Paulo Coelho Quotes

To fear the foe, since fear oppresseth strength, gives in your weakness strength unto your foe.

I'm no expert. I have no psychic powers, and I sure don't possess any secret wisdom. I'm just Janet. I have strengths, weaknesses, fears, happiness, sadness. I experience joy and I experience pain. I'm highly emotional. I'm very vulnerable.

I think I'm a tough person, but for sure, I would talk under torture.

A lot of the characters I've played before are heroic or invincible in some ways and not tuned into fear and anxiety and pain.

When you start to doubt yourself the real world will eat you alive.

Don't mistake my tears for weakness.

Love is possible. Life is going to decide. Don't lose it, it's a treasure. It's going to be painful; it's going to be an adventure, a roller coaster. Life is a roller coaster and it gets worse when you get old. Contrary to what you think, that it gets better when you know more - no, the more you know the more painful it is. You've been hurt. You arrive with a million scars and your armor is not thick. The more you age, the more you're fragile. But do it anyway. Go for it. Otherwise it means death.

You can't abandon life just because it's scary, and just because you get hurt.

Sometimes I think everyone is just pretending to be brave, and none of us really are. Maybe pretending is how you get brave, I don't know.

Quitting is unthinkable and pain is just weakness leaving the body

Nobody can protect anybody else from vileness. Or from pain. All you can do is not let it break you in half and keep on going until you get to the other side.

We've all had our moments of weakness, and if we manage to get through today without any, we'll be sure to have some tomorrow.

When great men permit themselves to be cast down by the continuance of misfortune, they show us that they were only sustained by ambition, and not by their mind; so that PLUS a great vanity, heroes are made like other men.

I use hate as a weapon to defend myself; had I been strong, I would never have needed that kind of weapon.

It is only in his head that man is heroic; in the pit of his stomach he is always a coward.

The Good Fight is the one that we fight in the name of our dreams.

It is mostly a matter of wills. Whose will is going to break first? Ours or the enemy's?

The Warrior of the Light knows that everyone is afraid of everyone else.

It wasn't so much that he minded telling Leslie that he was afraid to go; it was that he minded being afraid. It was as though he had been made with a great piece missing - one of May Belle's puzzles with this huge gap where somebody's eye should have been. Lord, it would be better to be born without an arm than to go through life with no guts.

The pain barrier was not a barrier for her; she could go beyond it.

It requires courage not to surrender oneself to the ingenious or compassionate counsels of despair that would induce a man to eliminate himself from the ranks of the living; but it does not follow from this that every huckster who is fattened and nourished in self-confidence has more courage than the man who yielded to despair.

Don't apologize for all the tears you've cried, you've been way too strong now for all your life.

A Warrior often loses heart.

It is only the strong who are strengthened by suffering; the weak are made weaker.

A warrior accepts defeat. He does not treat it as a matter of indifference, nor does he attempt to transform it into a victory. The pain of defeat is bitter to him; he suffers at indifference and becomes desperate with loneliness. After all this has passed, he licks his wounds and begins everything anew. A warrior knows that war is made of many battles: he goes on