

“Set for yourself goals, high and noble goals, and perish in pursuit of them!”
― Hiking with Nietzsche: Becoming Who You Are
― Hiking with Nietzsche: Becoming Who You Are

“Suffering is an art.”
― The Rider
― The Rider

“His accidental fortune was beyond calculation, to have been born in 1948 in placid Hampshire, not Ukraine or Poland in 1928, not to have been dragged from the synagogue steps in 1941 and brought here. His white-tiled cell – a piano lesson, a premature love affair, a missed education, a missing wife – was by comparison a luxury suite. If his life so far was a failure, as he often thought, it was in the face of history’s largesse.”
― Lessons
― Lessons

“Although walking arises from our deep, evolutionary past, it is our future too: for walking will do you all the good that you now know it does.”
― In Praise of Walking: A New Scientific Exploration
― In Praise of Walking: A New Scientific Exploration

“Joy tends to involve some transcendence of self. It’s when the skin barrier between you and some other person or entity fades away and you feel fused together. Joy is present when mother and baby are gazing adoringly into each other’s eyes, when a hiker is overwhelmed by beauty in the woods and feels at one with nature, when a gaggle of friends are dancing deliriously in unison. Joy often involves self-forgetting.”
― The Second Mountain: The Quest for a Moral Life
― The Second Mountain: The Quest for a Moral Life
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