“You will never truly know yourself, or the strength of your relationships, until both have been tested by adversity.”
More from J.K. Rowling on Life
“Scrimgeour: "It's time you learned some respect!" Harry: "It's time you earned it.”
“To hurt is as human as to breathe.”
“It doesn't matter what a person is born but it matters how he grows up to be...”
“Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young...”
“It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.”
“Why do you live?Because I have something worth living for.”
“Whenever he was in company he wanted to get away, and whenever he was alone he wanted company.”
“What would come, would come...and you would have to meet it, when it did.”
“You think the dead we loved truly ever leave us? You think that we don't recall them more clearly in times of great trouble?”
“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.”
Others on Life
Jonathan Safran Foer
22 quotes“One hundred years of joy can be erased in one second”
Mitch Albom
18 quotes“Behind all your stories is always your mother's story. Because hers is where yours begin.”
Rainer Maria Rilke
16 quotes“I live my life in widening circles that reach out across the world.”
Henry Miller
15 quotes“We create our fate every day ... most of the ills we suffer from are directly traceable to our own behavior.”
Lord Byron
14 quotes“The great art of life is sensation to feel that we exist even in pain.”
Cormac McCarthy
14 quotes“People were always getting ready for tomorrow. I didn't believe in that. Tomorrow wasn't getting ready for them. It didn...”
Virginia Woolf
14 quotes“No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.”
Joseph Campbell
14 quotes“I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive...”
Carlos Ruiz Zafón
13 quotes“Most of us have the good or bad fortune of seeing our lives fall apart so slowly we barely notice.”
Søren Kierkegaard
13 quotes“Life can only be understood backwards but it must be lived forwards.”
Margaret Atwood
13 quotes“Surviving Is the only warWe can afford”
Sarah Dessen
13 quotes“All those clean, fresh starts had made me forget what it was like, until now, to be messy and honest and out of control....”