More from J. K. Rowling
Numbing the pain for a while will make it worse when you finally feel it.
J. K. RowlingJ. K. Rowling I will defend the importance of bedtime stories to my last gasp.
J. K. RowlingJ. K. Rowling It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be.
J. K. RowlingJ. K. Rowling It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be.
J. K. RowlingJ. K. Rowling It is impossible to manufacture or imitate love.
J. K. RowlingJ. K. Rowling When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love.
J. K. RowlingJ. K. Rowling Differences of habit and language are nothing at all if our aims are identical and our hearts are open.
J. K. RowlingJ. K. Rowling We have to choose between what is right, and what is easy.
J. K. RowlingJ. K. Rowling Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It meets a thousand petty humiliations and hardships.
J. K. RowlingJ. K. Rowling Achievable goals are the first step to self improvement.
J. K. RowlingJ. K. Rowling Let us step into the night and pursue that flighty temptress, adventure.
J. K. RowlingJ. K. Rowling 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.
J. K. RowlingJ. K. Rowling You can have a very intense relationship with fictional characters because they are in your own head.
J. K. RowlingJ. K. Rowling You must accept the reality of other people.
J. K. RowlingJ. K. Rowling You must accept the reality of other people.
J. K. RowlingJ. K. Rowling It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.
J. K. RowlingJ. K. Rowling
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When you are with your friends, control your tongue.
Stuart PetersonStuart Peterson And you have fast become my weakness, even as you remain my source of strength.
Alma-May NoaAlma-May Noa No one else is on your path so why should their limits be?
Elezabeth SymondElezabeth Symond I heard many tongues in many languages saying that people cannot be Gods, and that’s a given. But what if people don’t know what was given to them?
Nikol MejdnNikol Mejdn Pride – it screams a lot louder than love sometimes.
L.T. PhoenixL.T. Phoenix Messed up people even see the beauty in all the shitty places.
Lara-LeanLara-Lean I loved you more than love was allowed.
Lang LeavLang Leav Don’t mistake your discovery for the absence of yourself.
Sania AbbasSania Abbas
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More on fools
It is foolish to be convinced without evidence, but it is equally foolish to refuse to be convinced by real evidence.
Upton SinclairUpton Sinclair A fool dreams of wealth. A wise man dreams of happiness!
AkonAkon You know how in football, guys throw defenses, and the defense throws you a look, but the look is not really what it is – it’s only made to fool you. It’s the same thing with drugs. The drug is only an illusion to draw you in.
Rick RossRick Ross This is me apologizing. I am a fool, a bird-brain, a liar and a horse-thief. I wouldn’t touch a superlative again with an umbrella.
Dorothy ParkerDorothy Parker I call them april babies cause they fools.
Lil WayneLil Wayne Now the two primal Spirits, who reveal themselves in vision as Twins, are the Better and the Bad, in thought and word and action. Between these two the wise ones chose aright; the foolish not so.
ZoroasterZoroaster Why, all the Saints and Sages who discuss’d Of the Two Worlds so wisely – they are thrust Like foolish Prophets forth; their Words to Scorn Are scattered, and their mouths are stopped with Dust.
Omar KhayyamOmar Khayyam The cleverest woman on earth is the biggest fool on earth with a man.
Dorothy ParkerDorothy Parker
