Quotes about Resilience

The acomodador or giving-up point: there is always an event in our lives that is responsible for us failing to progress: a trauma, a particularly bitter defeat, a disappointment in love, even a victory that we did not quite understand, can make cowards of us and prevent us from moving on. As part of the process of increasing his hidden powers, the shaman must first free himself from that giving-up point and, to do so, he must review his while life and find out where it occured.

You drown not by falling in the river but by staying submerged in it.

Defeat is for the valiant. Only they will know the honor of losing and the joy of winning.

Lovers need to know how to lose themselves and then how to find themselves again.

Not one word to stop me from doing something I shouldn't? 'No. By doing what you shouldn't, you will realize it yourself. As I said in the restaurant, the light in your soul is greater than the darkness. But for this you must go all the way to the end of the game.

I must have no fear of failure. It was my fear of failure that first kept me from attempting the Master Work. Now, I'm beginning what I could have started ten years ago. But I'm happy at least that I didn't wait twenty years.

The pain of yesterday is the strength of today

When I die, bury me standing, because I've spent all my life on my knees!

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.

The universe always favors those who fight for what they want.

Stop thinking all the time that you're in the way, that you're bothering the person next to you. If people don't like it, they can complain. And if they don't have the courage to complain, that's their problem.

The aging process is more traumatic for those who think they can control the passage of time.