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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 25dc282 | answer | Jon Krakauer | ||
| e3cc2d8 | He was right in saying that the only certain happiness in life is to live for others. . . | Jon Krakauer | ||
| eba8fd5 | drawn to a pursuit considered reckless by his elders; | Jon Krakauer | ||
| 346a878 | knew that one person with a conscience could make a difference and I was that person. Why not? | Wayne W. Dyer | ||
| 37e3d8a | Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth. I sat at a table where were rich food and wine in abundance, an obsequious attendance, but sincerity and truth were not; and I went away hungry from The inhospitable board. the hospitality was a cold as the ices. | Jon Krakauer | ||
| f66bc63 | Early on a difficult climb, especially a difficult solo climb, you're hyperaware of the abyss pulling at your back. You constantly feel its call, its immense hunger. To resist takes a tremendous conscious effort; you don't dare let your guard down for an instant. The siren song of the void puts you on edge, it makes your movements tentative, clumsy, herky-jerky. Bus as the climb goes on, you grow accustomed to the exposure, you get used to .. | Jon Krakauer | ||
| 99f1f65 | the romantic waste places of the world. | Jon Krakauer | ||
| 745c4ce | Happiness only real when shared | Jon Krakauer | ||
| 84c8a90 | HAPPINESS ONLY REAL WHEN SHARED. | Jon Krakauer | ||
| 0c019f8 | Le mire. --?Habias visto algo tan cruel? Solto una risita. --He visto cosas mucho peores, Kenzie. Me volvi hacia Devin. --?Y tu? --Por supuesto. --Echo un trago--. El mundo es violento, Patrick. La gente disfruta matando. Porque... --Les da poder --dijo Oscar. --Exactamente --reconocio Devin--. Tiene que haber algo en ello que te hace sentir la hostia de bien. Todo ese poder... --Se encogio de hombros--. Pero ?para que te explicamos esto si.. | Dennis Lehane | ||
| 6413d9c | By and by your attention becomes so intensely focused that you no longer notice the raw knuckles, the cramping thighs, the strain of maintaining nonstop concentration. A trancelike state settles over your efforts; the climb becomes a clear-eyed dream. 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 the couch, the inescapable .. | Jon Krakauer | ||
| 555636f | Ai esta o no do dilema que todo alpinista no Everest acaba tendo que enfrentar: para ter sucesso, voce precisa estar bastante motivado, mas, se a motivacao for excessiva, e provavel que voce morra. | everest mountaineering | Jon Krakauer | |
| b9e0732 | Gallien cu ban khoan khong hieu lieu co phai anh da nhat o cuoi bang thu bon muoi tam mot trong nhung ga khung muon len phia Bac de song nhu trong nhung cau chuyen tuong tuong xoc noi kieu Jack London hay khong. Alaska tu lau da la mot thoi nam cham doi voi cac anh chang mo mong va khong thich nghi duoc voi xa hoi, nhung ke cho rang su khac nghiet cuc do cua chon tham son cung coc se lap day nhung ho tham trong cuoc doi ho. | Jon Krakauer | ||
| ade07c7 | finds Mexicans to be warm, friendly people. Much more hospitable than Americans.... | Jon Krakauer | ||
| 579fe85 | Os papar nao arriscaram suas vidas - e perderam-nas em recuas nao registradas - em busca de riqueza ou gloria pessoal, ou para reivindicar novos territorios em nome de algum despota. Como salienta o grande explorador do Artico e premio Nobel Fridjof Nansen, 'essas viagens notaveis foram motivadas principalmente pelo desejo de encontrar lugares solitarios, onde esses anacoretas poderiam viver em paz, longe do turbilhao e das tentacoes do mun.. | Jon Krakauer | ||
| c32bf73 | TWO YEARS HE WALKS THE EARTH. NO PHONE, NO POOL, NO PETS, NO CIGARETTES. ULTIMATE FREEDOM. AN EXTREMIST. AN AESTHETIC VOYAGER WHOSE HOME IS THE ROAD. ESCAPED FROM ATLANTA. THOU SHALT NOT RETURN, 'CAUSE "THE WEST IS THE BEST." AND NOW AFTER TWO RAMBLING YEARS COMES THE FINAL AND GREATEST ADVENTURE. THE CLIMACTIC BATTLE TO KILL THE FALSE BEING WITHIN AND VICTORIOUSLY CONCLUDE THE SPIRITUAL REVOLUTION. TEN DAYS AND NIGHTS OF FREIGHT TRAINS AND.. | Jon Krakauer | ||
| 79ab443 | the vast majority of rapes, well over eighty percent, are actually non-stranger rapes." One of the other myths, he added, was the widely held belief that "a non-stranger assault is less serious and has less serious harm," | Jon Krakauer | ||
