Jack Kerouac Quotes

The only difference between heaven and hell is believing a thought.

Life is the movie you see through your own eyes. It makes little difference what's happening out there. It's how you take it that counts.

To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven

I think your imagination is your reality

Earth and heaven are in us

External things are not the problem. It's your assessment of them. Which you can erase right now.

Obviously, circumstances alone do not make us happy or unhappy. It is the way we react to circumstances that determines our feelings. Jesus said that the kingdom of heaven is within you. That is where the kingdom of hell is, too.

Heaven and hell are not geographical, they are psychological, they are your psychology.

Earth sounds my wisdom, and high heaven my fame.

It is our own mental attitude which makes the world what it is for us. Our thought make things beautiful, our thoughts make things ugly. The whole world is in our own minds. Learn to see things in the proper light.

The world is as you are.

We make our own world by the way in which we think; for we really do live in a world of our own thoughts.

We are not disturbed by what happens to us, but by our thoughts about what happens to us.

Heaven is a state of mind, not a location.

Do not like, do not dislike; all will then be clear. Make a hairbreadth difference and heaven and earth are set apart.

What disturbs and alarms man are not the things, but his opinions and fancies about the things.

I am not in the world. The world is in me.

Your outer world is a reflection of your inner world.

The world in which you live is not primarily determined by outward conditions and circumstances but by the thoughts that habitually occupy your mind.

I love tranquil solitude, And such society As is quiet, wise, and good; Between thee and me What difference? but thou dost possess The things I seek, not love them less.

How can people think that artists seek a name? A name, like a face, is something you have when you're not alone. There is no such thing as an artist: there is only the world, lit or unlit as the light allows.

Life is a state of mind.

The heavens and the earth, the woods and the wayside, teem with instruction and knowledge to the curious and thoughtful.

We all see only that which we are trained to see.