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, comformity, and conservatism, all of which may appear to give one peace of mind, 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. -CHRISTOPHER MCCANDLESS
Ben Zander
God, I love my story. I love all of them. I think it’s a total mess - they all are - and it’ll be hell to figure them out, but it’s mine, and it’s real, and I made it, and it exists because of me. They all exist because I allowed them to. And I’ll be damned if it all disappears before I’ve had a chance to breathe life into people who are more real to me than anything, dealing with issues that matter, and doing the things that I never get to. These people are brilliant, and brave, and messed up, and they’re real.
Looking at my notebooks, at all of those pages filled up with their words and their lives and their stories, makes me so happy and so proud. I can feel closer to them just by reading those words and writing them.
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