J.K. Rowling

Country European Union
Born Tuesday, 30 November -0001
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Quotes 130
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Destiny is a name often given in retrospect to choices that had dramatic consequences. Uncategorized
You will never truly know yourself or the strength of your relationships until both have been tested by adversity. Uncategorized
We touch other peoples lives simply by existing. Uncategorized
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. Uncategorized
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. Uncategorized
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. Uncategorized
The knowledge that you have emerged wiser and stronger from setbacks means that you are, ever after, secure in your ability to survive. Uncategorized
Talent and intelligence never yet inoculated anyone against the caprice of the fates. Uncategorized
Personal happiness lies in knowing that life is not a checklist of acquisition or achievement. Your qualifications are not your life. Uncategorized
Life is difficult and complicated and beyond anyone's total control, and the humility to know that will enable you to survive its vicissitudes. Uncategorized
It is not an ennobling experience. Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It means a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Uncategorized
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. Uncategorized
Imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not, and, therefore, the foundation of all invention and innovation. In its arguably most transformative and relevetory capacity, it is the power that enables us to empathize with humans whose experiences we have never shared. Uncategorized
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. Uncategorized
Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts that is something on which to pride yourself, but poverty itself is romanticized only by fools. Uncategorized
Achievable goals are the first step to self improvement. Uncategorized
To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure. Uncategorized
There are some things you can't share without ending up liking each other. Uncategorized
It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live. Uncategorized
Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself. Uncategorized