as a child

Children, when very young, do not desire authority,

do not regard outward distinctions,

are free from malice, are teachable,

and willingly dependent on their parents

- Matthew Henry

 

JESUS SAID : Unless you change and become like little children,

you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.

 

"A child can teach an adult three things:
to be happy for no reason,
to always be busy with something,
and to know how to demand with
all his might that which he desires."
QUOTE: Paulo Coelho

 

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Paulo Coelho was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He attended a Jesuit school. As a teenager, Coelho wanted to become a writer. Upon telling his mother this, she responded with "My dear, your father is an Engineer. He's a logical, reasonable man with a very clear vision of the world. Do you actually know what it means to be a writer?"

After researching, Coelho concluded that a writer "always wears glasses and never combs his hair" and has a "duty and an obligation never to be understood by his own generation," amongst other things.

At 17, Coelho's introversion and opposition to following a traditional path led to his parents committing him to a mental institution from which he escaped three times before being released at the age of 20. Coelho later remarked that "It wasn't that they wanted to hurt me, but they didn't know what to do... They did not do that to destroy me, they did that to save me." (QUOTE: WIKI)