“Vulnerability is our most accurate measurement of courage.”

“Here’s what is truly at the heart of wholeheartedness: Worthy now, not if, not when, we’re worthy of love and belonging now. Right this minute. As is.”

“Just because someone isn’t willing or able to love us, it doesn’t mean that we are unlovable.”

“Integrity is choosing courage over comfort; choosing what is right over what is fun, fast, or easy; and choosing to practice our values rather than simply professing them.”

“We cannot ignore our pain and feel compassion for it at the same time.”

“Courage is telling our story, not being immune to criticism.”

“Courage is telling our story, not being immune to criticism.”

“When we stop caring about what people think, we lose our capacity for connection. When we become defined by what people think, we lose our willingness to be vulnerable.”

“What we know matters but who we are matters more.”

“Those who have a strong sense of love and belonging have the courage to be imperfect.”

“Courage is like—it’s a habitus, a habit, a virtue: You get it by courageous acts. It’s like you learn to swim by swimming. You learn courage by couraging.”

“You either walk inside your story and own it or you stand outside your story and hustle for your worthiness.”

“You either walk inside your story and own it or you stand outside your story and hustle for your worthiness.”

“Hope is a function of struggle.”

“Cruelty is easy, cheap and rampant.”

“It is a strange thing, but when you are dreading something, and would give anything to slow down time, it has a disobliging habit of speeding up.”

“Whether you come back by page or by the big screen, Hogwarts will always be there to welcome you home.”

“I enjoyed the meetings, too. It was like having friends.”

“Snape's patronus was a doe,' said Harry, 'the same as my mother's because he loved her for nearly all of his life, from when they were children.”

“Well, I certainly don't," said Percy sanctimoniously. "I shudder to think what the state of my in-tray would be if I was away from work for five days."

“Dumbledore will only leave from Hogwarts when there are none loyal to him!”

“Time will not slow down when something unpleasant lies ahead.”

“Just because it’s taken you three years to notice, Ron, doesn't mean no one else has spotted I'm a girl!”

“I mean, you could claim that anything's real if the only basis for believing in it is that nobody's proved it doesn't exist!”