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"Sometimes we're so concerned about giving our children what we never had growing up, we neglect to give them what we did have growing up."
"Mothers care in volumes of tears and earnestness of prayers and a depth of emotion others cannot fathom."
"So that is marriage, Lily thought, a man and a woman looking at a girl throwing a ball."
"One of the strongest loves I've ever witnessed is the love a mother has for her child."
"All happy families are alike, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way."
"Like all feelings felt for oneself, Mrs. Ramsay thought, it made one sad. It was so inadequate, what one could give in return; and what Rose felt was quite out of proportion to anything she actually was."
Explore more quotes by 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 pleasent waters for our old age."
"Absence is one of the most useful ingredients of family life, and to dose it rightly is an art like any other."
"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."
"Pain and fear and hunger are effects of causes which can be foreseen and known: but sorrow is a debt which someone else makes for us."
"There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do."
"Christmas... is not an external event at all, but a piece of one's home that one carries in one's heart."
"Few are the giants of the soul who actually feel that the human race is their family circle."
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