It is so much easier to live placidly and complacently. Of course, to live placidly and complacently is not to live at all.
Jack LondonTo 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 toils were in themselves self-remunerative. They were expressions of life, and life is always happy when it is expressing itself.
Jack LondonThe aim of life was meat. Life itself was meat. Life lived on life. There were the eaters and the eaten.
Jack London