“ Absence is one of the most useful ingredients of family life and to do it rightly is an art like any other. Freya Stark
“ Things good in themselves ... perfectly valid in the integrity of their origins become fetters if they cannot alter. Freya Stark
“ Few are the giants of the soul who actually feel that the human race is their family circle. Freya Stark
“ To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world. Freya Stark
“ Christmas... is not an external event at all, but a piece of one's home that one carries in one's heart. Freya Stark
“ 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
“ 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 i… Freya Stark
“ There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do. Freya Stark
“ 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
“ Style is something peculiar to one person it expresses one personality and one only it cannot be shared. 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
“ 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 wit… Freya Stark
“ Love of learning is a pleasant and universal bond since it deals with what one is and not what one has. Freya Stark
“ What a strange revelation of self-esteem it is when people only love those who think and feel as they do - an extension of themselves, in fact! Even Christianity does not cure us, since one cannot fee… Freya Stark
