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I now walk into the wild.
Make each day a new horizon.
Happiness only real when shared.
Happiness is only real if shared.
Happiness is only real when shared.
To dare is to do ... to fear is to fail.
Happiness isn't real unless it is shared.
The life and simple beauty of it is too good to pass up
If you want something in this life, reach out and grab it.
Seeing the world is a prerequisite to understanding one’s place in it.
Some people wait so long for their ship to come in, their pier collapses.
The very basic core of a man's living spirit is his passion for adventure.
I have had a happy life and thank the Lord. Goodbye and may God bless all!
Sometimes, when you're this adventurous, you rip the crotch out of your pants.
You don't need human relationships to be happy, God has placed it all around us.
Some people feel like they don't deserve love so they walk quietly into the empty spaces.
The Civic University operates on a global scale but uses its location to form its identity.
All true meaning resides in the personal relationship to a phenomenon, what it means to you.
I read somewhere, how important it is in life, to not necessarily be strong. But to feel strong.
The true secret to seeking the unknown is in the looking, not the finding. The journey is what matters.
We just have to have the courage to turn against our habitual lifestyle and engage in unconventional living.
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.
So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation.
...there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun.
If you really know what you want out of life, it's amazing how opportunities will come to enable you to carry them out.
I've decided I'm going to live this life for some time to come. The freedom and simple beauty is just too good to pass up.
As travelers, it is our responsibility to adapt, otherwise we miss the whole point: the opportunity to gain a new perspective.
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.
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!
You need a plan for everything, whether it's building a cathedral or a chicken coop. Without a plan, you'll postpone living until you're dead.
My world view has always been that there's just an enormous amount of cultural and religious diversity out there, all of which is really worth taking in.
When traveling in rural Africa, it's important to not actually *go* to a hospital until the patient is on the brink of expiration, otherwise things are apt to get worse.
No phone. No pool. No pets. No cigarettes. Ultimate freedom... No longer to be poisoned by civilization, he flees, and walks alone upon the land to become Lost in the Wild.
Circumstance has no value. It is how one relates to the situation that has value. All the meaning resides in the personal relationship to a phenomenon, what it means to you.
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.
But in reality nothing is more damaging to the 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 an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun.
We cannot bear for our most mysterious experiences to remain unexplained. I've therefore learned...that every story has worth, since a person takes the time to tell it. The key is to listen.
If travel has momentum and wants to stay in motion, as I mentioned earlier, then adventure has the gravitational pull of a black hole. The more you do it, the more you find a way to keep doing it.
Travel does not exist without home....If we never return to the place we started, we would just be wandering, lost. Home is a reflecting surface, a place to measure our growth and enrich us after being infused with the outside world.
In flight...entire days can be wound back or skipped over...as we exist merely in a world of vapor. Adventures are both beginning and coming to a close up here as people from opposite ends of experience paradoxically move in one direction.
They're both a bit cavalier about the whole thing at first; more than anything, they seem to think that it's going to be a lot of fun. Which it is, of course, but mostly in the way a plane crash is fun to reminisce about after you survive it.
I need your help. I am injured, near death, and too weak to hike out of here. I am all alone. This is no joke. In the name of God, please remain to save me. I am out collecting berries close by and shall return this evening. Thank you, Chris McCandless.
Adventrue rewrites the routine of our lives and wakes us sharply from the comforts of the familiar. It allows us to see how vast the expanse of our experience. Our ability to grow is no longer linear but becomes unrestricted to any direction we wish to run.
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 an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun.
Tramping is too easy with all this money. My days were more exciting when I was penniless and had to forage around for my next meal... I've decided that I'm going to live this life for some time to come. The freedom and simple beauty of it is just too good to pass up.
(...)how important it is in life not necessarily to be strong, but to feel strong, to measure yourself at least once, to find yourself at least once in the most ancient of human conditions, facing the blind, deaf stone alone with nothing to help you but your hands and your own head.
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 the adventurous spirit.
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 conservatism, all of which may appear to give one peace of mind, but in reality nothing is more dangerous to the adventurous spirit within a man than a secure future.
Surely all Americans have the right to give their money only to those causes which they support. But what kind of society has this created? A society where the ignorant reign. A society where enlightened must hold their tongues. A nation whose politicians must profess half-hearted devotion to an ancient fable or face the disastrous consequences of speaking their true mind.