There is generosity in giving, but gentleness in receiving. Freya Stark More Quotes by Freya Stark More Quotes From Freya Stark The greatest of mythologies divided its gods into creators, preservers and destroyers. Tidiness obviously belongs to the second category, which mitigates the terrific impact of the other two. Freya Stark impact two order youth looks at its world and age looks through it; youth must get busy on problems whose outlines stand single and strenuous before it, while age can, with luck, achieve a cosmic private harmony unsuited for action as a rule. Freya Stark luck age looks All greatness in style begins, I imagine, with such respect, deep and passionate enough to produce a humility which will not assert itself at the expense even of inanimate things: out of which submissiveness a desire to serve is born, in disinterested accuracy toward the object, whatever it may be. Freya Stark style greatness humility We love those people who give with humility, or who accept with ease. Freya Stark humility humble giving I feel like a divorced wife once my book is published and has left me, and hate to be brought back into intimate contact! Freya Stark wife hate book The perpetual charm of Arabia is that the traveler finds his level there simply as a human being; the people's directness, deadly to the sentimental or pedantic, likes the less complicated virtues. Freya Stark arabia levels people The true gardener then brushes over the ground with slow and gentle hand, to liberate a space for breath round some favorites; but he is not thinking about destruction except incidentally. It is only the amateur like myself who becomes obsessed and rejoices with a sadistic pleasure in weeds that are big and bad enough to pull, and at last, almost forgetting the flowers altogether, turns into a Reformer. Freya Stark weed flower thinking Your real progressives are never fair: they are never sufficiently neutral. Freya Stark fairs real I suspect anyone self-satisfied enough to refuse lawful pleasures: we are not sufficiently rich in our separate resources to reject the graces of the universe when offered. Freya Stark rich grace self ... there are few things that can reconcile us fully to our parting with a world of which the longest life can see so little and whose beauties have so extraordinary a variety. Freya Stark reconcile littles world ... I cannot think a civilization worth having that does not encourage and enable its subjects to spend something, not extorted by governments but freely given to keep wretchedness at least from the streets they walk through day by day. Freya Stark government civilization thinking Whoever designed this frigging map was having a laugh. Just around the corner, my arse. Freya Stark arses maps laughing Life, to be happy at all, must be in its way a sacrament, and it is a failure in religion to divorce it from the holy acts of everyday, of ordinary human existence. Freya Stark divorce everyday ordinary Style is something peculiar to one person; it expresses one personality and one only; it cannot be shared. Freya Stark style acceptance personality To think to keep things as they are, is to let them move unpredictably, since nothing but death will still the beat of the heart or keep the universe from its perpetual motion. Freya Stark heart moving thinking Absence is one of the most useful ingredients of family life, and to dose it rightly is an art like any other. Freya Stark ingredients absence art ... I want to be one of those people who are always to be found at home, nice restful people whom everybody likes because they give a feeling of permanence to this rushing world. Freya Stark rushing nice home It is only the unexpected that ever makes a customs officer think. Freya Stark officers unexpected thinking words are but drops pressed out of the lives of those who lived them. Freya Stark Words are the only arteries of thought our poor human body possesses. Freya Stark arteries poor body
