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John Green Quotes

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“But emotional experience is as real and as valid as physical experience.”
— John Green, Paper Towns FAQ
Tagged: emotional experience vs. physical experience, emotional vs. physical, emotional experience, emotions, Mental Health, Mental Awareness
“We need never be hopeless because we can never be irreparably broken.”
— John Green, Looking for Alaska
Tagged: Hope, hopeless, broken, inspiration, inspire
“Every year, many, many stupid people graduate from college. And if they can do it, so can you.”
— John Green, Who's The Slow Learner?: Adventures In Independence
Tagged: College, Graduation
“And then things happen - these people leave us, or don’t love us, or don’t get us, or we don’t get them, and we lose and fail and hurt one another.”
— John Green, Paper Towns
Tagged: Love, Relationships
“I know what she’s talking about. The something deeper and more secret. It’s like cracks inside of you. Like there are these fault lines where things don’t meet up right.”
— John Green, Paper Towns
Tagged: Pain, frustrations, Contemplation, Sadness
“I don’t know a perfect person. I only know flawed people who are still worth loving.”
— John Green, The 42 Most Remarkably Beautiful John Green Quotes
Tagged: Imperfect Humans, Imperfections, loving imperfect persons, Love
“I really believe that gratitude is the proper response for the absolute astonishment of getting to be alive, and aware, and an essential part of this crazy, sprawling story.”
— John Green, Deserving
Tagged: Gratitude, Being Alive
“I don’t think you can ever fill the empty space with the thing you lost… I don’t think your missing pieces ever fit inside you again once they go missing.”
— John Green, An Abundance of Katherines
Tagged: Love Lost, Heartbreak
“I just want you to be happy. If that’s with me or with someone else or with nobody. I just want you to be happy.”
— John Green, David Levithan, Will Grayson, Will Grayson
Tagged: Happiness, Hope For The Best, wish for happiness, Love & Happiness, Expressing Love
“I came to the conclusion a while ago that there is nothing romantic or supernatural about loving someone: Love is the privilege of being responsible for another.”
— John Green, Zombicorns
Tagged: Love, Definition Of Love, Responsibility, Privilege, Loving Someone
“People were created to be loved. Things were created to be used. The reason why the world is in chaos is because things are being loved and people are being used.”
— John Green, Looking for Alaska
Tagged: purpose, People, Chaos
“I just want to do something that matters. Or be something that matters. I just want to matter.”
— John Green, An Abundance of Katherines
Tagged: Worthiness, Life Quotes
“The real heroes anyway aren’t the people doing things; the real heroes are the people noticing things, paying attention.”
— John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
Tagged: Hero, Attention, People, Empathy
“The success narratives we hear are almost always privileged narratives and they almost never acknowledge that privilege.”
— John Green, Started from the Bottom: Benjamin Franklin and Drake Compared
Tagged: Privilege, Stories of Success, Invisible Frameworks That Allow People To Rise
“The best connections aren’t just about feeling less alone; they’re about finding ways to look at the universe more broadly and enthusiastically.”
— John Green, via YouTube
Tagged: Connections, connecting with people, Connect With Others, Connecting To Nature, Viewing The World, Perspectives, Life
“Have we replaced intellectual engagement with superficial browsing? Is it really possible to pay sustained attention in a world full of distractions?”
— John Green, Feeling More Alive: Fahrenheit 451's The Hearth and the Salamander
Tagged: Techonology, Community, Paying Attention
“I get it now. I get it. The things that you hope for the most are the things that destroy you in the end.”
— John Green, Will Grayson, Will Grayson
Tagged: Hope, Broken Hope
“Toni Morrison once wrote that at some point in life, the world's beauty becomes enough. You don't need to photograph, paint, or even remember it. It is enough. So I turned off my camera, and it was. It was enough.”
— John Green, Civil Twilight
Tagged: Nature, beauty
“How do you just stop being terrified of getting left behind and ending up by yourself forever and not meaning anything to the world?”
— John Green, An Abundance of Katherines
Tagged: Fear, Overcoming Fear, Getting Left Behind
“I’ve always liked quiet people: You never know if they’re dancing in a daydream or if they’re carrying the weight of the world.”
