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. ROWLINGI believe in hard work and luck, and that the first often leads to the second.
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The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death.
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It is important to remember that we all have magic inside us.
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Youth can not know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.
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Death comes for us all in the end.
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I definitely know that love is the most powerful thing of all.
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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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Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.
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Talent and intelligence never yet inoculated anyone against the caprice of the fates.
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If you don’t like to read, you haven’t found the right book.
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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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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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I believe in hard work and luck, and that the first often leads to the second.
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I solemnly swear that I am up to no good.
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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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Greatness inspires envy, envy engenders spite, spite spawns lies.
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You care so much you feel as though you will bleed to death with the pain of it.
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It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be.
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Life is too short. I only want to do things that I enjoy, or that I think are good or worth doing.
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First sign of madness, talking to your own head.
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When people are very damaged, they can often meet the world with a kind of defiance.
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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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Numbing the pain for a while will make it worse when you finally feel it.
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Depression is deadened feeling, which is so very different from feeling sad. Sad hurts but it’s a healthy feeling. It is a necessary thing to feel.
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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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Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It meets a thousand petty humiliations and hardships.
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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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