But it was only hot outside, and generally I only walked outside between one air-conditioned place to another. John Green More Quotes by John Green More Quotes From John Green I dislike the phrase ‘Internet friends,’ because it implies that people you know online aren’t really your friends, that somehow the friendship is less real or meaningful to you because it happens through Skype or text messages. The measure of a friendship is not its physicality but its significance. John Green good-friendrealmeaningful The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive. John Green inspiringinspirationallife I always liked routine. I suppose I never found boredom very boring. I doubted I could explain it to someone like Margo but drawing circles through life struck me as a kind of reasonable insanity. John Green boredomdrawingcircles Even with everything broken and decided inside her she couldn't quite allow herself to disappear for good. John Green decideddisappearbroken Maybe there is something you're afraid to say, or someone you're afraid to love, or somewhere you're afraid to go. It's gonna hurt. It's gonna hurt because it matters. John Green i-hate-youhurtlife It always shocked me when I realized that I wasn’t the only person in the world who thought and felt such strange and awful things. John Green alaskarealworld The worse the haircut, the better the man. John Green haircutsmen Harry Potter isn’t real? Oh no! Wait, wait, what do you mean by real? Is this video blog real? Am I real if you can see me and hear me, but only through the internet? Are you real if I can read your comment but I don’t know who you are or what your name is or where you’re from or what you look like or how old you are? I know all of those things about Harry Potter. Maybe Harry Potter’s real and you’re not. John Green reallifemean We need never be hopeless because we can never be irreperably broken. John Green alaskateenagehope Our lives are composed of a finite set of moments that we choose how to spend. John Green cherish-every-momenthipstermoments How do you just stop being terrified of getting left behind and ending up by yourself forever and not meaning anything to the world? John Green left-behindforeverworld Don’t make stuff because you want to make money - it will never make you enough money. And don’t make stuff because you want to get famous - because you will never feel famous enough. Make gifts for people - and work hard on making those gifts in the hope that those people will notice and like the gifts. John Green hard-workwantpeople 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 determinationhurtromantic I was born into Bolívar's labyrinth, and so I must believe in the hope of Rabelais' Great Perhaps. John Green labyrinthbornbelieve I'm not saying that everything is survivable. Just that everything except the last thing is. John Green hipsterinspirationpaper I hate the idea that, when it comes to books and learning, hard is often seen as the opposite of fun. It's strange to me that we should be so quick to give up on a book or a math problem when we are so willing to grapple, for centuries if necessary, with a single level of Angry Birds. John Green giving-uphatefun Reading a good book helps us to feel un-alone. John Green readinghelpingbook We're all just facilitators. The real business is done by readers. John Green readerdonereal When we read the right book generously, it can change the way think about the world around us. John Green bookworldthinking We must strike down the insidious lie that a book is the creation of an individual soul labouring in isolation. We must strike it down because it threatens the overall quality and breadth of American literature. John Green soulbooklying
