J. K. Rowling Quotes
Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth.
People find it far easier to forgive others for being wrong than being right.
What's coming will come and we'll meet it when it does.
Numbing the pain for a while will make it worse when you finally feel it.
Ultimately, 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.
It takes a great deal of courage to stand up to your enemies, but even more to stand up to your friends.
Differences of habit and language are nothing at all if our aims are identical and our hearts are open.
We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all the power we need inside ourselves already. We have the power to imagine better.
I have never been remotely ashamed of having been depressed. Never. What's to be ashamed of? I went through a really rough time and I am quite proud that I got out of that.
Life is difficult and complicated and beyond anyone's total control, and the humility to know that will enable you to survive its vicissitudes.
When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love.
The knowledge that you have emerged wiser and stronger from setbacks means that you are, ever after, secure in your ability to survive.
The consequences of our actions are so complicated, so diverse, that predicting the future is a very difficult business indeed.
Personal happiness lies in knowing that life is not a checklist of acquisition or achievement. Your qualifications are not your life.
Remember, if the time should come when you have to make a choice between what is right and what is easy.
If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.
You will never truly know yourself or the strength of your relationships until both have been tested by adversity.
Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.
Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?
The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and must therefore be treated with great caution.
Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts that is something on which to pride yourself, but poverty itself is romanticized only by fools.
It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not lived at all. In which case, you've failed by default.
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, the responsibility lies with you.
Harry, suffering like this proves you are still a man! This pain is part of being human … the fact that you can feel pain like this is your greatest strength.
It is not an ennobling experience. Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It means a thousand petty humiliations and hardships.
Have you any idea how much tyrants fear the people they oppress? All of them realize that, one day, amongst their many victims, there is sure to be one who rises against them and strikes back!
The mind is not a book, to be opened at will and examined at leisure. Thoughts are not etched on the inside of skulls, to be perused by an invader. The mind is a complex and many-layered thing.
Failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than I was and began diverting all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.
You are the true master of death, because the true master does not seek to run away from Death. He accepts that he must die, and understands that there are far, far worse things in the living world than dying.
