“I don’t know a perfect person. I only know flawed people who are still worth loving.”
— John Green

“I sometimes see people say that social change is impossible. But this is just not true. Social change is INEVITABLE. What isn’t inevitable is the timbre and shape of that social change, which we decide together.”
— John Green

“Here’s my advice: Study broadly and without fear. Learn a language if you can, because that will make your life more interesting. Read a little bit every day. But more importantly, surround yourself with people who you like and make cool stuff with them. In the end, what you do isn’t going to be nearly as interesting or important as who you do it with.”
— John Green

https://youtu.be/KpNg98tezbE

On the federal budget and meaningful spending cuts

“As the poet Robert Frost put it, ‘The only way out is through.’ And the only good way through is together. Even when circumstances separate us — in fact, especially when they do — the way through is together.”
— John Green, The Anthropocene Reviewed

“When people we love are suffering, we want to make it better. But sometimes — often, in fact — you can't make it better. I'm reminded of something my supervisor said to me when I was a student chaplain: "Don't just do something. Stand there.”
— John Green, The Anthropocene Reviewed

https://www.europesays.com/de/3220/ John Green: „Mein Tuberkulose-Buch wird auch verboten werden“ #Autor #Belletristik #Books #Bücher #Buchrezension #Deutschland #Entertainment #Germany #JohnGreen #Jugendbuch #Kultur #Sachbuch #Tuberkulose #Unterhaltung

“I really just can’t in good faith recommend chronically high levels of anxiety. I recommend almost everything I live with. Art. Telling stories in your head to entertain yourself. Parenting. Having a little speaker in your kitchen that plays Taylor Swift whenever you want. I heartily recommend all these things. But I just can’t get behind anxiety disorders.”
— John Green

"...aesthetic beauty is as much about how and whether you look as what you see."

John Green
The Anthropocene Reviewed
#quote #JohnGreen #beauty

“Despair isn’t very productive. That’s the problem with it. Like a replicating virus, all despair can make is more of itself.”
— John Green, The Anthropocene Reviewed

Iowa law banning books including 1984 and Ulysses blocked by US federal judge https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/mar/26/iowa-law-banning-books-including-1984-and-ulysses-blocked-by-us-federal-judge #JodiPicoult #JohnGreen #Culture #USnews #Books #Iowa

It’s #WorldTuberculosisDay – a day dedicated to the efforts to treat and eliminate the world’s deadliest infectious disease. We encourage you to learn more about this disease, and you could start with our video about its etymology – and about John Green’s newly released book on the subject. https://youtube.com/shorts/CxTnnxSnzB4?feature=share

Straks pakket ophalen bij de DHL-winkel.

Ik kreeg afgelopen week onverwacht bericht dat er een pakket door 'amazon' aan mij was verstuurd, maar ik had helemaal geen bestellingen lopen, dus ik was achterdochtig. Pakket laten bezorgen bij de DHL-winkel, want dacht ik: dan kan ik het daar altijd weigeren, of zo.

Gisterochtend opeens lumineuze idee: o ja, ik had vorig jaar ergens een gesigneerd exemplaar van een nog-te-publiceren boek besteld .... en laat dat boek nu vorige week uitgekomen zijn.

Handig
Dus zo op de fiets pakketje halen.

En dan lezen over tuberculose.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Everything_Is_Tuberculosis

“I reread the work of my friend and mentor Amy Krouse Rosenthal, who’d died a few months earlier. She’d once written, ‘For anyone trying to discern what to do with their life: PAY ATTENTION TO WHAT YOU PAY ATTENTION TO. That’s pretty much all the info you need.’”
— John Green, The Anthropocene Reviewed

#ThreeGoodThings

1. #JohnGreen released a new book today.
2. I found that #GraceHopper 's legacy is still on educational buildings or and her namesake destroyer.
3. While lots of the midwest USA will get crazy weather tomorrow, today has been gorgeous even if way too warm for mid March.

(edit: reworded to make #2 less negative)

"As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep; Slowly, and then all at once."
- John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

Fantastic. John Green on his job of being Hank Green’s brother

4-minute video: https://youtu.be/fFjfTB3If4Q

“We cannot do the hard work of imagining a better world into existence unless we reckon honestly with what governments and corporations want us to believe, and why they want us to believe it.”
— John Green, The Anthropocene Reviewed

“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, Turtles All the Way Down