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  • #1
    John Green
    “Some infinities are bigger than other infinities.”
    John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

  • #2
    John Green
    “It's a metaphor, see: You put the killing thing right between your teeth, but you don't give it the power to do its killing.”
    John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

  • #3
    John Green
    “But it is the nature of stars to cross, and never was Shakespeare more wrong than when he has Cassius note, ‘The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars / But in ourselves.”
    John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

  • #4
    John Green
    “there is no shortage of fault to be found amid our stars”
    John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

  • #5
    Baruch Spinoza
    “Reason is no match for passion.”
    Baruch Spinoza

  • #6
    “I am metaphysical being, mystical and emotional, skeptical and cynical, happy and boisterous, loud and bawdy, quiet and melancholy, tender and cruel, full of mirth and despair. Inherent inconsistences mark me as part of nature, which is neither cruel nor fair, or reliable or predictable.”
    Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

  • #7
    “Self-transformation commences with a period of self-questioning. Questions lead to more questions, bewilderment leads to new discoveries, and growing personal awareness leads to transformation in how a person lives. Purposeful modification of the self only commences with revising our mind’s internal functions. Revamped internal functions eventually alter how we view our external environment.”
    Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

  • #8
    “Living is a process of developing oneself. Without experiencing pain from disconcerting periods of our lives, we would be different person, perhaps a lesser person.”
    Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

  • #9
    “We are the product of our past. We start each day where we left off the day before. Changing the way we dress, where we work and live, or even changing a name does not alter our basic constitution. Transformation of the self requires a radical alteration in the way that we perceive the world and derive meaning.”
    Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

  • #10
    “Our thoughts shape us. We become our obsessions. Our thoughts can enslave us or save us.”
    Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls



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