Your profitable quote: Jack London on Full Participation

I would rather be ashes than dust!
I would rather that my spark would burn out in a brilliant blaze than 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 (US writer, 1876-1916)