"Harry - you're a great wizard, you know." "I'm not as good as you," said Harry, very embarrassed, as she let go of him. "Me!" said Hermione. "Books! And cleverness! There are more important things - friendship and bravery and - oh Harry - be careful!"

-- J. K. Rowling

#Friendship Quotes #Letting Go Quotes #Book Quotes

“Society is produced by our wants and government by our wickedness.”
“Every man is two men; one is awake in the darkness, the other asleep in the light.”
“Government is, at every level, a means to gather in the labor and wealth of the people, and then instruct the people about new restrictions or monitoring of their lives.”
“Remembrance is to the heart what water is to the fish. And what is the state of a fish that leaves water?”
“No matter what you do, if there's something you're afraid of, you need to break through it.”
“How shall we pass most swiftly from point to point, and be present always at the focus where the greatest number of vital forces unite in their purest energy?”
“We see nothing till we truly understand it.”

Source : John Constable, Anne Gray, Dr, John Gage, Conal Shields, Ann Galbally (2006). “Constable: Impressions of Land, Sea and Sky”
“Alix [MacKenzie], on the other hand, found that her painting would translate much more readily into decoration, and she could play with the spacing and the intensity of imagery on the form in a way which I could not. So that when we established our pottery, I was most unhappy with my decoration.”

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