We're so marinated in the culture of speed that we almost fail to notice the toll it takes on every aspect of our lives - on our health, our diet, our work, our relationships, the environment and our community.
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Related In this media-drenched, multitasking, always-on age, many of us have forgotten how to unplug and imm... CARL HONORE Our relationships with our computers are almost sexual, they're so close. They're just such ... MACKENZIE DAVIS Our obsession with speed, with cramming more and more into every minute, means that we race through ... CARL HONORE Our main interest is environmental. We work in the environment every day of our lives and we want to... MATT FREUND We all have the power to choose how we are going to handle every situation we are faced with through... , I GOT THIS: HOW I CHANGED MY WAYS AND LOST WHAT WEIGHED ME DOWN, 2012 He called out to his fellow monks,'Come quickly I am tasting stars. JOHN GREEN What else? She is so beautiful. You don’t get tired of looking at her. You never worry if she is s... JOHN GREEN Pero diré esto: Cuando los científicos del futuro aparezcan en mi casa con ojos robot y me digan q... JOHN GREEN Wow,” I said. “Are you making this up?” “Hazel Grace, could I, with my meager intellect... JOHN GREEN Finally, I decided that the proper strategy was to stare back. Boys do not have a monopoly on the St... JOHN GREEN We were sitting there on the couch together, and he pushed himself up to go but then fell back down ... JOHN GREEN So it’s your death suit.” “Correct. Don’t you have a death outfit?” “Yeah,”... JOHN GREEN I spent your Wish on that doucheface,” I said into his chest. “Hazel Grace. No. I will gran... JOHN GREEN «Hazel Grace,” he said, my name new and better in his voice. “It has been a real pleasure to ma... JOHN GREEN Cold,” he said, pressing a finger to my pale wrist. “Not cold so much as underoxygenated,�... JOHN GREEN If he is anything other than a total gentleman, I’m going to gouge his eyes out.” “So you... JOHN GREEN People always get used to beauty, though.” “I haven’t gotten used to you just yet,” he ... JOHN GREEN Augustus: “You probably need some rest.” Me: “I’m okay.” Augustus: “Okay.” (... JOHN GREEN Time's a slut, she screws with everyone. JOHN GREEN como toda pregunta sobre el universo, esta vía de investigación nos obliga inevitablemente a pregu... J.K. ROWLING No puedes escoger si serás lastimado en este mundo, pero si puedes decidir quién te lastima JOHN GREEN But it's your life. JOHN GREEN No matter how hard you kick, no matter how high you get, you can't go all the way round. JOHN GREEN Cancer kids are essentially side effects of the relentless mutation that made the diversity of life ... JOHN GREEN No puedes elegir si van hacerte daño en este mundo, pero sí eliges quién te lo hace. JOHN GREEN you clench your teeth,you look up, you tell yourself that if they see you cry, it will hurt them,and... JOHN GREEN That's the think about pain. It demands to be felt. JOHN GREEN Seriously, don't even get me started on my hot bod. You don't want to see me naked, Dave. seeing me ... JOHN GREEN Writing does not resurrect. It buries.. JOHN GREEN Pero diré esto: Cuando los científicos del futuro aparezcan en mi casa con ojos robot y me digan q... JOHN GREEN You’re arguing that the fragile, rare thing is beautiful simply because it is fragile and rare. Bu... JOHN GREEN So how’s it going?” “Okay. Glad to be home, I guess. Gus told me you were in the ICU?”<... JOHN GREEN Still perfect,” he said. “Read to me.” “This isn’t really a poem to read aloud when y... JOHN GREEN The range of what we think and do is limited by what we fail to notice. And, because we fail to not... R. D. LAING Most of all, we remain focused on our Rock that never moves. CRAIG GROESCHEL Sometimes he did not know if he slept or just thought about sleep. MARK STRAND We are like a bunch of dogs squirting on fire hydrants. We poison the groundwater with our toxic pis... , THE FAULT IN OUR STARS, 2012 The voracious ambition of humans is never sated by dreams coming true, because there is always the t... , THE FAULT IN OUR STARS, 2012 Thats the thing about pain, it demands to be felt. , THE FAULT IN OUR STARS, 2012 I thought being an adult meant knowing what you believe, but that has not been my experience. , THE FAULT IN OUR STARS, 2012 If you were to go [to the Rijksmuseum], and hopefully someday you will, you would see a lot of paint... , THE FAULT IN OUR STARS, 2012 If the inevitability of human oblivion worries you, I encourage you to ignore it. , THE FAULT IN OUR STARS, 2012 I cant talk about our love story, so I will talk about math. I am not a mathematician, but I know ... , THE FAULT IN OUR STARS, 2012 The weird thing about houses is that they almost always look like nothing is happening inside of the... , THE FAULT IN OUR STARS, 2012 I thought about how wonderfully strange it would be to live in a place where almost everything had b... , THE FAULT IN OUR STARS, 2012 Grief does not change you, it reveals you. , THE FAULT IN OUR STARS, 2012 I was thinking about the universe wanting to be noticed, and how I had to notice it as best I could.... , THE FAULT IN OUR STARS, 2012 Some tourists think Amsterdam is a city of sin, but in truth it is a city of freedom. And in freedom... , THE FAULT IN OUR STARS, 2012 I started thinking about little kids putting a cylindrical peg through a circular hole, and how they... , THE FAULT IN OUR STARS, 2012 Sometimes people dont understand the promises theyre making when they make them. Right, of cours... , THE FAULT IN OUR STARS, 2012 It seemed like forever ago, like wed had this