Words worth keeping

We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be.

I DON'T CARE!" Harry yelled at them, snatching up a lunascope and throwing it into the fireplace. "I'VE HAD ENOUGH, I'VE SEEN ENOUGH, I WANT OUT, I WANT IT TO END, I DON'T CARE ANYMORE!""You do care," said Dumbledore. He had not flinched or made a single move to stop Harry demolishing his office. His expression was calm, almost detached. "You care so much you feel as though you will bleed to death with the pain of it.

Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.

Life is a book and there are a thousand pages I have not yet read.

There will come a time when all of us are dead. All of us. There will come a time when there are no human beings remaining to remember that anyone ever existed or that our species ever did anything. There will be no one left to remember Aristotle or Cleopatra, let alone you. Everything that we did and built and wrote and thought and discovered will be forgotten and all of this will have been for naught. Maybe that time is coming soon and maybe it is millions of years away, but even if we survive the collapse of our sun, we will not survive forever. There was time before organisms experienced consciousness, and there will be time after. And if the inevitability of human oblivion worries you, I encourage you to ignore it. God knows that’s what everyone else does.

Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.

Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.

Don't be pushed around by the fears in your mind. Be led by the dreams in your heart.

When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.

If you're reading this...Congratulations, you're alive.If that's not something to smile about,then I don't know what is.

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.

Of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these, 'It might have been.

The flower that blooms in adversity is the rarest and most beautiful of all.

Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark in the hopeless swamps of the not-quite, the not-yet, and the not-at-all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish in lonely frustration for the life you deserved and have never been able to reach. The world you desire can be won. It exists.. it is real.. it is possible.. it's yours.