Susanna Tamaro Quotes

Enjoy the top 14 famous quotes, sayings and quotations by Susanna Tamaro.

“Do you know whats one mistake we always make? Believing that lifes immutable, that once you get on a particular track you have to follow it to the end of the line. But it appears that fate has more imagination than we do. Just when you think youre in a situation you cant escape from, when youve reached the lowest depths of total desperation, everything changes as fast as a gust of wind, everythings overturned; from one second to the next you find youre living a new life.”
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“Unshed tears leave a deposit on your heart. Eventually they form a crust around it and paralyze it, the way mineral deposits paralyze a washing machine.”

— Susanna Tamaro

“Happiness always has an object ... Depends on external things. Joy ... Has no object. It seizes you for no apparent reason, it's like the sun, its burning is fueled by its own heart.”

— Susanna Tamaro

“Every time you feel lost, confused, think about trees, remember how they grow. Remember that a tree with lots of branches and few roots will get toppled by the first strong wind, while the sap hardly moves in a tree with many roots and few branches. Roots and branches must grow in equal measure, you have to stand both inside of things and above them, because only then will you be able to offer shade and shelter, only then will you be able to cover yourself with leaves and fruit at the proper season.
And later on, when so many roads open up before you, you don't know which to take, don't pick one at random; sit down and wait. Breathe deeply, trustingly, the way you breathed on the day when you came into the world, don't let anything distract you, wait and wait some more. Stay still, be quiet, and listen to your heart. Then, when it speaks, get up and go where it takes you.”

— Susanna Tamaro

“Life is not a race, but a shot on target: what counts is not the saving of time, but the ability to find a centre”

— Susanna Tamaro

“The easiest thing in the world to do when you don't want to look inside yourself is to find escape hatches. You can always make it someone else's fault, it takes a lot of courage to admit that the fault
or rather the responsibility
is yours alone. And yet, as I've said before, this is the only way to go forward. If life's a road we travel, it's uphill all the way.”

— Susanna Tamaro

“The love withheld is always the love we long for most.”

— Susanna Tamaro