February 8th, 2012 at 11:53PM

Yeah, about the test - the test will measure whether you are an informed, engaged, and productive citizen of the world and it will take place in schools and bars and hospitals and dorm rooms and in places of worship.

You will be tested on first dates, in job interviews, while watching football, and while scrolling through your twitter feed. The test will judge your ability to think about things other than celebrity marriages, whether you’ll be easily persuaded by empty political rhetoric, and whether you’ll be able to place your life and your community in a broader context.

The test will last your entire life and it will be comprised of the millions of decisions that, when taken together, make your life yours, and everything - everything - will be on it

 — John Green (Crash Course)

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January 30th, 2012 at 7:07PM
The good times and the bad times both will pass. It will pass. It will get easier. But the fact that it will get easier does not mean that it doesn’t hurt now. And when people try to minimize your pain they are doing you a disservice. And when you try to minimize your own pain you’re doing yourself a disservice. Don’t do that. The truth is that it hurts because it’s real. It hurts because it mattered. And that’s an important thing to acknowledge to yourself. But that doesn’t mean that it won’t end, that it won’t get better. Because it will. — John Green (via avid)

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December 17th, 2011 at 8:25PM
That’s who you really like. The people you can think out loud in front of. — John Green (via sentimentalhearts)

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December 6th, 2011 at 3:32PM

“Sometimes in our hyper-cynical world, we forget that it’s okay to get enthusiastic about things.” -John Green.

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December 4th, 2011 at 1:34PM
That’s always seemed so ridiculous to me, that people would want to be around someone because they’re pretty. It’s like picking your breakfast cereals based on color instead of taste. — Margo Roth Spiegelman (via itsastrangerdanger)

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September 9th, 2011 at 5:28AM

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Don’t Forget To Be Awesome

So today I was on my way to university and as I was pacing in circles at the bus stop near my house… I realised I had trodden on a strange assortment of twigs. Only the ‘D’ was misshapen so I realised what it was. After letting out a little (big) squeal I put it back together and took some pictures (damn the first one gets cut off, click it!). I felt like I had been communicated some secret code belonging to a secret society of awesome.

BUT SERIOUSLY THERE’S A NERDFIGHTER WHO LIVES NEAR ME!

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September 2nd, 2011 at 3:45PM
helloerks: “Imagining the future is a kind of nostalgia. (…) You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you’ll escape it one day, and how awesome it will be, and imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present.” -John Green (Looking for Alaska) You just use the future to escape the present.

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“Imagining the future is a kind of nostalgia. (…) You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you’ll escape it one day, and how awesome it will be, and imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present.”

-John Green (Looking for Alaska)

You just use the future to escape the present.

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August 14th, 2011 at 5:53AM
He just didn’t get Hassan’s apathy. What is the point of being alive if you dont even try to do something remarkable? How very odd, to believe God gave you life, and yet not think that life asks more of you than watching TV. — John Green - An Abundance Of Katherines (via splood)
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