"We all use the future to escape the present."

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Source : John Green (2008). “Looking for Alaska”, p.47, Penguin

John Green

#Life Quotes #Use Quotes

“Non-churchgoer s tend to see Christians as takers rather than givers. When Christians sacrifice and give wildly to the poor, that is truly a light that glimmers. The Bible teaches that the church is to be that light, that sign of hope, in an increasingly dark and hopeless world.”
“There rises the moon, broad and tranquil, through the branches of a walnut tree on a hill opposite. I apostrophize it in the words of Faust; "O gentle moon, that lookest for the last time upon my agonies!" --or something to that effect.”
“Now I'd like someone to tell me there is no drama in real life!”
“Itâ€™s funny. When you leave your home and wander really far, you always think, â€˜I want to go home.â€™ But then you come home, and of course itâ€™s not the same. You canâ€™t live with it, you canâ€™t live away from it. And it seems like from then on thereâ€™s always this yearning for some place that doesnâ€™t exist. I felt that. Still do. Iâ€™m never completely at home anywhere.”
“I love the slider. I'll throw it anytime. It helps the curve. The last five feet, it dives toward the left-handed hitter's box. It's a pitch that looks like a fastball coming in. It's a pitch I throw when I need a ground ball with a man on base.”
“It turns out I had this huge geeky safety net out there that I didnâ€™t know about this whole time, made up of people who have been reading my comic for nine years but never contacted me.”
“I'm drawn to furniture design as complete architecture on a minor scale.”
“Adolescence represents an inner emotional upheaval, a struggle between the eternal human wish to cling to the past and the equally powerful wish to get on with the future.”

Source : Louise J. Kaplan (1995). “Adolescence: The Farewell to Childhood”, Touchstone Books

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