Thread by @Dr_Khan

The story of the pencil ✏️
- Paulo Coelho @paulocoelho
(Taken from “Like the flowing river” book)

.. 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 ..

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‘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.’

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‘Second quality: now and then, I have to stop writing and use a sharpner. That makes the pencil suffer a little, but afterwards, he’s much sharper. So you, too, must learn to bear certain pains and sorrows, because they will make you a better person.’

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‘Third quality: the pencil always allows us to use an eraser to rub out any mistakes. This means that correcting something we did is not necessarily a bad thing; it helps to keep us on the road to justice.’

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‘Fourth quality: what really matters in a pencil is not its wooden exterior, but the graphite inside. So always pay attention to what is happening inside you.’

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‘Finally, the pencil’s fifth quality: it always leaves a mark. in just the same way, you should know that everything you do in life will leave a mark, so try to be conscious of that in your every action’.

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The story of the pencil ✏️
- Paulo Coelho @paulocoelho
(Taken from “Like the flowing river” book)



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