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“We have the power to imagine better.”

Inspirational Imagination Power

Book:Very Good Lives: The Fringe Benefits of Failure and the Importance of Imagination

Source: Very Good Lives: The Fringe Benefits of Failure and the Importance of Imagination

“Now you might think that I chose my second theme, the importance of imagination, because of the part it played in rebuilding my life, but that is not wholly so. Though I personally will defend the value of bedtime stories to my last gasp, I have learned to value imagination in a much broader sense. 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 that enables us to empathise with humans whose experiences we have never shared.”

Inspirational Imagination Empathy

Book:Very Good Lives: The Fringe Benefits of Failure and the Importance of Imagination

Source: Very Good Lives: The Fringe Benefits of Failure and the Importance of Imagination

“He wanted to be stopped, to be dragged back, to be sent back home... But he was home. Hogwarts was the first and best home he had known. He and Voldemort and Snape, the abandoned boys, had all found home here...”

Inspirational Home Books Abandoned Hogwarts

Book:Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

Source: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

“Well, he should have some chocolate, at the very least,' said Madam Pomfrey”

Inspirational Truth Advice Food Chocolate Harry Potter Jk Rowling Madame Pomfrey

Book:Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

Source: Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

“The dementors affect you worse than the others because there are horrors in your past that others don't have.”

Inspirational Others Worse Dementors

Book:Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

Source: Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

“Actually, I'm highly logical, which allows me to look past extraneous detail and perceive clearly that which others overlook.”

Inspirational Harrypotter Hermionegranger

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“Seremos más fuertes cuanto más unidos, y más débiles cuanto más divididos”

Inspirational Friendship Battle Harrypotter

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“She seemed to see a flash of bright sunlight on dark green water, fragmented into brilliant shards by the splashing rise and fall of oars.”

Inspirational Rowing Oars

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“Rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.”

Inspirational Life Lessons Hope Failure Future Adversity Rock Bottom Harvard Commencement Speech

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“I am what I am, an’ I’m not ashamed. 'Never be ashamed,’ my ol’ dad used ter say, ‘there’s some who’ll hold it against you, but they’re not worth botherin’ with.”

Inspirational Hagrid

Book:Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

Source: Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

“Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also”

Book:Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

Source: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows