Read a lot. Reading really helps. Read anything you can get your hands on.
J. K. ROWLINGFailure 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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Depression is very different.
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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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To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.
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Unlike any other creature on this planet, humans can learn and understand, without having experienced.
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Achievable goals are the first step to self improvement.
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It is impossible to manufacture or imitate love.
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Numbing the pain for a while will make it worse when you finally feel it.
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You must accept the reality of other people.
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Courtesy dictates that we offer fellow wizards the opportunity of denying us entry.
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I will defend the importance of bedtime stories to my last gasp.
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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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Hearing voices no one else can hear isn’t a good sign, even in the wizarding world.
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If it’s a good book, anyone will read it. I’m totally unashamed about still reading things I loved in my childhood.
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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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When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love.
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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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It is the unknown we fear when we look upon death and darkness, nothing more.
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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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We’ve all got both light and dark inside us. What matters is the part we choose to act on. That’s who we really are.
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If you don’t like to read, you haven’t found the right book.
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In the end, it mattered not that you could not close your mind. It was your heart that saved you.
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Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.
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A good first impression can work wonders.
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Print will never die. There’s no substitute for the feel of an actual book.
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We’re all human, aren’t we? Every human life is worth the same, and worth saving.
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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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