“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.” IfsNeedsWellsMomentsAgeFireTroubleWineGlassesWanderEaseTravelerGood DayGrapesDrunkennessRubies Book:Perseus In The Wind: A Life of Travel Source: Perseus In The Wind: A Life of Travel
“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.” WorldLooksProblemAgeActionAchieveYouthHarmonyLuckBusyCosmicOutlines Author:Freya Stark
“I do think we should be provided with a new body about the age of thirty or so when we have learnt to attend to it with consideration.” ThinkingShouldBodyAgeThirtyConsideration Author:Freya Stark
“I think that the worst unpleasantness of age is not its final fact ... but the tediousness of preparation, the accumulating number of defeats.” ThinkingFactsAgeNumbersWorstFinalsDefeatOld AgePreparation Author:Freya Stark
“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.” IfsGivingWould BeAgeChristianGrowthPracticeConversionPeacefulRelyCommunistMissionaryCultVirusesOffenceReligion Christian Book:The Journey's Echo: Selections Source: The Journey's Echo: Selections
“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.” IfsInspirationalHandsAgeFunnyFaithStrongWaterQuietSurpriseOld AgePleasantHave FaithSailSailingRichnessRudders Book:The Open Door, 1930-35 Source: The Open Door, 1930-35
“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.” WorldYearsArtPhilosophyWholeLightAgeYoungQuietAbstractRegionsTruthfulPaleDoorwaysYoung And Old Book:The Journey's Echo: Selections Source: The Journey's Echo: Selections
