Christopher McCandless

Happiness real only when shared.

— Christopher McCandless

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

— Christopher McCandless

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

— Christopher McCandless

“Ultimate freedom. An extremist. An aesthetic voyager whose home is the road.”

— Christopher McCandless

“Circumstance has no value. It is how one relates to a situation that has value. All true meaning resides the personal relationship…

— Christopher McCandless

No phone. No pool. No pets. No cigarettes. Ultimate freedom... No longer to be poisoned by civilization, he flees, and walks alone…

— Christopher McCandless

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

— Christopher McCandless

It is the experiences, the great triumphant joy of living to the fullest extent in which real meaning is found. God it's…

— Christopher McCandless

“Deliberate living: Conscious attention to the basics of life, and a constant attention to your immediate environment and its concerns - A…

— Christopher McCandless

Happiness isn't real unless it is shared.

— Christopher McCandless

(...)how important it is in life not necessarily to be strong, but to feel strong, to measure yourself at least once, to…

— Christopher McCandless

Surely all Americans have the right to give their money only to those causes which they support. But what kind of society…

— Christopher McCandless

“No longer to be poisoned by civilization he flees, and walks alone upon the land to become lost in the wild.”

— Christopher McCandless

Don´t hesitate or allow yourself to make excuses. Just get out and do it. Just get out and do it. You will…

— Christopher McCandless

“Two years he walks the Earth. No phone, no pool, no pets, no cigarettes. Ultimate freedom. An extremist. An aesthetic voyager whose…

— Christopher McCandless

I need your help. I am injured, near death, and too weak to hike out of here. I am all alone. This…

— Christopher McCandless

Circumstance has no value. It is how one relates to the situation that has value. All the meaning resides in the personal…

— Christopher McCandless

Happiness only real when shared.

— Christopher McCandless

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

— Christopher McCandless

The very basic core of a man's living spirit is his passion for adventure. The joy of life comes from our encounters…

— Christopher McCandless

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

— Christopher McCandless

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

— Christopher McCandless

Happiness is only real if shared.

— Christopher McCandless

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

— Christopher McCandless

Ultimate freedom. An extremist. An aesthetic voyager whose home is the road. Escaped from Atlanta. Thou shalt not return, 'cause “the West…

— Christopher McCandless