“To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the most pleasant sensations in the world. You are surrounded by adventure.” WorldStrangeAdventureTownsPleasantSensations Book:The Journey's Echo: Selections Source: The Journey's Echo: Selections
“Love of learning is a pleasant and universal bond since it deals with what one is and not what one has.” DealsUniversalPleasantLove Of Learning Author:Freya Stark
“Solitude, I reflected, is the one deep necessity of the human spirit to which adequate recognition is never given in our codes. It is looked upon as a discipline or penance, but hardly ever as the indispensable, pleasant ingredient it is to ordinary life, and from this want of recognition come half our domestic troubles.” WantHumansSpiritGivenHalfTroubleDisciplineSolitudeOrdinaryRecognitionCodePleasantIngredientsIndispensableHuman SpiritAdequateOrdinary LifePenanceOne Deep Author: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 pleasant waters for our old age.” IfsInspirationalHandsAgeFunnyFaithStrongWaterQuietSurpriseOld AgePleasantHave FaithSailSailingRichnessRudders Book:The Open Door, 1930-35 Source: The Open Door, 1930-35
“I have met charming people, lots who would be charming if they hadn't got a complex about the British and everyone has pleasant and cheerful manners and I like most of the American voices. On the other hand I don't believe they have any God and their hats are frightful. On balance I prefer the Arabs.” PeopleIfsBelieveHandsWould BeAmericaVoiceBalanceMetsComplexesDon't BelieveBritishMannersPleasantCharmHatsCharmingCheerful Book:Letters: New worlds for old, 1943-46 Source: Letters: New worlds for old, 1943-46
