Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It meets a thousand petty humiliations and hardships.
J. K. ROWLINGUltimately, we all have to decide for ourselves what constitutes failure, but the world is quite eager to give you a set of criteria if you let 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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I’ve been writing my entire life, and I’ll always write.
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The internet has been a boon and a curse for teenagers.
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It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be.
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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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Unlike any other creature on this planet, humans can learn and understand, without having experienced.
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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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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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What’s most important in a friendship? Tolerance and loyalty.
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I solemnly swear that I am up to no good.
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What’s the worst that could happen? Everyone turned me down; big deal.
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To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.
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The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death.
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Achievable goals are the first step to self improvement.
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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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