“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. ... Obviously not all stories end happily. We don't always have good fortune, but hope gives us, as a species and as individuals, what we otherwise wouldn't have: A chance.” WorldGivingMayEndsStoriesRealityIndividualWishChanceCrazyBrokenFortuneSpeciesRefuseDenyGood FortuneAmazing ThingsBroken World Author:John Green
“We are responsible to ourselves for our own existence; consequently we want to be the true helmsman of this existence and refuse to allow our existence to resemble a mindless act of chance.” WantChanceExistenceResponsibleRefuseMindless Book:Nietzsche: Untimely Meditations Source: Nietzsche: Untimely Meditations
“If, by chance, someone among those men of extraordinary talent is found who has firmness of soul and who refuses to yield to the genius of his age and to debase himself with childish works, woe unto him! He will die in poverty and oblivion.” IfsMenSoulAgeDiesFoundChancePovertyTalentGeniusExtraordinaryRefuseYieldWoeOblivionFirmnessWoe Unto Author:Jean-Jacques Rousseau
“Only a fool would refuse to enter a fool's paradise when that's the only paradise he'll ever have a chance to enter.” ChanceFoolRefuseParadise Book:To see the dream Source: To see the dream