Carpe diem
Would like to share two quotes which struck me while reading
books recently.
One is from the famous book ‘The Secret’ by Rhonda Byrne
“Your life is in your hands. No matter where you are now, no matter what has happened in your life, you can begin to consciously choose your thoughts, and you can change your life. There is no such thing as a hopeless situation. Every single circumstance of your life can change!”
Incidentally, I found the core idea of the whole book very
similar to that of Paulo Coelho’s ‘The Alchemist’. That wallpaper quote — "when you want
something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.”
In ‘The Secret’, it discusses ‘the law of attraction’. Two
sides of the same coin?
Another quote is from a speech by JK Rowling which was
published as a book later. The book is 'Very Good Lives: The Fringe Benefits of
Failure and the Importance of Imagination’. In the speech, she quotes Seneca, “As
is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what
matters.”
This is also similar to ‘Carpe diem’ or ‘seize the day’. No need to explain more. LIVE…LAUGH… AND LOVE…
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