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“And many prefer not to exercise their imaginations at all. They choose to remain comfortably within the bounds of their own experience, never troubling to wonder how it would feel to have been born other than they are. They can refuse to hear screams or to peer inside cages; they can close their minds and hearts to any suffering that does not touch them personally; they can refuse to know.” (Very Good Lives Quotes)
J. K. Rowling
Very Good Lives
“And tomorrow, I hope that even if you remember not a single word of mine, you remember those of Seneca, another of those old Romans I met when I fled down the Classics corridor in retreat from career ladders, in search of ancient wisdom: ‘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
Very Good Lives
“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
Very Good Lives
“At our graduation we were bound by enormous affection, by our shared experience of a time that could never come again…”
J. K. Rowling
Very Good Lives
“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. What is more, those who choose not to empathize enable real monsters. For without ever committing an act of outright evil ourselves, we collude with it through our own apathy.”
J. K. Rowling
Very Good Lives
“Failure gave me an inner security that I had never attained by passing examinations.”
J. K. Rowling
Very Good Lives
“Failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was.”
J. K. Rowling
Very Good Lives
“I think the willfully unimaginative see more monsters. They are often more afraid.”
J. K. Rowling
Very Good Lives
“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
Very Good Lives
“I would like to make it clear, in parenthesis, that I do not blame my parents for their point of view. There is an expiration 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
Very Good Lives
“It expresses, in part, our inescapable connection with the outside world, the fact that we touch other people’s lives simply by existing.”
J. K. Rowling
Very Good Lives
“Life is difficult, and complicated, and beyond anyone’s total control, and the humility to know that will enable you to survive its vicissitudes.”
J. K. Rowling
Very Good Lives
“Poverty entails fear, and stress, and sometimes depression; it means a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts, that is indeed something on which to pride yourself, but poverty itself is romanticised only by fools.”
J. K. Rowling
Very Good Lives
“The great majority of you belong to the world’s only remaining superpower. The way you vote, the way you live, the way you protest, the pressure you bring to bear on your government, has an impact way behind your borders. That is your privilege, and your burden.”
J. K. Rowling
Very Good Lives
“The knowledge that you have emerged wiser and stronger from setbacks means that you are, ever after, secure in your ability to survive. You will never truly know yourself, or the strength of your relationships, until both have been tested by adversity.”
J. K. Rowling
Very Good Lives
“Unlike any other creature on this planet, human beings can learn and understand without having experienced.”
J. K. Rowling
Very Good Lives
“We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all of the power we need inside ourselves already.”
J. K. Rowling
Very Good Lives
“What is more, those who choose not to empathize enable real monsters. For without ever committing an act of outright evil ourselves, we collude with it through our own apathy.”
J. K. Rowling
Very Good Lives
“You might never fail on the scale I did, but some failure in life is inevitable. 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
Very Good Lives
“You will never truly know yourself, or the strength of your relationships, until both have been tested by adversity.”
J. K. Rowling
Very Good Lives
