JK ROWLING

A friend sent me a video of JK Rowling Harvard Commencement Speech - June 5 2008 on Youtube and I am seriously dumbfounded by JK Rowling's level of intelligence! I KNEW she was smart and imaginative and all, to have came up with all those books but little did I know she could be SO inspiring in her speech!

Here are a few short quotes:

"There is an expiry date on blaming your parents for steering you in the wrong direction."

"Rock bottom became a solid foundation on which I rebuild my life."

"Life is not a checklist of acquisition or achievement. Your qualifications, your CV, are not your life."

"Life is difficult and complicated and beyond anyone's control. And the humility to know that will enable you to survive its vicissitudes."

"I think the willfully unimaginative see more monsters. They are often more afraid."

"What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality."

"If you choose to use your status and influence to raise you voice on behalf of those who have no voice, if you choose to identify not only with the powerful but with the powerless, if you retain the ability to imagine yourself into the lives of those who do not have your advantages, then it will not only be your proud families who celebrate your existence but thousands and millions of people whose reality you have helped change."

"We have the power to imagine better"

"As is a tale, so is life. Not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters."

C'mon, you have to agree she's some powerful speaker!

signing off~DE XIN