| 0ca8f3b | It may, after all, be the bad habit of creative talents to invest themselves in pathological extremes that yield remarkable insights but no durable way of life for those who cannot translate their psychic wounds into significant art or thought. THEODORE ROSZAK, "IN SEARCH OF THE MIRACULOUS" -- | Jon Krakauer | ||
| 88abfb6 | A lot of us are like that--I'm like that, Ed Abbey was like that, and it sounds like this McCandless kid was like that: We like companionship, see, but we can't stand to be around people for very long. So we go get ourselves lost, come back for a while, then get the hell out again. | companionship independence isolation people social | Jon Krakauer | |
| 28229ce | According to this mind-set, there can only be two precursors to rape: (1) A stranger jumps out from the bushes; (2) There is no rape unless the woman puts up a fight, to the death if necessary. | Jon Krakauer | ||
| 2a2e8cd | a challenge in which a successful outcome is assured isn't a challenge at all. | Jon Krakauer | ||
| 314952f | Surprisingly, once she started working with professional counselors and advocates, Natasha's opinion about the desirability of reporting rapes to the police changed. Her colleagues pointed out that for some victims of sexual assault, engaging with the criminal justice system could traumatize them severely all over again, so the staff at SFTS didn't necessarily recommend it. Her colleagues definitely urged every victim to get counseling, how.. | Jon Krakauer | ||
| a0e50f8 | As she studies the pictures, she breaks down from time to time, weeping as only a mother who has outlived a child can weep, betraying a sense of loss so huge and irreparable that the mind balks at taking its measure. | Jon Krakauer | ||
| f472dbe | according to Fukuyama, modern liberal democracies produced men composed entirely of desire and reason, clever at finding new ways to satisfy a host of petty wants through the calculation of long-term self-interest.... It is not an accident that people in democratic societies are preoccupied with material gain and live in an economic world devoted to the satisfaction of the myriad small needs of the body.... The last man at the end of histor.. | Jon Krakauer | ||
| 186d068 | In Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Nietzsche introduced the concept of the Ubermensch: an exemplary, transcendent figure who is the polar opposite of "the last man" or "men without chests." The Ubermensch is virtuous, loyal, ambitious and outspoken, disdainful of religious dogma and suspicious of received wisdom, intensely engaged in the hurly-burly of the real world. Above all he is passionate--a connoisseur of both "the highest joys" and "the dee.. | Jon Krakauer | ||
| 011559f | I have been thinking more and more that I shall always be a lone wanderer of the wilderness. God, how the trail lures me. You cannot comprehend its resistless fascination for me. After all the lone trail is the best....I'll never stop wandering. And when the time comes to die, I'll find the wildest, loneliest, most desolate spot there is. | Jon Krakauer | ||
| e48b390 | Those who have courage to love should have courage to suffer. | Anthony Trollope | ||
| 0ab70f2 | Everything had changed suddenly--the tone, the moral climate; you didn't know what to think, whom to listen to. As if all your life you had been led by the hand like a small child and suddenly you were on your own, you had to learn to walk by yourself. There was no one around, neither family nor people whose judgment you respected. At such a time you felt the need of committing yourself to something absolute--life or truth or beauty--of bei.. | Jon Krakauer | ||
| e2fdcab | It's the police, for the most part, who decide whether a suspect should be arrested, and prosecutors who ultimately determine whether a conviction should be pursued. | Jon Krakauer | ||
| 5f7d272 | Above 26,000 feet, moreover, the line between appropriate zeal and reckless summit fever becomes grievously thin. Thus the slopes of Everest are littered with corpses. | Jon Krakauer | ||
| d84efc1 | 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 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 .. | Jon Krakauer | ||
