"The beckoning counts, and not the clicking of……" — Freya Stark
"The beckoning counts, and not the clicking of the latch behind you."
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53 Quotes by Freya Stark
Freya Stark has 53 quotes on this site.
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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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More Beckoning Quotes
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Can anything match that first fine discovery of the telephone and all it stood for? That first realization that, contained…
— Alan Coren
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Ignoring your passion is like dying a slow death...Passion whispers to you through your feelings, beckoning you toward your highest…
— Oprah Winfrey
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The unknown is the province of the student; it is the field for his lifes adventure, and it is a…
— Lincoln Steffens
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Grace is the central invitation to life and the final word. It's the beckoning nudge and the overwhelming, undeserved mercy…
— Tim Hansel
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Never have I found the limits of the photographic potential. Every horizon, upon being reached, reveals another beckoning in the…
— W. Eugene Smith
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The feel of a canoe gunnel at the thigh, the splash of flying spray in the face, the rhythm of…
— Grey Owl
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A thousand fantasies Begin to throng into my memory, Of calling shapes, and beckoning shadows dire, And airy tongues that…
— John Milton
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I constantly felt (as I suppose many an ambitious girl has felt) a thumping from within unanswered by any beckoning…
— Anna Julia Cooper
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Democracy is always a beckoning goal, not a safe harbor. For freedom is an unremitting endeavor, never a final achievement.
— Felix Frankfurter
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My hope is that I may bear witness to the fact that there is a great mystery calling to us…
— Terence McKenna
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I see the angel Moroni, standing atop the temple, as a shining symbol of [our] faith. I love Moroni, because…
— Elaine S. Dalton
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The beckoning Hands Of God's hopeful Smile Will, without fail, one day greet The fruitful cries Of man's prayerful heart.
— Sri Chinmoy
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