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Quotes about Struggle

She was terrified. She was beginning to realise that after long months of selfcontrol, the pressure, the earthquake, the volcano of her soul was showing signs that it was about to erupt, and the moment that this happened, she would have no way of controlling her feelings.
— 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
The mere possibility of getting what we want fills the soul of the ordinary person with guilt. We look around at all those who have failed to get what they want and feel that we do not deserve to get what we want either. We forget about all the obstacles we overcame, all the suffering we endured, all the things we had to give up in order to get this far...
— Paulo Coelho
You can't want to be happy, because that's too easy and too boring.
— Paulo Coelho
Writing is easy: just stare at the screen of your computer until a tear drops on your keyboard.
— Paulo Coelho
The universe always favors those who fight for what they want.
— Paulo Coelho
Why am I unhappy? The question carries with it the virus that will destroy everything.
— Paulo Coelho
Never stop having doubts. If you ever do, it will be because you've stopped moving forward, and at that point, God will step in and pull the rug out from under your feet, because that is His way of controlling His chosen ones, by making sure they always follow their appointed path to the end. If, for any reason, we stop, whether out of complacency, laziness, or out of a mistaken belief that we know enough, He forces us on.
— Paulo Coelho
See, it's not that I'm jealous of others. I just don't understand why they can be happy and I can't.
— Paulo Coelho
It wasn't necessary to know your own demons in order to find God.
— Paulo Coelho
we all have one foot in a fairytale, and the other in the abyss
— Paulo Coelho
Whenever I refused to follow my fate, something very hard to bear would happen in my life.
— Paulo Coelho