Quotations from the book Brida by Paulo Coelho

“…in life, each person can take one of two attitudes: to build or to plant. The builders might take years over their tasks, but one day, they finish what they’re doing. Then they find they’re hemmed in by their own walls. Life losses its meaning when the building stops. “

            “Then there are those who plant. They endure storms and many vicissitudes of the seasons, and they rarely rest. But unlike a building, a garden never stops growing. And while it requires the gardener’s constant attention, it also allows life for the gardener to be a great adventure.”

 

“…it provides answers that few human beings ever manage to find in a whole lifetime, or perhaps because it evokes a romantic past.”

“…it isn’t true that you want to be alone.”

“Perhaps women needed men more than men needed women.”

“They worked hard and honestly, they feared God and they tried to help their fellow man. They did all these things because they had known love.”

“People had been trying to understand the universe through love ever since the beginning of time.”

“Disappointment, defeat, despair are the tools God uses to show us the way.”

“Perhaps solitude has made man his madness worse.”

“She had meet people who had lost the flow of being alive because they could no longer fight against loneliness and had ended up becoming addicted to it.”

“…people who believed the world to be an undignified, inglorious place, and who spend their evenings and nights talking on and on about the mistakes others made.”

“…that trust is called Faith.”

“It only existed because she believed in it. Miracles couldn’t be explained either, but they existed for those who believe in them.”

“…for us each day is a dark night. None of us knows what might happen even the next time, and yet still we go forward. Because we trust. Because we have faith.”

“That every moment in life is an act of faith.”

“And yet she didn’t have the courage to change. She needed to be constantly struggling to discover her path.”

“And although she was sometimes dissatisfied with herself, she felt unable to go beyond her own limitations.”

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What I Learned after reading the Fifth Mountain by Paulo Coelho

After reading the book “The Fifth Mountain” written by Paulo Coelho I realized and learned many things.

  1. That everything happens for a reason.  That God really knows what’s best for us, what’s the best thing to happen in the right time and the right place.  Like when God sent Elijah to Akbar, and Elijah found out later that God sent him there so he will help the people stood up after the war to spread to the people of Akbar that we have only the “One God.”
  2. That God really don’t give us problems that is beyond our power or problems we cant handle. Because He knows everything.
  3. That Love is really powerful. The love of Elijah to the woman gave him the courage to start building the ruined Akbar. And the love of the woman to Elijah gave her the reason to live happily again and to learn new things.
  4. That God will not let us be alone. That even though we sometimes doubt God, He is always beside us and always there to help us overcome our struggles.
  5. That whatever is happening in your life It’s all part of the “molding” that God is doing to us. So we can be more likely him. Well not exactly him If you know what I mean. :)
  6. That we only need to ask him. Yes! he wont give it right away but he will on the right time.
  7. That whatever happens to us, we will get through it.

Do not stop living.. do something..

  One afternoon he returned earlier than was his wont, to find the widow sitting in the doorway of the house.

“What are you doing?”

“I have nothing to do,” she replied.

“Then learn something. At this moment, many people have stopped living. They do not become angry, nor cry out; they merely wait for time to pass. They did not accept the challenges of life, so life no longer challenges them. You are running that same risk; react, face life, but do not stop living.” – The Fifth Mountain by Paulo Coelho,page 91

Life’s battles…

 

All life’s battles teach us something, even those we lose. When you grow up, 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. -The Fifth Mountain by Paulo Coelho,page128