Finding Nirvana is like locating silence.
JACK KEROUACYou aren’t ever going to be anything in this world unless you do what you want to do, when you want to do it–don’t plan anything, just go out and do it.
More Jack Kerouac Quotes
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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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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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Rest and be kind, you don’t have to prove anything
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On soft Spring nights I’ll stand in the yard under the stars – Something good will come out of all things yet – And it will be golden and eternal just like that – There’s no need to say another word.
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Suppose we suddenly wake up and see that what we thought to be this and that, ain’t this and that at all?
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The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved.
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You are the equal of the idol who has given you your inspiration.
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This is the story of America. Everybody’s doing what they think they’re supposed to do.
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The happiness consists in realizing that it is all a great strange dream.
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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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I was suddenly left with nothing in my hands but a handful of crazy stars.
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The silence was an intense roar.
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But, outside of being a sweet little girl, she was awfully dumb and capable of doing horrible things.
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The fact that everybody in the world dreams every night ties all mankind together.
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So therefore I dedicate myself, to my art, my sleep, my dreams, my labors, my suffrances, my loneliness, my unique madness, my endless absorption and hunger because I cannot dedicate myself to any fellow being.
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