"I now walk into the wild!"

“you know, no fucking watch, no map, no axe, no nothing. No nothing. Just be out there. Just be out there in it. You know, big mountains, rivers, sky, game. Just be out there in it, you know?"

"make a radical change in your life style and begin to bodly do things which you may previously never have thought of doing, or been too hesitant to attempt.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 conservation, all of which may appear to give one peace of mind, but in reality nothing is more damaging to adventurous spirit within a man than a secure future.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 a new and different sun.If you want to get more out of life,you must lose your inclination for monotonous security and adopt a helter-skelter style of life that will at first appear to you to be crazy.But once you become accustomed to such a life, you will see its fyll meaning and its incredible beauty.”

“My point is that you do not need me or anyone else around to bring new kind of light in your life.It is simply waiting out there for you to grasp it, and all you have to do is reach for it. The only person you are fighting is yourself and your stubbornness to engage in new circumstances."

"The fragility of crystal is not a weakness but a fineness. My parents understood that fine crystal glass had to be cared for or may be shattered.” 

"Some people feel like they don't deserve love.They walk away quietly into empty spaces, trying to close the gaps of the gaps of the past."

When a young person is moved by passion and feels compelled to go on this sort of quest, I think you have to let him. You can't stop him. In our culture we don't have formal rights of passage like in some ancient cultures. Subjecting yourself to risk.. may be something you have to go through to be a man or a woman." 

"What if I were smiling and running into your arms?Would you see then what I see now?"

“you are wrong if you think that the joy of life comes principally from the joy of human relationships. God’s place is all around us, it is in everything and in anything we can experience. People just need to change the way they look at things.”

“I now walk into the wild.” 

"in reality, nothing is more danerous to the adventurous spirit within a man than a secure future."

“Its not always necessary to be strong, but to feel strong.” 

“It is easy, when you are young, to believe that what you desire is no less than what you deserve, to assume that if you want something badly enough, it is your God-given right to have it.”

“what more can the heart of a man desire?"

“Sometimes he tried too hard to make sense of the world, to figure out why people were bad to each other so often.”

"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.”

 "When you forgive, you love. And when you love, God's light shines upon you." 

"Happiness is only real when it is shared."

“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