Quotes - Michaela (Nové Město na Moravě, Kraj Vysočina, Czech Republic) Showing 1-22 of 22

#1

“Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

tags: action, change, inspirational, misattributed-to-gandhi, philosophy, wish

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#2

“You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.”
― Jack London

2609 likes

#3

“I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.”
― Jack London

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#4

“I'd rather sing one wild song and burst my heart with it, than live a thousand years watching my digestion and being afraid of the wet.”
― Jack London, The Turtles of Tasman

1726 likes

#5

“The Wild still lingered in him and the wolf in him merely slept.”
― Jack London, White Fang

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#6

“He was mastered by the sheer surging of life, the tidal wave of being, the perfect joy of each separate muscle, joint, and sinew in that it was everything that was not death, that it was aglow and rampant, expressing itself in movement, flying exultantly under the stars.”
― Jack London, The Call of the Wild

tags: joy, life, nature

1263 likes

#7

“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

tags: charity, dogs, sharing

926 likes

#8

“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 by dry-rot.
I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.
The function of man is to live, not to exist.
I shall not waste my days trying to prolong them.
I shall use my time.”
― Jack London

tags: life, meteor

1196 likes

#9

“Don't loaf and invite inspiration; light out after it with a club.”
― Jack London

tags: club, inspiration

679 likes

#10

“Life is not always a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.”
― Jack London

tags: bluffing, making-do, poker

586 likes

#11

“But I am I. And I won't subordinate my taste to the unanimous judgment of mankind”
― Jack London, Martin Eden

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#12

“It's better to stand by someone's side than by yourself”
― Jack London

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#13

“As one grows weaker one is less susceptible to suffering. There is less hurt because there is less to hurt.”
― Jack London, The Star Rover

tags: hurt, suffering, weak, weakness

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#14

“But especially he loved to run in the dim twilight of the summer midnights, listening to the subdued and sleepy murmurs of the forest, reading signs and sounds as a man may read a book, and seeking for the mysterious something that called -- called, waking or sleeping, at all times, for him to come.”
― Jack London, The Call of the Wild

218 likes

#15

“Intelligent men are cruel. Stupid men are monstrously cruel. ”
― Jack London, The Star Rover

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#16

“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 taken it for what it was at its own valuation. And I have not been ashamed of it. Just as it was, it was mine.”
― Jack London

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#17

“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 my time.”
― Jack London

tags: days, existence, function, living, mankind, wasting-time

836 likes

#18

“To be able to forget means sanity.”
― Jack London, The Star Rover

tags: forget, forgetting, sanity

305 likes

#19

“Show me a man with a tattoo and I'll show you a man with an interesting past.”
― Jack London

398 likes

#20

“It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

tags: friendship, lack-of-friendship, lack-of-love, love, marriage, unhappy-marriage

42479 likes

#21

“Without music, life would be a mistake.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols

tags: inspirational, music, philosophy

74465 likes

#22

“We accept the love we think we deserve.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

tags: inspirational, love

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