John Green Quotes

Is your cucumber bitter? Throw it away. Are there briars in your path? Turn aside. That is enough. Do not go on and say, "Why were things of this sort ever brought into this world?" neither intolerable nor everlasting - if thou bearest in mind that it has its limits, and if thou addest nothing to it in imagination. Pain is either an evil to the body (then let the body say what it thinks of it!)-or to the soul. But it is in the power of the soul to maintain its own serenity and tranquility. . . .

To have in general but little feeling, seems to be the only security against feeling too much on any particular occasion.

We believe it is bad or dangerous to be carried away by our emotions. We admire the person who is cool, who acts without feeling.

I don't get upset over things I can control, because if I can control them there's no sense in getting upset. And I don't get upset over things I can't control, because if I can't control them there's no sense in getting upset.

I'm fairly unemotional and tend not to get too excited when things go well and I tend not to get too depressed when they go badly.

I learned not to get too happy about good news or too distraught about bad.

How can you not care?" "Practice," Magnus said, looking back to his book and turning the page.

Although anxiety is part of life, never let it control you.

I've learned to control everything. I don't get angry at anything. Somebody can do me wrong. That's life. What good is it to get angry?

Anger is my biggest enemy in life.

Do nothing in a depressed mood, nor as one afflicted, nor as thinking that you are in misery, for no one compels you to that.

I'm an emotional person. Sometimes I can't help it.

I do not wear my emotions on my sleeve. I was once described by my own son Stephen as an emotional ostrich.

At the end of the day you have to keep emotions away.

It's not that I am not emotional, but I am extremely secure and curb it, as I am afraid to let go and be broken. So, I have cultivated myself to be detached in life, specially where movies are concerned.

No, nothing really upsets me.

It is salutary to train oneself to be no more affected by censure than by praise.

I wouldn't, a little bit frightened but throughout my life I'd learnt that when you're in the serious situations, you've got to try to stay calm. Because that's the way you get out of them.

I feel pressure, but my emotions just don't show that much in my face.

I was a very sensitive kid who then had to condition myself to desensitize.

Never give way to melancholy; resist it steadily, for the habit will encroach.

If I'm uncomfortable, you'd never know.

To a certain extent, I think I've tried to train myself to not dive too deep into things or get my hopes too way up, because the fear of disappointment and whatnot is only natural.

I'm like anybody else. You get enough, you can get beat up. You can get hurt. You can get frustrated. You can get demoralized.

It's just a game. I love it. And yeah, I get frustrated, but I try to not let it get me too upset. I mean, I don't get upset over bad shots or anything like that.