Christopher McCandless quotes

Christopher McCandless quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“DonÂ´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

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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 Quotes #Motivational Quotes #Travel Quotes
“Make each day a new horizon.”
-- Christopher McCandless

#Horizon Quotes #Each Day Quotes
“The very basic core of a man's living spirit is his passion for adventure.”
-- Christopher McCandless

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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

#Joy Quotes #Sun Quotes #Different 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 withï»¿ nothing to help you but your hands and your own head.”
-- Christopher McCandless

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“Happiness real only when shared.”
-- Christopher McCandless

#Real Quotes
“We just have to have the courage to turn against our habitual lifestyle and engage in unconventional living.”
-- Christopher McCandless

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

#Unconventional Quotes #Lifestyle Quotes #Turns Quotes
“If you want something in this life, reach out and grab it.”
-- Christopher McCandless

#Want Quotes #This Life Quotes #Reach Out Quotes
“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

#Reality Quotes #Men Quotes #People Quotes
“Ultimate freedom. An extremist. An aesthetic voyager whose home is the road. Escaped from Atlanta. Thou shalt not return, 'cause â€œthe West is the best.â€ 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 Quotes #Home Quotes #Adventure Quotes
“The life and simple beauty of it is too good to pass up”
-- Christopher McCandless

#Simple Quotes #Simple Beauty Quotes
“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

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“Happiness only real when shared.”
-- Christopher McCandless

#Happiness Quotes #Real Quotes
“Happiness is only real if shared.”
-- Christopher McCandless

#Real Quotes
“You don't need human relationships to be happy, God has placed it all around us.”
-- Christopher McCandless

#Needs Quotes #Humans Quotes #Human Relations Quotes
“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 Quotes #This Life Quotes #Simple Beauty Quotes
“Happiness isn't real unless it is shared.”
-- Christopher McCandless

#Real Quotes #Balance Quotes
“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

#Passion Quotes #Adventure Quotes #Reality Quotes
“I read somewhere, how important it is in life, to not necessarily be strong. But to feel strong.”
-- Christopher McCandless

#Strong Quotes #Hate Quotes #Important Quotes
“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

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“I have had a happy life and thank the Lord. Goodbye and may God bless all!”
-- Christopher McCandless

Source : 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.

#Goodbye Quotes #Happy Life Quotes #May Quotes

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