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Quotes About Challenges

Woe to those who prefer to spend their lives saying: "I never had any opportunities!" Because with each day that passes, they will sink deeper into the well of their own limitations
~ Paulo Coelho
Graduates leave university and can't find a job. Old people reach retirement and have almost nothing to live on. Grown-ups have no time to dream, struggling from nine to five to support their families and pay for their children's education, always bumping up against the thing we all know as harsh reality.
~ Paulo Coelho
We learn in the past, but we are not the result of that. We suffered in the past, loved in the past, cried and laughed in the past, but that's of no use in the present. The present has its challenges, its good and bad side. We can neither blame nor be grateful to the past for what is happening now. Each new experience of love has nothing whatsoever to do with past experiences. It's always new.
~ Paulo Coelho
Two of the hardest decisions in life: the patience to wait for the right moment and the courage to accept whatever you encounter.
~ Paulo Coelho
We are bound to our lives, to our pasts, to the laws of what we consider right or wrong, and suddenly, everything changes. We
~ Paulo Coelho
I ask myself: Are Defeats necessary ? Well,necessary or not, they happen. When we first begin fighting for our dream, we've no experience and make many mistakes. The Secret of life, though,is to fall seven times and to get up eight times !
~ Paulo Coelho
Whenever I refused to follow my fate, something very hard to bear would happen in my life.
~ Paulo Coelho
There are things that are brought into our lives to lead us back to the true path of our Personal Legend. Other things arise so we can apply all that we have learned. And, finally, some things come along to teach us.
~ Paulo Coelho
There are two things that prevent us from achieving our dreams: believing them to be impossible or seeing those dreams made possible by some sudden turn of wheel fortune, when you least expected it.
~ Paulo Coelho
It is like a marriage - said the gardener. - Along with the good things, a few little inconveniences always appear.
~ Paulo Coelho
If you only walk on sunny days you'll never reach your destination.
~ Paulo Coelho
Lo que perturba es el riesgo de ser diferente, y el horror de ser igual...
~ Paulo Coelho
People aren't used to that way of thinking, they want everything to stay the same. And the consequence of that is pain.
~ Paulo Coelho
Not everything in life is a long train with tickets available to all.
~ Paulo Coelho
Losing a battle or losing everything we thought we possessed will bring us moments of sadness, but when those moments pass, we will discover the hidden strength that exists in each of us, a strength that will surprise us and increase our self-respect.
~ Paulo Coelho
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
Avoiding problems you need to face is avoiding life you need to live
~ Paulo Coelho
You drown not for falling into a river, but by staying submerge in it.
~ Paulo Coelho
Laugh at your worries and insecurities. View your anxieties with humor. It will be difficult at first, but you'll gradually get used to it.
~ Paulo Coelho
Noone of us can know what tomorrow will hold, because each day has its good and its bad moments.
~ Paulo Coelho
I'm tired of having such a happy, perfect life. And that can only be a sign of mental illness. That's what I fall asleep thinking. Perhaps I really do have a serious problem.
~ Paulo Coelho
If you only walk on sunny days you'll never reach your denstination.
~ Paulo Coelho
I told you that your dream was a difficult one. It's the simple things in life that are the most extraordinary;
~ Paulo Coelho
almost doesn't matter what black community you go in now, the problems are exactly the same. The kids are angry. The men are shell-shocked. The women are alone and the drugs are everywhere.
~ Pearl Cleage