“Are you writing a story about us? Is it by chance a story about me?”
“Indeed I am writing about you, however more important than the words is the pencil I am using. “I hope you will be like this pencil when you grow up.”
by: Paulo Coelho
“But . . . it is exactly the same as every other pencil I saw in my life.”
“It is all in the way you look at things.
The Grandchild was looking at his grandma writing a letter and suddenly he asked...
‘That depends on how you look at things. It has five qualities which, if you manage to hang on them, will make you a person who is always at peace with the world.’
The grandma stopped writing, smiled and said to her grandchild...
‘First quality: you are capable of great things, but you must never forget that there is a hand guiding your steps. We call that hand God, and He always guides us according to His will.’
The child looked at the pencil curiously but could not see anything special.
And his grandma also added that there are five qualities in that pencil that, if you will be able to maintain, will make you a man in peace with the whole world.