Words worth keeping

Don't be afraid of death; be afraid of an unlived life. You don't have to live forever, you just have to live.

The very least you can do in your life is figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof.

I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine.

Don't you think it's better to be extremely happy for a short while, even if you lose it, than to be just okay for your whole life?

I can listen no longer in silence. I must speak to you by such means as are within my reach. You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope. Tell me not that I am too late, that such precious feelings are gone for ever. I offer myself to you again with a heart even more your own than when you almost broke it, eight years and a half ago. Dare not say that man forgets sooner than woman, that his love has an earlier death. I have loved none but you. Unjust I may have been, weak and resentful I have been, but never inconstant. You alone have brought me to Bath. For you alone, I think and plan. Have you not seen this? Can you fail to have understood my wishes? I had not waited even these ten days, could I have read your feelings, as I think you must have penetrated mine. I can hardly write. I am every instant hearing something which overpowers me. You sink your voice, but I can distinguish the tones of that voice when they would be lost on others. Too good, too excellent creature! You do us justice, indeed. You do believe that there is true attachment and constancy among men. Believe it to be most fervent, most undeviating, in F. W.I must go, uncertain of my fate; but I shall return hither, or follow your party, as soon as possible. A word, a look, will be enough to decide whether I enter your father's house this evening or never.

Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this too, was a gift.

You need to learn how to select your thoughts just the same way you select your clothes every day. This is a power you can cultivate. If you want to control things in your life so bad, work on the mind. That's the only thing you should be trying to control.

You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.

Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity or registering wrongs.

Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.

You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question.

You see things; you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?

People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.

‎Though nobody can go back and make a new beginning... Anyone can start over and make a new ending.

Yeah, Quirrell was a great teacher. There was just that minor drawback of him having Lord Voldemort sticking out of the back of his head!