30 Life Lessons From Harry Potter That Will Never Stop Being Relevant

“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, amazon.com

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

— J.K. Rowling, amazon.com

“It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.”

— J.K. Rowling, amazon.com

“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, amazon.com

“We can't choose our fate, but we can choose others. Be careful in knowing that.”

— J.K. Rowling, amazon.com

“Dark times lie ahead of us and there will be a time when we must choose between what is easy and what is right.”

— J.K. Rowling, amazon.com

“The truth is a beautiful and terrible thing, and should therefore be treated with great caution.”

— J.K. Rowling, amazon.com

“Greatness inspires envy, envy engenders spite, spite spawns lies.”

— J.K. Rowling, amazon.com

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

— J.K. Rowling, amazon.com

“Some wounds run too deep for the healing.”

— J.K. Rowling, amazon.com

“Words are, in my not-so-humble opinion, our most inexhaustible source of magic. Capable of both inflicting injury, and remedying it.”

— J.K. Rowling, amazon.com

“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.”

— J. K. Rowling, amazon.com

“To have been loved so deeply, even though the person who loved us is gone, will give us some protection forever.”

— J.K. Rowling, amazon.com

“When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love.”

— J. K. Rowling, amazon.com

“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, amazon.com

“Just because you have the emotional range of a teaspoon doesn't mean we all have.”

— J.K. Rowling, amazon.com

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

— J.K. Rowling, amazon.com

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

— J.K. Rowling, amazon.com

“Perhaps those who are best suited to power are those who have never sought it.”

— J. K. Rowling, amazon.com

“Youth can not know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.”

— J.K. Rowling, amazon.com

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

— J.K. Rowling, amazon.com

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

— J.K. Rowling, amazon.com

“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, amazon.com

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

— J. K. Rowling, amazon.com

“Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.”

— J. K. Rowling, amazon.com

“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, news.harvard.edu

“We are only as strong as we are united, as weak as we are divided.”

— J.K. Rowling, amazon.com

“Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.”

— J.K. Rowling, amazon.com

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

— J.K. Rowling, amazon.com