Harry Potter

30 Life Lessons From Harry Potter That Will Never Stop Being Relevant

Because the lessons are as timeless as the literature. 
Heidi Priebe
June 29, 2016
“If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”
— J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Tagged: character
“It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.”
— J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets
Tagged: Choices
“It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.”
— J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter And The Sorcerer's Stone
Tagged: Dreams, Idealism, Reality, Living
“It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.”
— J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter And The Sorcerer's Stone
Tagged: Friendship, Bravery
“It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all - in which case, you fail by default.”
— J.K. Rowling, Text of J.K. Rowling’s speech
Tagged: Failure
“Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?”
— J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows
Tagged: Reality, Perception
“To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.”
— J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone: The Illustrated Edition (Harry Potter, Book 1)
Tagged: Death, Adventure, Perception
“Do not pity the dead, Harry. Pity the living, and, above all those who live without love.”
— J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows
Tagged: Death, Life, Love
“The truth is a beautiful and terrible thing, and should therefore be treated with great caution.”
— J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone: The Illustrated Edition (Harry Potter, Book 1)
Tagged: Truth
“Just because you have the emotional range of a teaspoon doesn't mean we all have.”
— J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter And The Order Of The Phoenix
Tagged: Emotional, Rational
“Numbing the pain for a while will make it worse when you finally feel it.”
— J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Tagged: Pain
“We are only as strong as we are united, as weak as we are divided.”
— J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Tagged: Unity
“Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.”
— J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter And The Order Of The Phoenix
Tagged: Indifference, Love, Dislike
“Dumbledore says people find it far easier to forgive others for being wrong than being right.”
— J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter And The Order Of The Phoenix
Tagged: Being wrong, Being Right
“Things we lose have a way of coming back to us in the end, if not always in the way we expect.”
— J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter And The Order Of The Phoenix
Tagged: Loss
“Understanding is the first step to acceptance, and only with acceptance can there be recovery.”
— J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Tagged: Understanding, Recovery
“Youth can not know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.”
— J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter And The Order Of The Phoenix
Tagged: Youth, Age, Wisdom
“Perhaps those who are best suited to power are those who have never sought it.”
— J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
Tagged: Power
“There is no good and evil, there is only power and those too weak to seek it.”
— J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone: The Illustrated Edition (Harry Potter, Book 1)
Tagged: Evil, Good, Power
“To have been loved so deeply, even though the person who loved us is gone, will give us some protection forever.”
— J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter And The Sorcerer's Stone
Tagged: Love, Protection
“It is a strange thing, but when you are dreading something, and would give anything to slow down time, it has a disobliging habit of speeding up.”
— J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Tagged: dread, Time
“When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love.”
— J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter And The Half-Blood Prince
Tagged: Life, Love, Obsession
“We've all got both light and dark inside us. What matters is the part we choose to act on. That's who we really are.”
— J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter And The Order Of The Phoenix
Tagged: Light, Darkness, Good, Evil, Choice
“Words are, in my not-so-humble opinion, our most inexhaustible source of magic. Capable of both inflicting injury, and remedying it.”
— J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows
Tagged: Words, Writing, Injury, Healing, Pain
“Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.”
— J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban
Tagged: Happiness, Light, Darkness
“We can't choose our fate, but we can choose others. Be careful in knowing that.”
— J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter And The Order Of The Phoenix
Tagged: Fate
“Greatness inspires envy, envy engenders spite, spite spawns lies.”
— J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter And The Half-Blood Prince
Tagged: Greatness, Envy, Jealousy
“Dark times lie ahead of us and there will be a time when we must choose between what is easy and what is right.”
— J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Tagged: Darkness, Easy, Right, Doing The Right Thing
“Some wounds run too deep for the healing.”
— J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter And The Order Of The Phoenix
Tagged: wounds, Healing