“Be in love with your life. Every minute of it.”
"Belief & Technique For Modern Prose: List of Essentials" in a letter to Arabelle Porter (28 May 1955); published in Jack Kerouac: Selected Letters 1940-1956 (1995). Sometimes misquoted as "Be in love with your life every minute of it."
Variant: Be in love with your life every detail of it
“Pain or love or danger makes you real again….”
Jack Kerouac book The Dharma Bums
Source: The Dharma Bums
Jack Kerouac book On the Road
Variant: I wished I was on the same bus as her. A pain stabbed my heart as it did everytime I saw a girl I loved who was going the opposite direction in this too-big world of ours.
Source: On the Road
“Life must be rich and full of loving--it's no good otherwise, no good at all, for anyone.”
Source: Selected Letters, 1940-1956
Source: Windblown World: The Journals of Jack Kerouac 1947-1954
Satori in Paris (1966)
Source: Satori in Paris & Pic
Source: On the Road: the Original Scroll
“I think it's a lovely hallucination but I love it sorta.”
Jack Kerouac book The Dharma Bums
Source: The Dharma Bums