| 374d790 | Still, the last sad memory hovers round, and sometimes drifts across like floating mist, cutting off sunshine and chilling the remembrance of happier times. There have been joys too great to be described in words, and there have been griefs upon which I have not dared to dwell; and with these in mind I say: Climb if you will, but remember that courage and strength are nought without prudence, and that a momentary negligence may destroy the .. | Jon Krakauer | ||
| 19b8b8e | We sleep to time's hurdy-gurdy; we wake, if we ever wake, to the silence of God. And then, when we wake to the deep shores of time uncreated, then when the dazzling dark breaks over the far slopes of time, then it's time to toss things, like our reason, and our will; then it's time to break our necks for home. There are no events but thoughts and the heart's hard turning, the heart's slow learning where to love and whom. The rest is merely .. | Jon Krakauer | ||
| faa2764 | SUGGESTED READING The Dream of a Common Language by Adrienne Rich; Motherless Daughters by Hope Edelman; As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner; The Ten Thousand Things by Maria Dermout; My First Summer in the Sierra by John Muir; The Land of Little Rain by Mary Austin; The Pacific Crest Trailside Reader by Rees Hughes and Corey Lewis; Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer; Half Broke Horses by Jeannette Walls; A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson; Eat, .. | Cheryl Strayed | ||
| a94ab35 | He was alone," as James Joyce wrote of Stephen Dedalus, his artist as a young man. "He was unheeded, happy, and near to the wild heart of life. He was alone and young and wilful and wildhearted, alone amid a waste of wild air and brackish waters and the seaharvest of shells and tangle and veiled grey sunlight." | Jon Krakauer | ||
| 9195064 | There is an overwhelming inclination to keep the unsavory particulars hidden from public view, to pretend the calamity never occurred. Thus it has always been, and probably always will be. As Aeschylus, the illustrious Greek tragedian, noted in the fifth century B.C., "In war, truth is the first casualty." | Jon Krakauer | ||
| 31a80f3 | McCandless viewed running as an intensely spiritual exercise, verging on religion. "Chris would use the spiritual aspect to try to motivate us," recalls Eric Hathaway, another friend on the team. "He'd tell us to think about all the evil in the world, all the hatred, and imagine ourselves running against the forces of darkness, the evil wall that was trying to keep us from running our best. He believed doing well was all mental, a simple ma.. | Jon Krakauer | ||
| 6c27950 | Perceptive and valuable personal explorations of time alone include A Book of Silence by Sara Maitland, Party of One by Anneli Rufus, Migrations to Solitude by Sue Halpern, Journal of a Solitude by May Sarton, The Point of Vanishing by Howard Axelrod, Solitude by Robert Kull, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly by Jean-Dominique Bauby, A Field Guide to Getting Lost by Rebecca Solnit, The Story of My H.. | Michael Finkel | ||
| 66f6470 | emotions among the British--pride, patriotism, nostalgia | Jon Krakauer | ||
| 7346e3d | I'm going to repeat that: Without the support of our Sherpas none of us has any chance of climbing the mountain. | Jon Krakauer | ||
| e8c183a | he found himself woefully unprepared for the flat pitch of life out of uniform. "I discovered that I couldn't really speak to civilians," he continued. "My marriage fell apart. All I could see was this long dark tunnel closing in, ending in infirmity, old age, and death. Then I started to climb, and the sport provided most of what had been missing for me in civvy street--the challenge, the camaraderie, the sense of mission." | Jon Krakauer | ||
| 747b2bc | March 1996, Outside magazine sent me to Nepal to participate in, and write about, a guided ascent of Mount Everest. I went as one of eight clients on an expedition led by a well-known guide from New Zealand named Rob Hall. On May 10 I arrived on top of the mountain, but the summit came at a terrible cost. | Jon Krakauer | ||
| 21a72ff | The Call of the Wild, White Fang, "To Build a Fire," "An Odyssey of the North," "The Wit of Porportuk." | Jon Krakauer | ||
| e1ef4ae | 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 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 f.. | Jon Krakauer |