Your responsibility is not to the people you’re making the gift for, but the gift itself.
JOHN GREENWhen 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.
More John Green Quotes
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Writing is something you do alone. It’s a profession for introverts who wanna tell you a story but don’t wanna make eye contact while telling it
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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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Our fearlessness shall be our secret weapon.
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Great books help you understand, and they help you feel understood.
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We all use the future to escape the present.
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The human tongue is like wasabi: it’s very powerful, and should be used sparingly.
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We are as indestructible as we believe ourselves to be.
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We just did an awesome job of not dying.
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Whatever you’re worried about, you’re bigger than the worries.
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The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive.
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Some people have lives; some people have music.
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It would be a privilege to have my heart broken by 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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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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If you don’t imagine, nothing ever happens at all.
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