Freya Stark
Freya Stark
Dame Freya Madeline Stark, Mrs Perowne, DBEwas a British explorer and travel writer. She wrote more than two dozen books on her travels in the Middle East and Afghanistan, as well as several autobiographical works and essays. She was one of the first non-Arabians to travel through the southern Arabian Deserts...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionMemoirist
Date of Birth31 January 1893
CityParis, France
real thinking alive
To feel, and think, and learn - learn always: surely that is being alive and young in the real sense
death acceptance successful
An absolute condition of all successful living, whether for an individual or a nation, is the acceptance of death.
faith strong hands
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 pleasant waters for our old age.
art philosophy light
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.
possibility
All our acts have sacramental possibilities.
dog horse children
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.
people mind facts
I do like people who have not yet made up their minds about everything, who in fact are still receiving
doubt usual comfort
The camel carries on his dreary circular task with his usual slow and pompous step and head poised superciliously, as if it were a ritual affair above the comprehension of the vulgar; and no doubt he comforts himself for the dullness of life by a sense of virtue, like many other formalists beside him.
mistake belief static
The most ominous of fallacies - the belief that things can be kept static by inaction
curiosity invincible one-thing
Curiosity is the one thing invincible in Nature.
love-of-learning deals pleasant
Love of learning is a pleasant and universal bond since it deals with what one is and not what one has.
advertising disregard advertisements
advertisement ... has brought our disregard for truth into the open without even a figleaf to cover it.
christian practice giving
Once divested of missionary virus, the cult of our gods gives no offence. It would be a peaceful age if this were recognized, and religion, Christian, communist or any other, were to rely on practice and not on conversion for her growth.
past people use
Most people, after accomplishing something, use it over and over again like a gramophone record till it cracks, forgetting that the past is just the stuff with which to make more future.