Quotes - Lauren Kershner Showing 1-30 of 211

#1

“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.”
― Anne Frank, Anne Frank's Tales from the Secret Annex: A Collection of Her Short Stories, Fables, and Lesser-Known Writings

tags: activism, life, optimism, philosophy, world

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#2

“In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.”
― Anne Frank

tags: humanity

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#3

“The venn diagram of boys who don't like smart girls and boys you don't want to date is a circle.”
― John Green

tags: nerdfighters

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#4

“What is the point of being alive if you don't at least try to do something remarkable?”
― John Green, An Abundance of Katherines

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#5

“Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.”
― Voltaire

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#6

“There is hope, even when your brain tells you there isn't.”
― John Green, Turtles All the Way Down

tags: brain, brains, hope, inner-thoughts, mental-health, mental-illness, thoughts

578 likes

#7

“You can only do so much pretending before you become the thing you're pretending to be.”
― Hank Green, An Absolutely Remarkable Thing

tags: act, attitude, authentic, emotion, human, people, personality, pretend

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#8

“You are a story that you tell yourself, and even if it is not always accurate, it is who you are, and that is very important to you.”
― Hank Green, A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor

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#9

“I still have a lot to figure out, but the one thing I know is, wherever you are, that’s where I belong. I’ll never belong anywhere like I belong with you.”
― Emily Henry, People We Meet on Vacation

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#10

“I'll never understand how time can make a moment feel as close as yesterday and as far as years.”
― Adam Silvera, History Is All You Left Me

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#11

“You may be born into a family, but you walk into friendships. Some you’ll discover you should put behind you. Others are worth every risk.”
― Adam Silvera, They Both Die at the End

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#12

“Maybe it's better to have gotten it right and been happy for one day instead of living a lifetime of wrongs.”
― Adam Silvera, They Both Die at the End

tags: thebookaholicblurbs

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#13

“But no matter what choices we make - solo or together - our finish line remains the same … No matter how we choose to live, we both die at the end.”
― Adam Silvera, They Both Die at the End

tags: thebookaholicblurbs

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#14

“Sometimes the truth is a secret you're keeping from yourself because living a lie is easier.”
― Adam Silvera, They Both Die at the End

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#15

“I wasted all those yesterdays and am completely out of tomorrows.”
― Adam Silvera, They Both Die at the End

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#16

“You don't get to choose if you get hurt in this world...but you do have some say in who hurts you. I like my choices.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

tags: satisfaction, self-determination

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#17

“Thomas Edison's last words were "It's very beautiful over there". I don't know where there is, but I believe it's somewhere, and I hope it's beautiful.”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska

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#18

“Oh, I wouldn't mind, Hazel Grace. It would be a privilege to have my heart broken by you.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

tags: augustus-waters, hazel, heartbreak, privilege

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#19

“Books, she has found, are a way to live a thousand lives--or to find strength in a very long one.”
― V.E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

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#20

“Nothing is all good or all bad,” she says. “Life is so much messier than that.”
― V.E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

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#21

“This is the best reason to learn history: not in order to predict the future, but to free yourself of the past and imagine alternative destinies. Of course this is not total freedom – we cannot avoid being shaped by the past. But some freedom is better than none.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow

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#22

“Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass...It's about learning to dance in the rain.”
― Vivian Greene

tags: dance, life, rain, storm

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#23

“Humanity is good. Some people are terrible and broken, but humanity is good. I believe that.”
― Hank Green

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#24

“Because when you are imagining, you might as well imagine something worth while.”
― Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

tags: imagination

1081 likes

#25

“Oh, it's delightful to have ambitions. I'm so glad I have such a lot. And there never seems to be any end to them-- that's the best of it. Just as soon as you attain to one ambition you see another one glittering higher up still. It does make life so interesting.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

tags: ambition

1060 likes

#26

“Dear old world', she murmured, 'you are very lovely, and I am glad to be alive in you.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

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#27

“There’s a Korean word my grandma taught me. It’s called jung. It’s the connection between two people that can’t be severed, even when love turns to hate. You still have those old feelings for them; you can’t ever completely shake them loose of you; you will always have tenderness in your heart for them.”
― Jenny Han, P.S. I Still Love You

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#28

“Books so special and rare and yours that advertising your affection feels like a betrayal.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

tags: books

7430 likes

#29

“I'm not saying that everything is survivable. Just that everything except the last thing is.”
― John Green, Paper Towns

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#30

“Read books. Care about things. Get excited. Try not to be too down on youself. Enjoy the ever present game of knowing.”
― Hank Green

tags: inspirational

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