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I have never been remotely ashamed of having been depressed. Never. What’s to be ashamed of? I went through a really rough time and I am quite proud that I got out of that.

J. K. Rowling

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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Climb Effort Fools Poverty Pride Yourself
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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Blame Direction Expiry Moments Parents Responsiblity
Depression is the most unpleasant thing I have ever experienced. It is that absence of being able to envisage that you will ever be cheerful again.
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Absence Cheer Depression Experience Pain Pleasant
Sometimes 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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Bleed Hope Ideas Sweat Time Work
It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be.
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Born Character Grow Inspirational Matter Success
Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.
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Darkness Happiness Inspirational Light Remember Time
I believe in hard work and luck, and that the first often leads to the second.
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Hard Work Hustle Lead Luck Motivational Success
First sign of madness, talking to your own head.
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Attitude Madness Sign Talk
What’s most important in a friendship? Tolerance and loyalty.
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Friendship Importance Loyalty Tolerance
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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Business Failure Fear People Success Time
Always have a vivid imagination, for you never know when you might need it.
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Imagination Need Strong Vivid
The most important thing is to read as much as you can, like I did. It will give you an understanding of what makes good writing and it will enlarge your vocabulary.
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Book Change Improvement Reading Understand Writing
Books are like mirrors: if a fool looks in, you cannot expect a genius to look out.
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Book Expectation Fools Genius Insult Mirror
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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Book Happiness Place Reading Travel
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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Age Forget Guilty Men Young Youth
I solemnly swear that I am up to no good.
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I have never been remotely ashamed of having been depressed. Never. What’s to be ashamed of? I went through a really rough time and I am quite proud that I got out of that.

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I have never been remotely ashamed of having been depressed. Never. What’s to be ashamed of? I went through a really rough time and I am quite proud that I got out of that.

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