If the inevitability of human oblivion worries you, I encourage you to ignore it.

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About John Green

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John Michael Green (born August 24, 1977) is an American author and YouTuber. His books have more than 50 million copies in print worldwide, including The Fault in Our Stars (2012), which is one of the best-selling books of all time. Green's rapid rise to fame and idiosyncratic voice are...

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You remember your first love because they show you, prove to you, that you can love and be loved, that nothing in this world is deserved except for love, that love is both how you become a person, and why.

—John Green in Turtles All the Way Down

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That's the great thing about being in the third grade. If you've got one polysyllabic adjective, everyone thinks you're a genius.

Just a word of advice. Whenever you're furious with your parents or you think they're terrible, just remember, you vomited on them and they kept you.

As much as life can suck, it always beats the alternative.

—John Green in Paper Towns

That's why people grow weary of listening to Dumpees obsess over their troubles: getting dumped is predictable, repetitive, and boring. They want to stay friends; they feel smothered; it's always them and it's never you; and afterward, you're devastated and they're relieved; it's over for them and just starting for you.

—John Green in An Abundance of Katherines

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We have been taught to believe that negative equals realistic and positive equals unrealistic.

If you can solve your problem, then what is the need of worrying? If you cannot solve it, then what is the use of worrying?

—Susan Jeffers

It is generally true that, the more preparations one has for an event, the more inconveniently fast the event will occur.

Worry a little bit every day and in a lifetime you will lose a couple of years. If something is wrong, fix it if you can. But train yourself not to worry. Worry never fixes anything.

—Mary Hemingway

Worries go down better with soup than without.

—Jewish Proverb