I think it’s the books that you read when you’re young that live with you forever.
J. K. ROWLINGI 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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Destiny is a name often given in retrospect to choices that had dramatic consequences.
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To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.
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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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Always have a vivid imagination, for you never know when you might need it.
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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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Differences of habit and language are nothing at all if our aims are identical and our hearts are open.
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What’s most important in a friendship? Tolerance and loyalty.
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It is our choices, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.
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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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What’s the worst that could happen? Everyone turned me down; big deal.
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Sometimes you have to stop trying to force it, walk away and let your subconscious show you the way. Fill up on life for a while.
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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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If it’s a good book, anyone will read it. I’m totally unashamed about still reading things I loved in my childhood.
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Achievable goals are the first step to self improvement.
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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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