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What is the point of being alive if you don’t at least try to do something remarkable?

John Green

The past feels distant, even when it’s near. The future feels assured, even when it isn’t.
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Assure Distant Feeling Future Past
Depression is a side effect of dying.
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Depression Die One Liner
I don’t know a perfect person. I only know flawed people who are still worth loving.
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Love People Perfection Person Positive Worth
Maybe our favorite quotations say more about us than about the stories and people we’re quoting.
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Favourite People Story
Don’t make stuff because you want to make money – it will never make you enough money.
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Enough Hard Time Money Stuff
What a treacherous thing to believe that a person is more than a person.
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Believe Couple Person Special
If you don’t imagine, nothing ever happens at all.
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Business Happen Imagination Inspirational
You are so busy being you that you have no idea how utterly unprecedented you are.
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Busy Ideas Yourself
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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Acknowledge Authentic Forgiveness Life Performance Person Shame Yourself
Our fearlessness shall be our secret weapon.
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Fear Graduation Secret Weapon
Without pain, how could we know joy?
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Joy Life One Liner Pain
You don’t remember what happened. What you remember becomes what happened.
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Abundance Happen Remember
We’re all just facilitators. The real business is done by readers.
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Book Business Done Reading Writing
The world is not a wish-granting factory.
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Factory World
Love is keeping the promise anyway.
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Love One Liner Promise
Maybe there is something you’re afraid to say, or someone you’re afraid to love, or somewhere you’re afraid to go. It’s gonna hurt. It’s gonna hurt because it matters.
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Afraid Hurt Love Matter
You cannot invent an algorithm that is as good at recommending books as a good bookseller.
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Algorithm Book Invention
Some infinities are bigger than other infinities.
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Infinite One Liner
We just did an awesome job of not dying.
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Awesome Die Job One Liner
Books so special and rare and yours that advertising your affection feels like a betrayal.
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Advertisement Affection Betrayal Book Feeling Rare Special
The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive.
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Forgiveness Suffering
Books are the ultimate Dumpees: put them down and they’ll wait for you forever; pay attention to them and they always love you back.
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Book Forever Love Reading Wait
The urge to make art or contemplate philosophy does not go away when you are sick. Those urges just become transfigured by illness.
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Art Complete Ill Philosophy Sick Urge
We just did an awesome job of not dying.
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Awesome Die Job One Liner
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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Love Survival
Your responsibility is not to the people you’re making the gift for, but the gift itself.
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Gift People Responsiblity
Standing in line is a form of oppression.
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Oppression Stand

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