J. K. Rowling Quotes

The knowledge that you have emerged wiser and stronger from setbacks means that you are, ever after, secure in your ability to survive.

Extraordinary people survive under the most terrible circumstances and they become more extraordinary because of it.

What don't break you will make you.

Everybody has difficult years, but a lot of times the difficult years end up being the greatest years of your whole entire life, if you survive them.

It took me a long time and most of the world to learn what I know about love and fate and the choices we make, but the heart of it came to me in an instant, while I was chained to a wall and being tortured.\

I think part of a hero construct is overcoming loss, or being abandoned, or having to make your own way in the world.

There's always a positive to those negative times, because you come out of it so much stronger and wiser. Strength comes from every hardship, and it's been a lesson for me.

I surprise myself that I'm not dead in the gutter somewhere, surprised that I haven't given up.

When people tell you you're on the brink of death, you've got to dig pretty deep to get it together.

What doesn't kill you makes you stronger. I really believe that.

It's a shallow life that doesn't give a person a few scars.

We're always attracted to characters who are people we could identify with and yet are put through incredibly tortured or difficult circumstances - the idea being that you don't really know who you are until you've been tested or suffered in some way.

Sometimes to go forward you've got to go to the depths of your own personal despair and claw yourself back. From that point, no matter what happens, you know you can do it.

It takes a lot of energy and creativity to make such screwed up lives carry on. And the kind of will people have to survive, year after year, dealing with that stuff, is weirdly impressive.

I'm a survivor - a living example of what people can go through and survive.

I never said I wanted a 'happy' life but an interesting one. From separation and loss, I have learned a lot. I have become strong and resilient, as is the case of almost every human being exposed to life and to the world. We don't even know how strong we are until we are forced to bring that hidden strength forward.

I count life just a stuff to try the soul's strength on.

The struggle I went through has value.

We don't develop courage by being happy every day. We develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.

That which does not kill us makes us stronger.

Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.

What happened to me in Somalia doesn't define me.

What doesn't kill you only makes you stronger.

Sometimes the future that you imagined to be the most dreadful, turns out to be the future that compels you to reach down very deeply into your being to uncover reservoirs of strength and perserverance that you had no idea were there.

I forged myself out of a vacuum. I crawl along the highway on hacked off stumps year after year. Some wonder how and why. I never do.