Suppose we suddenly wake up and see that what we thought to be this and that, ain’t this and that at all?
JACK KEROUACBecause in the end, you won’t remember the time you spent working in the office or mowing your lawn. Climb that goddamn mountain.
More Jack Kerouac Quotes
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Contrary to the general belief about photography, you don’t need bright sunlight: the best moodiest pictures are taken in the dim light of almost dusk, or of rainy days.
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Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.
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Everything is ecstasy inside. We just don’t know it because of our thinking-minds. But in our true blissful essence of mind it is known that everything is alright forever and forever and forever.
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Put down the pen someone else gave you. No one ever drafted a life worth living on borrowed ink.
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I promise I shall never give up, and that I’ll die yelling and laughing, and that until then I’ll rush around this world I insist is holy and pull at everyone’s lapel and make them confess to me and to all.
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No man should go through life without once experiencing healthy, even bored solitude in the wilderness, finding himself depending solely on himself and thereby learning his true and hidden strength.
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Nothing behind me, everything ahead of me, as is ever so on the road.
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Life must be rich and full of loving–it’s no good otherwise, no good at all, for anyone.
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A sociable smile is nothing but a mouth full of teeth.
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It’s good-bye. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies.
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The closer you get to real matter, rock air fire and wood, boy, the more spiritual the world is.
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My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.
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Something great is about to happen to me: I’m about to love somebody very much.
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Practice kindness all day to everybody and you will realize you’re already in heaven now.
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Night is longer than day for those who dream & day is longer than night for those who make their dreams comes true.
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