Without pain, how could we know joy?
JOHN GREENYou don’t get to choose if you get hurt in this world but you do have some say in who hurts you. I like my choices.
More John Green Quotes
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I didn’t need you, you idiot. I picked you. And then you picked me back.
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Poetry is just so emo.” he said. “Oh, the pain. The pain. It always rains. In my soul.
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They love their hair because they’re not smart enough to love something more interesting.
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Maybe our favorite quotations say more about us than about the stories and people we’re quoting.
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You don’t remember what happened. What you remember becomes what happened.
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Books so special and rare and yours that advertising your affection feels like a betrayal.
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Standing in line is a form of oppression.
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What is the point of being alive if you don’t at least try to do something remarkable?
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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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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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We just did an awesome job of not dying.
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Your responsibility is not to the people you’re making the gift for, but the gift itself.
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Grief does not change you, It reveals you.
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You do not immortalize the lost by writing about them. Language buries, but does not resurrect.
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Some tourists think Amsterdam is a city of sin, but in truth it is a city of freedom. And in freedom, most people find sin.
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