Paulo Coelho Quotes

Deliverance is about what I went through the first time. And I chalk it up as a learning experience.

There is no education like adversity.

I cherish all of the times I've fallen on my face and made mistakes, because those experiences have made me who I am.

I am a woman in process. I'm just trying like everybody else. I try to take every conflict, every experience, and learn from it. Life is never dull.

Sometimes you go through some things to find the right situation.

I've learned from life experiences. If you go through certain things, you're able to pull from them.

Danger alone acquaints us with our own resources, our virtues, our armor and weapons, our spirit, and forces us to be strong.

I guess that one of the most important things I've learned is that nothing is ever completely bad. Even cancer. It has made me a better person. It has given me courage and a sense of purpose I never had before. But you don't have to do like I did...wait until you lose a leg or get some awful disease, before you take the time to find out what kind of stuff you're really made of. You can start now. Anybody can.

It’s all right if you grow your wings on the way down.

There are some things you can't learn from others. You have to pass through the fire.

Nothing in this world is a gift. Whatever must be learned must be learned the hard way.

You're at your most purest, most innocent, pure state when you're doing something you've never done before. You're scared a little, you're a little vulnerable, you're kind of trying, and then you're also better, because you're trying harder than you maybe would try.

Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grieves which we endure help us in our marching onward.

Certainly a decade and a half out in the real world, bashing my head against things, probably made me into a more textured writer. It gives you something to write about.

When you win a lot, you don't learn much. With my ups and downs, it's a lot of learning.

Revelations come when you're in the thick of it, pitting yourself up against something larger than yourself.

As we advance in life it becomes more and more difficult, but in fighting the difficulties the inmost strength of the heart is developed.

I don't think I've ever been moulded but I think I am always learning.

When we tackle obstacles, we find hidden reserves of courage and resilience we did not know we had. And it is only when we are faced with failure do we realise that these resources were always there within us. We only need to find them and move on with our lives.

What is hard to remember when you're in the middle of it is that when you get through to the other side, you always walk away with a gift. If you can stand in there and not walk away from it, you get transformed by it.

The reward of suffering is experience.

I kind of think of my life as this incredible hurricane of so many adventures. We can all make a difference, and we can all be courageous and believe in ourselves.

I've been doing a lot of learning from mistakes, first and foremost, and building off that.

I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship.

Setbacks are just learning experiences.