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Like the Flowing Rivers...

Like the Flowing Rivers... A compilation of great thoughts from such great writer, Paulo Coelho. Like his bestselling book, the Alchemist, this empowers us with wisdom. His stories teach us lessons of life. He takes us to places with his adventures. His writings touch and feed our souls, and lift our spirits with inspirations, hopes, and gladness.


Some qoutes from the book:

There was no point in squabbling over the inheritance love was enough.

If you want something, you need to look the other person in the eye.

Even when a friend does something you do not like, he continues to be your friend.

Any action committed in anger is an action doomed to failure.

You can give a fool a thousand intellects, but the only one he will want is yours - Arab proverbs.

The fool who loves giving advice on our garden never tends his own plants at all.

Each of us contains in our soul the same universe.

The greatness of God always reveals itself in the simple things.

However brightly a piece of coal may be burning, it will soon burn out if you remove it from the flames. However intelligent a man may be, he will soon lose his warmth and his flame if he distances himself from his fellow man.

In taking fifteen minutes of your day to stop and look at the world, and at yourself, and simply do nothing?: Everyone has time to do that. It's just that they don't have courage.

He passed through life. He didn't live it.

I don't know why we human beings are so obsessed with making rules about everything.

That desire to share something meant that we could enter the world of language without words, where everything is always clear, and there is no dander of being misinterpreted.

Seeing death: "I will touch you, but you don't know when. Therefore live life as intensely as you can.

He died while he was alive.

My dreams may be nonsense too, but i don't want to run the risk of not following them.

How often, for the lack of one brick, we completely distort the original plan of our lives.

How can he possibly want to see me, my son? He doesn't even believe I exist!

People are charitable to me, and so I must be charitable to others.

Sometimes the world asks us to fight gor things we do not understand, and whose significance we will never discover.

We can each of us only offer what we have.

The happiness of one does not mean the unhappiness of the others.

The Alchemist...

The Alchemist is a great treasure in a book. Authored by Paulo Coelho, a Brazilian writer . He worked wonders on this fable that yet another dreamer, as he himself, can only tell of the tale. A book like so rare that we couldn't find much these days.

It tells of a story of Santiago, a shepherd, and of how he fulfilled his Personal Legend. This book can help us discover our treasures of life, the path that will lead us there, and of facing adversities that we may encounter along the way. Life is an evolution and it's only desire is to fulfill itself.

Such full of wisdom, the Alchemist unraveled to us about life in a language that people can hear and understand even in silence...

Some quotes from the book:

Dreams are the language of God. When we speak in our language, i can interpret what he said. But it speaks in the language if the soul, it is only you who can understand.

It's this: that a certain point in our lives, we lose control of what's happening to us, and our lives become controlled by fate. That's the world's greatest lie.

The Soul of the world is nourished by people's happiness. And also by unhappiness,envy, and jealousy. To realize one's destiny is a person's only real obligation. All things are one.

If you start but by promise what you don't even have yet, you'll lose your desire to work toward getting it.

In order to find the treasure, you will have to follow the omens. God has prepared a path for everyone to follow. You just have to read the omens that he left for you.

The secret of happiness is to see all the marvels of the world, and never to forget the drops of oil on the spoon.

I'm like everyone else - I see the world in terms of what i would like to see happen, not what actually does.

Only one thing makes a dream impossible: fear of failure.

It's called the principle of favorability, beginner's luck. Because life wants you to achieve you Personal Legend.

You have been a real blessing to me. Today, I understand something I didn't see before:" every blessing ignored becomes a curse. I don't want anything else in life. But you are forcing me to look at wealth and at horizons I have never known. Now that i have seen them, and now that i see how immense my possibilities are, I'm going to feel worse than i did before you arrived. Because I know the things I should be able to accomplish, and I don't want to do so.

Sometimes, there's just no way to hold back the river.

When you want something, all the universe conspires to help you achieve it.

We are afraid of losing what we have, whether it's our life or our possessions and property. But this fear evaporates when we understand that our life stories and the history of world were written by the same hand.

