So I know you all enjoy reading about anything related to Harry Potter, J. K. Rowling or 
the non-muggle world. So here is a list of my favourite quotes by my favourite author. Some are from the Harry Potter series, while others are from her Harvard Commencement Speech or other interviews.
“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.”
“There are some things you can’t share without ending up liking each other.” (Harry, Ron and Hermoine’s thoughts on fighting a mountain troll)
“Talent and intelligence never yet inoculated anyone against the caprice of the fates.”
“If you want to see the true measure of a man, watch how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”
“Books! And cleverness! There are more important things–friendship and bravery”
“Imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not, and therefore the fount of all invention and innovation. In its arguably most transformative and revelatory capacity, it is the power to that enables us to empathize with humans whose experiences we have never shared.”
“Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.”
“The best of us must sometimes eat our words.”
“Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.”
“If you’re holding out for universal popularity, I’m afraid you will be in this cabin for a very long time.”
“…people find it far easier to forgive others for being wrong than being right”
“Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth”
“Life is difficult and complicated and beyond anyone’s total control, and the humility to know that will enable you to survive its vicissitudes.”
“We do not need magic to transform our world. Â We carry all the power we need inside ourselves already. Â We have the power to imagine better.”
“We touch other people’s lives simply by existing.”
“Destiny is a name often given in retrospect to choices that have dramatic consequences”
And the most ironic of them all: “I really don’t believe in magic.”
