It is our choices… that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.
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Other J. K. Rowling quotes:
If you don't like to read, you haven't found the right book.
You lose your individuality a huge amount when you have no money, and I certainly had that experience.
Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.
Failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.
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.
It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.
Sometimes you have to stop trying to force it, walk away and let your subconscious show you the way. Fill up on life for a while.
Failure is so important. We speak about success all the time. It is the ability to resist failure or use failure that often leads to greater success. I've met people who don't want to try for fear of failing.
Achievable goals: the first step to self improvement.
Failure is not fun. It can be awful. But living so cautiously that you never fail is worse.
