Ultimately, we all have to decide for ourselves what constitutes failure, but the world is quite eager to give you a set of criteria if you let it.
J. K. ROWLINGWhy do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential.
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The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death.
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You can exist without your soul, you know, as long as your brain and heart are still working. But you’ll have no sense of self anymore, no memory. There’s no chance at all of recovery. You’ll just exist as an empty shell. And your soul is gone forever, lost.
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The truth is a beautiful and terrible thing, and must therefore be treated with great caution.
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What’s most important in a friendship? Tolerance and loyalty.
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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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If you want to know what a man’s like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.
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Writing for me is a kind of compulsion, so I don’t think anyone could have made me do it, or prevented me from doing it.
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I think it’s the books that you read when you’re young that live with you forever.
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It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.
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Depression is the absence of hope.
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Youth can not know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.
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Sometimes you have to stop trying to force it, walk away and let your subconscious show you the way. Fill up on life for a while.
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The consequences of our actions are always so complicated, so diverse, that predicting the future is a very difficult business indeed.
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Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts that is something on which to pride yourself but poverty itself is romanticized by fools.
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We are only as strong as we are united, as weak as we are divided.
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