Manuscript Found in Accra by Paulo Coelho

For those who have many questions in life, this book may help you find the answers. 

1. What is knowledge?

- It isn't the absolute truth about life and death, but the things that helps us to live and confront the challenges of day-to-day life. It isn't what we learn from books, which serves only to fuel futile arguments about what happened or will happen; it is the knowledge that lives in the hearts of men and women of good will.

2. None of us can know what tomorrow will hold, because each day has its good and bad moments.

3.Our task is not to leave a record of what happened on this date for those who will inherit the Earth; history will take care of that.

4. Does a young man, rejected by his first love, declare that love does not exist? The young man says to himself: "I'll find someone better able to understand what I feel. And then I will be happy for the rest of my days."

5.In the cycle of nature there is no such thing as victory or defeat ; there is only movement. Within that cycle, there are neither winners nor losers; there are only stages that must be gone through. When the human heart understands this, it is free and able to accept difficult times without being deceived by moments of glory.

6. What is true in love is also true in war. 

7.Only those who fail to recognize that inner strength will say, "I lost, " and be sad. 

8.Only he who gives up is defeated. Everyone else is victorious. 

9. Three important things :

☑ Wait patiently for the right moment to act. 

 ☑ Do not let the next opportunity slip by you. 

☑ Take pride in your scars. 

8. There are people who have never been defeated. They are the ones who never fought. 

9.Woe to those who were never beaten! They will never be winners in this life. 

10. Solitude is not the absence of love, but its complement. 

11. If you do not know yourself, you will begin to fear the void. But  the void does not exist. A vast world lies hidden in our soul, waiting to be discovered. 

12. Just as love is the divine condition, so solitude is the human condition. 

13. Listen to your elders and then you'll have a better idea of what to do. 

14. They don't understand that religion was created in order to share the mystery and to worship, not to oppress or convert others. 

15. Don't try to be useful. Try to be yourself; that is enough, and that makes all the difference. 

16. Walk neither faster nor slower than your own soul, because it is your soul that will teach you the usefulness of each step you take. 

17. The people who who really help others are not trying to be useful, but are simply leading a useful life. They rarely give advice, but serve as an example. 

18. Live the life you always wanted to live. Avoid criticizing others and concentrate on fulfilling your dreams. 

19. Small things are responsible for great changes. 

20. Difficulty is the name of an ancient tool that was created purely to help us define who we are. 

21. Faith shows us that we are never alone. Transformation helps us to love the mystery. 

22.To those who believe that adventures are dangerous, I say, try routine ; that kills you far more quickly. 

23. If the person looking into someone's eyes has a dark soul he will see only his own ugliness. 

24. We deny our own beauty because others can't or won't recognize it. Instead of accepting ourselves as we are, we try to imitate what we see around us. 

25. We forget that the world is what we imagine it to be. 

26. Beauty is present in all creation, but the dangerous fact is that, because we human beings are often cut off from the Divine Energy, we allow ourselves to be influenced by what other people think. 

27. Beauty exists not in sameness but in difference. 

28. They were trying to reflect what came from outside, forgetting that the brightest light comes from within. 

29. Enthusiasm is the Sacred Fire. 

29.... ever since your goal found out that you were traveling toward it, it has been running to meet you. 

31. Only the person who accepts God's plan with humility and courage knows that he is on the right road. 

To be continued....