“Although I am a typical loner in daily life, my consciousness of belonging to the invisible community of those who strive for truth, beauty, and justice has preserved me from feeling isolated.”— Albert Einstein, einstein-website.de
“Life is a constant struggle between being an individual and being a member of the community.”— Sherman Alexie, amazon.com
“I kept thinking about... how a path is a communal creation created by thousands of footsteps of men and women and animals; about how a path indicates both a journey and a destination and how those things are always better if you have someone that you love to share them with.”— Hank Green, youtube.com
“What I love about Harry Potter is that unironic drive toward objective goodness.”— Hank Green, youtube.com
“The great thing about humans, my favorite thing about humans, actually, is that we can work together to improve each other's chances of having healthy and productive lives.”— John Green, youtube.com
“There's a lot of things that we can find within ourselves to make things work. But in the end, only with other people's help can we really, truly succeed.”— Jonathan Engalla, youtube.com
“If humans are 7 billion earthquakes on the planet, I want to think less about how big my shake is, more about what my shake does and who I shake it with.”— Hank Green, youtube.com
“I've learned that humans generally get less miserable when we collaborate, and that we get totally hosed when we choose ideology over actual humans.”— John Green, youtube.com
“We live in this irreparably broken world and I don't wish to deny reality, but the amazing thing to me is not that we refuse to relinquish hope as a species, the amazing thing is that we're right to hold on to hope. The world may be broken but hope is not crazy.”— John Green, youtube.com
“I know it doesn't feel like this all the time, but we get to choose what we care about and what we spend our resources on. We choose what, or ideally whom, to lust after. We choose what to watch, what to like, what to build, how to spend, the breaths we've been allotted; and the fact that many of ou…”— John Green, youtube.com
“It's easy for me to understand that I contain multitudes, but rather than understanding that of other people, too often I imagine them as merely sick or merely poor or merely 'them' to some 'us' that includes me.”— John Green, youtube.com
“We often associate reading and writing with humanness, but there are many people who can't read or write, and often, they're marginalized people, the people whose humanity most needs to be acknowledged.”— John Green, youtube.com
“I believe that we confer personhood upon each other through empathy and compassion and trust.”— John Green, youtube.com
“I believe that when we acknowledge each other's consciousness and complexity, we lead better lives and feel less alone in our grief and our joy.”— John Green, youtube.com
“I believe that we're human because we believe in each other's humanness, and because we can listen, and we can work together to alleviate each other's suffering. And in that sense, I guess being human is both something that we are and something we must always aspire to be.”— John Green, youtube.com
“The truth is, marriages are intensely personal, and they are defined not by courts or by voters, but by the people who live inside of them.”— John Green, youtube.com
“Have we replaced intellectual engagement with superficial browsing? Is it really possible to pay sustained attention in a world full of distractions?”— John Green, youtube.com
“To the people who puff themselves up, and beat their chests, and yell about strength while pouring salt into the wounds of insecurity and fear, I can never see your rhetoric as anything other than sad, hurtful, weakness. Weakness that is getting in the way of our ability to get on doing the good wor…”— Hank Green, youtube.com
“We have to take notice of the amazing creations of our own age and consider what the greatest cultural legacy would be. The answer, of course, being peace and plenty and equality and awesome.”— Hank Green, youtube.com