It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all – in which case, you fail by default.
J. K. ROWLINGSometimes ideas just come to me. Other times I have to sweat and almost bleed to make ideas come. It’s a mysterious process, but I hope I never find out exactly how it works.
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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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To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.
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No man or woman alive, magical or not, has ever escaped some form of injury, whether physical, mental, or emotional. To hurt is as human as to breathe.
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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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You must accept that we are as real as you are; you must accept that you are not God.
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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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Size is no guarantee of power.
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Differences of habit and language are nothing at all if our aims are identical and our hearts are open.
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I solemnly swear that I am up to no good.
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There’s always room for a story that can transport people to another place.
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We’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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Why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential.
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Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.
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Hearing voices no one else can hear isn’t a good sign, even in the wizarding world.
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First sign of madness, talking to your own head.
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I definitely know that love is the most powerful thing of all.
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Killing is not so easy as the innocent believe.
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Depression is the absence of hope.
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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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I want to commit the murder I was imprisoned for.
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It is our choices, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.
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Don’t worry. You’re just as sane as I am.
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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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Things we lose have a way of coming back to us in the end, if not always in the way we expect.
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Talent and intelligence never yet inoculated anyone against the caprice of the fates.
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It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be.
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