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Wednesday, October 24, 2007

Current mood: bored

(I got this from a facebook group, btw)



All I Ever Needed to Know I Learned From Albus Dumbledore:



"It takes a great deal of courage to stand up to our enemies, but a great deal more to stand up to our friends."

"It is our choices that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities."

"You think the dead we loved ever truly leave us? You think we don't recall them more clearly than ever in times of great trouble?"

"Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike."

"It is the unknown we fear when we look upon death and darkness, nothing more."

"Do not pity the dead. Pity the living, and, above all, those who live without love."

"By all means, continue destroying my possessions. I daresay I have too many."

"To our newcomers, welcome! To our old hands -- welcome back! There is a time for speech-making, and this is not it."

"I will only truly have left this school when none here are loyal to me...Help will always be given at Hogwarts to those who ask for it."

"To the well organized mind, death is but the next great adventure."

"Fear of a name increases fear of a thing itself."

"Humans have a knack for choosing precisely the things that are worst for them."

"I owe you an explanation. An explanation of an old man's mistakes. For I see now that what I have done, and not done, with regard to you, bears all the hallmarks of the failings of age. Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young...and I seem to have forgotten lately."

"We are only as strong as we are united, as weak as we are divided. Lord Voldemort's gift for spreading discord and enmity is very great. We can fight it only by showing an equally strong bond of friendship and trust. Dfferences of habit and language are nothing at all if our aims are identical and our hearts are open."

"You fail to recognize that it matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be."

"Time is making fools of us again."

"In fact, being - forgive me - rather cleverer than most men, my mistakes tend to be correspondingly huger."

"It is important to fight, and fight again, and keep fighting, for only then can evil be kept at bay, though never quite eradicated."

"We must try not to sink beneath our anguish, Harry, but battle on."

"Don't count your owls before they are delivered."

"Ah, Harry, how often this happens, even between the best of friends! Each of us believes that what he has to say is much more important than anything the other might have to contribute!"

"Voldemort himself created his own worst enemy, just as tyrants everywhere do! Have you any idea how much tyrants fear the people they oppress?"

"There is nothing to be feared from a body, Harry, any more than there is anything to be feared from the darkness."

"He cannot kill you if you are already dead."

-"Tell me one last thing," said Harry. "Is this real? Or has this been happening inside my head?"
-"Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?"

"It is my belief, however, that the truth is generally preferable to lies."

-Uncle Vernon: "I don't mean to be rude--"
-Dumbledore: "--yet, sadly, accidental rudeness occures alarmingly often. Best to say nothing at all, my dear man."

"You are the true master of death, because the true master does not seek to run away from Death. He accepts that he must die, and understands that there are far, far worse things in the living world than dying."

"And his knowledge remained woefully incomplete, Harry! That which Voldemort does not value, he takes no trouble to comprehend. Of house-elves and children's tales, of love, loyalty, and innocence. Voldemort knows and understands nothing. Nothing. That they have a power beyond his own, a power beyond the reach of any magic, is a truth he has never grasped."

"Sometimes we must choose between what is right and what is easy."

"We both know that there are other ways to destroy a man besides killing him, Tom. Indeed, your inability to comprehend anything worse than death has always been your greatest weakness."

"It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live."