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.

Quote by Freya Stark

Topics: Age Quotes, Funny Quotes

Happiness is like perfume: You can't give it away without getting a little on yourself.

Happiness is like perfume: You can't give it away without getting a little on yourself.

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

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

If we are strong, and have faith in life and its richness of surprises, and...

If we are strong, and have faith in life and its richness of surprises, and...

Christmas... is not an eternal event at all, but a piece of one's home that...

Christmas... is not an eternal event at all, but a piece of one's home that...

The most ominous of fallacies - the belief that things can be kept static by...

The most ominous of fallacies - the belief that things can be kept static by...

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

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

This is a great moment, when you see, however distant, the goal of your wandering....

This is a great moment, when you see, however distant, the goal of your wandering....

Pain and fear and hunger are effects of causes which can be foreseen and known:...

Pain and fear and hunger are effects of causes which can be foreseen and known:...

The great and almost only comfort about being a woman is that one can always...

The great and almost only comfort about being a woman is that one can always...

Christmas ... is not an eternal event at all, but a piece of one's home...

Christmas ... is not an eternal event at all, but a piece of one's home...

Good days are to be gathered like grapes, to be trodden and bottled into wine...

Good days are to be gathered like grapes, to be trodden and bottled into wine...

Absence is one of the most useful ingredients of family life, and to dose it...

Absence is one of the most useful ingredients of family life, and to dose it...

Few are the giants of the soul who actually feel that the human race is...

Few are the giants of the soul who actually feel that the human race is...

Absence is one of the most useful ingredients of family life, and to dose it...

Absence is one of the most useful ingredients of family life, and to dose it...

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

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

Curiosity is the one thing invincible in Nature.

Curiosity is the one thing invincible in Nature.