John Green Quotes About Failing

Quotes about: Failing

• When adults say, "Teenagers think they are invincible" with that sly, stupid smile on their faces, they don't know how right they are. We need never be hopeless, because we can never be irreparably broken. We think that we are invincible because we are. We cannot be born, and we cannot die. Like all energy, we can only change shapes and sizes and manifestations. They forget that when they get old. They get scared of losing and failing. But that part of us greater than the sum of our parts cannot begin and cannot end, and so it cannot fail.

  John Green

  Teenage, Stupid, Real

  John Green (2008). “Looking for Alaska”, p.161, Penguin

• You realize that trying to keep your distance from me will not lessen my affection for you. All efforts to save me from you will fail.

  John Green

  Romantic, Distance, Effort

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.74, Penguin

• Failing to grapple with complexity actually turns out to be a pretty bad life strategy.

  John Green

  Failing, Strategy, Bad Life

• But that part of us greater than the sum of our parts cannot begin and cannot end, and so it cannot fail

  John Green

  Teenage, Alaska, Teens

  John Green (2008). “Looking for Alaska”, p.161, Penguin

• The world is broken, and all our attempts to fix it will inevitably fail, and some day all life will be extinguished from the planet and there will be no one to remember that any of us ever did anything. But this fact, strangely, does not delegitimize hope, because every now and again we find evidence that hope is helpful. This evidence, in my opinion, should be celebrated-even as we lament and fight the devastation.

  John Green

  Fighting, Broken, Doe

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