John Green Quotes About Giving

Quotes about: Giving

• Adult librarians are like lazy bakers: their patrons want a jelly doughnut, so they give them a jelly doughnut. Children’s librarians are ambitious bakers: 'You like the jelly doughnut? I’ll get you a jelly doughnut. But you should try my cruller, too. My cruller is gonna blow your mind, kid.

  John Green

  Children, Kids, Blow

• 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

  Meaningful, Real, Good Friend

  "Read The Heartbreaking Letter The Girl Who Inspired TFIOS Wrote To Her Future Self" by Kristin Harris, www.seventeen.com. May 30, 2014.

• It's a metaphor, see: You put the killing thing right between your teeth, but you don't give it the power to do its killing.

  John Green

  Real, Giving, Teeth

  John Green (2008). “An Abundance of Katherines”, p.230, Penguin

• 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, Fun, Hate

• Given the final futility of our struggle, is the fleeting jolt of meaning that art gives us valuable? Or is the only value in passing the time as comfortable as possible? What should a story seek to emulate, Augustus? A ringing alarm? A call to arms? A morphine drip? Of course, like all interrogation of the universe, this line of inquiry inevitably reduces us to asking what it means to be human and whether—to borrow a phrase from the angst-encumbered sixteeen-year-olds you no doubt revile—there is a point to it all.

  John Green

  Art, Struggle, Mean

• 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.

  John Green

  Crazy, Reality, Broken

• I always had this idea that you should never give up a happy middle in the hopes of a happy ending, because there is no such thing as a happy ending. Do you know what I mean? There is so much to lose.

  John Green

  Life, Giving Up, Mean

• But it was sure a privilege to love him, huh?" I nodded into his shirt. "Gives you an idea how I feel about you," he said. My old man. He always knew just what to say.

  John Green

  Men, Ideas, Giving

  "The Fault in Our Stars". Book by John Green, May 3, 2012.

• And I vaguely remember her smiling at me from the door way the glittering ambiguity of a girls smile, which seems to promise an answer to the question, but never gives it. The question, the one we’ve all been asking since girls stopped being gross, the question that is to simple to be uncomplicated: Does she like me or does she LIKE me?

  John Green

  Girl, Simple, Doors

• I’ll give you my strength if I can have your remission.

  John Green

  Giving, Remission, Ifs

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.91, Penguin UK

• The fourth way to get a boy to like you is to be yourself. Now, I am contractually obligated as an adult to give that advice, even though it doesn't work. But yeah, be yourself, even though no one has any idea what it means to be yourself. Like whose self would I otherwise be being?

  John Green

  Being Yourself, Mean, Boys

  YouTube Chanel "vlogbrothers" / "How to Make Guys Like You", www.youtube.com. February 24, 2009.

• It must be some book," she said as she knelt down next to the bed..."Did that boy give it to you?" She asked out of nowhere. "By 'it' do you mean herpes?" "You are too much," Mom said, "The book, Hazel. I mean the book.

  John Green

  Mom, Book, Mean

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.33, Penguin UK

• He puts the killing thing in his mouth but doesn't give it the power to kill him.

  John Green

  Giving, Mouths, Killing

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.146, Penguin

• What do you mean by meant? Given the final futility of our struggle, is the fleeting jolt of meaning that art gives us valuable? Or is it the only value passing time as comfortably as possible?

  John Green

  Art, Struggle, Mean

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.52, Penguin UK

• It always happened like this: he would look and look for the keys to Satan’s Hearse and then finally he’d just give up and say, “Fine. I’ll take the fugging bus,” and on his way out the door, he’d see the keys. Keys show up when you reconcile yourself to the bus; Katherines appear when you start to disbelieve the world contains another Katherine; and, sure enough, the Eureka moment arrived just as he began to accept it would never come.

  John Green

  Giving Up, Real, Keys

  John Green (2013). “The John Green Collection”, p.251, Penguin

• I'll just go over to the Duke's," I said. "Her parents already told me I could stay there. I'll go over there and open all my presents, and talk about how my parents neglect me, and then maybe the Duke will give me some of her presents because she feels so bad about how my mom doesn't love me.

  John Green

  Mom, Giving, Parent

• Everybody was so kind. Strong, too. In the darkest days, the Lord puts the best people into your life." "Quick, give me a throw pillow and some thread because that needs to be an Encouragement.

  John Green

  Encouragement, Strong, People

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.28, Penguin

• We have to live with ambiguity. We have to give ourselves over to it. The question is: How? How are we going to live in a universe where important questions will always go unanswered?

  John Green

  Real, Giving, Important

• But of course there is always a hamartia and yours is that oh, my God, even though you HAD FREAKING CANCER you give money to a company in exchange for the chance to acquire YET MORE CANCER.

  John Green

  Cancer, Giving, Chance

  John Green (2008). “An Abundance of Katherines”, p.229, Penguin

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