Famous quotes by Freya Stark:

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

"Perhaps the best function of parenthood is to teach the young creature to love with safety, so that it may be able to venture unafraid when later emotion comes; 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. To disapprove, to condemn /the human soul shrivels under barren righteousness."

"Good days are to be gathered like grapes, to be trodden and bottled into wine and kept for age to sip at ease beside the fire. If the traveler has vintaged well, he need trouble to wander no longer; the ruby moments glow in his glass at will."

"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."

"On the whole, age comes more gently to those who have some doorway into an abstract world-art, or philosophy, or learning-regions where the years are scarcely noticed and the young and old can meet in a pale truthful light"

"Absence is one of the most useful ingredients of family life, and to dose it rightly is an art like any other."

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

"The most ominous of fallacies - the belief that things can be kept static by inaction"

"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."

"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."

"Curiosity is the one thing invincible in Nature."

"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."

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