It is very sad to me that some people are so intent on leaving their mark on the world that they don’t care if that mark is a scar. 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-friend real meaningful The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive. John Green inspiring inspirational life 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 boredom drawing circles Even with everything broken and decided inside her she couldn't quite allow herself to disappear for good. John Green decided disappear broken 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-you hurt life 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 alaska real world The worse the haircut, the better the man. John Green haircuts men 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 real life mean We need never be hopeless because we can never be irreperably broken. John Green alaska teenage hope Our lives are composed of a finite set of moments that we choose how to spend. John Green cherish-every-moment hipster moments 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-behind forever world 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-work want people 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 determination hurt romantic I was born into Bolívar's labyrinth, and so I must believe in the hope of Rabelais' Great Perhaps. John Green labyrinth born believe I'm not saying that everything is survivable. Just that everything except the last thing is. John Green hipster inspiration paper 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-up hate fun Reading a good book helps us to feel un-alone. John Green reading helping book We're all just facilitators. The real business is done by readers. John Green reader done real When we read the right book generously, it can change the way think about the world around us. John Green book world thinking 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 soul book lying
