Jack Kerouac Quotes

Either worrying drives out prayer, or prayer drives out worrying.

Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all.

All is well, all is well. Though everything is a mess, all is well.

Trust does not mean that everything will be all right. Trust means everything is already all right.

At the end of the day, give up your worries and give thanks for the journey.

If I could tell the world just one thing, it would be that we are all ok. And not to worry because worry is wasteful and useless in times like these.

Worry has never done anyone any good, and it is very much worse than mere dissipation of psychic energy, for it substantially curtails the joy and fullness of life.

Don't worry about what you can't control.

Ain't no sense worrying about the things you got control over 'cause if you got control over 'em, ain't no sense worrying. Ain't no sense worrying about the things you got no control over 'cause if you got no control over 'em, ain't no sense worrying.

He is rich who owns the day, and no one owns the day who allows it to be invaded with fret and anxiety.

If you can believe, worry and anxiety will vanish

A man becomes calm in the measure that he understands himself as a thought-evolved being. For such knowledge necessitates the understanding of others as the result of thought, and as he develops a right understanding, and sees ever more clearly the internal relations of things by the action of cause and effect, he ceases to fuss, fume, worry, and grieve. He remains poised, steadfast, serene.

A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety.

I'm not wise, but the beginning of wisdom is there; it's like relaxing into - and an acceptance of - things.

To be happy is only to have freed one's soul from the unrest of unhappiness.

In all of my looking at happiness, one thing I noticed right away is that the opposite of happiness isn't unhappiness or even depression, it's anxiety. It is something that can constantly block our happiness, or our chance to reach that sort of meditative state in our work or our home lives.

Peace is that state in which fear of any kind is unknown.

How blessed are some people, whose lives have no fears, no dreads; to whom sleep is a blessing that comes nightly, and brings nothing but sweet dreams.

There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.

The final wisdom of life requires not the annulment of incongruity but the achievement of serenity within and above it.

I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace.

The best way to explain it is that I'm not yearning anymore, on or off the course. I appreciate what I have. I feel like I'm blessed.

A contented mind is the best source for trouble.

Peace in the head, peace in the stomach.

Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted.