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Life Quotes by Freya Stark
- 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…
- 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 unexpectedness of life, waiting round every corner, catches even wise women unawares (...) To avoid corners altogether is, after all, to refuse to live.
- Risk is the salt and sugar of life.
- There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do.
- Absence is one of the most useful ingredients of family life, and to dose it rightly is an art like any other.
- One life is an absurdly small allowance.
- Travel does what good novelists also do to the life of everyday, placing it like a picture in a frame or a gem in its…
- Solitude, I reflected, is the one deep necessity of the human spirit to which adequate recognition is never given in our codes. It is looked…
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- Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
- Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life. — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you… — Alexis Arguello
- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. — Aristotle
- Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. — Aristotle
- We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- Happiness depends upon ourselves. — Aristotle
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle