quote for the day

[666_pack]

Many of lifes failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up".....Thomas Edison

[RedLeader]

It's true that we don't know what we've got until we lose it, but it's also true that we don't know what we've been missing until it arrives.

[666_pack]

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow:


The heights by great men reached and kept / Were not attained by sudden flight, / But they, while their companions slept, / Were toiling upward in the night.

[666_pack]

Failure is not falling down but refusing to get up.

[emmadilemma]

Wouldnt it be great if people got to live suddenly as often as they get to die suddenly 

[irish2010]

There is no such thing as bad weather, only inappropiate clothing - Billy Connelly

[Wolf_Larson]

I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather that my spark would 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 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.

"I believe that life is a mess," he answered promptly. "It is like yeast, a ferment, a thing that moves and may move for a minute, an hour, a year, or a hundred years, but that in the end will cease to move. The big eat the little that they may continue to move, the strong eat the weak that they may retain their strength. The lucky eat the most and move the longest, that is all.      BOOK, (sea wolf)    JACK LONDON

He was beaten (he knew that), but he was not broken. He saw, once for all, that he stood no chance against a man with a club. He had learned the lesson, and in all his afterlife he never forgot it. That club was a revelation. It was his introduction to the reign of primitive law... The facts of life took on a fiercer aspect, and while he faced that aspect uncowed, he faced it with all the latent cunning of his nature aroused."
- Jack London, The Call of the Wild, Chapter 1

"All my life I have had an awareness of other times and places. I have been aware of other persons in me. Oh, and trust me, so have you, my reader that is to be. Read back into your childhood, and this sense of awareness I speak of will be remembered as an experience of childhood. You were then not fixed, not crystallized. You were plastic, a soul in flux, a consciousness and an identity in the process of forming--ay, of forming and forgetting."
- Jack London, The Star Rover

[Wolf_Larson]

We learned that one cannot defy nature, but must adapt and accommodate oneself to her. Nature will not change; it is man who must change, if he is to live in conditions where nature is dominant."                      Skis against the atom by Knut Haukelid

[Wolf_Larson]

www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6umbquW61E

[666_pack]

Hi Wolf,
Love the jack london quote

a portion of it used to be my sig.

[ulsterwalker]

Any body watch "the gods must be crazy?" I havent watched the whole thing but seems like a great wee film. Not exactly a quote, but the narration between 5.25 and around 8.30, just makes me think a lot about how we now live, makes you think how ridiculus some things are. When I finish Uni I will be avoiding a 9-5 if at all possible

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=66pTPWg_wUw

Oh aye and yes the film does look like its cost about a 5er to make  

edit: forgot to link to Youtube clip   

[Wolf_Larson]

I love jack london books 666_pack

[Wolf_Larson]

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 comes when one is most alive, and it comes as a complete forgetfulness that one is alive.    

He was quick and alert in things of life, but only in things, and not in the significances.              

For a living dog is better than a dead lion.

I congratulate you. I think you can now fire your father's legs back into the grave to him. You've discovered your own and learned to stand on them. A little rope-work, sail-making, and experience with storms and such things, and by the end of the voyage you could ship on any coasting schooner.

To serve was to suffocate. He preferred suffering in freedom to all the happiness of a comfortable servility. He did not care to serve anyone or anything. He cared to serve nothing. He was no figurehead. He stood on his own legs. He was an individual."

JACK LONDON !!!

[666_pack]

Some great stuff there wolf
any chance you could compile a bit of a  London reading list for me.

[Wolf_Larson]

The 1st  jack london book i got was a book with 2 novels in it they where called, The call of the wild, (is one story) White Fang (is the other) They got me hooked. The next book i got was a truely great novel its called, The sea wolf, and im not sure i can say between the 3 novels which is better, i loved them all. Ive also bought, The star rover, (AND)  The People of the Abyss, i also enjoyed, but i think you should go for white fang, call of the wild and, The sea wolf, as they are his trade mark books. You can read them on line just type jack londons name. Im going to get some more books soon