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- 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.
- John Green, The Fault in Our Stars, 2012
- The voracious ambition of humans is never sated by dreams coming true, because there is always the thought that everything might be done better and again.
- John Green, The Fault in Our Stars, 2012
- We are like a bunch of dogs squirting on fire hydrants. We poison the groundwater with our toxic piss, marking everything MINE in a ridiculous attempt to survive our deaths.
- John Green, The Fault in Our Stars, 2012
- Naming one thing after another cannot, logically, increase the chances of the new thing turning out like the old thing.
- Ned Beauman, The Teleportation Accident, 2013
- I honestly don't know how you live without having a cat inside your house. It's like having a little living piece of art that is also very warm and soft.
- Hank Green, Vlogbrothers, Cat GIF Critique, 04-26-13
- 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.
- John Green, Vlogbrothers, Is College Worth It?, 08-21-12
- 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.
- John Green, Vlogbrothers, Is College Worth It?, 08-21-12
- Somebody once said that beauty is the passport to success, but it's not a passport. It's a visa and it expires.
- Michael J. Mosley and Nicholas Rossiter, The Human Face, 2001
- The only battle to win is the battle within, that place where we realize that we deserve to have and create all that we want in our lives.
- Ali Vincent, Believe It, Be It: How Being the Biggest Loser Won Me Back My Life, 2009
- Behind weight gain are the larger hurts and questions that have to be explored, probed, and understood before weight loss and maintenance is a possibility. It's a bigger issue than just calories in, calories out.
- Ali Vincent, Believe It, Be It: How Being the Biggest Loser Won Me Back My Life, 2009
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