John Green
John Green
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth24 August 1977
CountryUnited States of America
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Ya gotta live somewhere, but also you GET to live somewhere.
gratitude thinking debt
I was thinking about the universe wanting to be noticed, and how I had to notice it as best I could. I felt that I owed a debt to the universe that only my attention could repay, and also that I owed a debt to everybody who didn’t get to be a person anymore and everyone who hadn’t gotten to be a person yet.
education jobs party
When I was in college, I remember fearing that the dreary grind of adulthood would feature infinitely more existential dread than frat parties had, but the opposite has been true for me. I'm much less likely to feel that gnawing fear of aimlessness and nihilism than I used to be and that's partly because education gave me job opportunities, but it's mostly because education gave me perspective and context.
education passion important
It has been my experience that maximizing income is a helluva lot less important than maximizing passion and fulfillment in your both professionally and personally.
thinking minutes one-minute
Think for one minute of those who have loved you up into this day.
writing order broken
I write about broken people who need other people in order to go on. But those are the only kind of people I know to exist. We are all broken.
stars night produce
The darkest nights produce the brightest stars.
civilization people warm
When people have to choose between civilization and warm genitals, they choose warm genitals
book writing people
I'm not interested in writing for adults. I like them as people! I don't like the way they publish books in that world. Nothing ever gets a chance.
writing stories needs
The right story needs the right telling.
inspiration thinking noticing
I think inspiration is always around; it's just a question of whether or not you're noticing it.
crazy broken world
The amazing thing is that we're right to hold onto hope. The world may be broken but hope is not crazy.
crazy reality broken
We live in this irreparably broken world, and I don't wish to deny reality, but the amazing thing to me is not that we refuse to relinquish hope as a species. The amazing thing is that we're right to hold on to hope. The world may be broken, but hope is not crazy. ... Obviously not all stories end happily. We don't always have good fortune, but hope gives us, as a species and as individuals, what we otherwise wouldn't have: A chance.
swings catholic voters
The Catholic hierarchy has become more conservative. What we don't know is whether [Catholic voters] will become increasingly conservative, or .. stay swing voters.