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J. K. Rowling Quotes and Sayings
Quotes by J. K. Rowling
It is our choices ... that show what we truly are,
far more than our abilities.
- J. K. Rowling (Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets)
Related topics: Motivational Values Live-By Choice
It takes a great deal of courage to stand up to your enemies,
but even more to stand up to your friends.
- J.K. Rowling
To the philosopher,
death is but the next great adventure.
- J. K. Rowling
The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing,
and should be treated with caution.
- J. K. Rowling
Death is just life's next big adventure.
- J. K. Rowling
Indifference and neglect often
do much more damage than outright dislike.
- J. K. Rowling
To the well-organized mind,
death is but the next great adventure.
- J. K. Rowling
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Our Quotes and Sayings
Our faith gives us knowledge of something better.
- E. F. Schumacher 
What we think, we become.
All that we are arises with our thoughts.
With our thoughts, we make the world.
- The Buddha
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us.
- Marianne Williamson
As we work to create light for others,
we naturally light our own way.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent
about things that matter.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The purpose of our lives is to be happy.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
The world is perfect. It's a mess.
It has always been a mess.
We are not going to change it.
Our job is to straighten out our own lives.
- Joseph Campbell
Time, like life itself, has no inherent meaning.
We give our own meaning to time as to life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When the vast cathedral of our being
becomes a sanctuary for all creation,
we become the face of God.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Each of us dwells in a cathedral of our own BEing
that is created vast enough to encompass Unity with all creation.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The opposite of courage in our society
is not cowardice, it is conformity.
- Rollo May
We can only be said to be truly alive in those moments
when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.
- Thornton Wilder
Through our own recovered innocence
we discern the innocence of our neighbors.
- Henry David Thoreau
We cannot choose our external circumstances,
but we can always choose how to respond to them.
- Epictetus
Every thought we think is creating our future.
- Louise L. Hay
Treat the earth well.
It was not given to you by your parents,
it was loaned to you by your children.
We do not inherit the Earth from our Ancestors,
we borrow it from our Children.
- Native American traditional
Life is NOT "Supposed to be Fair."
Know that there is no single way that life is "supposed" to be.
Demanding that life meet our expectations
is a sure fire recipe for a miserable existence.
Life is a game with no rules.
Life just happens to us regardless of our best intentions.
Our only path to happiness lies in being open
to receiving whatever life throws at us -
with Gratitude. Have NO Expectations of life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The best cure for our own self-inflicted suffering
is often service to others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Our greatest glory is not in never falling,
but in rising every time we fall.
- Confucius
Our Joy comes from living our own lives simply -
never from demanding that others live simply -
or from ever making any demands whatsoever upon others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Our lives are defined not by the challenges we encounter,
but by how we respond to those challenges.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The worst sin toward our fellow creatures
is not to hate them,
but to be indifferent to them:
that's the essence of inhumanity.
- George Bernard Shaw
"Hurry up" ranks right up there with "you need to"
as a destroyer of our humanity.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We do not inherit the Earth from our ancestors,
we borrow it from our children.
- Native American Proverb
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take,
but by the moments that take our breath away.
- Anonymous
Our loved ones -
whether by blood, by marriage, or by choice -
are delicate treasures.
If we hold them too close, they break -
as a butterfly would.
By honoring and enjoying
the freedom of our loved ones,
we gain our own freedom.
Have the courage to trust that
the beautiful butterflies of your life
will return - or not - as life intends.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Miracles are the natural way of the Universe -
our only job is to move our doubting minds aside
and let the miracles flow.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Adversity can crush our spirit -
or strengthen it - it is our choice.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
This is our moment, this is our time.
- Bono
The River of Life flows - and all else is our drama.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Our deepest fears are like dragons
guarding our deepest treasure.
- Rainer Maria Rilke
If we would guide by the light of reason
we must let our minds be bold.
- Louis D. Brandeis
Our daily decisions create the scrapbook of our life.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
As we let our light shine,
we unconsciously give other people
permission to do the same.
As we are liberated from our own fear,
our presence actually liberates others.
- Marianne Williamson
See life as ugly and painful - if you choose,
or see it as beautiful and joyful.
There is no inherent meaning in life.
We give life its meaning.
It's our Choice.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Most everything in life is about our
point-of-view rather than any absolute.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us.
We ask ourselves,
Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?
Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God.
Your playing small does not serve the world.
There is nothing enlightened about shrinking
so that other people won't feel insecure around you.
We are all meant to shine, as children do.
We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us.
It is not just in some of us; it is in everyone.
And as we let our own light shine,
we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.
As we are liberated from our own fear,
our presence automatically liberates others.
- Marianne Williamson
Our life is what our thoughts make it.
- Marcus Aurelius
The practice of forgiveness is our most important
contribution to the healing of the world.
- Marianne Williamson
We can change our lives.
We can do, have, and be exactly what we wish.
- Tony Robbins
It is of the small joys and little pleasures
that the greatest of our days are built.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
We first make our habits, then our habits make us.
- John Dryden
Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence -
is the key to unlocking our potential.
- Winston Churchill
The greater part of our happiness or misery
depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances.
- Martha Washington
Where ignorance is our master,
there is no possibility of real peace.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
No love, no friendship can cross the path of our destiny
without leaving some mark on it forever.
- Francois Muriac
The main purpose of life is to live rightly, think rightly, act rightly.
The soul must languish when we give all our thought to the body.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Choose to See Beauty and Joy:
Much in life can be seen as ugly or beautiful - it's our choice.
Why would we choose to see any part of life as ugly?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.
- Henry David Thoreau
The key to growth is the introduction of
higher dimensions of consciousness into our awareness.
- Lao Tzu
It is no use saying, "We are doing our best."
You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.
- Winston Churchill
We hardly ever realize that we can
cut anything out of our lives,
anytime, in the blink of an eye.
- Carlos Castaneda
It is not our circumstances that create
our discontent or contentment.
It is us.
- Vivian Greene
Our grandchildren's grandchildren will shake their heads in shame
at some of the beliefs that we hold most dear today -
the question is, which ones?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The biggest mistake we could ever make in our lives
is to think we work for anybody but ourselves.
- Brian Tracy
Who has fully realized that history
is not contained in thick books
but lives in our very blood?
- Carl Jung
We should take care not to make the intellect our god;
it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.
- Albert Einstein
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
- Marianne Williamson
As we light a path for others,
we naturally light our own way.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
The universe is wider than our views of it.
- Henry David Thoreau
We know nothing at all.
All our knowledge is but the knowledge of schoolchildren.
The real nature of things we shall never know.
- Albert Einstein
We are powerless to redesign the world,
but we have infinite power to create our appreciation of it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The highest possible stage in moral culture
is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.
- Charles Darwin
It is not our abilities that show what we truly are.
It is our choices.
- the movie Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
Our ordinary mind always tries to persuade us
that we are nothing but acorns
and that our greatest happiness will be
to become bigger, fatter, shinier acorns;
but that is of interest only to pigs.
Our faith gives us knowledge of something better:
that we can become oak trees.
- E. F. Schumacher
