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Freya Stark has 55 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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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…
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Pain and fear and hunger are effects of causes which can be foreseen and known: but sorrow is a debt which someone…
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The slightest living thing answers a deeper need than all the works of man because it is transitory. It has an evanescence…
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An absolute condition of all successful living, whether for an individual or a nation, is the acceptance of death.
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The portion we see of human beings is very small: their formats and faces, voices and words.... beyond these, like an immense…
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The great and almost only comfort about being a woman is that one can always pretend to be more stupid than one…
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We love those people who give with humility, or who accept with ease.
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The true gardener then brushes over the ground with slow and gentle hand, to liberate a space for breath round some favorites;…
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There is generosity in giving, but gentleness in receiving.
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All the feeling which my father could not put into words was in his hand-any dog, child or horse would recognize the…
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You will, if you're wise and know the art of travel, let yourself go on the stream of the unknown and accept…
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If we are strong, and have faith in life and its richness of surprises, and hold the rudder steadily in our hands.…
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You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.
— William Blake
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Through return to simple living comes control of desires. In control of desires stillness is attained. In stillness the world is restored.
— Laozi
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Happiness blooms naturally in the hearts of those who are inwardly free. It flows spontaneously, like a mountain spring after April showers,…
— Paramahansa Yogananda
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Whatever a man seeks, honors, or exalts more than God, this is the god of idolatry.
— William Bernard Ullathorne
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If you want to destroy a nation, give it too much - make it greedy, miserable and sick.
— John Steinbeck
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We owe most of our great inventions and most of the achievements of genius to idleness either enforced or voluntary.
— Agatha Christie
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We need not want what we are the middle of.
— James Bertolino
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Things that don't get better, get worse.
— Ellen Stern
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Anyone who isn't confused doesn't understand what's going on.
— Unknown Author
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The worst way to improve the world is to condemn it.
— Philip James Bailey
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Anything that exists is possible.
— Mahatma Gandhi
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A society whose principles are acquisition, profit, and property produces a social character oriented around having, and once the dominant pattern is…
— Erich Fromm
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