“The purpose of life, after all, is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for a newer and richer experience”
- Eleanor Roosevelt
“I travel because I become uncomfortable being too comfortable”
-Carew Papritz
“Earth & sky, woods & fields, lakes & rivers, the mountain & the sea, are excellent schoolmasters,
and teach of us more than we can ever learn from books.”
-John Lubbock
“To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world.
You are surrounded by adventure.”
- Freya Stark
“The world is big and I want to have a good look at it before it gets dark.” — John Muir
“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.”
— Anais Nin
“I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it.
The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.”
— Nelson Mandela
“He who fears the sun will not become chief.”
— Ugandan proverb