Christopher McCandless Quotes

All true meaning resides in the personal relationship to a phenomenon, what it means to you.

There's never been anything I didn't love that I didn't connect with on a personal level because, to some degree, I projected upon it.

Art, in the first place, has to connect with yourself.

Generally, if I read something that I think is really good and that I feel a connection with and is right for me, I see and hear who the guy is, as manifested by me.

It's super dope when you connect with something personally.

Everybody interprets things differently with their own perception, and I want poetry to pull out of them their own feelings.

This is going to sound pretentious and esoteric, but I truly mean it from the bottom of my heart. Acting has always been a spiritual journey for me. The very first project I ever acted on paralleled my experience so perfectly even before I was aware of it.

Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self.

Everybody is a hero in their own story if you just look.

I think almost everything in life is life-experience, personality-driven.

Call it egotistical or narcissist, but I think that's what we all look for in books - the right stories that help us make sense of the world that we, on a very personal level, live in every day.

The holidays are only holy if we make them so.

Nothing in Scientology is true for you unless you have observed it and it is true according to your observation.

I think people will discover themselves in 'Ankahee.'

Awareness means the capacity to see a coffeepot and hear the birds sing in one's own way and not the way one was taught.

It's always dangerous to prescribe an idea on other people. I think people's interactions with art are their own, and will be far more interesting and sophisticated than anything that I could come up with.

Art appreciation, like love, cannot be done by proxy: It is a very personal affair and is necessary to each individual.

Everybody knows what love is in one way or another, and everybody has an answer of what love means to them.

I take everything personally- that's what being a person is all about.

Great lovers realize that they are what they are in love with.

I don't want to tell what the songs are about for me, because then people can't decide for themselves, which is why I write; it's for you to find your own meaning in. For me it's my story, for someone else it's theirs; if I tell exactly what it means, then it's only my story.

Without being and remaining oneself, there is no love.

Nothing in life has any meaning except the meaning you give it.

People get out of music what they want to get out of it, and all I try to do is do the same thing.

My strength and my weakness is that I see normally impersonal events vividly and personally.