The Magical Instant

[...]discover that magical instant. That moment exists: a moment in which all the strenght of the stars goes through us and allows to make miracles. That magical instant in the day helps us to change, it makes us go after our dreams. We're going to suffer, we're going to have hard times, we're going to face many disappointments..., but all that comes to pass and won't leave bruises. And in the future we'll be able to look back with pride and faith.
Feel sorry for the one that is afraid to take risks. Because he won't face disappointments, or hard times, nor will he suffer like the ones that follow their dreams. But when he looks back - because we always look back - he will hear his heart saying: "What did you do with the miracles that were planted in your life? What did you do with the gifts you were given? You buried them deep down because you were afraid to lose them. Then, that's you inheritance: the certainty that you have wasted your life away".
Feel sorry for the one that hears these words. Because he, then, will believe in miracles, but the magical instants in his life are going to be long gone."

~By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept (Paulo Coelho)

I have always believed that life is about taking risks, making changes.

This book really shows that. Like any other Paulo Coelho book this one makes you think, it makes you ponder on things, aside from the fact that it's kind of what you'd consider a religious book or more like an spiritual book because it talks a lot about God. They always leave you reflecting on something, on a certain situation that you have probably experienced before.
I know that this book helped a lot to understand and overcome a certain situation that I have already talked about way toooo much, so you probably get the idea already.

Out of the eleven books that he's published, well I only know about eleven, I've read seven and I truly recommend them.

Back on my first line, I was having a conversation with a friend about love and risks and she told me that she saw no point in getting married nor in having a deep relationship because if it didn't work out you'd have to go through a very painful experience and blah blah, things like that. I told her that I thought life was about risking and even more so love and that you'd try to make it work as much as you could and if at the end it didn't turn out the way you expected it, well, you tried and you tried your hardest and all you have to do is stand back up again, hold your head high and keep on going because that's what life is all about, the stumbling and the falling, the healing and the moving on. She didn't understand and I didn't try to change her ideas. We all see the world with different eyes and whatever works for each one of us is good.

"He who loves, conquers the world. He is not afraid to lose everything. True love is the act of complete and total dedication to another one."