Your responsibility is not to the people you’re making the gift for, but the gift itself.
JOHN GREENDepression is a side effect of dying.
More John Green Quotes
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He liked the mere act of reading, the magic of turning scratches on a page into words inside his head.
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What a treacherous thing to believe that a person is more than a person.
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The measure of a friendship is not its physicality but its significance.
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Life works best when we think of people as people.
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We’re as likely to hurt the universe as we are to help it, and we’re not likely to do either.
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It always shocked me when I realized that I wasn’t the only person in the world who thought and felt such strange and awful things.
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What’s the meaning of life? Other people.
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You gave me a forever within the numbered days, and I’m grateful.
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Our lives are composed of a finite set of moments that we choose how to spend.
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You are so busy being you that you have no idea how utterly unprecedented you are.
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Some infinities are bigger than other infinities.
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I don’t think your missing pieces ever fit inside you again once they go missing.
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You are so busy being you that you have no idea how utterly unprecedented you are.
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Grief does not change you, It reveals you.
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I just did some calculations and I’ve been able to determine that you’re full of shit.
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You like someone who can’t like you back because unrequited love can be survived in a way that once-requited love cannot.
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When you acknowledge that there is nothing repulsive or unforgivable or shameful about yourself, it becomes easier to be that authentic person and feel like you’re living a less performed life.
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The nature of impending fatherhood is that you are doing something that you’re unqualified to do, and then you become qualified while doing it.
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The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive.
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The pleasure of remembering had been taken from me, because there was no longer anyone to remember with.
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The human tongue is like wasabi: it’s very powerful, and should be used sparingly.
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What a slut time is. She screws everybody.
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I didn’t need you, you idiot. I picked you. And then you picked me back.
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Some people have lives; some people have music.
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There is no shortage of fault to be found amid our stars.
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I enjoy looking at beautiful people, and I decided a while ago not to deny myself the simpler pleasures of existence
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