“Happiness [is] only real when shared”
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Jon Krakauer (April 12,1954) is an American writer, journalist, and mountaineer, well-known for outdoor and mountain-climbing writing. In 2003, he ventured into the field of investigative journalism. **Source**: [Jon Krakauer](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Krakauer) on Wikipedia.
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“Happiness [is] only real when shared”
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“It's not always necessary to be strong, but to feel strong.”
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“make a radical change in your lifestyle and begin to boldly do things which you may previously never have thought of doing, or been too hesitant to attempt. So many people live within unhapp...”
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“Some people feel like they don't deserve love. They walk away quietly into empty spaces, trying to close the gaps of the past.”
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“When you forgive, you love. And when you love, God’s light shines upon you.”
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“What if I were smiling and running into your arms? Would you see then what I see now?”
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“I'd like to repeat the advice that I gave you before, in that I think you really should make a radical change in your lifestyle and begin to boldly do things which you may previously never h...”
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“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...”
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“I read somewhere... how important it is in life not necessarily to be strong, but to feel strong... to measure yourself at least once.”
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“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 conservati...”
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“I'm going to paraphrase Thoreau here... rather than love, than money, than faith, than fame, than fairness... give me truth.”
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“Mr. Franz, I think careers are a 20th century invention and I don't want one.”
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“The sea's only gifts are harsh blows, and occasionally the chance to feel strong. Now I don't know much about the sea, but I do know that that's the way it is here. And I also know how impor...”
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“I understood what he was doing, that he had spent four years fulfilling the absurd and tedious duty of graduating from college and now he was emancipated from that world of abstraction, fals...”
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“Common sense is no match for the voice of God.”
“Now what is history? It is the centuries of systematic explorations of the riddle of death, with a view to overcoming death. That’s why people discover mathematical infinity and electromagne...”
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“Although the far territory of the extreme can exert an intoxicating pull on susceptible individuals of all bents, extremism seems to be especially prevalent among those inclined by temperame...”
“There are some ten thousand extant religious sects--each with its own cosmology, each with its own answer for the meaning of life and death. Most assert that the other 9,999 not only have it...”
“Neither Emma's tears nor her rage were enough to make Joseph monogamous, however; nor were the prevailing mores of the day. He kept falling rapturously in love with women not his wife. And b...”
“…such criticism and mockery are largely beside the point. All religious belief is a function of nonrational faith. And faith, by its very definition, tends to be impervious to to intellectua...”