J. K. Rowling Quotes

I've lived the wackiest, weirdest life.

When you reach my age, you realize you couldn't have done things very much better or much worse than you did them in the first place.

When I turned 50, I threw myself a big birthday party, and I looked seriously at what my life has been about. I recommend this to everybody. Ask yourself, "What have I done? How did I do it? Where'd I mess up? Where did I do well?" When I did this assessment of my life, I said to myself, "It was really good." I made a lot of people laugh, made a lot of people cry in a good way, brought a lot of joy to people, picked up a lot of garbage. And in all those years, I saw a lot. I went to foreign lands. I met interesting people. And I got it!

During all these years there existed within me a tendency to follow Nature in her walks.

I'm not somebody who plans. There were times I planned a lot in my life, and it never turns out how you plan it. So I think it's important not to. I'm a very spontaneous person.

It's been a transformative period and I really wanted to make music from what I've experienced.

I don't think I could have written what I did any earlier.

It's been a funny life for me. Sometimes I feel I haven't done a lot of living.

Everyone takes pause at 40. It's the age you have to assess everything in your life. It's the fictitious marker that's always coming up when you're young. The world really does look at you to kind of have it together by 40, and be successful by 40. Whatever success means.

One never comes into embarrassment, if one is ready to balance. To ask oneself never in embarrassment, what have you in these decades made.

The inventory process and stepping back in your life can sometimes be a very dark process. But it also can be extremely funny and surprising.

There is nothing I've been through in my life that I regret, or that I would go back and change. I feel like everything that happened - personally and professionally - I went through for a reason, and I learned from those things.

I think I value things more correctly. I hope I look at my life in a way that makes sense.

The world was not created once and for all time for each of us individually. There are added to it in the course of our life things of which we have never had any suspicion.

This record for the first time - feels like a record that really represents my whole entire life and instead of just a period of my life. And it is really kind of eye opening and it makes me feel really good to hear this record and hear all the years.

As an academic, this was not the lifestyle I had planned for myself. Now I see myself everywhere.

Coaching helps you take stock of where you are now in all aspects of your life, and how that compares to where you would like to be.

For years, I never really pondered how I came to be a writer from where I came from.

I write for myself things that I've gone through.

Looking back, I guess I've lived an unusual life.

I saw a person that I never thought I would ever become.

Mortal experiences give us the opportunity to assess what we are doing with our lives.

I don't think my life itself is very interesting.

As you get older and more thoughtful, you carry stuff with you. Your kids get older, you take on their sorrows, you enjoy their triumphs. Life doesn't always go to plan.

You know what you have achieved and what you have been through.