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Quotes About Adversity

What makes life interesting are the challenges we face.
~ Paulo Coelho
However difficult it may be to accept what happens to us, one must understand that moments such as this give us the possibility for radical change in our behavior.
~ Paulo Coelho
Possibly. Basically,everything that happens in our life is our fault and ours alone. A lot of people go through the same difficulties we went through, and they react completely differently. We looked for the easiest way out: a separate reality.
~ Paulo Coelho
On your journey to your dream, be ready to face oasis and deserts. In both cases, don't stop
~ Paulo Coelho
Defeat ends when we launch into another battle. Failure has no end: it is a lifetime choice.
~ Paulo Coelho
Man struggles to survive, not to succumb
~ Paulo Coelho
Sometimes, certain of God's blessings arrive by shattering all the windows. (Brida)
~ Paulo Coelho
Success is falling down 7 times but getting up 8!
~ Paulo Coelho
Life is made of our attitudes. And there are certain things that the gods oblige us to live through. Their reason for this does not matter, and there is no action we can take to make them pass us by.
~ Paulo Coelho
Facing the difficulties, I can choose either to be a poor victim or a great adventurer.
~ Paulo Coelho
She didn't struggle and so she didn't grow
~ Paulo Coelho
Man needs what's worst in him in order to achieve what's best in him.
~ Paulo Coelho
i don't regret the difficulties I experienced; I think they help helped me to become the person I am today. i feel the way a warrior must feel after years of traning; he doesn't remember the details of everything he learned, but he knows how to strike when the time is right
~ Paulo Coelho
We live in a vale of tears...We can have all the dreams we like, but life is hard, implacable, sad.
~ Paulo Coelho
yes, we are going to suffer, we will have difficult times, and we will experience many disappointments- but all of this is transitory; it leaves no permanent mark. And one day we will look back with pride and faith at the journey we have taken.
~ Paulo Coelho
You told me that all life's battles teach us something, even those we lose.
~ Paulo Coelho
Transformations always occur during moments of crisis.
~ Paulo Coelho
Difficulty is the name of an ancient tool that was created purely to help us define who we are.
~ Paulo Coelho
When we first begin fighting for our dreams, we have no experience and make many mistakes. The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and get up eight times.
~ Paulo Coelho
I'm a cornered tiger with nowhere to run; the only option that remains is to attack.
~ Paulo Coelho
As though everything truly had to be faced without fear, as a mere fact of life - we don't choose the things that happen to us, but we can choose how we react to them.
~ Paulo Coelho
When you are going through difficult times, remember: you might have lost some major battles, but you survived and you're still here.
~ Paulo Coelho
You don't choose your life; it chooses you. There's no point asking why life has reserved certain joys or griefs, you just accept them and carry on. We can't choose our lives, but we can decide what to do with the joys or griefs we're given.
~ Paulo Coelho
You drown not by falling in the river but by staying submerged in it.
~ Paulo Coelho