The consequences of our actions are always so complicated, so diverse, that predicting the future is a very difficult business indeed.
J. K. ROWLINGThere 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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Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.
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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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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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Killing is not so easy as the innocent believe.
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Abundance is the quality of life you live and quality of life you give to others.
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The stories we love best do live in us forever.
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When people are very damaged, they can often meet the world with a kind of defiance.
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It is our choices, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.
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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.
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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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We are only as strong as we are united, as weak as we are divided.
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Numbing the pain for a while will make it worse when you finally feel it.
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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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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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Wherever I am, if I’ve got a book with me, I have a place I can go and be happy.
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