24 quotes
"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