I've read other books from Coelho: "Devil and Miss Prim", "Eleven minutes", "The Alchemist" and "Veronika decides to die". Although the rest of the world, or at least the major part of the people think that "The Alchemist" is a great book, I don't adore it...It is just a sort of fairy tale, which wants to teach people that everyone have to follow the inner voice, its own vocation...
It's not bad....but sincerely I prefer "Eleven minutes" and "Veronika decides to die". The last one made me to think about the real meaning of our life and the face that we are so accustomed to be as other peopler want us to be that we don't try to be ourself, to pull out our real nature. The reason we don't do that is the fear: we are afraid of not being loved just the way we are. To be as we really are means also to appear "mad" to others because our real nature leads us to do things that are not rational, and people can't understand that.
I think that this book is very nice, and it is making me to think about a lot of things.
I want to share a Paulo Coelho's poems that I really like:
Some of the things I learned in life...
Here are some of the things I learned in life,That no matter how good a person is, sometimes they can hurt you...
and because of this we must forgive.
It takes years to build trust & only seconds to destroy it...
we dont have to change friends if we understand that friends change...
the circumstances and the environment influence our lives, but we are the ones who are
responsible for ourselves...
that you have to control your acts, or the will control you...
that patience requires much practice...
that there are people who love us, but simply dont know how to show it...
that sometimes the person you think will hurt you and make you fall...
is instead one of the few who will help you get up.
... you should never tell a child that dreams are fake, it would be a tragedy if they knew.
Its not always enough to be forgiven by someone... in most cases you have to forgive yourself first...
...that no matter in how many pieces your heart is broken..the world doesnt stop to fix it.
.. maybe the God wants us to meet all the wrong people first before meeting the right one... so when
we finally meet the right one we are grateful for that gift.
.. When the door of happiness closes, another opens...but often we look so long at the closed one..
we dont see what was open for us.
The best kind of friend is the kind in which you can sit on a porch and walk,without saying a word, &
when you leave it feels like it was the best conversation you ever had.
Its true we dont know what we have until we find it...but its also true, we dont know what we've been missing util it arrives.
It only takes a minute to offend someone, an hour to like someone, and a day to love someone... but,
it takes a lifetime to forget someone.
Dont look for appearances, they can be deceiving,
Dont go for wealthm because even that can fade.
find someone who makes you smile, because it only takes a smile to make a fay better.
find what makes your heart smile.
there are moments in life when you miss someone so much... that you can take them out of your dream and hug them for real.
Dream what you want, go wherever you want to go..because you have only one life... & one chance to do the things you want to do.
the happiest people do not necessarily have the best of everything...they just make the best of everything that comes their way.
the best future is based on a forgotten past... you cant go on well in life until you let go of your past failures & heartaches.
when you were born you were crying... and everyone around you smiled...
live your life so that when you die, you're the one that is smiling... and everyone around you is crying.
(Paulo Coelho)
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