Christopher McCandless Quotes

• Don´t hesitate or allow yourself to make excuses. Just get out and do it. Just get out and do it. You will be very, very glad that you did.

  Christopher McCandless

  Excuse, Glad

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• The very basic core of a man's living spirit is his passion for adventure. The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun.

  Christopher McCandless

  Life, Motivational, Travel

  Letter to Russell Fritz, April 1992.

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• So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation because they are conditioned to a life of security, conformity, and conservatism, all of which may appear to give one peace of mind, but in reality nothing is more dangerous to the adventurous spirit within a man than a secure future.

  Christopher McCandless

  Men, Reality, Adventurous Life

  Letter to Russell Fritz (as known as Ron Franz), April 1992.

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

  Christopher McCandless

  Needs, Humans, Human Relations

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• 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.

  Christopher McCandless

  Simple, This Life, Simple Beauty

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• (...)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.

  Christopher McCandless

  Strong, Hands, Finding Yourself

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

  Christopher McCandless

  Unconventional, Lifestyle, Turns

  Letter to Russell Fritz (as known as Ron Franz), April 1992.

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

  Christopher McCandless

  Adventure, Adventurous Life, New Experiences

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• 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.

  Christopher McCandless

  Giving, Support, Ignorant

  The Emory Wheel student newspaper, October 1987.

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• If you want something in this life, reach out and grab it.

  Christopher McCandless

  Want Something, This Life, Reach Out

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• Happiness only real when shared.

  Christopher McCandless

  Happiness, Real, Sharing Happiness

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• Ultimate freedom. An extremist. An aesthetic voyager whose home is the road. Escaped from Atlanta. Thou shalt not return, 'cause “the West is the best.” And now after two rambling years comes the final and greatest adventure, the climactic battle to kill the false being within and victoriously conclude the spiritual revolution. Ten days and nights of freight trains and hitchhiking bring him to the great white North. No longer to be poisoned by civilization he flees, and walks alone upon the land to become lost in the wild.

  Christopher McCandless

  Spiritual, Home, Adventure

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• So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation.

  Christopher McCandless

  Adventurous Life, New Experiences, Monotonous Life

  In a letter to Russell Fritz (as known as Ron Franz), April 1992.

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

  Christopher McCandless

  Deserve Love, Space, People

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• The very basic core of a man's living spirit is his passion for adventure.

  Christopher McCandless

  Adventure, Passion, Men

  In a letter to Russell Fritz (as known as Ron Franz), April 1992 in "Back to the Wild" by Chris McCandless and Mary Ellen Barnes, (2nd ed.), Twin Star Press, (pp. 135-137), 2013.

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• I have had a happy life and thank the Lord. Goodbye and may God bless all!

  Christopher McCandless

  Goodbye, Happy Life, May

  Final written goodbye, August 13, 1992 in "Back to the Wild" by Chris McCandless and Mary Ellen Barnes, (2nd ed.), Twin Star Press, (pp. 234-241), 2013.

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• I read somewhere, how important it is in life, to not necessarily be strong. But to feel strong.

  Christopher McCandless

  Strong, Hate, Important

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• 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!

  Christopher McCandless

  Real, Joy, Alive

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• 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.

  Christopher McCandless

  Mean, Humor, Deep Thought

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• 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.

  Christopher McCandless

  Adventure, Passion, Reality

  Letter to Russell Fritz (as known as Ron Franz), April 1992.

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• Make each day a new horizon.

  Christopher McCandless

  New Horizons, Horizon, Each Day

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• Happiness isn't real unless it is shared.

  Christopher McCandless

  Real, Balance

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• Happiness real only when shared.

  Christopher McCandless

  Real

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• The life and simple beauty of it is too good to pass up

  Christopher McCandless

  Simple, Simple Beauty

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• Happiness is only real if shared.

  Christopher McCandless

  Real, Ifs

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