Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.
JACK KEROUACI came to a point where I needed solitude and just stop the machine of ‘thinking’ and ‘enjoying’ what they call ‘living’, I just wanted to lie in the grass and look at the clouds.
More Jack Kerouac Quotes
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No fear or shame in the dignity of your experience, language, and knowledge.
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Finding Nirvana is like locating silence.
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Believe in the holy contour of life.
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When you start separating people from their rivers, what have you got? Bureaucracy!
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Nothing behind me, everything ahead of me, as is ever so on the road.
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My life is a vast inconsequential epic.
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While looking for the light, you may suddenly be devoured by the darkness and find the true light.
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You can’t live in this world but there’s nowhere else to go.
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It’s okay, girl, we’ll make it till the sun goes down forever. And until then what you got to lose but the losing? We’re fallen angels who didn’t believe that nothing means nothing.
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I realized either I was crazy or the world was crazy; and I picked on the world. And of course I was right.
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The only truth is music.
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Because in the end, you won’t remember the time you spent working in the office or mowing your lawn. Climb that goddamn mountain.
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I saw that my life was a vast glowing empty page and I could do anything I wanted.
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You 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.
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The silence was an intense roar.
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My eyes were glued on life and they were full of tears.
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The happiness consists in realizing that it is all a great strange dream.
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Better to sleep in an uncomfortable bed free, than sleep in a comfortable bed unfree.
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All I wanted to do was sneak out into the night and disappear somewhere, and go and find out what everybody was doing all over the country.
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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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Practice kindness all day to everybody and you will realize you’re already in heaven now.
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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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Something great is about to happen to me: I’m about to love somebody very much.
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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 beauty of things must be that they end.
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Genius gives birth, talent delivers.
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