Jack Kerouac Quotes

I don't analyze things all the time, I just do them.

Don't think about things, just do them; don't predict them, just make them.

I live now and only now, and I will do what I want to do this moment and not what I decided was best for me yesterday.

I'mma just do me, when it feel right.

If I feel like doing something, I do it. If I feel like saying something, I say it. If I feel like dancing, I do. If I don't, I don't.

I just want to keep doing what I feel.

Do what you want to do. Do what you like to do.

I'd rather do a part because I want to, not because great things are expected of me.

I might say 'let's get married' because I am not rigid, I live moment to moment. These are my views and it is person to person, one should not get influenced with what I am saying.

You have to choose between what the world expects of you and what you want for yourself.

You ain't got but one life. You ought to live it the way you want.

What is it to you if I don't want others to want for me, if I want to want myself - if I want the impossible.

You want to be in the driver’s seat of your own life because if you are not, life will drive you.

Nanny's philosophy of life was to do what seemed like a good idea at the time, and do it as hard as possible. It had never let her down.

I never could stand being forced to do something I didn't want to do at a time I didn't want to do it. Whenever I was able to do something I liked to do, though, when I wanted to do it, and the way I wanted to do it, I'd give it everything I had.

It's about whatever I want to make it about. It's my world.

I go where I'm stimulated. If I'm stimulated, I show up. As Mick Jagger sings: It's my life and I'll do what I want.

If you want something, you don't wait for the world to deal it out for you. You take it.

Live your life the way you want. You'll figure it out.

I'll stop doing everything that I do when I don't want to do it anymore.

Nobody is pushing me. Nobody is telling me what I do.

If someone doesn't like something, it's their prerogative not to like it. It's not possible to please everyone. That doesn't mean that I'm going to change my mental make-up. I follow my instinct.

I definitely prefer to write under my own volition and see what happens.

Every moment you wake up and you want to go for a run, or you want to take a class, you should be able to just go.

Do what you love. Do what is important to you and your family. I just want to encourage people to just go for it and do what makes sense to you.