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Life Quotes by Jack London
- The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use…
- Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.
- There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise. And such is the paradox of living, this ecstasy…
- Life is so short. I would rather sing one song than interpret the thousand.
- I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled…
- A vast silence reigned over the land. The land itself was a desolation, lifeless, without movement, so lone and cold that the spirit of it…
- There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise. And such is the paradox of living, this ecstasy…
- And how have I lived? Frankly and openly, though crudely. I have not been afraid of life. I have not shrunk from it. I have…
- He had learned well the law of club and fang, and he never forewent an advantage or drew back from a foe he had started…
- On the sled, in the box, lay a third man whose toil was over, - a man whom the Wild had conquered and beaten down…
- It was the masterful and incommunicable wisdom of eternity laughing at the futility of life and the effort of life. It was the Wild, the…
- He was always striving to attain it. The life that was so swiftly expanding within him, urged him continually toward the wall of light. The…
- The aim of life was meat. Life itself was meat. Life lived on life. There were the eaters and the eaten. The law was: EAT…
- Ever bike? Now that's something that makes life worth living!...Oh, to just grip your handlebars and lay down to it, and go ripping and tearing…
- But, – and there it is, – we want to live and move, though we have no reason to, because it happens that it is…
- You have grudged the very fire in your house because the wood cost overmuch!" he cried. "You have grudged life. To live cost overmuch, and…
- He was justifying his existence, than which life can do no greater; for life achieves its summit when it does to the uttermost that which…
- The pitch to which he was aroused was tremendous. All the fighting blood of his breed was up in him and surging through him. This…
- To have a full stomach, to daze lazily in the sunshine--such things were remuneration in full for his adors and toils, while his ardors and…
- Had the cub thought in man-fashion, he might have epitomized life as a voracious appetite, and the world as a place wherein ranged a multitude…
- They were not half living, or quarter living. They were simply so many bags of bones in which sparks of life fluttered faintly.
- Do you know the only value life has is what life puts upon itself? And it is of course overestimated, for it is of necessity…
- With the aurora borealis flaming coldly overhead, or the stars leaping in the frost dance, and the land numb and frozen under its pall of…
- The trouble with him was that he was without imagination. He was quick and alert in the things of life, but only in the things,…
- [Speaking to a group of wealthy New Yorkers] A million years ago, the cave man, without tools, with small brain, and with nothing but the…
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- Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
- Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life. — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you… — Alexis Arguello
- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. — Aristotle
- Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. — Aristotle
- We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- Happiness depends upon ourselves. — Aristotle
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle