The book made me realize that one can really love two different person at a time. You can love another one even if you're committed with someone without being called a womanizer or anything that you can relate to that.
Paulo Coelho's Aleph is about Paulo having met a woman he loved 500 years ago, in the current time wherein he is 59 years old and the girl is 21 years old. He met the girl, Hilal, again in a different time, the now, where in Paulo is already stabled with his wife.
Paulo admitted that he loves Hilal but then he loves his wife. It's just nice that he embraces the fact that he's now with the woman he loved 500 years ago bu then he didn't leave his wife because he's committed to her and because he really loves her.
I don't know, I really love the book. Every Paulo Coelho book makes me don't wanna stop reading. Seriously.
And as much as I want to post on my accounts the quotes that I adored from Paulo Coelho's Aleph, I can't because there's many of them and it would irritate my friends on Twitter and Facebook. So with this reaction on his book, comes my most liked quotes on Paulo Coelho's Aleph.
"Graduates leave university and can't find a job. Old people reach retirement and have almost nothing to live on. Grown-ups have no time to dream, struggling from nine to five to support their families and pay for their children's education, always bumping up against the thing we all know as "harsh reality.""
"Some things stay forever, but most of the exercises, practices, and teachings end up disappearing down a black hole. Or so it seems."
"You can say what you like, but words won't change anything. I'm not happy."
"I'm filled with doubt, especially about my faith."
"It's doubt that drives a man onward."
"When I was young, I was dazzled by all the things life could offer me. I thought I was capable of achieving all of them."
"Despite all my efforts, I still can't honestly say that I feel closer to God and to myself."
"Like everyone else on the planet, you believed that time would teach you to grow closer to God. But time doesn't teach; it merely brings us a sense of weariness and of growing older."
"In life, there is only the present moment, the now. You can't measure time the way you measure distance between two points. "Time" doesn't pass."
"We human beings have enormous difficulty in focusing on the present; were always thinking about what we did, about how we could have done it better, about the consequences of our actions, and about why we didn't act as we should have."
"It isn't what you did in the past that will affect the present. It's what you do in the present that will redeem the past and thereby change the future."
"Our life is a constant journey, from birth to death. The landscape changes, the people change, our needs change, but the train keeps moving. Life is the train, not the station."
"Understand what is going on inside you and you will understand what is going on inside everyone else."
"When a sense of dissatisfaction persists, that means it was placed there by God for one reason only: you need to change everything and move forward."
"Whenever I refused to follow my fate, something very hard to bear would happen in my life."
"Tragedy always brings about radical change in our lives, a change that is associated with the same principle: loss."
"In theory, every loss is for our own good; in practice, though, that is when we question the existence of God and ask ourselves: What did I do to deserve this?"
"Yes, it's difficult to talk to your heart, and perhaps it isn't even necessary. We simply have to trust and follow the signs and live our Personal Legend; sooner or later, we will realize that we are all part of something, even if we can't understand rationally what that something is."
"Paradise is being able to say at that (second before our death) moment: "I made some mistakes, but I wasn't a coward. I lived life and did what I had to do.""
"No life is complete without a touch of madness."
"Life without cause is a life without effect."
"If we seek something, that same thing is seeking us."
"I wake up each morning wanting to die before the day is out, but I continue to live, suffering and fighting, fighting and suffering, clinging on to that certainty that it will all end one day."
"To live is to experience things, not sit around pondering the meaning of life."
"Don't think about what you'll tell people afterward. The time is here and now. Make the most of it."
"If you spend too much time trying to find out what is good or bad about someone else, you'll forget your own soul and end up exhausted and defeated by the energy you have wasted in judging others."
"Words are life set down on paper."
"No one can learn to love by following a manual and no one can learn to write by following a course. I'm not telling you to find people with different skills from yourself, because writing is no different from any other activity done with joy and enthusiasm."
"Anyone who knows God cannot describe Him. Anyone who can describe God does not know Him."
"We learn in the past, but we are not the result of that. We suffered in the past, loved in the past, cried and laughed in the past, but that's of no use in the present. The present has its challenges, its good and bad side. We can neither blame nor be grateful to the past for what is happening now. Each new experience of love has nothing whatsoever to do with past experiences. It's always new."
"People aren't used to that way of thinking, they want everything to stay the same. And the consequence of that is pain."
"We are not the person other people wish we were. We are who we decide to be. It's always easy to blame others. You can spend your entire life blaming the world, but your successes or failures are entirely your own responsibility."
"Everything has changed; it's just that we can't see it."
"I am who I was and who I will be."
"God is always close to us, whether we pray to him or not."
"Not everything in life is a long train with tickets available to all."
