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

Quote by Freya Stark

Topics: Happiness Quotes

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:...

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...

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...

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...

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 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...

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.

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...

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....

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...

Curiosity is the one thing invincible in Nature.

Curiosity is the one thing invincible in Nature.

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...

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...

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...

On the whole, age comes more gently to those who have some doorway into an...

On the whole, age comes more gently to those who have some doorway into an...

You are not permitted to kill a woman who has injured you, but nothing forbids...

You are not permitted to kill a woman who has injured you, but nothing forbids...

Man reaches the highest point of lovableness at 12 to 17 - to get it...

Man reaches the highest point of lovableness at 12 to 17 - to get it...

In the decline of life shame and grief are of short duration; whether it be...

In the decline of life shame and grief are of short duration; whether it be...

Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age.

Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age.

The worst realities of our age are manufactured realities. It is therefore our task, as...

The worst realities of our age are manufactured realities. It is therefore our task, as...