"It is better to be respected then it is to be popular. Popularity ends on yearbook day, but respect lasts forever."
— John Bytheway

"If you're trying to be miserable, it's important you don't have any goals. No school goals, personal goals, family goals. Your only objective each day should be to inhale and exhale for sixteen hours before you go to bed again. Don't read anything informative, don't listen to anything useful, don't do anything productive. If you start achieving goals, you might start to feel a sense of excitement, then you might want to set another goal, and then your miserable mornings are through. To maintain your misery, the idea of crossing off your goals should never cross your mind."
— John Bytheway (How to Be Totally Miserable: A Self-Hinder Book)

"If someone were to ask whether communications skills or meekness is most important to a marriage, I'd answer meekness, hands down. You can be a superb communicator but still never have the humility to ask, 'Is it I?' Communication skills are no substitute for Christlike attributes. As Dr. Douglas Brinley has observed, 'Without theological perspectives, secular exercises designed to improve our relationship and our communication skills (the common tools of counselors and marriage books) will never work any permanent change in one's heart: they simply develop more clever and skilled fighters!'"
— John Bytheway (When Times Are Tough: 5 Scriptures That Will Help You Get Through Almost Anything)

"Everyone would like to have stronger faith. By themselves, the scriptures may not strengthen your faith, but being faithful to what they teach, does. In other words, faith cannot be separated from faithfulness."
— John Bytheway (When Times Are Tough: 5 Scriptures That Will Help You Get Through Almost Anything)

"When people point fingers at someone else, they should remember that three fingers are pointing back at them."
— old saying quoted by John Bytheway in How to Be Totally Miserable

"This one makes a net;
This one stands and wishes.
Would you like to bet
Which one gets the fishes?"
— Chinese rhyme in Forbes quoted by John Bytheway in How to be Totally Miserable

"Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions."
— Oliver Wendell Holmes quoted by John Bytheway in How to Be Totally Miserable

"No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of it for another."
— Charles Dickens in Forbes quoted by John Bytheway in How to Be Totally Miserable

"don't do things that kill you."
— John Bytheway (What Are You Carrying in Your Backpack?)

"The best way to prepare for death is to live life to its fullest. "
— John Bytheway

"If our testimonies are strong onthis point and if we feel the absolute assurance that God loves us, we will change our questons. We won't ask, 'Why did this happen?' or 'Why doesn't God care about me?' Instead, our questions will become, 'What can I learn from this experience?' or 'How does the Lord want me to handle this?'"
— John Bytheway (When Times Are Tough: 5 Scriptures That Will Help You Get Through Almost Anything)

"As much money and life as you could want! The two things most human beings would choose above all - the trouble is, humans do have a knack of choosing precisely those things that are worst for them."
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone)

"Your mother died to save you...love as powerful as your mother's for you leaves it's own mark...to have been loved so deeply, even though the person who loved us is gone, will give us some protection forever."
— J.K. Rowling

"It is the unknown we fear when we look upon death and darkness, nothing more."
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince)

"You will find that I will only truly have left this school when none here are loyal to me."
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets)

"Dumbledore says people find it far easier to forgive others for being wrong than being right."
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince)

"In fact, being--forgive me--rather cleverer than most men, my mistakes tend to be correspondingly huger."
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince)

"You know, Minister, I disagree with Dumbledore on many counts...but you cannot deny he's got style..."
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix)

"I always advise children who ask me for tips on being a writer to read as much as they possibly can. Jane Austen gave a young friend the same advice, so I'm in good company there."
— J.K. Rowling

"You have to resign yourself to the fact that you waste a lot of trees before you write anything you really like, and that's just the way it is. It's like learning an instrument, you've got to be prepared for hitting wrong notes occasionally, or quite a lot, cause I wrote an awful lot before I wrote anything I was really happy with. And read a lot. Reading really helps. Read anything you can get your hands on."
— J. K. Rowling

"By all means continue destroying my possessions. I daresay I have too many."
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix)

