Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.
— J. K. Rowling
Authentic Harry Potter Inspiring quotations
We've all got both light and dark inside us.
What matters is the part we choose to act on. That's who we really are.

Nothing like a nighttime stroll to give you ideas.


We have to choose between what is right, and what is easy.
What’s comin’ will come, an’ we’ll meet it when it does.
Words are, in my not-so-humble opinion, our most inexhaustible source of magic.
Capable of both inflicting injury, and remedying it.

The thing about growing up with Fred and George," said Ginny thoughtfully, "is that you sort of start thinking anything's possible if you've got enough nerve.
Numbing the pain for a while will make it worse when you finally feel it.
You will also find that help will always be given at Hogwarts to those who ask for it.

Do not pity the dead, Harry. Pity the living, and, above all those who live without love.
It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be.
... perhaps those who are best suited to power are those who have never sought it.

To have been loved so deeply, even though the person who loved us is gone, will give us some protection forever.
The consequences of our actions are always so complicated, so diverse, that predicting the future is a very difficult business indeed.
One can never have enough socks

Dumbledore says people find it far easier to forgive others for being wrong than being right.
Do not pity the dead, Harry.
Greatness inspires envy, envy engenders spite, spite spawns lies.

In dreams, we enter a world that’s entirely our own.
It was important, Dumbledore said, to fight, and fight again, and keep fighting, for only then could evil be kept at bay, though never quite eradicated. . . .
There is an expiry date on blaming your parents for steering you in the wrong direction; the moment you are old enough to take the wheel, responsibility lies with you.

Just because you have the emotional range of a teaspoon doesn't mean we all have.
For in dreams we enter a world that is entirely our own.
Let them swim in the deepest ocean or glide over the highest cloud.
The world isn't split into good people and Death Eaters.

Curiosity is not a sin.... But we should exercise caution with our curiosity... yes, indeed.
I don't go looking for trouble. Trouble usually finds me.
It is the unknown we fear when we look upon death and darkness, nothing more.

It is my belief... that the truth is generally preferable to lies.
The fact that you can feel pain like this is your greatest strength
We must try not to sink beneath our anguish, Harry, but battle on.

You think the dead we loved truly ever leave us? You think that we don't recall them more clearly in times of great trouble?
Which only goes to show that the best of us must sometimes eat our words,' Dumbledore went on, smiling.
You're a wizard, Harry.
As a child I loved fantasy books, I loved Harry Potter and the idea that there is something 'out there' is inspiring to kids and inspiring to me. It's exciting and I think people can relate to it. Even if things are difficult or bad for you, the idea that there is something special within you is positive and true.