We have to choose between what is right, and what is easy.
J. K. ROWLINGIndifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.
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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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It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.
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Abundance is the quality of life you live and quality of life you give to others.
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Read a lot. Reading really helps. Read anything you can get your hands on.
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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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There is no good and evil, there is only power and those too weak to seek it.
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The consequences of our actions are always so complicated, so diverse, that predicting the future is a very difficult business indeed.
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I find that discussing an idea out loud is often the way to kill it stone dead.
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Talent and intelligence never yet inoculated anyone against the caprice of the fates.
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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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If you want to know what a man’s like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.
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Hearing voices no one else can hear isn’t a good sign, even in the wizarding world.
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No man or woman alive, magical or not, has ever escaped some form of injury, whether physical, mental, or emotional. To hurt is as human as to breathe.
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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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The truth is a beautiful and terrible thing, and must therefore be treated with great caution.
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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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Why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential.
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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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Numbing the pain for a while will make it worse when you finally feel it.
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Destiny is a name often given in retrospect to choices that had dramatic consequences.
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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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Print will never die. There’s no substitute for the feel of an actual book.
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I’ve been writing my entire life, and I’ll always write.
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It is impossible to manufacture or imitate love.
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Do not pity the dead. Pity the living, and, above all those who live without love.
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