Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.
J. K. ROWLINGNumbing the pain for a while will make it worse when you finally feel it.
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A good first impression can work wonders.
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Destiny is a name often given in retrospect to choices that had dramatic consequences.
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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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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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What’s most important in a friendship? Tolerance and loyalty.
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Writing for me is a kind of compulsion, so I don’t think anyone could have made me do it, or prevented me from doing it.
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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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It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be.
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Courtesy dictates that we offer fellow wizards the opportunity of denying us entry.
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What’s the worst that could happen? Everyone turned me down; big deal.
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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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It is important to remember that we all have magic inside us.
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The ones that love us never really leave us.
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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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Achievable goals are the first step to self improvement.
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Let us step into the night and pursue that flighty temptress, adventure.
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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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I think it’s the books that you read when you’re young that live with you forever.
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It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.
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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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I believe in hard work and luck, and that the first often leads to the second.
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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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It was strange how your brain could know what your heart refused to accept.
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The consequences of our actions are always so complicated, so diverse, that predicting the future is a very difficult business indeed.
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Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It meets a thousand petty humiliations and hardships.
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It is our choices, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.
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