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. 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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You must accept that we are as real as you are; you must accept that you are not God.
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I’m a writer, and I will write what I want to write.
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Failure 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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You are the true master of death, because the true master does not seek to run away from Death.
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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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It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be.
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Secretly we’re all a little more absurd than we make ourselves out to be.
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The ones that love us never really leave us.
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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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Depression is very different.
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Achievable goals are the first step to self improvement.
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First sign of madness, talking to your own head.
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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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Do not pity the dead. Pity the living, and, above all those who live without love.
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Print will never die. There’s no substitute for the feel of an actual book.
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