Inspired from a photo-series by the incredible and awesome documentary photographer Steve McCurry, I too began to observe the uniqueness of life that is bound around the steps and stairs throughout the city. It is as though these steps and stairs have a soliloquy to share with us. They tell us an inner untold tale of a place or being. Irrespective of how fast life moves around us, when it comes to these steps and stairs, everything seems to just slow down all of a sudden. It is like the breather in a long sentence, from where we start over afresh.
“Faith is taking the first step even when
you don’t see the whole staircase.”
~ Martin Luther King Jr.
“My soul can find no staircase to Heaven
unless it be through Earth’s loveliness.”
~ Michelangelo
“The world is like a grand staircase,
some are going up and some are going down.”
~ Samuel Johnson
“A habit cannot be tossed out the window;
it must be coaxed down the stairs a step at a time.”
~ Mark Twain
“Stairs are climbed step by step.”
~ Turkish Proverb
“Never look backwards or you’ll fall down the stairs.”
~ Rudyard Kipling
“When you sweep the stairs, you start at the top.”
~ German Proverb
“The elevator to success is out of order.
You’ll have to use the stairs…
one step at a time.”
~ Joe Girard
