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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.
Sep 10, 2025
What’s comin’ will come, an’ we’ll meet it when it does.
Wit beyond measure is a man's greatest treasure.
The fact that you can feel pain like this is your greatest strength
Just because you have the emotional range of a teaspoon doesn't mean we all have.
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?
As much money and life as you could want! The two things most human beings would choose above all - the trouble is, humans do have a knack of choosing precisely those things that are worst for them.
In dreams, we enter a world that’s entirely our own.
For in dreams we enter a world that is entirely our own. Let them swim in the deepest ocean or glide over the highest cloud.
It is my belief... that the truth is generally preferable to lies.
It is the unknown we fear when we look upon death and darkness, nothing more.
Do not pity the dead, Harry. Pity the living, and, above all those who live without love.
Differences of habit and language are nothing at all if our aims are identical and our hearts are open.
Words are, in my not-so-humble opinion, our most inexhaustible source of magic. Capable of both inflicting injury, and remedying it.
... perhaps those who are best suited to power are those who have never sought it.
Do not pity the dead, Harry.
Greatness inspires envy, envy engenders spite, spite spawns lies.
It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be.
We've all got both light and dark inside us. What matters is the part we choose to act on. That's who we really are.
Things we lose have a way of coming back to us in the end, if not always in the way we expect.
Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?
We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all of the power we need inside ourselves already.
Curiosity is not a sin.... But we should exercise caution with our curiosity... yes, indeed.
The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and must therefore be treated with great caution.
It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might has well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default.
Numbing the pain for a while will make it worse when you finally feel it.
Anything's possible if you've got enough nerve.
It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.
We have to choose between what is right, and what is easy.
Dumbledore says people find it far easier to forgive others for being wrong than being right.
Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.
It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.
Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.
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.
We are only as strong as we are united, as weak as we are divided.
We must try not to sink beneath our anguish, Harry, but battle on.
Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.
To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.
Let us step into the night and pursue that flighty temptress, adventure.
It is our choices... that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.
The moment you are old enough to take the wheel, responsibility lies with you.
Understanding is the first step to acceptance, and only with acceptance can there be recovery.
We're all human, aren't we? Every human life is worth the same, and worth saving.
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