Freya Stark Quotes

What a strange revelation of self-esteem it is when people only love those who think and feel as the...

Curiosity is the one thing invincible in Nature.

The most ominous of fallacies: the belief that things can be kept static by inaction.

Things good in themselves ... perfectly valid in the integrity of their origins become fetters if t...

Christmas... is not an external event at all, but a piece of one's home that one carries in one's he...

To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world.

Time is the sea in which men grow are born or die.

All our acts have sacramental possibilities.

Style is something peculiar to one person it expresses one personality and one only it cannot be s...

Love of learning is a pleasant and universal bond since it deals with what one is and not what one h...

The beckoning counts, not the clicking latch behind you

Absence is one of the most useful ingredients of family life and to do it rightly is an art like an...

Perhaps the best function of parenthood is to teach the young creature to love with safety so that ...

All the feeling which my father could not put into words was in his hand- any dog child or horse w...

Travel does what good novelists also do to the life of everyday, placing it like a picture in a fram...

There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do.

Few are the giants of the soul who actually feel that the human race is their family circle.

The great and almost only comfort about being a woman is that one can always pretend to be more stup...