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Words of Wisdom by Jack Kerouac
- For the first time in my life the weather was not something that touched me, that caressed me, froze or sweated me, but became me.
- One man practicing kindness in the wilderness is worth all the temples this world pulls.
- As far as I'm concerned the only thing to do is sit in a room and get drunk
- Let the mind beware, that though the flesh be bugged, the circumstances of existence are pretty glorious.
- Sal, we gotta go and never stop going 'till we get there.' 'Where we going, man?' 'I don't know but we gotta go.
- ...we all must admit that everything is fine and there's no need in the world to worry, and in fact we should realize what it…
- There are worse things than being mad.
- If you own a rug you own too much.
- I was surprised, as always, be how easy the act of leaving was, and how good it felt. The world was suddenly rich with possibility.
- Nothing behind me, everything ahead of me, as is ever so on the road.
- The details are the life of it, I insist, say everything on your mind, don’t hold back, don’t analyze or anything as you go along,…
- Ah, it was a fine night, a warm night, a wine-drinking night, a moony night, and a night to hug your girl and talk and…
- My eyes were glued on life and they were full of tears.
- Pain or love or danger makes you real again....
- 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…
- Better to sleep in an uncomfortable bed free, than sleep in a comfortable bed unfree.
- The beauty of things must be that they end.
- 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…
- I just won't sleep," I decided. There were so many other interesting things to do.
- The silence is so intense that you can hear your own blood roar in your ears but louder than that by far is the mysterious…
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- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
- It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. — Aristotle
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle
- Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them. — Aristotle
- The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom. — Aristotle
- The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he… — Aristotle
- Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in… — Aristotle
- You teach best what you most need to learn. — Richard Bach
- Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man's desire to understand. — Neil Armstrong
- The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next. — Matthew Arnold