"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."
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Hank Green quotes (page 2 of 3)
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"Think of people as people, not problems that need to be solved."
"We've got to keep 6 billion people happy without destroying our planet. It's the biggest challenge we've ever faced....but we're taking it on."
"So the president is like, "Well, once upon a time it was Congress's job to decide whether or not we attacked countries, so let's let them decide." Which is funny, because, as we all know, if Congress were on fire, Congress could not pass the "Pour Water on Congress Act"."
"Welcome to the degeneration of my mind."
"Why is it called Piggie-back riding? I'm not a piggie!"
"John Green is a very handsome, intelligent, and wise man. He smells really weird though."
"It's almost as if our society values opinion over knowledge."
"But the truth of the matter is, to live a good life, as a good person, it doesn't matter how you got there. It just matters that you do."
"I need Harry Potter like a grindylow needs water."
"I'm also pretty impressive when I'm shoving the neck of a lute into someone's chest cavity."
"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."
"So you go on and on, with this intellectual fly down, your underwear exposed, and toilette paper hanging out the back of your pants."
"Marriage can be a religious thing. It can also be a secular thing. And guess what? Not everyone in the world is of the same religion. Preventing gay people from getting married is not an expression of religious freedom. It's an expression of religious oppression."
"I think it's pretty ridiculous to sit back and think that we've changed the horse so much, without realizing that they have changed us an awful lot too."
"Hoaxes are nothing new. News media isn't hard to fool. It's fun to fool and people like to mess with people. It all goes to show you that we're not all that hard to fool. I think we should just accept that and trust people anyway."
"What does it mean that social structures among young people are so often predicated upon trying really, really hard to appear to not-be-trying?"
"I have very little patience for teachers who teach their students things that are wrong."
"I also live in the present, due to the constraints of the space-time continuum."
"Bravery is not strength in the face of a far lesser foe. Bravery is the exact opposite of that."