(b. 1965– )
English writer, author of the Harry Potter series“Choosing to live in narrow spaces leads to a form of mental agoraphobia, and that brings its own terrors. I think the willfully unimaginative see more monsters. They are often more afraid.”
more infosource: Harvard commencement speech, June 2008
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“It’s our choices, Harry, that show us what we truly are, far more than our abilities.”
more infosource: Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (New York: Scholastic, 1999), 333.
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category: ability, character, choice, identity
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via: Louise Buckley“I would tell my twenty-one year old self that personal happiness lies in knowing that life is not a checklist of acquisition or achievement. Your qualifications, your C.V., are not your life, though you will meet many people of my age and older who confuse the two. Life is difficult and complicated and beyond anyone’s total control, and the humility to know that will enable you to survive its vicissitudes.”
more infosource: Harvard commencement speech, June 2008
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J. K. Rowling