“because nerds like us are allowed to be unironically enthusiastic about stuff. Nerds are allowed to love stuff, like jump-up-and-down-in-the-chair-can’t-control-yourself love it. Hank, when people call people nerds, mostly what they’re saying is ‘you like stuff.’ Which is just not a good insult at all. Like, ‘you are too enthusiastic about the miracle of human consciousness’.”
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John Green
“Behold the field in which I grow my fucks. Lay thine eyes upon it and see that it is barren.” ― Hank Green, An Absolutely Remarkable Thing
“Humanity is good. Some people are terrible and broken, but humanity is good. I believe that.” ― Hank Green
“Being silly is still allowed, not excluded by adulthood. What's excluded by adulthood is thoughtlessness, so be thoughtful and silly” ― Hank Green
“You will always struggle with not feeling productive until you accept that your own joy can be something you produce. It is not the only thing you will make, nor should it be, but it is something valuable and beautiful.” ― Hank Green, A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor
“You are always a little bit wrong” ― Hank Green
“In the contemporary world where things fall apart, and the centre cannot hold, you have to imagine a community where there is no centre. Hank, at the end of this year I started thinking that a lot of life is about doing things that don’t suck with people who don’t suck.” ― John Green
“I had a very happy childhood; I just wasn’t a very happy child.” ― Hank Green, An Absolutely Remarkable Thing
“Read books. Care about things. Get excited. Try not to be too down on youself. Enjoy the ever present game of knowing.” ― Hank Green
“Just because someone has power over you doesn’t mean they’re going to use it to hurt you. People who believe that tend to either be: People who have been victims of that sort of behavior, or . . . People who, if given power, will use it to hurt you.” ― Hank Green, An Absolutely Remarkable Thing
“Even on this most terrible days, even when the worst of us are all we can think of, I am proud to be a human.” ― Hank Green, An Absolutely Remarkable Thing
“The most impactful thing you can do with power is almost always to give it away.” ― Hank Green, A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor
“We are all differently broken, semi-functional, rusted out love machines” ― Hank Green
“As Alaska zipped through something obvious about linear equations, stoner/baller Hank Walsten said, "Wait, wait. I don't get it.""That's because you have eight functioning brain cells.""Studies show that Marijuana is better for your health than those cigarettes," Hank said. Alaska swallowed a mouthful of fries, took a drag on her cigarette, and blew a smoke at Hank. "I may die young," she said. "But at least I'll die smart. Now, back to tangents.” ― John Green, Looking for Alaska
“It turns out, somehow, there are a tremendous number of things to be optimistic about.” ― Hank Green
“You can only do so much pretending before you become the thing you're pretending to be.” ― Hank Green, An Absolutely Remarkable Thing
“The power that each of us has over complete strangers to make them feel terrible and and frightened and weak is amazing.” ― Hank Green, An Absolutely Remarkable Thing
“Just because you can't imagine something doesn't mean you can't do it.” ― Hank Green, An Absolutely Remarkable Thing
“Think of people as people, not problems that need to be solved.” ― Hank Green
“Behold the field in which I grow my fucks. Lay thine eyes upon it and see that it is barren.” ― Hank Green, An Absolutely Remarkable Thing
“Humanity is good. Some people are terrible and broken, but humanity is good. I believe that.” ― Hank Green
“Being silly is still allowed, not excluded by adulthood. What's excluded by adulthood is thoughtlessness, so be thoughtful and silly” ― Hank Green
“You will always struggle with not feeling productive until you accept that your own joy can be something you produce. It is not the only thing you will make, nor should it be, but it is something valuable and beautiful.” ― Hank Green, A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor
“You are always a little bit wrong” ― Hank Green
“In the contemporary world where things fall apart, and the centre cannot hold, you have to imagine a community where there is no centre. Hank, at the end of this year I started thinking that a lot of life is about doing things that don’t suck with people who don’t suck.” ― John Green
“I had a very happy childhood; I just wasn’t a very happy child.” ― Hank Green, An Absolutely Remarkable Thing
“Read books. Care about things. Get excited. Try not to be too down on youself. Enjoy the ever present game of knowing.” ― Hank Green
“Just because someone has power over you doesn’t mean they’re going to use it to hurt you. People who believe that tend to either be: People who have been victims of that sort of behavior, or . . . People who, if given power, will use it to hurt you.” ― Hank Green, An Absolutely Remarkable Thing
“Even on this most terrible days, even when the worst of us are all we can think of, I am proud to be a human.” ― Hank Green, An Absolutely Remarkable Thing
“The most impactful thing you can do with power is almost always to give it away.” ― Hank Green, A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor
“We are all differently broken, semi-functional, rusted out love machines” ― Hank Green
“As Alaska zipped through something obvious about linear equations, stoner/baller Hank Walsten said, "Wait, wait. I don't get it.""That's because you have eight functioning brain cells.""Studies show that Marijuana is better for your health than those cigarettes," Hank said. Alaska swallowed a mouthful of fries, took a drag on her cigarette, and blew a smoke at Hank. "I may die young," she said. "But at least I'll die smart. Now, back to tangents.” ― John Green, Looking for Alaska
“It turns out, somehow, there are a tremendous number of things to be optimistic about.” ― Hank Green
“You can only do so much pretending before you become the thing you're pretending to be.” ― Hank Green, An Absolutely Remarkable Thing
“The power that each of us has over complete strangers to make them feel terrible and and frightened and weak is amazing.” ― Hank Green, An Absolutely Remarkable Thing
“Just because you can't imagine something doesn't mean you can't do it.” ― Hank Green, An Absolutely Remarkable Thing
“Think of people as people, not problems that need to be solved.” ― Hank Green
