John Green Quotes

No matter what, we always have the power to choose hope over despair, engagement over apathy, kindness over indifference, enthusiasm over lethargy, love over hate. This is our true freedom. Whatever life may throw at us, we have the freedom and ability to choose our attitude. And I believe it is in those moments of choice that we manifest our destiny.

I surprise myself that I'm not dead in the gutter somewhere, surprised that I haven't given up.

We want to show the world that even if you go through some bad periods, you always have to think positive just to go forward.

We can feel sad, hurt, demoralized. But we can't give up.

I am not someone who lets my head get down.

I am of the opinion, and even more so the older I get, that it is more difficult to have hope than it is to despair. And I mean this in the sense that in order to have hope you must acknowledge the despair and then you have to get beyond it. Taken from a radio interview given on BBC Radio 4's Open Book

We are as indestructible as we believe ourselves to be.

If we want to cultivate hopefulness, we have to be willing to be flexible and demonstrate perseverance. Not every goal will look and feel the same. Tolerance for disappointment, determination, and a belief in self are the heart of hope.

There are seldom, if ever, any hopeless situations, but there are many people who lose hope in the face of some situations.

We need never be hopeless because we can never be irreperably broken.

If I kept saying it; if I kept reaching out. My accident really taught me just one thing: the only way to go on is to go on. To say 'I can do this' even when you know you can't.

Every day is different, and some days are better than others, but no matter how challenging the day, I get up and live it.

The soul does not give itself up to despair until it has exhausted all illusions.

I know that you cannot live on hope alone, but without it, life is not worth living. And you...And you...And you...Gotta give em hope.

I think the one thing that I cannot do without each day is hope. If you put me in a position where you took all my hope away, I'm not sure I could make it through the day.

I think positively, you can't harm me mentally, not physically, not spiritually, you'll never get rid of me.

We need hope, or else we cannot endure.

A human being can survive almost anything, as long as she sees the end in sight!

A strong mind always hopes, and has always cause to hope.

I know it seems hard sometimes but remember one thing. Through every dark night, there's a bright day after that. So no matter how hard it get, stick your chest out, keep ya head up.... and handle it.

We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand. If I don’t seem as depressed or morose as I should be, sorry to disappoint you.

It's gonna be okay, no matter how hard your rock bottom is, you can rise above it and you can come back.

It takes far less courage to kill yourself than it takes to wake up one more time. It is harder to stay where you are than to get out.

It requires courage not to surrender oneself to the ingenious or compassionate counsels of despair that would induce a man to eliminate himself from the ranks of the living; but it does not follow from this that every huckster who is fattened and nourished in self-confidence has more courage than the man who yielded to despair.

In some of the darkest and hardest moments, there is always a part of me that is okay. And I can always access that part of me.