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J. K. Rowling

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Quotes by J. K. Rowling

"Love as powerful as your mother’s for you leaves its own mark. … To have been loved so deeply … will give us some protection forever."

- J. K. Rowling

Love

"“Love as powerful as your mother’s for you leaves its own mark. … To have been loved so deeply … will give us some protection forever.”"

- J. K. Rowling

Love

"To hurt is as human as to breathe."

- J. K. Rowling

Awareness

"Whether you come back by page or by the big screen, Hogwarts will always be there to welcome you home."

- J. K. Rowling

Belief

"Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light."

- J. K. Rowling

Hope

"Things we lose have a way of coming back to us in the end, if not always in the way we expect."

- J. K. Rowling

Hope

"It is impossible to live without failing at something unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default."

- J. K. Rowling

Courage

"I never thought I'd hear myself say it, but safety first!"

- J. K. Rowling

Motivation

"Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It meets a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts that is something on which to pride yourself but poverty itself is romanticized by fools."

- J. K. Rowling

Adversity

"I would like to be remembered as someone who did the best she could with the talent she had."

- J. K. Rowling

Success

"Words are our most inexhaustible source of magic."

- J. K. Rowling

Creativity

"I was set free because my greatest fear had been realized, and I still had a daughter who I adored, and I had an old typewriter and a big idea. And so rock bottom became a solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life."

- J. K. Rowling

Resilience

"I was set free because my greatest fear had been realized, and I still had a daughter who I adored, and I had an old typewriter and a big idea. And so Rock Bottom became a solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life."

- J. K. Rowling

Resilience

"It’s our choices…that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities."

- J. K. Rowling

Choice

"It's our choices...that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities."

- J. K. Rowling

Choice

"It is our choices that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities."

- J. K. Rowling

Choice

"It is our choices…that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities"

- J. K. Rowling

Choice

"Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth."

- J. K. Rowling

Belief in Self

"I would say to any single parent currently feeling the weight of stereotype or stigmatisation that I am prouder of my years as a single mother than of any other part of my life. Yes, I got off benefits and wrote the first four Harry Potter books as a single mother, but nothing makes me prouder than what Jessica told me recently about the first five years of her life: ‘I never knew we were poor. I just remember being happy.”"

- J. K. Rowling

Persistence

"I would say to any single parent currently feeling the weight of stereotype or stigmatisation that I am prouder of my years as a single mother than of any other part of my life."

- J. K. Rowling

Persistence

"It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default."

- J. K. Rowling

Failure

"Rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life"

- J. K. Rowling

Overcoming Obstacles

"It takes a great deal of courage to stand up to your enemies, but even more to stand up to your friends."

- J. K. Rowling

Bravery

"I wish you a beautiful new month from the first day of this month to the last day."

- J. K. Rowling

Well-being