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- It is not an ennobling experience. Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It means a thousand petty humiliations and hardships.
- J. K. Rowling, Harvard Commencement Address, 2008
- Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts that is something on which to pride yourself, but poverty itself is romanticized only by fools.
- J. K. Rowling, Harvard Commencement Address, 2008
- Talent and intelligence never yet inoculated anyone against the caprice of the fates.
- J. K. Rowling, Harvard Commencement Address, 2008
- Ultimately, we all have to decide for ourselves what constitutes failure, but the world is quite eager to give you a set of criteria if you let it.
- J. K. Rowling, Harvard Commencement Address, 2008
- Failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than I was and began diverting all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.
- J. K. Rowling, Harvard Commencement Address, 2008
- It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not lived at all. In which case, you've failed by default.
- J. K. Rowling, Harvard Commencement Address, 2008
- The knowledge that you have emerged wiser and stronger from setbacks means that you are, ever after, secure in your ability to survive.
- J. K. Rowling, Harvard Commencement Address, 2008
- You will never truly know yourself or the strength of your relationships until both have been tested by adversity.
- J. K. Rowling, Harvard Commencement Address, 2008
- Personal happiness lies in knowing that life is not a checklist of acquisition or achievement. Your qualifications are not your life.
- J. K. Rowling, Harvard Commencement Address, 2008
- Life is difficult and complicated and beyond anyone's total control, and the humility to know that will enable you to survive its vicissitudes.
- J. K. Rowling, Harvard Commencement Address, 2008
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