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Freya Stark Quotes

Freya Stark quotes

English Writer January 31, 1893 – May 9, 1993

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Freya Stark quote: "Love of learning is a pleasant and universal bond since it..."
Love of learning is a pleasant and universal bond since it deals with what one is and not what one has. Freya Stark
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 setting, so that the intrinsic qualities are made more clear. Travel does this with the very stuff that everyday life is made of, giving to it the sharp contour and meaning of art. Freya Stark
Freya Stark quote: "Absence is one of the most useful ingredients of family life,..."
Absence is one of the most useful ingredients of family life, and to dose it rightly is an art like any other. Freya Stark
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 upon as a discipline or penance, but hardly ever as the indispensable, pleasant ingredient it is to ordinary life, and from this want of recognition come half our domestic troubles. Freya Stark
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 we will sail into quiet and pleasent waters for our old age. Freya Stark
Freya Stark quote: "One life is an absurdly small allowance."
One life is an absurdly small allowance. Freya Stark
Freya Stark quote: "There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are..."
There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do. Freya Stark
Freya Stark quote: "There can be no happiness if the things we believe are..."
There can be no happiness if the things we believe are different than the things we do. Freya Stark
Freya Stark quote: "Few are the giants of the soul who actually feel that the..."
Few are the giants of the soul who actually feel that the human race is their family circle. Freya Stark
Freya Stark quote: "If one were given a single window from which to look upon the..."
If one were given a single window from which to look upon the changing Eastern world, it should face, I think, the road. Freya Stark
Freya Stark quote: "Christmas... is not an external event at all, but a piece of..."
Christmas... is not an external event at all, but a piece of one's home that one carries in one's heart. Freya Stark
Freya Stark quote: "Curiosity is the one thing invincible in Nature."
Curiosity is the one thing invincible in Nature. Freya Stark
To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the most pleasant sensations in the world. You are surrounded by adventure. Freya Stark
Freya Stark quote: "To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the..."
To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world. Freya Stark
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 us. Freya Stark

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