Jon Krakauer Quotes About Purpose

• 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 prison of your genes — all of it is temporarily forgotten, crowded from your thoughts by an overpowering clarity of purpose and by the seriousness of the task at hand.

  Jon Krakauer

  Opportunity, Dust, Hands

  Jon Krakauer (2009). “Into the Wild”, p.150, Anchor

• Y si bien sigo sin saber cuál es nuestro propósito aquí y el significado de la eternidad, he llegado a comprender algunas verdades más modestas: La mayoría de nosotros tememos a la muerte. La mayoría anhelamos comprender cómo hemos llegado hasta aquí y por qué, es decir, la mayoría ansiamos conocer el amor de nuestro creador. Y no cabe duda de que sentiremos ese deseo, la mayoría de nosotros, mientras sigamos vivos.

  Jon Krakauer

  Dark, Long, Understanding

  Jon Krakauer (2013). “Under The Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith”, p.301, Pan Macmillan

• To the contrary: His life hummed with meaning and purpose. But the meaning he wrested from existence lay beyond the comfortable path: McCandless distrusted the value of things that came easily.

  Jon Krakauer

  Meaning Of Life, Purpose, Path

  "Into the Wild". Book by Jon Krakauer, 1996.

• Achieving the summit of a mountain was tangible, immutable, concrete. The incumbent hazards lent the activity a seriousness of purpose that was sorely missing from the rest of my life. I thrilled in the fresh perspective that came from the tipping the ordinary plane of existence on end.

  Jon Krakauer

  Perspective, Missing, Mountain

  Jon Krakauer (2011). “Into Thin Air: A personal account of the Everest disaster”, p.24, Pan Macmillan

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