Finished reading Paulo Coelho's The Fifth Mountain today and it had a lot of lessons in it. The book tries to explain why when everything seems perfect, things fall apart. And one has to believe that eventually life has a good plan in store and get on with rebuilding. Some memorable quotes from the book are:
- All life's battles teach us something, even those we lose.... you'll discover that you have defended lies, deceived yourself, or suffered for foolishness. If you're a good warrior, you will not blame yourself for this, but neither will you allow your mistakes to repeat themselves
- There is no tragedy, only the unavoidable. Everything has its reason for being: you only need to distinguish what is temporary from what is lasting. What is temporary?... The unavoidable... and what is lasting?... The lessons of the unavoidable.
- A child can teach an adult three things: to be happy for no reason, to always be busy with something, and to know how to demand with all his might that which he desires.
Lovely:) And I also love your blog's new look! Keep it up:)!
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ReplyDeletethat's really motivational..thanks for sharing :)
ReplyDeleteI love Paulo Coelho's books =D
ReplyDeletehaven't read the Fifth Mountain but his the alchemist, winner stands alone and the zahir were are awesome!! =)
I have yet to read winner stands alone
ReplyDeleteawesome post about an awesomer book =)
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