Courtesy dictates that we offer fellow wizards the opportunity of denying us entry.
J. K. ROWLINGWhy do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential.
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I will defend the importance of bedtime stories to my last gasp.
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Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It meets a thousand petty humiliations and hardships.
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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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I solemnly swear that I am up to no good.
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When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love.
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We are only as strong as we are united, as weak as we are divided.
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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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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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It was strange how your brain could know what your heart refused to accept.
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I definitely know that love is the most powerful thing of all.
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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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Differences of habit and language are nothing at all if our aims are identical and our hearts are open.
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Abundance is the quality of life you live and quality of life you give to others.
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If you don’t like to read, you haven’t found the right book.
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It is important to remember that we all have magic inside us.
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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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Destiny is a name often given in retrospect to choices that had dramatic consequences.
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The internet has been a boon and a curse for teenagers.
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You are the true master of death, because the true master does not seek to run away from Death.
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You must accept the reality of other people.
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Talent and intelligence never yet inoculated anyone against the caprice of the fates.
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Read a lot. Reading really helps. Read anything you can get your hands on.
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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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Depression is very different.
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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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There is no good and evil, there is only power and those too weak to seek it.
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