Christopher McCandless

Happiness only real when shared

Deberías cambiar radicalmente de vida y empezar a hacer cosas que antes ni siquiera imaginabas o que nunca te habías atrevido a intentar. Sé audaz. Son demasiadas las personas que se sienten infelices y que no toman la iniciativa de cambiar su situación porque se las ha condicionado para que acepten una vida basada en la estabilidad, las convenciones y el conformismo… Si quieres obtener más de la vida debes renunciar a una existencia segura y monótona… No eches raíces, no te establezcas. Cambia a menudo de lugar, lleva una vida nómada, renueva cada día tus expectativas… No necesitas tener a alguien contigo para traer una nueva luz a tu vida. Está ahí fuera, sencillamente… Tu único enemigo eres tú mismo y esa terquedad que te impide cambiar las circunstancias en que vives.

You are wrong if you think Joy emanates only or principally from human relationships. God has placed it all around us. Is is in everything and anything we might experience. We just have to have the courage to turn against our habitual lifestyle and engage in unconventional living.

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

You think that I am stubborn, but you are even more stubborn than me. You had a wonderful chance on your drive back to see one of the greatest sights on earth, the Grand Canyon, something every American should see at least once in his life. But for some reason incomprehensible to me you wanted nothing but to bolt for home as quickly as possible, right back to the same situation which you see day after day after day. I fear you will follow this same inclination in the future and thus fail to discover all the wonderful things that God has placed around us to discover. Don't settle down and sit in one place. Move around, be nomadic, make each day a new horizon.

Deliberate living: Conscious attention to the basics of life, and a constant attention to your immediate environment and its concerns - A job, a task, a book; anything requiring efficient concentration (Circumstance has no value. It is how one relates to a situation that has value. All true meaning resides in the personal relationship to a phenomenon, what it means to you)

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.

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!

Rien n'est plus nuisible à l'esprit aventureux d'un homme qu'un avenir assuré

Make each day a new horizon.

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

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.

I don't want to know what time it is. I don't want to know what day it is or where I am. None of that matters.

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

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