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Living Quotes by John Green
- One of the pitfalls about writing about illness is that it is very easy to imagine people with cancer as either these wise-beyond-their-years creatures or…
- As long as we don't die, this is gonna be one hell of a story.
- Is the labyrinth living or dying?
- 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…
- But my miracle was different. My miracle was this: out of all the houses in all the subdivisions in all of Florida, I ended up…
- I've read a lot of bad books. I used to review books for a living, and when you're a reviewer you read tons of terrible…
- Chicago is the Great American City, and it was really great to live there during a time of economic expansion and opportunity and growth. I…
- I don't decide where I live. My wife decides. She's a curator of contemporary art, and she works at an art museum, so we go…
- Before I got here, I thought for a long time that the way out of the labyrinth was to pretend that it did not exist,…
- What is the point of being alive if you don't at least try to do something remarkable?
- We just did an awesome job of not dying.
- It's not life or death, the labyrinth. Suffering. Doing wrong and having wrong things happen to you. That's the problem. Bolivar was talking about the…
- That is the fear: I have lost something important, and I cannot find it, and I need it. It is fear like if someone lost…
- She said, "It's not life or death, the labyrinth." "Um, okay. So what is it?" "Suffering," she said. "Doing wrong and having wrong things happen…
- As much as life can suck, it always beats the alternative.
- If only we could see the endless string of consequences that result from our smallest actions. But we can't know better until knowing better is…
- I think one of the most important differences between us is that you are excellent at living in a way that is commensurate with your…
- Even if it’s a dumb story, telling it changes people just the slightest little bit, just as living the story changes me. An infinitesimal change.…
- At some point, you gotta stop looking up at the sky, or one of these days you'll look back down and see that you floated…
- 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…
- There was quite a lot of competitiveness about it, with everybody wanting to beat not only cancer itself, but also the other people in the…
- I believe the universe wants to be noticed. I think the universe is inprobably biased toward the consciousness, that it rewards intelligence in part because…
- At the end, we brought her to New York, where I was living, for a series of experimental tortures that increased the misery of her…
- I went on spouting bullshit Encouragements as Gus's parents, arm in arm, hugged each other and nodded at every word. Funerals, I had decided, are…
- What I love about the sculpture is that it makes the bones that we are always walking and playing on manifest, like in a world…
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- In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism. — Hannah Arendt
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry… — Pietro Aretino
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead. — Aristotle
- I love things that age well - things that don't date, that stand the test of time and that become living examples… — Giorgio Armani
- Writing makes you feel that there is a reason to go on living. If I couldn't write, I would stop breathing. — Paul Auster
- In the holy city of Mecca, violence of any kind was forbidden. From the moment they left home, pilgrims were not permitted… — Karen Armstrong
- Today we often think that before we start living a religious life we have first to accept the creedal doctrines and that… — Karen Armstrong
- You go to London, you see a TV set in every cell and the sign up that all the officers must treat… — Joe Arpaio
- From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life. — Arthur Ashe
- John Dalton's records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only… — Isaac Asimov