In alchemy, it's called the Soul of the World. When you want something with all your heart, that's when you are closest to the Soul of the World. It's always a positive force.

You must understand that love never keeps a man from pursuing his Personal Legend. If he abandons that pursuit, it's because it wasn't true love....the love that speaks the Language of the World.

Wherever your heart is, that is where you'll find your treasure.

When you possess the great treasure, and try to tell others of them, seldom are you believed.

That's what Alchemist do, they show that, when we strive to become better than we are, everything around us comes better too.

Everything that happens once can never happen again. But everything that happens twice will surely happen a third time - Arab Proverbs.

What good is money to you if you're going to die? It's not often that money can save someone's life.

It's true: life really is generous to those who pursue their Personal Legend.

The Witch of Portobello...

The Witch of Portobello... another book by my favorite Brazilian writer Paulo Coelho. This is story of a mysterious woman named Athena, told by the many who know her well, - or hardly at all...

A different kind of approach in writing novel and i say another book of magic. Reading through pages to know more of Athena, it came to me that i was revealing more of myself. Every turned leaf of the book was like making me travel back in time, warping me to the scenes and taking part in the story. It's like reading within my deepest thoughts and giving me answers for some questions in life about sacrifices, faith, hope and love. The story reached out my soul and touched my heart, and empowered me to understand that Love simply is....


Some quotes from the book:

Our time on earth is sacred and we should celebrate every moment.

The Virgin is the one whose search springs from her complete independence and everything she learns is the fruit of her ability to face challenges alone. The Martyr finds her way to self-knowledge through pain,surrender, and suffering. The Saint finds her true reason for living in unconditional love and in her ability to give without asking anything in return. Finally, the Witch justifies her existence by going in search of complete and limitless pleasure.

The physical world and spiritual world are the same thing.

And the best way to know who we are is often to find out how others see us. This doesn't mean that we should do what others expect us to do, but it helps us to understand ourselves better.

Life , however , had other plans - when fate is very generous with us, there is always a well into which all our dreams can tumble.

Lines by Robert Frost:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I-
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.

"What is a teacher? I'll tell you: it isn't someone who teaches something, but someone who inspires the student to give of her best in order top discover what she already knows."

The brush with which you are making these lines is just an instrument. It has no conciousness, it follows the desires of the person holding it. And in that it is very like we call life. Many people in this world are merely playing a role, unaware that there is an Invisible Hand guiding them. At this moment, in your hands, in the brush tracing each letter, lie all the inten tions of your soul. Try to understand the importance of this.

Learn, but always learn with other people by your side. Don't be alone in the search, because if you take a wrong step, you'll have no one there to help put you right.

Poverty might bring unhappiness, but money won't necessarily bring happiness.

We're surrounded by Universal Desire. It's not happiness, it's desires are never satisfied, because once they're, they cease to be desires.

Faith is not Desire. Faith is will. Desires are things that need to be satisfied, whereas Will is a force.

And is there anything you would withhold? Some day, all that you have shall be given. The tree give that they may live, for to withhold is to perish.

And what greater merit shall there be than that which lies in the courage and the confidence, nay the charity, of receiving? You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.

Our imaginations larger than the world around us; we go beyond our limits.

People learn twenty-five percent from their teacher, twenty-five percent from listening to themselves, twenty-five percent from their friends, and twenty-five percent from time.

Changes only happen when you go totally against everything we're used to doing.

A line of ants. They all think they're wise. They have memory, intelligence, organizational powers, a spirit of sacrifice. They look for food in summer, store it away for the winter, and now they are setting forth again, in this icy spring, to work. If the world was destroyed by an atomic bomb tomorrow, the ants would survive.

Train your eyes: they were made to see more than you think.

Eat in moderation, but take the pleasure in eating: it isn't what enters a person's mouth that's evil, but what leaves it.

Love is not a habit, a commitment, or a debt. It isn't what romantic songs tell us it is - love simply is.

Love and don't ask too many questions. Just love.