Life Quotes Quote by John Green, Looking for Alaska — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you'll escape one day, and how awesome it will be, and imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present.”

“The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive.”

“At some point we all look up and realize we are lost in a maze.”

“Imagine others complexly.”

“Don’t try to make life a mathematics problem with yourself in the center and everything coming out equal. When you’re good, bad things can still happen. And if you’re bad, you can still be lucky.”

““There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise. And such is the paradox of living, this ecstasy comes when one is most alive, and it comes as a complete forgetfulness that one is alive.”

“In case you never get a second chance: don't be afraid!" "And what if you do get a second chance?" "You take it!”

“Just living is not enough," said the butterfly, "one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.”

“I have a theory about marriage, Monsieur Boustouler. And it's that nearly always you will know within two weeks if it's going to work. It's astonishing how many people remain shackled for years, decades even, in a protracted and mutual state of self-delusion and false hope when in fact they had their answer in those first two weeks.”