"One is so apt to think of people's……" — Freya Stark
"One is so apt to think of people's affection as a fixed quantity, instead of a sort of moving so with the tide, always going out or coming in but still fundamentally there: and I believe this difficulty in making allowance for the tide is the reason for half the broken friendships."
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53 Quotes by Freya Stark
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To think to keep things as they are, is to let them move unpredictably, since nothing but death will still…
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Pain and fear and hunger are effects of causes which can be foreseen and known: but sorrow is a debt…
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The slightest living thing answers a deeper need than all the works of man because it is transitory. It has…
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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…
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The great and almost only comfort about being a woman is that one can always pretend to be more stupid…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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If we are strong, and have faith in life and its richness of surprises, and hold the rudder steadily in…
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