Why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential.
J. K. ROWLINGIt is important to remember that we all have magic inside us.
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Depression is the absence of hope.
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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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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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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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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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Books are like mirrors: if a fool looks in, you cannot expect a genius to look out.
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It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be.
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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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Wit beyond measure is man’s greatest treasure.
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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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Imagination is the foundation of all invention and innovation.
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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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Killing is not so easy as the innocent believe.
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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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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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