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Freya Stark quotes: Risk is the salt and sugar of life. Risk is the salt and sugar of life.
Freya Stark quotes: The only thing for a pacifist to do is to find a substitute for war. The only thing for a pacifist to do is to find a substitute for war.
Freya Stark quotes: I do dislike people with Moral Aims. Everyone asks me why I learn Arabic, and when I say I just like it, they looked shocked and incredulous. I do dislike people with Moral Aims. Everyone asks me why I learn Arabic, and when I say I just like it, they looked shocked and incredulous.
Freya Stark quotes: It is only the unexpected that ever makes a customs officer think. It is only the unexpected that ever makes a customs officer think.
Freya Stark quotes: To feel, and think, and learn - learn always: surely that is being alive and young in the real sense To feel, and think, and learn - learn always: surely that is being alive and young in the real sense
Freya Stark quotes: Manners are like zero in arithmetic. They may not be much in themselves, but they are capable of adding a great deal of value to everything else. Manners are like zero in arithmetic. They may not be much in themselves, but they are capable of adding a great deal of value to everything else.
Freya Stark quotes: In one form or another, conscious or unconscious, we have all become propagandists; integrity alone can keep us truthful. In one form or another, conscious or unconscious, we have all become propagandists; integrity alone can keep us truthful.
Freya Stark quotes: An absolute condition of all successful living, whether for an individual or a nation, is the acceptance of death. An absolute condition of all successful living, whether for an individual or a nation, is the acceptance of death.
Freya Stark quotes: To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the most pleasant sensations in the world. You are surrounded by adventure. 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 quotes: All our acts have sacramental possibilities. All our acts have sacramental possibilities.
Freya Stark quotes: Who dares to be intellectual in the presence of death? Who dares to be intellectual in the presence of death?
Freya Stark quotes: The beckoning counts, not the clicking latch behind you The beckoning counts, not the clicking latch behind you
Freya Stark quotes: Words are but drops pressed out of the lives of those who lived them. Words are but drops pressed out of the lives of those who lived them.
Freya Stark quotes: It is not badness, it is the absence of goodness, which, in Art as in Life, is so depressing. It is not badness, it is the absence of goodness, which, in Art as in Life, is so depressing.
Freya Stark quotes: It is a lean employment of time to brood on what might have happened along some other turning. It is a lean employment of time to brood on what might have happened along some other turning.
Freya Stark quotes: Few are the giants of the soul who actually feel that the human race is their family circle. Few are the giants of the soul who actually feel that the human race is their family circle.
Freya Stark quotes: I do think we should be provided with a new body about the age of thirty or so when we have learnt to attend to it with consideration. I do think we should be provided with a new body about the age of thirty or so when we have learnt to attend to it with consideration.
Freya Stark quotes: Love of learning is a pleasant and universal bond since it deals with what one is and not what one has. Love of learning is a pleasant and universal bond since it deals with what one is and not what one has.
Freya Stark quotes: The art of advertising - untruthfulness combined with repetition. The art of advertising - untruthfulness combined with repetition.
Freya Stark quotes: I have long come to believe that, more than any other destruction, our word-recklessness is endangering the future of us all. I have long come to believe that, more than any other destruction, our word-recklessness is endangering the future of us all.
Freya Stark quotes: Monotony is not to be worshipped as a virtue; nor the marriage bed treated as a coffin for security rather than a couch from which to rise refreshed. Monotony is not to be worshipped as a virtue; nor the marriage bed treated as a coffin for security rather than a couch from which to rise refreshed.
Freya Stark quotes: Nearly all trouble comes from mis-timing ... Nearly all trouble comes from mis-timing ...
Freya Stark quotes: Every frontier is doomed to produce an opposition beyond it. Nothing short of the universal can build the unfenced peace. Every frontier is doomed to produce an opposition beyond it. Nothing short of the universal can build the unfenced peace.
Freya Stark quotes: It is a matter of civilizing everyone or not being civilized at all: the decay has always come from a partial civilization. It is a matter of civilizing everyone or not being civilized at all: the decay has always come from a partial civilization.
Freya Stark quotes: Curiosity is the one thing invincible in Nature. Curiosity is the one thing invincible in Nature.
Freya Stark quotes: Tolerance cannot afford to have anything to do with the fallacy that evil may convert itself to good. Tolerance cannot afford to have anything to do with the fallacy that evil may convert itself to good.
Freya Stark quotes: Time is the sea in which men grow, are born, or die. Time is the sea in which men grow, are born, or die.
Freya Stark quotes: Fair and unfair are among the most influential words in English and must be delicately used. Fair and unfair are among the most influential words in English and must be delicately used.
Freya Stark quotes: What I find trying in a country which you do not understand and where you cannot speak, is that you can never be yourself. What I find trying in a country which you do not understand and where you cannot speak, is that you can never be yourself.
Freya Stark quotes: The true call of the desert, of the mountains, or the sea, is their silence - free of the networks of dead speech. The true call of the desert, of the mountains, or the sea, is their silence - free of the networks of dead speech.
Freya Stark quotes: From love one can only escape at the price of life itself; and no lessening of sorrow is worth exile from that stream of all things human and divine. From love one can only escape at the price of life itself; and no lessening of sorrow is worth exile from that stream of all things human and divine.
Freya Stark quotes: One life is an absurdly small allowance. One life is an absurdly small allowance.
