Emotions and Feelings

Conquering any difficulty always gives one a secret joy, for it means pushing back a boundary-line and adding to one’s liberty.

Character is what you know you are, not what others think you have.

Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.

Never offend people with style when you can offend them with substance.

He that is overcautious will accomplish little.

The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one has to do.

We are never more discontented with others than when we are discontented with ourselves.

Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others, cannot keep it from themselves.

Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.

We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat; they do not exist.

 

Do not meddle in the affairs of Wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger.

 

That which we are, we are;

 

My strength is as the strength of ten,

 

Alone and warming his five wits,

 

Like summer tempest came her tears.

 

O sweet and far from cliff and scar

 

Tears, idle tears, I know not what they mean,

 

Tears, idle tears, I know not what they mean,

 

She only said, ‘My life is dreary,

 

She only said, ‘My life is dreary,

 

I hate that dreadful hollow behind the little wood.

 

Music that gentlier on the spirit lies,

 

For I dipped into the future, far as human eye could see,

 

‘I am half sick of shadows,’ said