Christopher McCandless Quotes

You don't need money to be free. You can just say if you don't need stuff, you're always free.

Go far - too far you cannot, still the farther. The more experience finds you: and go sparing. One meal a week will serve you, and one suit, through all your travels; for you'll find it certain.

Economy, prudence, and a simple life are the sure masters of need, and will often accomplish that which, their opposites, with a fortune at hand, will fail to do.

What you did was live on very little. I think all of us that were competing - Bill is the same way - you don't need much to live.

Real freedom is having nothing. I was freer when I didn't have a cent.

Security depends not so much upon how much you have, as upon how much you can do without.

Live and think like a poor man and you'll always be OK.

Who needs a handbag? I put my money in my bra.

We have allowed ourselves to be defined by our consumption instead of by our ability to move beyond it.

Independence I have long considered as the grand blessing of life, the basis of every virtue; and independence I will ever secure by contracting my wants, though I were to live on a barren heath.

Tell me what you need, and I'll tell you how to get along without it.

Freedom is not having a big budget.

I made these Sierra trips, carrying only a sackful of bread with a little tea and sugar, and was thus independent and free.

How great, my friends, is the virtue of living upon a little!

For some reason I am one of those people who act like they were born and raised during the Depression.

I often think I am a better person because I lived for many years of my life with a flashlight. I have developed skills I did not think were possible - bathing with a cup of water by candlelight, for instance, and writing a story with a headlamp on.

He who is taught to live upon little owes more to his father's wisdom than he who has a great deal left him does to his father's care.

I was born in 1946, so I was born on the tail end of when everything was deemed important. You made things to last. If you came from a poor family, there was only one can opener.

I'm happy without money.

I enjoyed my life when I had nothing... and kinda like the idea of just being happy with me.

When I was 9, my parents let me take a cab to the mall all by myself. I had hardly any money to spend, but I did have a very specific list of things I wanted to do: buy cookies and sit on the furniture at Sears.

I grew up in a family where our mother made our clothing. We didn't have a lot of money, so we learned how to scrimp, and we learned how to invent and to create. And those are learned skills.

Money makes life easier but I don't want to be rich, not at all.

Money, for me, is just to create bigger and better things. A lot of guys in the deejaying world flaunt it, but I don't see any use in that. I don't need anything. I live in hotels. Most of my clothes I get for free. I like to invest in ideas. In people.

You don't need to spend a lot of money on stuff when you have amazing architecture.