Echoes

Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.

The mountains are calling and I must go.

Happiness depends on being free, and freedom depends on being courageous.

He who lives sees much. He who travels sees more.

Traveling offers you a hundred roads to adventure, and gives your heart wings.

The purpose of life...is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

It's kind of fun to do the impossible.

Do not follow in the footsteps of the old masters, but seek what they sought — and find it in the mountains, the rivers, and the open sky.

A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.

I believe it is in our nature to explore, to reach out into the unknown. The only true failure would be not to explore at all.

The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.

The explorers of the past were great men and we should honour them. But let us not forget that their spirit lives on. It is still not hard to find a man who will adventure for the sake of a dream or one who will search, for the pleasure of searching, not for what he may find.

If you live according to nature, you will never be poor; if you live according to opinion, you will never be rich.

Forget the years, forget distinctions. Leap into the boundless and make it your home!

It seems to be a law of nature, inflexible and inexorable, that those who will not risk cannot win.

Audacity succeeds as often as it fails; in life it has an even chance.

It is only ideas gained from walking that have any worth.

In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.

Go west, young man, and grow up with the country.

It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.

Independence I have long considered as the grand blessing of life, the basis of every virtue; and independence I will ever secure by contracting my wants, though I were to live on a barren heath.

The only certainty is that nothing is certain.

An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit.

...why did we wait for any thing? — why not seize the pleasure at once? — How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation!