12 quotes
"As one grows weaker, one is less susceptible to suffering. There is less hurt because there is less to hurt."
- Jack London
Awareness
"You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club."
- Jack London
Inspiration
"Don't loaf and invite inspiration; light out after it with a club, and if you don't get it you will nonetheless get something that looks remarkably like it."
- Jack London
Inspiration
"You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club."
- Jack London
Creativity
"You can't wait for inspiration, you have to go after it with a club."
- Jack London
Creativity
"You can’t wait for inspiration, you have to go after it with a club."
- Jack London
Creativity
"I would rather be ashes than dust!"
- Jack London
Ambition
"I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet."
- Jack London
Ambition
"As the sun rises, it illuminates a world full of possibilities. Embrace the unknown and let each new day be an adventure of discovery."
- Jack London
New Beginnings
"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 through streets and road, over railroad tracks and bridges, threading crowds, avoiding collisions, at twenty miles or more an hour, and wondering all the time when you're going to smash up. Well, now, that's something! And then go home again after three hours of it...and then to think that tomorrow I can do it all over again!"
- Jack London
Joy
"A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog."
- Jack London
Generosity
"Keep a notebook. Travel with it, eat with it, sleep with it. Slap into it every stray thought that flutters up into your brain. Cheap paper is less perishable than gray matter. And lead pencil markings endure longer than memory."
- Jack London
Mindfulness