The quote, "It does not do well to dwell on dreams and forget to live, remember that." (Rowling, page 214) said by Albus Dumbledore, the headmaster at Hogwarts School Of Witchcraft And Wizardry. The quote is from the novel, Harry Potter And The Sorcerer’s Stone. Harry Potter And The Sorcerer’s Stone is the first book in the Harry Potter Book Series. In the book, an orphan named Harry Potter becomes a wizard and he comes across a magical mirror which shows his deepest desire. The mirror shows Harry beside his parents. Having lost his parents as an infant, Harry is susceptible to getting lost in the past, in what-ifs and what-might-have-been. Instead of living in the present moment, Harry feels drawn to sit on the hard floor in a cold room for …show more content…
The book is about a young boy named Harry Potter who lives with his non-magic-related relatives as a powerful, evil wizard named Lord Voldemort killed his parents, James and Lily. Lily, Harry’s mother sacrificed her life to protect her child from Voldemort. Voldemort had no motivation to kill Lily and was even willing to spare her life. This selfless act of love created a protective charm around Harry. After murdering James and Lily, Voldemort was already in a weakened state and when his killing curse backfired due to the protective charm, a part of his soul detached itself from Voldemort and got latched onto Harry. Voldemort lost his powers and became a spirit until he found his body back. The soul that got latched onto Harry left a scar on Harry’s forehead, and since he didn’t die, he was known as the boy who lived. As he grows up, he does not know about his magical heritage and on his 11th birthday, he finds out about his magical heritage as he starts developing magical abilities. Then, he gets accepted to a wizarding school named, Hogwarts School Of Witchcraft And Wizardry. He quickly becomes friends with Hermione Granger and Ron Weasley and they soon come face to face with Lord Voldemort. Lord Voldemort tries to steal the sorcerer's stone and return to power but in the end, Harry and his friends manage to defeat Lord Voldemort. So at the moment, Harry and his friends are …show more content…
The quote is from the novel, Harry Potter And The Sorcerer’s Stone. In the book, an orphan named Harry Potter becomes a wizard and he comes across a magical mirror which shows his deepest desire. The mirror shows Harry beside his parents. Harry gets lost in the past, thinking about the what-ifs and what-might-have-been. Instead of living in the present moment, Harry feels drawn to sit on the hard floor in a cold room for hours, not moving, lost in the fantasy depicted in the mirror. He is at risk of choosing fantasy over reality and becoming addicted to his dream. So, Dumbledore reminds us that focusing on your dreams too much can stop us from enjoying our lives and living our lives to its fullest. Dwelling on our dreams is not going to get us anywhere. Therefore it is better to live life and not dwell on dreams. You should ‘not dwell on dreams’, meaning you should not think about what is wanted but can’t have, and the what ifs of the past or future that can’t be changed. ‘And don’t forget to live’, meaning you should live your life and stop dwelling. Live life as it is, and don’t dwell on what can’t
“Always show appreciation. What’s taken for granted will eventually be taken away. Then you end up missing most what you least appreciated.” The author of this quotes was saying that what you didn’t think of, you will one day remember. You will someday appreciate what you did not care about.
“Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside,
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight edited and translated by James Winny is a poem about a knight, Sir Gawain, from King Arthur’s court. In the very beginning Sir Gawain volunteers to take King Arthur’s place upon the Green Knights arrival when he declares that one knight must agree to receive a blow by his axe after having the chance to give a blow to him. Sir Gawain ends up chopping off the Green Knights head and is then declared to meet the Green Knight in one year to accept a blow from the Green Knight and his axe. When the year comes Sir Gawain sets off to find the Green Knight at the green chapel, which where he will receive the blow. On Sir Gawain’s ventures
“The unexamined life is not worth living” and “Life is about the journey, not the destination.” I relate to both of this quotes because we all have purpose in our life. We plan out life to be certain way. I plan week in advance so I know what is going to happen this week, what is in plate that I have to take care of it before the time. You need to be control on your life not others. Some people just float though life. They think of their present but they don’t think for their future. They just do the stuff right now and later they will worry about other stuff. They are never ready for future outcome. Only you know how you want to live your life, it’s up to you how you want live it. As I say I plan week ahead for my classes, my work and my family. But it doesn’t always go as it planned. In life you always have to be ready to face some problem. If you live through the problems that is call living life. My dad always tells me that, if you accept the challenge, or face some bad time with smile on face, you will always come out of there and then even the big problems comes you will be ready for it. Don’t ever get nervous for the small problems. Life is made of good time and bad
"It doesn't matter what you do he said, as long as you change something from the way it was before you touched it into something that's like you when you take your hands away." This quote is trying to say that your interactions with anything should be done in a way that you leave a piece of you behind; like when writing a paper it should express you and your personality through it.Granger, leader of the book people, says this to Guy Montag in an attempt to help him once he began to mourn for Milly.
