Books Quote by Jack Kerouac

The first sip [of tea] is joy, the second is gladness, the third is serenity, the fourth is madness, the fifth is ecstasy.

— Jack Kerouac

“I use health joy and comfort to set off my brain chemicals of bliss for my highest good.”

— Amy Leigh Mercree

“Cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity.”

— Joseph Addison

“There's serenity in the stillness of the water and my body absorbs it through my pours, desperate to find its peace.”

— Vi Keeland

“I can hardly describe to you the effect of these books. They produced in me an infinity of new images and feelings that sometimes…

— Mary Shelley

“Goodness is weakness, pleasantness is poisonous, serenity is mediocrity, and kindness is for losers.”

— Jasper Fforde

“All who enter even a little into that state of being present will experience a calmness and a degree of ecstasy which they will…

— W. Timothy Gallwey

“Intoxicating joy it is for the sufferer to look away from his suffering and forget himself. Intoxicating joy and self-forgetting, the world once seemed…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“the beauty of poetic apprehension, the infinite joy of reason.”

— Ian McEwan

“Seek joyfulness when you can, for seeking joy leads to an auspicious atmosphere.”

— Jonathan D. Spence

“I get maudlin. Some people drink; some get depressed; some run around having sex with anyone with a pulse. Me, I get philosophical. It’s…

— Rachel Caine

“I call it the indescribable charm of life. It was a feeling of ecstasy that was almost distress when it came, because it came…

— Katharine Butler Hathaway