brief but still infinite forever. Some infinities ar... , THE FAULT IN OUR STARS, 2012 Im in love with you, and I know that love is just a shout into the void, and that oblivion is inev... , THE FAULT IN OUR STARS, 2012 That was the worst part about having cancer, sometimes: The physical evidence of disease separates y... , THE FAULT IN OUR STARS, 2012 The urge to make art or contemplate philosophy does not go away when you are sick. Those urges just ... , THE FAULT IN OUR STARS, 2012 [Not smoking the cigarette is] a metaphor, see: You put the killing thing right between your teeth, ... , THE FAULT IN OUR STARS, 2012 You clench your teeth. You look up. You tell yourself that if they see you cry, it will hurt them, a... , THE FAULT IN OUR STARS, 2012 Thinking you wont die is yet another side effect of dying. , THE FAULT IN OUR STARS, 2012 There will come a time, when all of us are dead. All of us. There will come a time when there are no... , THE FAULT IN OUR STARS, 2012 The pleasure of remembering had been taken from me, because there was no longer anyone to remember w... , THE FAULT IN OUR STARS, 2012 Nostalgia is a side effect of dying. , THE FAULT IN OUR STARS, 2012 Its almost as if the way you imagine my dead self says more about you than it says about either th... , THE FAULT IN OUR STARS, 2012 Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinc... , THE FAULT IN OUR STARS, 2012 You have a choice in this world, I believe, about how to tell sad stories. , THE FAULT IN OUR STARS, 2012 There is this unwritten contract between author and reader and I think not ending your book kind of ... , THE FAULT IN OUR STARS, 2012 I'm a roller coaster that only foes up. - THE FAULT IN OUR STARS JOHN GREEN I fear oblivion' he said. "I fear it like a proverbial blind man fears the dark AUGUSTUS WATERS THE FAULT IN OUR STARS I'm feeling grand. I'm on a rollercoaster only going up. AUGUSTUS WATERS THE FAULT IN OUR STARS If recycling is the future, then we must focus our efforts on mitigating negative impacts to our com... TONY CARDENAS In the African-American community, we struggle with a lot of health problems that have a lot to do w... MARVIN SAPP Almost all our suffering is the product of our thoughts. We spend nearly every moment of our lives l... SAM HARRIS We're failing our children with education, we're failing our environment. CAROL MOSELEY BRAUN We are the collateral damage of carnism; we pay for it with our health, our environment, and our tax... MELANIE JOY When we apply the lessons we've struggled for our whole lives to learn to the lives of people we lov... ASPEN MATIS America is the sum of all our journeys as we search for our national community and our national cult... PAUL TSONGAS No one wants to fail. So most of us don't even try. Sad. We don't even take that first step ... ROBIN S. SHARMA I think it is important that we rebuild an atmosphere of forgiveness and civility in every aspect of... T. D. JAKES Some of us may just, in one-on-one conversations with our family, with our friends, over the back fe... PATRICIA IRELAND I never liked the idea that we had to impose a toll on our people that live in our county. CARL PERSIS We live in a material world. I'm not saying that beautiful things don't enhance our lives. B... TOM FORD And then the line was quite but not dead. I almost felt like he was there in my room with me, but in... JOHN GREEN The problem is that, partly because we are women, a large measure of our happiness depends on our re... SANDRA TSING LOH As artists, we thrive when we can express our comfort and our discomfort. If a certain scene is real... AJA NAOMI KING The human toll and the toll on our community will be a challenge that all of us are going to have to... BILL WELCH On matters of race, South Carolina has a tough history. We all know that. Many of us have seen it in... NIKKI HALEY Our morality is based on so many factors: of where we were born, who we were born to, what values we... OSCAR ISAAC Music is critical in our lives and culture. It's the inspiration that drives us. It's also t... BILL WALTON We all experience power struggles in our lives - at the workplace, with our friends, in our love liv... BEAU WILLIMON I was a bit of a Victorian Lady, fainting-wise. JOHN GREEN While I did not fancy myself a particularly good person, I never thought my first real sexual action... JOHN GREEN Mom sobbed something into Dad's chest that I wish I hadn't heard, and that I hope she never finds ou... JOHN GREEN Come over here so I can examine your face with my hands and see deeper into your soul than a sighted... JOHN GREEN But it is the nature of stars to cross, and never was Shakespeare more wrong than when he has Cassiu... JOHN GREEN But this was the truth, a pitiful boy who desperately wanted not to be pitiful, screaming and crying... JOHN GREEN What we are doing is, rather than living on the interest of our basic biological capital, we're ... DAVID SUZUKI We humans are still a very primitive culture, and it's one of the traps we've fallen into ov... RUPAUL My hope is that we continue to do an even better job in terms of our nation's energy policy, so ... JOHN M. MCHUGH The choices that we make through our lives, the people who intersect us on our path kind of change w... ANTHONY MACKIE If we each take responsibility in shifting our own behavior, we can trigger the type of change that ... YEHUDA BERG Every step is the beginning and ending on our path in the the journey of our lives. LORRIN L. LEE We are focused on delivering the service and experience our customers expect, and we will continue t... DENNIS CARY
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