“All our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them.” This quote from Walt Disney addressing the concept of achieving dreams is very accurate, and can be seen throughout literature today and in the past. Dreams can give people power or take away hope, and influence how people live their lives based upon whether they have the determination to attack their dreams or not; as seen through characters like the speaker in Harlem by Langston Hughes and Lena and Walter Younger in Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in The Sun.
The quote itself can be translated into, an everyday person does not want to be happy and ambition. That person will settle with what will keep them alive. I agree with this quote for a few reasons. To begin, the people in today’s
“ But something else less easy to conquer stands in the ways of his dreams for himself”.
This quote means a lot to me, since it describes the American Dream as the chance to be free to say, think, or do anything. Especially in other countries, like China in the Joy Luck Club, women are restricted, and do not have the same opportunities and rights as men do. The dream includes the idea of being able to speak freely, and being able express myself to the world. Another promise is being able to have my own opinions, and to not be told by authority or government what to believe or think. In America, I am able to do anything, from becoming doctor to traveling the world, not forced into the role of a housewife. I love the idea of the American Dream since it means that I will not be held back, and am able to achieve my goals.
Just to quickly run through the two previous books; Harry Potter is a wizard, who’s parents were killed by the worst dark wizard ever known. The reason why Harry Potter is still around, is because Lord Voldemort failed to kill Harry. His spell hit Harry, but then backfired on Voldemort taking all of his powers with him. Harry is so famous for two things. Withstanding the powers of Lord Voldemort, and, taking him back in to the underworld in hiding. In the first book, Harry receives a letter from Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. He’s eventually allowed to go, and spends the next six months there learning magic, getting into trouble, and trying to solve mysteries of his past, and the school. In the second book, Harry goes back to his second year at Hogwarts, and gets into more trouble, figures out many astonishing mysteries and learns loads more magic. His best friends in the two books consist of Ron and Hermione (two of his fellow wizard students) and Hagrid the gamekeeper who was expelled from Hogwarts but allowed a job as the gamekeeper.
Those who expect to reap the blessing of freedom, must, like men, to undergo the fatigue of supporting it. This quote is from Thomas Paine and it means that you have to keep on working, even when you are tired, you have to keep on going for your blessings of freedom. This is a great quote because most people stay at home and inveigh about how they can not get a job and do nothing and still get welfare. Then there are people that are working hard for our country in the military and fighting for our freedom.
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows was written by J. K. Rowling and is the seventh and final book in the Harry Potter series. The book is about a seventeen-year-old wizard, named Harry Potter, who has to travel all over England to find things that will help him defeat the evil wizard, Lord Voldomort. The main theme/moral of the entire series is good will always triumphs over evil. In every book, even when it looks like evil is going to win, good always triumphs in the end.
“The moment you believe something is impossible, it is.” This quote can be can be applied to many things in a lot of people’s lives. The first time I heard this quote I was driving around with Brady DeJoode after lifting the summer going into my junior year. It was in Mike Stud’s song Mike Jordan. This quote has stuck with me ever since because having the mindset that something is possible is the first step in achieving this goal or desire. On the contrary, if someone goes into a challenge thinking it is impossible or there is no way this will be good for me, they have already lost the battle by losing the mental aspect. This quote can be used for anything from getting a certain grade in a class, winning a sporting event, losing weight, getting that dream girl, or even something as simple as keeping a room clean and neat. Siddhartha never stopped searching for bliss throughout the book until he finally understood the ways of the river and what Vasudeva was trying to get him to understand.
Harry Potter starts off slow, but gets very interesting near the end. In the beginning, you meet the Dursleys, Harry’s aunt, uncle, and their son Dudley. Then you learn that Harry’s parents were witches, and that they were destroyed by a evil wizard. A good witch, Albus Dumbeldoor, sends Harry to the Dursleys, because they’re his only remaining family. The Dursleys however, hated Harry and his family, so Harry was mistreated for years. He was forced to live in a cuborrod under the stairs. He had to watch as the fat, stuck up Dudley got whatever he wanted, and then usually broke whatever it was he got. Then one day Harry got a letter.
...y bury us in history when we want to focus on the future; they bombard us with distraction when we try to concentrate.” He starts to tell us that we often try to fight the mind by arguing against our thoughts and feelings, or by finding ways to avoid. You don’t want to get caught in and ongoing battle against your own mind. Sometime you will win the battle and sometimes you will lose putting yourself in that position that you didn’t want to be in.