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Hope Quotes by John Green

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John Green writes about hope that stubbornly shows up even when logic says it shouldn't. He describes hope as a steady compass that can point north despite a broken world. A simple blade of grass becomes a symbol for hope, life, death, and many other things.

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“We Hoosiers are excessively optimistic about summer.”

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That tastes like hope feels.

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“you take your humor where you can get it.”

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The world may be broken, but hope is not crazy.

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“The things that you hope for the most are the things that destroy you in the end.”

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I'm so proud of you that it makes me proud of me. I hope you know that.

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And so that is the question I leave you with in this final: What is your cause for hope?

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“I get it now. I get it. The things you hope for the most are the things that destroy you in the…

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We need never be hopeless because we can never be irreperably broken.

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The miracle and hope of human consciousness is that we can still conceive of boundlessness.

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“the things that you hope for the most are the things that will destroy you in the end.”

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“I don't know where there is, but I know it's somewhere, and I hope it's beautiful”

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I always had this idea that you should never give up a happy middle in the hopes of a happy ending, because…

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The universe is biased toward consciousness because the universe wants to be noticed. It's a way into existential hope that doesn't have…

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“So grass is a metaphor for life, and for death, and for equality, and for connectedness, and for children, and for God,…

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“And so. And so I choose to go on serving it. I choose to go north, even though like every other direction,…

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“the core christian values- radical hope, universal forgiveness- are the core values of the book's final chapter.”

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“You can't know what an experience will mean to future-you until you are future-you. You need millions of seconds of perspective, which…

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“We don't get to choose if we get hurt in this world, old man, but we do have a say in who…

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“I believe in hope, in what is sometimes called "radical hope." I believe there is hope for us all, even amid the…

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I'm a big believer in pairing classics with contemporary literature, so students have the opportunity to see that literature is not a…

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We live in this irreparably broken world, and I don't wish to deny reality, but the amazing thing to me is not…

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The world is broken, and all our attempts to fix it will inevitably fail, and some day all life will be extinguished…

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“We squeeze his hand. He squeezes back. You stare up at the same sky together, and after a while he says, I…

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Muhammad brought the promise that anyone could find fulfillment and everlasting life through allegiance to the one true God. The Buddah held…

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I believe in hope, in what is something called ”radical hope.” I believe there is hope for all of us, even amid…

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“Someone once told her there’s a formula for how long it takes to get over someone, that it’s half as long as…

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“But what did I have left to contribute? Just this? Just being the last known pair of truly human eyes to look…

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“Yeah, well. If you're staying here in hopes of making out with Alaska, I sure wish you wouldn't. If you unmoor her…

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“A child said, What is the grass? fetching it to me will full hands; How could I answer the child?…I do not…

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“And if Alaska took her own life, that is the hope I wish I could have given her. Forgetting her mother, failing…

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The amazing thing is that we're right to hold onto hope. The world may be broken but hope is not crazy.

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I was born into Bolívar's labyrinth, and so I must believe in the hope of Rabelais' Great Perhaps.

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“There is hope, even when your brain tells you there isn't.”

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The things you hope for the most are the things that destroy you in the end.

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“We need never be without hope because we can never be irreparably broken.”

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“Fights were recounted, battles won amid wars sure to be lost; hope was clung to; families were both celebrated and denounced;”

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I tore open the closet door and began feverishly sorting through the shirts piled on the floor in the vain hope that…

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“The reading quieted his brain a little. Without Katherine and without the Theorem and without his hopes of mattering, he had very…

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