“Many decisions are made in our lifetime, Most relatively insignificant while others life altering” — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image
But somethings in life are more important than being happy. Like being free to think for yourself. — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image
To the contrary: His life hummed with meaning and purpose. But the meaning he wrested from existence lay beyond the comfortable path:… — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image
“I have always been unsatisfied with life as most people live it. Always I want to live more richly and intensely.” — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image
“is a sharp hurt I feel every single day. It’s really hard. Some days are better than others, but it’s going to… — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image
I thought climbing the Devil's Thumb would fix all that was wrong with my life. In the end, of course, it changed… — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image
“You are still going to live a long time, Ron, and it would be a shame if you did not take the… — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image
“We were brought up to be very independent. Our parents taught us that we were given certain talents and we needed to… — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image
I read somewhere... how important it is in life not necessarily to be strong, but to feel strong... to measure yourself at… — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image
“Reuss would spend the remainder of his meteoric life on the move, living out of a backpack on very little money, sleeping… — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image
He was unheeded, happy, and near to the wild heart of life. He was alone and young and wilful and wildhearted, alone… — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image
“It seems more than a little patronizing for Westerners to lament the loss of the good old days when life in the… — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image
“Nothing is more damaging to the adventurous spirit within a man than a secure future. The very basic core of a man’s… — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image
Passion is what makes life interesting, what ignites our soul, drives our curiosity, fuels our love and carries our friendship, stimulates our… — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image
There is something special about a quiet untouched forest that just pulls you into the moment. Something that no parks will ever… — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image
At long last he was unencumbered, emancipated from the stifling world of his parents and peers, a world of abstraction and security… — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image
Don't settle down and sit in one place. Move around, be nomadic, make each day a new horizon. You are still going… — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image
“he was ready, perhaps, to shed a little of the armor he wore around his heart, that upon returning to civilization, he… — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image
Unlike most of life, what you do really matters. Your actions have real consequences. You have to pay attention and focus, and… — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image
“On July 2, McCandless finished reading Tolstoy's "Family Happiness", having marked several passages that moved him: "He was right in saying that… — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image
“Alex here. (...) Ron, I really enjoy all the help you have given me and the times we spent together. I hope… — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image
“I'd like to repeat the advice that I gave you before, in that I think you really should make a radical change… — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image
“make a radical change in your lifestyle and begin to boldly do things which you may previously never have thought of doing,… — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image
“Two years he walks the earth. No phone, no pool, no pets, no cigarettes. Ultimate freedom. An extremist. An aesthetic voyager whose… — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image
I knew that you couldn't make a living simply writing about the outdoors, so I made an effort from the beginning of… — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image
To the contrary: His life hummed with meaning and purpose. But the meaning he wrestled from existence lay beyond the comfortable path:… — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image
“I wanted movement and not a calm course of existence. I wanted excitement and danger and the chance to sacrifice myself for… — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image
It is the experiences, the memories, the great triumphant joy of living to the fullest extent in which real meaning is found.… — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image
“If you get killed,” she argued with a mix of despair and anger, “it’s not just you who’ll pay the price. I’ll… — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image
“Traumatic memories have a number of unusual qualities. They are not encoded like the ordinary memories of adults in a verbal, linear… — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image
Hours slide by like minutes. The accumulated clutter of day-to-day existence — the lapses of conscience, the unpaid bills, the bungled opportunities,… — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image
Having stumbled upon a tolerable career, for the first time in my life I was actually living above the poverty line. My… — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image
“And so it turned out that only a life similar to the life of those around us, merging with it without a… — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image
You are wrong if you think Joy emanates only or principally from human relationships. God has placed it all around us. It… — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image
Early on a difficult climb, especially a solo climb, you’re hyper-aware of the abyss pulling at your back, constantly feeling its call, its immense… — Jon Krakauer Copy Share
“Climbing mattered. The danger bathed the world in a halogen glow that caused everything—the sweep of the rock, the orange and yellow lichens, the… — Jon Krakauer Copy Share
“It is easy, when you are young, to believe that what you desire is no less than what you deserve, to assume that if… — Jon Krakauer Copy Share
He read a lot. He used a lot of big words. I think maybe part of what got him into trouble was that he… — Jon Krakauer Copy Share
But [Everett] and McCandless, at least they tried to follow their dream. That’s what was great about them. They tried. Not many do. — Jon Krakauer Copy Share
“he was ready, perhaps, to shed a little of the armor he wore around his heart, that upon returning to civilization, he intended to… — Jon Krakauer Copy Share
“Continually question climbing pursuits. Do they draw one back to the climbing community? Or do they lead along the [inner-directed] path? This questioning generates… — Jon Krakauer Copy Share
“The boy unmasked the gaping void in Franz's life even as he helped fill it.” — Jon Krakauer Copy Share
“Unlike Muir and Thoreau, McCandless went into the wilderness not primarily to ponder nature or the world at large but, rather, to explore the… — Jon Krakauer Copy Share
I'm intrigued by fanatics - people who are seduced by the promise, or the illusion, of the absolute. — Jon Krakauer Copy Share
You are wrong if you think Joy emanates only or principally from human relationships. God has placed it all around us. It is in… — Jon Krakauer Copy Share
I mean, how can you not be a feminist if you have a brain in your head? If you’re not a feminist, then you’re… — Jon Krakauer Copy Share
“...I quickly came to understand that climbing Everest was primarily about enduring pain. And in subjecting ourselves to week after week of toil, tedium,… — Jon Krakauer Copy Share
“going to have to be real careful not to accept any gifts from them in the future because they will think they have bought… — Jon Krakauer Copy Share
“He must have been very brave and very strong, at the end, not to do himself in.” — Jon Krakauer Copy Share
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