Freya Stark quotes: The great and almost only comfort about being a woman is that one can always pretend to be more stupid than one is and no one is surprised. The great and almost only comfort about being a woman is that one can always pretend to be more stupid than one is and no one is surprised.
Freya Stark quotes: Things good in themselves ... perfectly valid in the integrity of their origins, become fetters if they cannot alter. Things good in themselves ... perfectly valid in the integrity of their origins, become fetters if they cannot alter.
Freya Stark quotes: The world has become too full of many things, an over furnished room. The world has become too full of many things, an over furnished room.
Freya Stark quotes: I do like people who have not yet made up their minds about everything, who in fact are still receiving I do like people who have not yet made up their minds about everything, who in fact are still receiving
Freya Stark quotes: I have no reason to go, except that I have never been, and knowledge is better than ignorance. What better reason could there be for travelling? I have no reason to go, except that I have never been, and knowledge is better than ignorance. What better reason could there be for travelling?
Freya Stark quotes: I dislike being an anvil for the hammering out of other people's virtues. I dislike being an anvil for the hammering out of other people's virtues.
Freya Stark quotes: All the feeling which my father could not put into words was in his hand-any dog, child or horse would recognize the kindness of it. All the feeling which my father could not put into words was in his hand-any dog, child or horse would recognize the kindness of it.
Freya Stark quotes: The most ominous of fallacies - the belief that things can be kept static by inaction The most ominous of fallacies - the belief that things can be kept static by inaction
Freya Stark quotes: It is better to be passionate than to be tolerant at the expense of one's soul. It is better to be passionate than to be tolerant at the expense of one's soul.
Freya Stark quotes: The symbol is greater than visible substance ... Unhappy the land that has no symbols, or that chooses their meaning without great care. The symbol is greater than visible substance ... Unhappy the land that has no symbols, or that chooses their meaning without great care.
Freya Stark quotes: Style is something peculiar to one person; it expresses one personality and one only; it cannot be shared. Style is something peculiar to one person; it expresses one personality and one only; it cannot be shared.
Freya Stark quotes: The beckoning counts, and not the clicking of the latch behind you. The beckoning counts, and not the clicking of the latch behind you.
Freya Stark quotes: This is excellence - the following of anything for its own sake and with its own integrity ... This is excellence - the following of anything for its own sake and with its own integrity ...
Freya Stark quotes: I feel like a divorced wife once my book is published and has left me, and hate to be brought back into intimate contact! I feel like a divorced wife once my book is published and has left me, and hate to be brought back into intimate contact!
Freya Stark quotes: Freshness trembles beneath the surface of Everyday, a joy perpetual to all who catch its opal lights beneath the dust of habit. Freshness trembles beneath the surface of Everyday, a joy perpetual to all who catch its opal lights beneath the dust of habit.
Freya Stark quotes: Your real progressives are never fair: they are never sufficiently neutral. Your real progressives are never fair: they are never sufficiently neutral.
Freya Stark quotes: Surely, of all the wonders of the world, the horizon is the greatest. Surely, of all the wonders of the world, the horizon is the greatest.
Freya Stark quotes: There is generosity in giving, but gentleness in receiving. There is generosity in giving, but gentleness in receiving.
Freya Stark quotes: If one were given a single window from which to look upon the changing Eastern world, it should face, I think, the road. 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 quotes: Christmas is not an external event at all, but a piece of one's home that one carries in one's heart. Christmas is not an external event at all, but a piece of one's home that one carries in one's heart.
Freya Stark quotes: The thwarting of the instinct to love is the root of all sorrow and not sex only but divinity itself is insulted when it is repressed. The thwarting of the instinct to love is the root of all sorrow and not sex only but divinity itself is insulted when it is repressed.
Freya Stark quotes: There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do. There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do.
Freya Stark quotes: Conventions are like coins, an easy way of dealing with the commerce of relations. Conventions are like coins, an easy way of dealing with the commerce of relations.
Freya Stark quotes: I think that the worst unpleasantness of age is not its final fact ... but the tediousness of preparation, the accumulating number of defeats. I think that the worst unpleasantness of age is not its final fact ... but the tediousness of preparation, the accumulating number of defeats.
Freya Stark quotes: We love those people who give with humility, or who accept with ease. We love those people who give with humility, or who accept with ease.
Freya Stark quotes: Words are the only arteries of thought our poor human body possesses ... Words are the only arteries of thought our poor human body possesses ...
Freya Stark quotes: The true fruit of travel is perhaps the feeling of being nearly everywhere at home. The true fruit of travel is perhaps the feeling of being nearly everywhere at home.
Freya Stark quotes: Whoever designed this frigging map was having a laugh. Just around the corner, my arse. Whoever designed this frigging map was having a laugh. Just around the corner, my arse.
Freya Stark quotes: Advertisement ... has brought our disregard for truth into the open without even a figleaf to cover it. Advertisement ... has brought our disregard for truth into the open without even a figleaf to cover it.
Freya Stark quotes: Absence is one of the most useful ingredients of family life, and to dose it rightly is an art like any other. Absence is one of the most useful ingredients of family life, and to dose it rightly is an art like any other.
Freya Stark quotes: 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. 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 quotes: One has to resign oneself to being a nuisance if one wants to get anything done. One has to resign oneself to being a nuisance if one wants to get anything done.

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