Freya Stark Quotes
Top 64 wise famous quotes and sayings by Freya Stark
Freya Stark Famous Quotes & Sayings
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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.
To feel, and think, and learn - learn always: surely that is being alive and young in the real sense
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.
In one form or another, conscious or unconscious, we have all become propagandists; integrity alone can keep us truthful.
An absolute condition of all successful living, whether for an individual or a nation, is the acceptance of death.
To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the most pleasant sensations in the world. You are surrounded by adventure.
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.
Love of learning is a pleasant and universal bond since it deals with what one is and not what one has.
I have long come to believe that, more than any other destruction, our word-recklessness is endangering the future of us all.
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.
Every frontier is doomed to produce an opposition beyond it. Nothing short of the universal can build the unfenced peace.
It is a matter of civilizing everyone or not being civilized at all: the decay has always come from a partial civilization.
Tolerance cannot afford to have anything to do with the fallacy that evil may convert itself to good.
What I find trying in a country which you do not understand and where you cannot speak, is that you can never be yourself.
The true call of the desert, of the mountains, or the sea, is their silence - free of the networks of dead speech.
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.
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.
Things good in themselves ... perfectly valid in the integrity of their origins, become fetters if they cannot alter.
I do like people who have not yet made up their minds about everything, who in fact are still receiving
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?
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.
The symbol is greater than visible substance ... Unhappy the land that has no symbols, or that chooses their meaning without great care.
Style is something peculiar to one person; it expresses one personality and one only; it cannot be shared.
I feel like a divorced wife once my book is published and has left me, and hate to be brought back into intimate contact!
Freshness trembles beneath the surface of Everyday, a joy perpetual to all who catch its opal lights beneath the dust of habit.
If one were given a single window from which to look upon the changing Eastern world, it should face, I think, the road.
Christmas is not an external event at all, but a piece of one's home that one carries in one's heart.
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.
I think that the worst unpleasantness of age is not its final fact ... but the tediousness of preparation, the accumulating number of defeats.
Advertisement ... has brought our disregard for truth into the open without even a figleaf to cover it.
Absence is one of the most useful ingredients of family life, and to dose it rightly is an art like any other.