Top 37 Alice Steinbach Quotes
#1. I loved going along with Alice Steinbach as she goes off on this rare, wonderful adventure, an escape into discovering herself and some of the truly magical places in this world.
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#2. His presence made me feel self-concious: of my appearance, of the way I was sitting, of my movements and gestures ... It was the behavior of a woman reacting to a man who attracts her.
Alice Steinbach
#3. As I set out each day, I felt like a young child again. One who hadn't yet learned the rules of manmade time; the rules of clocks and calendars, of weekdays and weekends. Except the primitive markers of day and night, time lay ahead of me in a continuous, undefined mass.
Alice Steinbach
#4. Mother loved the wind. When I was growing up, she would recite this poem to me. Who has seen the wind? Neither you nor I, But when the trees bow down their heads, The wind is passing by. So it is with God.
Alice Steinbach
#6. there will be, along with the feelings of curiosity and excitement, a little nagging of dread. It is the ancient fear of the Unknown, and it is your first bond with the wilderness you are going into." Eight
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#7. And who's to say that just because something lasts only a short time, it has little value?
Alice Steinbach
#8. I guess I'm too selfish to travel well with other people, I told Anne later.
Alice Steinbach
#9. I had forgotten how wonderful it is to stand on a bridge and catch the scent of rain in the air. I had forgotten how much I need to be a part of water, wind, sky.
Alice Steinbach
#10. After all, watching a child march successfully into the larger world is one of the greatest satisfactions parenthood has to offer.
Alice Steinbach
#11. After all, the word "travel" comes from the Latin "trepalium." Which, loosely translated, means "instrument of torture.
Alice Steinbach
#12. Life is like that I thought, as I turned the corner to my building. Freedom has its danger as well as its joys. And the sooner we learn to get up after a fall, the better off will be.
Alice Steinbach
#13. I suspected, however, that I wasn't homesick for anything I would find at home when I returned. The longing was for what I wouldn't find: the past and all the people and places there were lost to me.
Alice Steinbach
#14. I guess the idea of stepping out from behind the "camouflage of routine," as someone once described it, still intimated me.
Alice Steinbach
#15. Except for the primitive markers of day and night, time lay ahead of me in continuous, undefined mass.
Alice Steinbach
#16. functioned - I realized that first impressions about hotel rooms are like first loves: neither is based on the concept of how, over time, one can come to appreciate the pleasures of durability over infatuation.
Alice Steinbach
#17. Most of the time I liked being in charge of my life, thrived on it, in fact. But occasionally, when I was tired or unhappy. I'd find myself thinking how nice it would be to let someone else run the show, at least for a while.
Alice Steinbach
#18. It used to surprise me, the intensity with which I still remembered these distant memories. But when I entered my fifties ... I understood their enduring clarity ... In the end, what adds up to a life is nothing more than the accumulation of small daily moments.
Alice Steinbach
#19. The unexpectedness of life, waiting round every corner, catches even wise women unawares," [Freya] wrote. "To avoid corners altogether is, after all, to refuse to live." ... It was if someone in charge had said to me: not guilty. Permission granted to continue on with your life as usual.
Alice Steinbach
#20. I suppose that, after the passion of love, water rights have caused more trouble than anything else to the human species.
Alice Steinbach
#21. Never give up the search to have back what was lost too soon.
Alice Steinbach
#22. 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.
Alice Steinbach
#23. 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?
Alice Steinbach
#24. It is one of the strongest bonds, I think, that can spring up between people: sharing a passion for certain books and their authors.
Alice Steinbach
#25. Maybe it was I who needed to learn how to be quiet instead of cluttering the moment with too many words.
Alice Steinbach
#26. A letter is always better than a phone call. People write things in letters they would never say in person. They permit themselves to write down feelings and observations using emotional syntax far more intimate and powerful than speech will allow.
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#27. I made dangerous choices in those years, thinking myself bold and adventurous. Later I would come to understand that I hadn't been daring at all, just driven by confusion and hormones. The person capable of true daring, I knew now, possessed two admirable qualities: curiosity and courage.
Alice Steinbach
#28. In many ways I was an independent woman. For years I'd made my own choices, paid my own bills, shoveled my own snow.
Alice Steinbach
#29. 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,
Alice Steinbach
#30. Occasionally, when trapped by memories, I would mistake change for loss, and grieve ...
Alice Steinbach
#31. But it was difficult, this living in real time only, and not diluting it by looking back or skipping forward. No wonder it's never really caught on with most people, I thought. It's just too hard.
Alice Steinbach
#32. Women would be better off when they no longer needed men more than they needed their own independent identities ... How long a time it took me after my divorce to understand that being alone is not the same as being lonely.
Alice Steinbach
#33. What is the one emotion that you would like to feel for the rest of your life?
Alice Steinbach
#34. 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.
Alice Steinbach
#35. I had surprised myself this year by jumping in to reshape my life before life stepped in to reshape it for me.
Alice Steinbach
#36. 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.
Alice Steinbach
#37. Most of us, I suppose, have had at one time or another the impulse to leave behind our daily routines and responsibilities and seek out, temporarily, a new life.
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