“I don’t know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.”

The wise speak only of what they know

Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger.

He found himself wondering at times, especially in the autumn, about the wild lands, and strange visions of mountains that he had never seen came into his dreams.

Courage is found in unlikely places.

All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.

Sorry! I don’t want any adventures, thank you. Not Today. Good morning! But please come to tea -any time you like! Why not tomorrow? Good bye!

The whole thing is quite hopeless, so it’s no good worrying about tomorrow. It probably won’t come.

The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater.

Pay heed to the tales of old wives. It may well be that they alone keep in memory what it was once needful for the wise to know.

I wished to be loved by another,’ [Éowyn] answered. ‘But I desire no man’s pity.

The wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot for ever fence it out.

It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.

I am he that buries his friends alive and drowns them and draws them alive again from the water. I came from the end of a bag, but no bag went over me.

End? No, the journey doesn’t end here. Death is just another path. One that we all must take.

For even the very wise cannot see all ends.

Moonlight drowns out all but the brightest stars.

You deserve to live the life you want to live, not the life others expect you to live.

Great people grab everything they deserve by the balls. No need to ask for permission when you know you deserve it.

Keep your goals for yourself. Not everyone deserves access to yourself.

You deserve to live the life you want to live, not the life others expect you to live.

You deserve the love you’re looking for and love will find you.

You deserve to be alive to see the incredible things you will do in life.

Let Go. They don’t deserve you. They never did, and they never will.

Haters don’t deserve one second of your valuable attention, so why would you give them any?