The past is our treasure. Its works, whether we know them or not, flourish in our lives with whatever strength they had.… — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
it is a lean employment of time to brood on what might have happened along some other turning. — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
not wholly consciously, but not quite unconsciously, as far as I can remember, I determined to fashion my future as a sculptor… — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
Love, like broken porcelain, should be wept over and buried, for nothing but a miracle will resuscitate it: but who in this… — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
Most people, after accomplishing something, use it over and over again like a gramophone record till it cracks, forgetting that the past… — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
I have long come to believe that, more than any other destruction, our word-recklessness is endangering the future of us all. — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
Tidiness ... makes life easier and more agreeable, does harm to no one and actually saves time and trouble to the person… — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
Good days are to be gathered like grapes, to be trodden and bottled into wine and kept for age to sip at… — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
I do think we should be provided with a new body about the age of thirty or so when we have learnt to attend… — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
From love one can only escape at the price of life itself; and no lessening of sorrow is worth exile from that stream of… — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
The unexpectedness of life, waiting round every corner, catches even wise women unawares (...) To avoid corners altogether is, after all, to refuse to live. — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
The past is our treasure. Its works, whether we know them or not, flourish in our lives with whatever strength they had. From it… — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
On the other hand, there is a certain advantage in traveling with someone who has a reputation for shooting rather than being shot: as… — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
If one were given a single window from which to look upon the changing Eastern world, it should face, I think, the road. — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
advertisement ... has brought our disregard for truth into the open without even a figleaf to cover it. — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
The Persian's mind, like his illuminated manuscripts, does not deal in perspective: two thousand years, if he happens to know anything about them, are… — Freya Stark Copy Share Image