“Happiness means nothing to me. I just want to have meaning and purpose...” — Jon Krakauer Quote

“Happiness means nothing to me. I just want to have meaning and purpose.”

“When I was 23, I climbed this mountain in Alaska called Devil's Thumb alone. It was incredibly dangerous, and I did it because I thought that if I did something that hard and pulled it off, my life was gonna be transformed. And of course, nothing happened. But I get the search for purpose.”

“I'm not even religious, but I get fanaticism. I get the appeal of it.”

“Since the 1940s a sense of belonging has been recognized as a human psychological need and one of the major sources for human motivation. It’s important to us; whether we’re conscious of it or not, a sense of belonging keeps us healthy and happy.”

“We need but little learning to live happily.”

“Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.”