J. Green Quotes

And I put the latte down on a table, awash in the happy middle of my greatest adventure.

I am a dreamer. Seriously, I'm living on another planet.

Let us use our energy and our initiative to solve our problems without relying on prayers and wishful thinking. When we have faith in ourselves, we will find we do not have to have faith in gods.

I don't like reindeer. They seem like regular deer, only more dangerous.

As long as a man lives he should study. Death alone has the right to dismiss the school.

Everyone wants to transform, but nobody wants to change.

I take a baths all the time. I'll put on some music and burn some incense and just sit in the tub and think, Wow, life is great right now.

There will never be a generation of great men until there has been a generation of free women - of free mothers.

Our fearlessness shall be our secret weapon.

What light is to the eyes - what air is to the lungs - what love is to the heart, liberty is to the soul of man.

Labor is the only prayer that Nature answers: It is the only prayer that deserves an answer—good, honest, noble work.

If somebody writes a great poem, people don't run around applauding the pencil, saying 'Oh, what a great pencil'...I'm a pencil in God's hands.

Blasphemy is an epithet bestowed by superstition upon common sense.

Jesus commands us to go - but we go the other way.

Blasphemy is what an old dogma screams at a new truth.

If people were like rain, I was like drizzle and she was a hurricane.

They say: Belief is important. I say: No, actions are important. Judge by deed, not by creed.

In an autocracy, one person has his way; in an aristocracy, a few people have their way; in a democracy, no one has his way.

Something invisible snapped inside her.

History doesn't have a curfew.

Y'all smoke to enjoy it. I smoke to die.

I have my own style and don't really follow fashion, but I like leggings. They're easy to wear and can go with anything.

He who steps on stones is glad to feel the smallest spray of moss beneath his feet.

To destroy guide-boards that point in the wrong direction . . . to drive the fiend of fear from the mind . . . is the task of the Freethinker.

In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments; there are consequences.

Don't be ashamed of who you are, embrace who you are.

We need never be hopeless because we can never be irreperably broken.

Waffles are just awesome bread.

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

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

How people interpret my degrees of sexiness is out of my hands.

If the Bible and my brain are both the work of the same infinite God, whose fault is it that the book and my brain do not agree?

The world may be broken, but hope is not crazy.

Sometimes the way you think about someone isn't the way they actually are.

I feel like each possession is a battle and you never want to lose a battle.

They love their hair because they're not smart enough to love something more interesting.

At some point, you gotta stop looking up at the sky, or one of these days you'll look back down and see that you floated away, too.

The man who does not do his own thinking is a slave, and is a traitor to himself and to his fellow-men.

I need to fall in love with someone. Sorry - I mean fall in love with something. I need to wake myself up.

Grateful to be a little boat, full of water, still floating.

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.

In the dark beside me, she smelled of sweat and sunshine and vanilla.

I wouldn't necessarily say I'm arrogant. I'm just confident.

It's been my experience that you can nearly always enjoy things if you make up your mind firmly that you will.

Every pulpit is a pillory, in which stands a hired culprit, defending the justice of his own imprisonment.

Justice should remove the bandage from her eyes long enough to distinguish between the vicious and the unfortunate.

Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.

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

You are so busy being YOU that you have no idea how utterly unprecedented you are.

The priests of one religion never credit the miracles of another religion. Is this because priests instinctively know priests?