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

“Let us step into the night and pursue that flighty temptress, adventure.”

"I am what I am, an' I'm not ashamed. 'Never be ashamed,' my ol' dad used ter say, 'there's some who'll hold it against you, but they're not worth botherin' with.'"

"Have you any idea how much tyrants fear the people they oppress? All of them realize that, one day, amongst their many victims, there is sure to be one who rises against them and strikes back!"

“To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.”

“It was, he thought, the difference between being dragged into the arena to face a battle to the death and walking into the arena with your head held high. Some people, perhaps, would say that there was little to choose between the two ways, but Dumbledore knew — and so do I, thought Harry, with a rush of fierce pride, and so did my parents — that there was all the difference in the world.”

“Numbing the pain for a while will make it worse when you finally feel it.”

"I'll just go down and have some pudding and wait for it all to turn up ... It always does in the end."

“It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.”

"It is the unknown we fear when we look upon death and darkness, nothing more."

"Time will not slow down when something unpleasant lies ahead."

"It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends."

“Do not pity the dead, Harry. Pity the living, and, above all those who live without love.”

"If you want to know what a man’s like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals."

"You think the dead we loved ever truly leave us? You think that we don’t recall them more clearly than ever in times of great trouble?"

When the world feels like it's spinning out of control, take a page — and some advice — from J.K. Rowling's famous books.

When the world feels like it's spinning out of control, take a page — and some advice — from J.K. Rowling's famous books with the best Harry Potter quotes to live by.

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