Freya Stark

“To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world.”

“There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do.”

“Curiosity is the one thing invincible in Nature.”

“A good holiday is one spent among people whose notions of time are vaguer than yours.”

“It is a great art to have an abundance of knowledge and experience - to know the richness of life, the beauty of unseen things, the eternal passing of time.”

“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.”

“The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are.”

“Travel does what good novelists also do to the head of the reader. It makes you wiser.”

“The true fruit of travel is perhaps the feeling of being everywhere at home.”

“One can only really travel if one lets oneself go and takes a chance.”

“This is a great moment, when you see, however distant, the goal of your wandering. The thing which has been living in your imagination suddenly becomes part of the tangible world.”

“One of the signs of a great man is the feeling of not being great, but of being a part of greatness.”

“The main thing in life is not to be nothing. And to be nothing is to be what you are, but not what you have it in you to be.”

“In the end, it is the facts that count, and the faith that must be inspired by them.”