Freya Stark Quotes

One of the delights known to age, and beyond the grasp of youth, is that of Not Going.

The fifties - they seem to have taken place on a sunny afternoon that asked nothing of you except a drifting belief in the moment and its power to satisfy.

This is such a special summer holiday for me. I haven't known myself so relaxed in years.

If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless manner, you have learned how to live.

I like to be comfortable.

All happiness depends on a leisurely breakfast.

I'm an old-fashioned guy... I want to be an old man with a beer belly sitting on a porch, looking at a lake or something.

I am just relaxing and enjoying myself, doing what I always did.

I have a pretty easy life.

How great is it to just rest and be happy and not move when you don't have to.

Perfect happiness would be knowing that all my family and friends were happy and safe. Then I'd go to a tropical island with my husband where it was gorgeous and fun all day long and interesting and fun all evening. Good food and dancing would be nice, too, and weekly visits from those safe and happy family and friends. Plus world peace.

Being with my wife and children in Kauai, seeing old friends there, being on the beach, painting, paddleboarding. Sitting under a Kauai moon with a bonfire going, buddies around. Those are the things that kind of make my world turn.

The ultimate happiness is doing nothing.

Come, Boy, sit down. Sit down and rest." And the boy did. And the tree was happy.

Happy the eyes that can close

I think that's all I want in life, just like peace and be able to make music and like have happiness when it's time off. Spend time with people and family, whatever.

I've got nothing to do today but smile.

In the end, I take my shoes off and stick my feet in, letting the lukewarm water lick at my ankles. It feels good, and not just because I’m stoned. I make a mental note to add this to Dulcie’s list of things worth living for. For some reason, I keep seeing her rolling her eyes at me, that big, goofy grin stretching her face like Silly Putty. On my private list, I add her smile. She doesn’t have to know.

When busyness goes after joy, it goes after everyone's joy.

Human happiness seems to consist in three ingredients: action, pleasure and indolence.

For me, my life goal is to be in a position where I can wear pajamas 24 hours a day. That's what makes me happy.

One of the delights known to age, and beyond the grasp of youth, is that of Not Going.

Give me a flagon of red wine, a book of verses, a loaf of bread, and a little idleness. If with such store I might sit by thy dear side in some lonely place, I should deem myself happier than a king in his kingdom.

I wish I was at home in my nice hole by the fire, with the kettle just beginning to sing!

Life is good, but Wine is better.