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.
J. K. ROWLINGFailure is so important. We speak about success all the time. It is the ability to resist failure or use failure that often leads to greater success. I’ve met people who don’t want to try for fear of failing.
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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.
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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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Time is making fools of us again.
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Killing is not so easy as the innocent believe.
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To have been loved so deeply, even though the person who loved us is gone, will give us some protection forever.
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We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all of the power we need inside ourselves already.
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Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It meets a thousand petty humiliations and hardships.
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We are only as strong as we are united, as weak as we are divided.
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You are the true master of death, because the true master does not seek to run away from Death.
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I will defend the importance of bedtime stories to my last gasp.
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Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.
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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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What’s the worst that could happen? Everyone turned me down; big deal.
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The internet has been a boon and a curse for teenagers.
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First sign of madness, talking to your own head.
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