"It is our choices ... that show who we really are, far more than our abilities."
— J. K. Rowling

"When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love."
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince)

"Fear of the Name increases fear of the thing its self."
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets)

"Time will not slow down when something unpleasant lies ahead."
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire)

"We all have good and bad inside of us. It's what side we choose to follow that defines who we really are."
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix)

"According to Madam Pomfrey, thoughts could leave deeper scars than almost anything else."
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix)

"Well, obviously, she feels very sad, because of Cedric dying. Then I expect she is feeling confused because she liked Cedric and now she likes Harry, and she can't work out who she likes best. Then she'll be feeling guilty, thinking it's an insult to Cedric's memory to be kissing Harry at all, and then she'll be worrying about what everyone else might say if she starts going out with Harry. And she probably can't work out what her feelings towards Harry are anyway, because he was with Cedric when he died, so that's all very mixed up and painful. Oh, and she is afraid she is going to be thrown off the Ravenclaw Quidditch team because she's been flying so badly."

A slightly stunned silence greeted the end of this speach, then Ron said, "One person can't feel all that at once, they'd explode."

"Just because you've got the emotional range of a teaspoon doesn't mean we all have," Hermione said nastily, picking up her quill again. "
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix)

"It takes much bravery to stand up to our enemies but we need as much bravery to stand up to our friends."
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone)

""The forbidden fruit tastes the sweetest." "
— -Stephanie Meyer

"In vain have I struggled but it will not do, my feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you, how much I love and admire you."
— Jane Austen

"I am only resolved to act in a manner which will constitute my own happiness without reference to you or any person so wholly unconnected with me."
— Jane Austen (Pride and Prejudice)

"Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love."
— Jane Austen (Northanger Abbey)

"Occupied in observing Mr. Bingley’s attentions to her sister, Elizabeth was far from suspecting that she was herself becoming an object of some interest in the eyes of his friend. Mr. Darcy had at first scarcely allowed her to be pretty: he had looked at her without admiration at the ball; and when they next met, he looked at her only to criticise. But no sooner had he made it clear to himself and his friends that she had hardly a good feature in her face, than he began to find it was rendered uncommonly intelligent by the beautiful expression of her dark eyes. To this discovery succeeded some others equally mortifying. Though he had detected with a critical eye more than one failure of perfect symmetry in her form, he was forced to acknowledge her figure to be light and pleasing; and in spite of his asserting that her manners were not those of the fashionable world, he was caught by their easy playfulness. Of this she was perfectly unaware: to her he was only the man who made himself agreeable nowhere, and who had not thought her handsome enough to dance with."
— Jane Austen (Pride and Prejudice)

"The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think."
— Horace Walpole

"Others may know pleasure, but pleasure is not happiness. It has no more importance than a shadow following a man."
— Muhammad Ali

"There is only one person who could ever make you happy, and that person is you."
— David Burns

"People of ze wurl, relax!"
— Tom Robbins (Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates)

" Many of us are slaves to our minds. Our own mind is our worst enemy. We try to focus, and our mind wanders off. We try to keep stress at bay, but anxiety keeps us awake at night. We try to be good to the people we love, but then we forget them and put ourselves first. And when we want to change our life, we dive into spiritual practice and expect quick results, only to lose focus after the honeymoon has worn off. We return to our state of bewilderment. We're left feeling helpless and discouraged. It seems we all agree that training the body through exercise, diet, and relaxation is a good idea, but why don't we think about training our minds?"
— Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche

"Tension is who you think you should be. Relaxation is who you are."
— Chinese proverb

"If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals."
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire)

"Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened."
— Dr. Seuss

"Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent."
— Eleanor Roosevelt

"Be the change that you wish to see in the world."
— Mahatma Gandhi

"Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away."
— Maya Angelou

"If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything."
— Mark Twain

"Insanity: Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results."
— Albert Einstein

"Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend."
— Albert Camus

"I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying."
— Oscar Wilde

"Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: "What! You too? I thought I was the only one."
— C.S. Lewis