Freya Stark Quotes

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• To think to keep things as they are, is to let them move unpredictably, since nothing but death will still the beat of the heart…
• Pain and fear and hunger are effects of causes which can be foreseen and known: but sorrow is a debt which someone else makes for…
• The slightest living thing answers a deeper need than all the works of man because it is transitory. It has an evanescence of life, or…
• An absolute condition of all successful living, whether for an individual or a nation, is the acceptance of death.
• The portion we see of human beings is very small: their formats and faces, voices and words.... beyond these, like an immense dark continent, lies…
• The great and almost only comfort about being a woman is that one can always pretend to be more stupid than one is and no…
• We love those people who give with humility, or who accept with ease.
• The true gardener then brushes over the ground with slow and gentle hand, to liberate a space for breath round some favorites; but he is…
• There is generosity in giving, but gentleness in receiving.
• All the feeling which my father could not put into words was in his hand-any dog, child or horse would recognize the kindness of it.
• You will, if you're wise and know the art of travel, let yourself go on the stream of the unknown and accept whatever comes in…
• If we are strong, and have faith in life and its richness of surprises, and hold the rudder steadily in our hands. I am sure…
• The world has become too full of many things, an over furnished room.
• Perhaps the best function of parenthood is to teach the young creature to love with safety, so that it may be able to venture unafraid…
• I do like people who have not yet made up their minds about everything, who in fact are still receiving
• To feel, and think, and learn - learn always: surely that is being alive and young in the real sense
• The symbol is greater than visible substance. . . . Unhappy the land that has no symbols, or that chooses their meaning without great care.
• One can only really travel if one lets oneself go and takes what every place brings without trying to turn it into a healthy private…
• Most people, after accomplishing something, use it over and over again like a gramophone record till it cracks, forgetting that the past is just the…
• The art of learning fundamental common values is perhaps the greatest gain of travel to those who wish to live at ease among their fellows.

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