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.

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"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

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"The greatest strength lies in vulnerability."

- Beauty and the Beast

Courage

"Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear."

- Mark Twain

Courage

"I am learning every day to allow the space between where I am and where I want to be to inspire me and not terrify me."

- Tracee Ellis Ross

Courage

"If your dreams don’t scare you, they’re not big enough."

- Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

Courage

"Courage, dear heart."

- C.S. Lewis

Courage