Hank Green Quotes

I need Harry Potter like a grindylow needs water.

Making an un-perfect decision is far, far better than not making a decision, which is the worst possible decision you could make.

I forgot how to throw a boomerang, but then it came back to me.

Being silly is still allowed, not excluded by adulthood. What's excluded by adulthood is thoughtlessness, so be thoughtful and silly

We are all differently broken, semi-functional, rusted out love machines

We've got to keep 6 billion people happy without destroying our planet. It's the biggest challenge we've ever faced....but we're taking it on.

Think of people as people, not problems that need to be solved.

When I think of the value that i appreciate and the value that I create, what matters to me most is how much I love people, and how much the people that I love love me.

But when you are being physically and psychologically tortured, it is difficult to remove yourself from the pressingness of the moment at hand. Here's how I dealt with bullying: I cried, I hated myself, I hated my life. I didn't deal with it, I survived it, but I never dealt with it. So here are two tips from someone with lots of experience. 1: It's not about you, it has nothing to do with you, it's about the assholes doing it to you. 2: Your job is not to deal with it, your job is to survive it, which you CAN do because it WILL end. And then yes, it will get better.

I'm also pretty impressive when I'm shoving the neck of a lute into someone's chest cavity.

Welcome to the degeneration of my mind.

We are the superhero, none of us individually, but all of us together.

It seems no matter what I read I think 'this is not Harry Potter.'

Hoaxes are nothing new. News media isn't hard to fool. It's fun to fool and people like to mess with people. It all goes to show you that we're not all that hard to fool. I think we should just accept that and trust people anyway.

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

And when I think about that sunrise that I woke up to that morning, I just feel like I got as close to nowhere as I could get, and found out that it was more of a place than anywhere I've been in a long time.

Humanity is good. Some people are terrible and broken, but humanity is good. I believe that.

‎Sometimes I feel like when someone asks me if I believe in God, it's like a blind person asking if I'm black, so that they can put me in the right category.

Why is it called Piggie-back riding? I'm not a piggie!

Stop listening to people telling us we need to hate each other

We often just accept the things that we like, and complain a lot about the things that we don't like. But if we could, like, intensely dwell on the really great things in life the way we intensely dwell on the negative things in life; I think that would be fantastic.

If you were a crayon, what color would you most like to make out with?

John Green is a very handsome, intelligent, and wise man. He smells really weird though.

I also live in the present, due to the constraints of the space-time continuum.

I honestly don't know how you live without having a cat inside your house. It's like having a little living piece of art that is also very warm and soft.

So you go on and on, with this intellectual fly down, your underwear exposed, and toilette paper hanging out the back of your pants.

Bravery is not strength in the face of a far lesser foe. Bravery is the exact opposite of that.

It's almost as if our society values opinion over knowledge.

I deal with stress in two ways because there are two kinds of stress. There's stress that you can take care of and there's stress that you can't. The first one, I take care of it as fast as possible, because putting it off always makes it worse. Things that I can't fix? I think about the fact that I can't fix them. I think about why I can't fix them and I come to terms with the fact that this is a problem that I'm not going to overcome and that the world is not a wish granting factory.

What does it mean that social structures among young people are so often predicated upon trying really, really hard to appear to not-be-trying?

Some days, it seems to me like the purpose of life is to convert energy into beauty.

I think it's pretty ridiculous to sit back and think that we've changed the horse so much, without realizing that they have changed us an awful lot too.

I have very little patience for teachers who teach their students things that are wrong.

Legacy media accuses young people of being apathetic while actively attempting to remove them from the discussion.

Marriage can be a religious thing. It can also be a secular thing. And guess what? Not everyone in the world is of the same religion. Preventing gay people from getting married is not an expression of religious freedom. It's an expression of religious oppression.

But the truth of the matter is, to live a good life, as a good person, it doesn't matter how you got there. It just matters that you do.

You are always a little bit wrong

So the president is like, "Well, once upon a time it was Congress's job to decide whether or not we attacked countries, so let's let them decide." Which is funny, because, as we all know, if Congress were on fire, Congress could not pass the "Pour Water on Congress Act".

You may be wondering why there are words on my hands. That's because I'm a dork. And I'm gonna choose not to explain myself.