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Best Freya Stark Quotes to Inspire and Motivate You

I have no reason to go, except that I have never been, and knowledge is better than ignorance. What better reason could there be for travelling?

The tourist travels in his own atmosphere like a snail in his shell and stands, as it were, on his own perambulating doorstep to look at the continents of the world. But if you discard all this, and sally forth with a leisurely and blank mind, there is no knowing what may not happen to you.

Your customary thoughts, all except the rarest of your friends, even most of your luggage - everything, in fact, which belongs to your everyday life, is merely a hindrance.

If you are wise and know the art of travel, let yourself go on the stream of the unknown and accept whatever comes in the spirit in which the gods may offer it.

If I were asked to enumerate the pleasures of travel, this would be one of the greatest among them that so often and so unexpectedly you meet the best in human nature.

“To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world. You are surrounded by adventure.”

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You will fail at some point in your life. Accept it. You will lose. You will embarrass yourself. You will suck at something. There is no doubt about it.

I play to win, whether during practice or a real game. And I will not let anything get in the way of me and my competitive enthusiasm to win.

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.

Hostility comes from loneliness, from not seeing yourself like a drop falling into the ocean of humanity like everyone else.

Your customary thoughts, all except the rarest of your friends, even most of your luggage - everything, in fact, which belongs to your everyday life, is merely a hindrance.

Value is something people feel, not something we tell them they get.

“One would live at last amongst men, and with one's self as with Nature, without praise, reproach, or agitation"

The universe belongs to those who, at least to some degree, have figure it out.

"It is easy to do things that are bad and unbeneficial to oneself, but it is extremely difficult, indeed, to do things that are beneficial and good."

"Be fearful when others are greedy. Be greedy when others are fearful."

Sorrow is knowledge: they who know the most must mourn the deepest o'er the fatal truth, the Tree of Knowledge is not that of Life.

Joy in the Thing people say; but in reality it is joy in itself by means of the thing."