Christopher McCandless Quotes

(…)how important it is in life not necessarily to be strong, but to feel strong, to measure yourself at least once, to find yourself at least once in the most ancient of human conditions, facing the blind, deaf stone alone with? nothing to help you but your hands and your own head.

You don’t need human relationships to be happy, God has placed it all around us.

Some people feel like they don’t deserve love so they walk quietly into the empty spaces.

Surely all Americans have the right to give their money only to those causes which they support. But what kind of society has this created? A society where the ignorant reign. A society where enlightened must hold their tongues. A nation whose politicians must profess half-hearted devotion to an ancient fable or face the disastrous consequences of speaking their true mind.

But in reality nothing is more damaging to the adventurous spirit within a man than a secure future. The very basic core of a man’s living spirit is his passion for adventure.

Happiness real only when shared.

…there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun.

I’ve decided I’m going to live this life for some time to come. The freedom and simple beauty is just too good to pass up.

We just have to have the courage to turn against our habitual lifestyle and engage in unconventional living.

It is the experiences, the great triumphant joy of living to the fullest extent in which real meaning is found. God it’s great to be alive!

Happiness is only real if shared.

Circumstance has no value. It is how one relates to the situation that has value. All the meaning resides in the personal relationship to a phenomenon, what it means to you.