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Quotes about Endurance

A rose dreams of enjoying the company of bees, but none appears. The sun asks: "Aren't you tired of waiting?" "Yes," answers the rose, "but if I close my petals, I will wither and die.
— Paulo Coelho
Sorrows do not last forever when we are journeying towards the thing we have always wanted.
— Paulo Coelho
When we feel weak, all we have to do is wait a little while. The spring returns and the winter snows melt and fill us with new energy.
— Paulo Coelho
We could go back to the time when we first met: a man in emotional tatters over someone who had left him, and a woman madly in love with her neighbor. I could repeat what I said to you once: 'I'm going to fight to the bitter end.' Well, I fought and I lost, and now I'll just have to lick my wounds and leave.
— Paulo Coelho
I cannot lose the one thing that keeps me alive : hope -
— Paulo Coelho
I will be able to love above all discontentment. To give even when I am stripped of everything. To dry tears even when I am still crying. To believe even when I am discredited.
— Paulo Coelho
You drown not by falling in the river but by staying submerged in it.
— Paulo Coelho
When I die, bury me standing, because I've spent all my life on my knees!
— Paulo Coelho
Do no be ashamed to make a temporary withdrawal from the field if you see that your enemy is stronger than you; it is not winning or losing a single battle that matters, but how the war ends.
— Paulo Coelho
Suffering when cannot be avoided, is to help your way to glory....all rivers flow into the same sea.
— Paulo Coelho
Love is patience. That is how Love normally behaves: it waits calmly, unhurriedly, knowing that at some point, it will show itself. Love is ready to do its work at the right moment, but it waits calmly and meekly. Love is patient. It can bear all things. It believes all things. It hopes for all things. Because Love understands.
— Paulo Coelho
True love could withstand such a separation.
— Paulo Coelho