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.

Hank Green

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We are the superhero, none of us individually, but all of us toge... by Hank Green

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

superhero entrepreneur motivational

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

knowing games book

Humanity is good. Some people are terrible and broken, but humani... by Hank Green

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

broken believe people

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

thoughtful stills silly

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.

cat house art

Some days, it seems to me like the purpose of life is to convert... by Hank Green

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

energy purpose life-is

Stop listening to people telling us we need to hate each other by Hank Green

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

entrepreneur hate people

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

worst decision perfect

‎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.

black asking believe

There were sirens and the cops were there and they took me to the police station and I got arrested, it was really embarrassing. They actually just- they impeached me over the whole thing, they tried, well, they did impeach me, but I didn't have to actually stop being president, so it was okay. The police weren't actually that involved, it was mostly Congress.

sirens police president

We are all differently broken, semi-functional, rusted out love m... by Hank Green

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

machines broken

You sense and feel something different than I do, even if we lick... by Hank Green

You sense and feel something different than I do, even if we lick the same kitten.

kitten different feels

If you were a crayon, what color would you most like to make out... by Hank Green

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

make-out crayon color

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

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

potters matter thinking

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.

stress two thinking

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.

morning long thinking

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.

wonder may hands

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

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

people needs thinking

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

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

our-society opinion ifs

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.

what-matters people thinking