Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever.
– Lance Armstrong Via Phi PhiJK Rowling: The fringe benefits of failure
At her Harvard University commencement speech, “Harry Potter” author JK Rowling offers some powerful, heartening advice to dreamers and overachievers, including one hard-won lesson that she deems “worth more than any qualification I ever earned.”
as is a tale, so is life. not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.
If the diamond in me is destined to go to the grave without being discovered, so be it.
– some pony-tailed jackassFanboys (2008); Sam Huntington, Chris Marquette, Dan Fogler, Jay Baruchel, Kristen Bell, Seth Rogen.
It is our choices that show what we truly are, Harry, far more than our abilities.
– (via menakcman) Via Phi Phi

