Quotes & Sayings About Strength John Green

We are taught that the hero's journey is the journey from weakness to strength. But I am here today to tell you that those stories are wrong. The real hero's journey is the journey from strength to weakness. — John Green

We are not as frail as the strings would make us believe. — John Green

I'll give you my strength if I can have your remission. — John Green

Training was a rite of purification; from it came speed, strength. Racing was a rite of death; from it came knowledge. Such rites demand, if they are to be meaningful at all, a certain amount of time spent precisely on the Red Line, where you can lean over the manicured putting green at the edge of the precipice and see exactly nothing. — John L. Parker Jr.

There are always answers. We just have to be smart enough. — John Green

For me, the hero's journey is not the voyage from weakness to strength. The true hero's journey is the voyage from strength to weakness. — John Green

I found myself thinking about President William McKinley, the third American president to be assassinated. He lived for several days after he was shot, and towards the end, his wife started crying and screaming, "I want to go too! I want to go too!" And with his last measure of strength, McKinley turned to her and spoke his last words: "We are all going. — John Green

I've always believed growing up that the story of the hero is the journey of weakness to strength. But writing about Gus taught me that the real hero's journey is the journey from strength to weakness, and that was a very helpful thing for me to realise in trying to tell his story, so I felt like that was kind of the gift that he gave me. — John Green