I have never been remotely ashamed of having been depressed. Never. What’s to be ashamed of? I went through a really rough time and I am quite proud that I got out of that.
J. K. ROWLINGWe’ve all got both light and dark inside us. What matters is the part we choose to act on. That’s who we really are.
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Life is too short. I only want to do things that I enjoy, or that I think are good or worth doing.
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Depression is deadened feeling, which is so very different from feeling sad. Sad hurts but it’s a healthy feeling. It is a necessary thing to feel.
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I will defend the importance of bedtime stories to my last gasp.
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There is an expiry date on blaming your parents for steering you in the wrong direction; the moment you are old enough to take the wheel, responsibility lies with you.
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Imagination is the foundation of all invention and innovation.
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Do not pity the dead. Pity the living, and, above all those who live without love.
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When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love.
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We’re all human, aren’t we? Every human life is worth the same, and worth saving.
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The internet has been a boon and a curse for teenagers.
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You must accept that we are as real as you are; you must accept that you are not God.
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You care so much you feel as though you will bleed to death with the pain of it.
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It was strange how your brain could know what your heart refused to accept.
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The stories we love best do live in us forever.
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Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.
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I find that discussing an idea out loud is often the way to kill it stone dead.
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