of torture.
Maybe it was I who needed to learn how to be quiet instead of cluttering the moment with too many words.