“Mechanics is a means or discipline for the realization of life, but not life itself. It ought to carry us to life itself.”
“The meaning of life is life itself.”
“Every arrangement in life carried with it the sadness, the sentimental shadow, of its not being something else, but only itself. ”
“We are the cosmos made conscious and life is the means by which the universe understands itself.”
“The breath that sharpens life is life itself.”
“Life, Steffi has learned, carries on around the pain, making room for it, absorbing it until it becomes part of the daily fabric, wrapping itself around you and lodging itself in your heart.”