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From Quotes by Jon Krakauer
- To the contrary: His life hummed with meaning and purpose. But the meaning he wrestled from existence lay beyond the comfortable path: McCandless distrusted the…
- Achieving the summit of a mountain was tangible, immutable, concrete. The incumbent hazards lent the activity a seriousness of purpose that was sorely missing from…
- Straddling the top of the world, one foot in China and the other in Nepal, I cleared the ice from my oxygen mask, hunched a…
- You are wrong if you think Joy emanates only...from human relationships. God has placed it all around us...and all you have to do is reach…
- I understood what he was doing, that he had spent four years fulfilling the absurd and tedious duty of graduating from college and now he…
- At long last he was unencumbered, emancipated from the stifling world of his parents and peers, a world of abstraction and security and material excess,…
- Chris would use the spiritual aspect to try to motivate us. "He'd tell us to think about all the evil in the world, all the…
- The core of mans' spirit comes from new experiences.
- You are wrong if you think Joy emanates only or principally from human relationships. God has placed it all around us. It is in everything…
- Hours slide by like minutes. The accumulated clutter of day-to-day existence — the lapses of conscience, the unpaid bills, the bungled opportunities, the dust under…
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