Quotes about Adversity
You can't avoid pain, but you can choose to overcome it.
- Paulo Coelho
Sometimes, certain of God's blessings arrive by shattering all the windows. (Brida)
- Paulo Coelho
You told me that all life's battles teach us something, even those we lose.
- 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
You drown not by falling in the river but by staying submerged in it.
- Paulo Coelho
The pain of yesterday is the strength of today
- Paulo Coelho
We must struggle for our dreams, but when certain paths prove impossible, it would be best to save our energies in order to travel other roads.
- Paulo Coelho
But the great wisdom of life is to realize that we can be the masters of the things that try to enslave us
- Paulo Coelho
Whenever I refused to follow my fate, something very hard to bear would happen in my life.
- Paulo Coelho
If you only walk on sunny days you'll never reach your destination.
- Paulo Coelho
May your morning be a beautiful one, with the sun shining on your soldier's armour, for in the afternoon I will defeat you.
- Paulo Coelho
It's just a storm in a tea cup,' someone says The cup of suffering is not the same size for everyone.
- Paulo Coelho