31 Quotes by Alice Steinbach

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.

After all, the word “travel” comes from the Latin “trepalium.” Which, loosely translated, means “instrument of torture.

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.

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.

The writer ended with a line from Eudora Welty: “All serious daring starts from within.

Occasionally, when trapped by memories, I would mistake change for loss, and grieve...

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.

Maybe it was I who needed to learn how to be quiet instead of cluttering the moment with too many words.

I guess I’m too selfish to travel well with other people,” I told Anne later.