happy birthday harry potter quotes

The South creates the civilizations, the North conquers them, ruins them, borrows from them, spreads them: this is one summary of history. ~Will and Ariel Durant, Lessons of History



In our nature, however, there is a provision, alike marvellous and merciful, that the sufferer should never know the intensity of what he endures by its present torture, but chiefly by the pang that rankles after it. ~Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter, Chapter II "The Market-Place"



My husband lets me have all the scrapbooking supplies I can hide. ~Author Unknown



The perfect tattoo... the one I believe we are all struggling toward... is the one that turned the jackass into a zebra. ~Cliff Raven



You can avoid having ulcers by adapting to the situation: If you fall in the mud puddle, check your pockets for fish. ~Author Unknown



A neurotic's problems are invisible to others - and to himself, as well. ~Terri Guillemets



I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow. ~Abraham Lincoln



This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness. ~Dalai Lama



We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey. ~Kenji Miyazawa



Eighty percent of success is showing up. ~Woody Allen



The flower that you hold in your hands was born today and already it is as old as you are. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin



We cannot banish dangers, but we can banish fears. We must not demean life by standing in awe of death. ~David Sarnoff



Memory is a child walking along a seashore. You never can tell what small pebble it will pick up and store away among its treasured things. ~Pierce Harris, Atlanta Journal



It is better to drink of deep griefs than to taste shallow pleasures. ~William Hazlitt, Characteristics, 1823



Spite is never lonely; envy always tags along. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960



Turn your wounds into wisdom. ~Oprah Winfrey



Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular. But it is not something that can be demanded from life, and if you are not happy you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own brand of unhappiness. ~Robertson Davies



Th' first thing to have in a libry is a shelf. Fr'm time to time this can be decorated with lithrachure. But th' shelf is th' main thing. ~Finley Peter Dunne



Music is what feelings sound like. ~Author Unknown



While many minority groups are the target for prejudice... and discrimination... in our society, few persons face this hostility without the support and acceptance of their family as do many gay, lesbian, and bisexual youth. ~Virginia Uribe and Karen Harbeck