— John Green, Looking for Alaska
Tagged: Thoughts, People
“Every human who's lived more than a few years on this planet has seen a beautiful sunset and paused to spend one of the last moments of day to be grateful for and overwhelmed by the light.”
— John Green, Civil Twilight
Tagged: Thoughts, Nature
“Seeing the [Chicago] skyline made him feel what is called in Latin the mysterium tremendum et fascinans—that stomach-flipping mix of awestruck fear and entrancing fascination.”
— Colin Singleton, An Abundance Of Katherines
Tagged: Chicago, Chicago Skyline, Breathtaking Sights, mysterium tremendum et fascinans, fascination, Urban Beauty
“Jesus, I’m not going to be one of those people who sits around talking about what they’re gonna do. I’m just going to do it. Imagining the future is a kind of nostalgia.”
— Alaska Young, Looking for Alaska
Tagged: Taking Chances, Do It, Going For It, Adventurous
“Crime is not actually caused by evil; it's caused by systematic disenfranchisement and poverty and lack of access to job opportunities and education.”
— John Green, I Kind of Hate Batman
Tagged: World, world issues
“From the quark to the supernova, the wonders do not cease. It is our attentiveness that is in short supply.”
— John Green, Our Capacity for Wonder: A Review
Tagged: beauty, Nature
“I’m not saying that everything is survivable. Just that everything except the last thing is.”
— John Green, Paper Towns
Tagged: Belief, Ideology, Survival
“Looking at something isn’t quite the same thing as looking at it through a lens.”
— John Green, Drowzees and Masterpieces: Thoughts from London
“The job of reading is not to understand the author's intent; the job of reading is to use stories as a way into seeing other people as we see ourselves.”
— John Green, Life Is Like Pizza
Tagged: Empathy, Reading, Best Reading Quotes
“There’s some people in this world who you can just love and love and love no matter what.”
— John Green, An Abundance of Katherines
Tagged: Loving People
“We have this weird thing in the world where you don’t get insulted for what you do, you get insulted for who you are.”
— John Green, A quote by John Green
Tagged: insults, Culture
“Do you ever wonder whether people would like you more or less if they could see inside you? …I always wonder about that. If people could see me the way I see myself—if they could live in my memories—would anyone love me?”
— John Green, An Abundance of Katherines
Tagged: Curiosity, Seeing inside, Perception, Attitude, Personality
“It was kind of a beautiful day, finally real summer in Indianapolis, warm and humid--the kind of weather that reminds you after a long winter that while the world wasn't built for humans, we were built for the world.”
— Hazel, The Fault in Our Stars
Tagged: Weather, Summer, humanity, Warm Weather, Good Day, Summer Days
“What else? She is so beautiful. You don’t get tired of looking at her. You never worry if she is smarter than you: You know she is. She is funny without ever being mean. I love her. I am so lucky to love her.”
— John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
Tagged: Love, admiration, humor, beauty, Intelligence
“That’s who you really like. The people you can think out loud in front of.”
— John Green, An Abundance of Katherines
Tagged: People, Relationship, Friendship, Liking People
“Life is about doing things that don’t suck with people who don’t suck.”
— John Green, Paper Towns
Tagged: Life Quotes
“What a slut time is. She screws everybody.”
— John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
Tagged: slut time, period, badass, Strong, humor
“You are valuable and rare and worthy of love.”
— John Green, Deserving
Tagged: Love, Value, H4D-21, Inspirational, Self-Love
“I’m a big believer in acknowledging the reality of emotion.”
— John Green, Heartbreak: The Miracle of Swindon Town #196
Tagged: Beliefs, Reality, emotions
“I dislike the phrase 'Internet friends,' because it implies that people you know online aren't really your friends, that somehow the friendship is less real or meaningful to you because it happens through Skype or text messages. The measure of a friendship is not its physicality but its significance.”
— John Green, This Star Won't Go Out: The Life and Words of Esther Grace Earl
Tagged: Relationships, Digital Friendships, Online Friends
“If people were rain, I was drizzle and she was a hurricane.”
— John Green, Looking for Alaska
Tagged: Personality, Love, character
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