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1 " I am fundamentally an optimist. Whether that comes from nature or nurture, I cannot say. Part of being optimistic is keeping one's head pointed toward the sun, one's feet moving forward. There were many dark moments when my faith in humanity was sorely tested, but I would not and could not give myself up to despair. That way lays defeat and death. "
― Nelson Mandela , Long Walk to Freedom
2 " Better to die on one's feet than to live on one's knees. "
― Jean-Paul Sartre
3 " If the body is the register of the real, then reading with one's feet is real in a way reading with one's eyes alone is not. "
― Rebecca Solnit , Wanderlust: A History of Walking
4 " Life has always been a matter of putting one's feet down carefully "
― Isobelle Carmody , The Farseekers (The Obernewtyn Chronicles, #2)
5 " To wear dreams on one's feet is to begin to give a reality to one's dreams. "
