Absence is one of the most useful ingredients of family life, and to do it rightly is an art like any other.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
Christmas... is not an external event at all, but a piece of one's home that one carries in one's heart.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
Style is something peculiar to one person; it expresses one personality and one only; it cannot be shared.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
There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do.Freya Stark
Things good in themselves . . . perfectly valid in the integrity of their origins, become fetters if they cannot alter.Freya Stark
