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Quotes About Resilience

All life's battles teach us something, even those we lose. When you grow up, you'll discover that you have defended lies, deceived yourself, or suffered foolishness. If you're a good warrior you will not blame yourself for this, but neither will you allow your mistakes to repeat themselves.
~ Paulo Coelho
In order not to suffer, you had to renounce love. It was like putting out your own eyes in order not to see the bad things in life.
~ 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
Don't forget:beautiful sunsets need cloudy skies.
~ 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
You still haven't managed to heal the scars left by some of the injustices committed against you in your life and it doesn't do you any good. All it does is feed a constant desire to feel sorry for yourself, because you were the victim of people stronger than you. Or else it makes you go to the other extreme and disguise yourself as an avenger ready to strike out at the people who hurt you. Isn't that a waste of time?...It is human, but it's not intelligent or reasonable.
~ Paulo Coelho
What they forget is that, from Ancient Greece on, the people who returned from battle were either dead on their shields or stronger, despite and because of their scars.
~ Paulo Coelho
Victories and defeats form part of everyone's life - everyone, that is, except cowards, as you call them, because they never lose or win.
~ Paulo Coelho
What is outside is harder to change than what is inside.
~ Paulo Coelho
Facing the difficulties, I can choose either to be a poor victim or a great adventurer.
~ Paulo Coelho
No matter how you are feeling, get up every morning and prepare to let your light shine forth.
~ Paulo Coelho
My smile is my way of saying: You can destroy my body, but not my soul.
~ Paulo Coelho
She looked at her own past, and, for the first time, she forgave herself: it hadn't been her fault, but the fault of that insecure little boy, who had given up after the first attempt.
~ Paulo Coelho
Problems of the heart always bruised the soul.
~ Paulo Coelho
She didn't struggle and so she didn't grow
~ Paulo Coelho
But no one can lose sight of what he desires. Even if there are moments when he believes the world and the others are stronger. The secret is this: do not surrender.
~ Paulo Coelho
the darkest hour of the night came just before the dawn
~ Paulo Coelho
Man needs what's worst in him in order to achieve what's best in him.
~ Paulo Coelho
Flowers teach us that nothing is permanent: not their beauty, not even the fact that they will inevitably wilt, because they will still give new seeds. Remember this when you feel joy, pain, or sadness. Everything passes, grows old, dies, and is reborn.
~ 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
When we feel weak, all we have to do is wait a little while. The spring returns and the winter snows melt and fill us with new energy.
~ Paulo Coelho
By taking risks. By risking failure, disappointment, disillusion, but never ceasing in your search for Love, as long as you keep looking, you will triumph in the end.
~ Paulo Coelho