"I am a grenade," I said again. "I just want to stay away from people and read books and think and be with you guys because there's nothing I can do about hurting you: You're too invested, so just please let me do that, okay? "I'm going to go to my room and read for awhile, okay? I'm fine. I really am fine: I just want to go read for a while."

-- John Green

#Hurt Quotes #Book Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“In our society those who are in reality superior in intelligence can be accepted by their fellows only if they pretend they are not.”

Source : Marya Mannes (1958). “More in Anger”
“Insect politics, indifferent universe. Bang your head against the wall, but apathy is worse.”
“We have been taught to "just eat a balanced diet." We have been taught wrong. The truth is natural healing works.”

Source : Source: www.drpasswater.com
“Vlad had found himself longing to encounter those of his own kind, to travel to the streets of Elysia-that far away world, but after a while it seemed more of a fairy tale than anything else. Like Santa Claus and the Tooth Fairy, only with fangs.”
“Talking about peoples lived experiences is a powerful way to mobilize them. We can create new rules.”
“We don't, in a sensible world, want to hand on an increasingly dysfunctional world to our grandchildren”
“I'm only trying to present as honest a portrayal of the grimness of human ambition as I can. I'd hope it's rather uplifting, actually, since I find the sort of blind optimism and empty laughter of a great deal of "contemporary culture" to be more depressing than something that admits to a potential for disappointment and a gnawing sense of existential mockery.”
“Our ancestors were very rich and eminent people, and they left us an enormous inheritance, which we have completely forgotten, especially since the time when we began to consider ourselves the descendants of a monkey.”

Source : "A New Model of the Universe: Principles of the Psychological Method in Its Application to Problems of Science, Religion and Art". Book by P.D. Ouspensky, 1931.

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