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Jack London 77
American author, journalist, and social activist 1876–1916Related quotes
“Don't try to be better than others. Try to be better than yourself.”
Zire Notes (May 2004 - December 2006)
“The call to religion is not a call to be better than your fellows, but to be better than yourself.”
Source: Life Thoughts (1858), p. 18
“Gratitude is more of a compliment to yourself than someone else.”
Kalam (2018)
Source: Witness (1952), p. 25
“The world stands out on either side
No wider than the heart is wide”
"Renascence" (1912), st. 20, Renascence and Other Poems (1917)
Context: The world stands out on either side
No wider than the heart is wide;
Above the world is stretched the sky, —
No higher than the soul is high.
The heart can push the sea and land
Farther away on either hand;
The soul can split the sky in two,
And let the face of God shine through.
But East and West will pinch the heart
That can not keep them pushed apart;
And he whose soul is flat — the sky
Will cave in on him by and by.
“Every man in the world is better than someone else and not as good as someone else.”
The Resurrection of a Life (1935)
“A narcissist is someone better looking than you are.”
Quoted in "Vidal: 'I'm at the Top of a Very Tiny Heap,'" profile by Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times (12 March 1981), Late City Final Edition, Section C, Page 17, Column 1.
1980s