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“I am always half in life, half in a fantastical version of it in my head.”
― Dolly Alderton, Everything I Know About Love

“Wit beyond measure is man’s greatest treasure.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

“It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

“If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

“Just because you have the emotional range of a teaspoon doesn't mean we all have.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

“Now I understand
How lonely the sun must be
The unending job
To rise again and again
Setting fire to all it sees”
― Emiko Jean, Tokyo Ever After

“Born a foreigner
I carry two halves with me
Loose skin I pull on
To go places and don't fit
Like apple pie and mochi”
― Emiko Jean, Tokyo Ever After

“Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

“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 fail by default.”
― J.K. Rowling

“Dumbledore says people find it far easier to forgive others for being wrong than being right.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

“Worrying means you suffer twice”
― J.K. Rowling, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them

“Staring at the clouds
I find it impossible
To walk, to run... To stay
How to remain grounded when
I am always filled with sky?”
― Emiko Jean, Tokyo Ever After

“The world is always full of the sound of waves. The little fishes, abandoning themselves to the waves, dance and sing, and play, but who knows the heart of the sea, a hundred feet down? Who knows its depth?”
― Eiji Yoshikawa, Musashi

“Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.”
― Charles Dickens

“The Dalai Lama, when asked what surprised him most about humanity, answered "Man! Because he sacrifices his health in order to make money. Then he sacrifices money to recuperate his health. And then he is so anxious about the future that he does not enjoy the present; the result being that he does not live in the present or the future; he lives as if he is never going to die, and then dies having never really lived.”
― Dalai Lama

“When people get used to preferential treatment, equal treatment seems like discrimination.”
― Thomas Sowell

“If you want a new idea, read an old book. —attributed to Ivan Pavlov (among others)”
― Jay Shetty, Think Like a Monk: Train Your Mind for Peace and Purpose Everyday

“The soul is the greening life force of the flesh, for the body grows and prospers through her, just as the earth becomes fruitful when it is moistened. The soul humidifies the body so it does not dry out, just like the rain which soaks into the earth.”
― Hildegarde of Bingen

“Like billowing clouds,
Like the incessant gurgle of the brook,
The longing of the spirit can never be stilled.”
― Hildegard von Bingen

“Dare to declare who you are. It is not far from the shores of silence to the boundaries of speech. The path is not long, but the way is deep. You must not only walk there, you must be prepared to leap.”
― St. Hildegard of Bingen

“You raise your voice when you should reinforce your argument.”
― Samuel Johnson

“Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but by perseverance.”
― Samuel Johnson

“Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.”
― Samuel Johnson, The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia

“It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.”
― Samuel Johnson

“What we hope ever to do with ease, we must first learn to do with diligence.”
― Samuel Johnson, The Life of Samuel Johnson, and the Journal of His Tour to the Hebrides, Vol. 4 of 5

“It is necessary to hope... for hope itself is happiness.”
― Samuel Johnson

“Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.”
― Samuel Johnson, The Rambler