John Green Quotes

You 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.
JOHN GREEN

Choice Choose Hurt Satisfaction World
Whatever you’re worried about, you’re bigger than the worries.
JOHN GREEN

Hard Time Inspirational Worry
Sometimes you lose a battle. But mischief always wins the war.
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Battle Mischief War Win
What’s the meaning of life? Other people.
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Life People
Not that smart. Not that hot. Not that nice. Not that funny. That’s me: I’m not that.
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Attitude Funny Nice Smart
Books so special and rare and yours that advertising your affection feels like a betrayal.
JOHN GREEN

Advertisement Affection Betrayal Book Feeling Rare Special
We all use the future to escape the present.
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Escape Future One Liner Present
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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Help Hurt Universe
What is the point of being alive if you don’t at least try to do something remarkable?
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Alive Inspirational Remarkable Try
Our lives are composed of a finite set of moments that we choose how to spend.
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Choose Compose Infinite Live Moments Spend
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’re all just facilitators. The real business is done by readers.
JOHN GREEN

Book Business Done Reading Writing
The human tongue is like wasabi: it’s very powerful, and should be used sparingly.
JOHN GREEN

Human Powerful Tongue
You do not immortalize the lost by writing about them. Language buries, but does not resurrect.
JOHN GREEN

Bury Death Language Lost Mortal Writing
He liked the mere act of reading, the magic of turning scratches on a page into words inside his head.
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Act Head Inside Magic Page Reading
We just did an awesome job of not dying.
JOHN GREEN

Awesome Die Job One Liner
Maybe our favorite quotations say more about us than about the stories and people we’re quoting.
JOHN GREEN

Favourite People Story
Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book.
JOHN GREEN

Book Reading
I don’t think your missing pieces ever fit inside you again once they go missing.
JOHN GREEN

Inside Missing Pieces Thinking
I’m not saying that everything is survivable. Just that everything except the last thing is.
JOHN GREEN

Except Philosophy Survival
You do not immortalize the lost by writing about them. Language buries, but does not resurrect.
JOHN GREEN

Bury Death Language Lost Mortal Writing
He liked the mere act of reading, the magic of turning scratches on a page into words inside his head.
JOHN GREEN

Act Head Inside Magic Page Reading
We just did an awesome job of not dying.
JOHN GREEN

Awesome Die Job One Liner
Maybe our favorite quotations say more about us than about the stories and people we’re quoting.
JOHN GREEN

Favourite People Story
Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book.
JOHN GREEN

Book Reading
I don’t think your missing pieces ever fit inside you again once they go missing.
JOHN GREEN

Inside Missing Pieces Thinking
I’m not saying that everything is survivable. Just that everything except the last thing is.
JOHN GREEN

Except Philosophy Survival

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