“Understanding is the first step to acceptance, and only with acceptance can there be recovery.”

– J.K. Rowling

“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

“It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.”
– J.K. Rowling

“It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.”
– J.K. Rowling 

“It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.”
– J.K. Rowling

“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

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

“Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?”
– J.K. Rowling

“It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be.”
– J.K. Rowling

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

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

“Wit beyond measure is a man’s greatest treasure.”
– J.K. Rowling

“We’re all human, aren’t we? Every human life is worth the same, and worth saving.”
– J.K. Rowling

“We are only as strong as we are united, as weak as we are divided.”
– J.K. Rowling

“It is the unknown we fear when we look upon death and darkness, nothing more.”
– J.K. Rowling

“I don’t go looking for trouble. Trouble usually finds me.”
– J.K. Rowling

“Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.”
– J.K. Rowling

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

“Dumbledore says people find it far easier to forgive others for being wrong than being right.”
– J.K. Rowling

“Books are like mirrors: if a fool looks in, you cannot expect a genius to look out.”
– J.K. Rowling

“Is ‘fat’ really the worst thing a human being can be? Is ‘fat’ worse than ‘vindictive’, ‘jealous’, ‘shallow’, ‘vain’, ‘boring’ or ‘cruel’? Not to me.”
– J.K. Rowling

“He must have known I’d want to leave you.”
“No, he must have known you would always want to come back.”
– J.K. Rowling

“Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.”
– J.K. Rowling 

“We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all of the power we need inside ourselves already.”
– J.K. Rowling

“Things we lose have a way of coming back to us in the end, if not always in the way we expect.”

– J.K. Rowling

“There’s always room for a story that can transport people to another place.”
– J.K. Rowling

“To hurt is as human as to breathe.”
– J.K. Rowling

“Differences of habit and language are nothing at all if our aims are identical and our hearts are open.”
– J.K. Rowling 

“You think the dead we loved truly ever leave us? You think that we don’t recall them more clearly in times of great trouble?”
– J.K. Rowling

“Ah, music,” he said, wiping his eyes. “A magic beyond all we do here!”
– J.K. Rowling

“There is no good and evil, there is only power and those too weak to seek it.”
– J.K. Rowling

“Time will not slow down when something unpleasant lies ahead.”
– J.K. Rowling(Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire)

“It is a strange thing, but when you are dreading something, and would give anything to slow down time, it has a disobliging habit of speeding up.”
– J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire)

“The best of us must sometimes eat our words.”
– J.K. Rowling

“When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love.”
– J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince)

“I mean, you could claim that anything’s real if the only basis for believing in it is that nobody’s proved it doesn’t exist!”
– J.K. Rowling

“Don’t let the muggles get you down.”
– J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban)

“There is an expiry date on blaming your parents for steering you in the wrong direction; the moment you are old enough to take the wheel, responsibility lies with you.”
– J.K. Rowling

“There’s nothing better when something comes and hits you and you think ‘YES’!”
– J.K. Rowling

“As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.
I wish you all very good lives.”
– J.K. Rowling

“The mind is a complex and many-layered thing
– J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix)

“I was set free, because my greatest fear had already been realized, and I was still alive, and I still had a daughter whom I adored, and I had an old typewriter and a big idea. And so rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.”
– J.K. Rowling

“The only way out is through.”
– J.K. Rowling

“Curiosity is not a sin…. But we should exercise caution with our curiosity… yes, indeed.”
– J.K. Rowling