Ever since I found out that the Master Manole’s legend can also be found in the Albanian culture, I kept wondering if I am really that open towards other cultures. Sure, an important condition is to also have contact with other cultures, not only to keep your mind open.
Here’s where literature does its magic. One can
travel and visit the entire planet and, fortunately, there are enough books to
support such a craving. And besides other lives to live through reading, one
can get some knowledge from more or less enchanting fragments of various
cultures and traditions that one can read about in books.
My folks raised us up on reflections and
sayings. Rare were the situations when mom and dad did not have a saying to
relate it to. So once I saw this book, I gladly embraced it. These below are
the reflections that I loved the most, maybe they inspire and soothe you as
well.
“….
Just like a commanding officer with many troops
cannot be seen as courageous, so a person with many opinions cannot be seen as
intelligent.
For the evil person, a bad person is better
than one thousand reasonable persons.
The heart is not like a tablecloth, to open it
in front of anyone.
To write well means – in the same time – to
think well, to feel well and to express well.
Just like rain or flood cannot extinguish the
fire that burns inside the ground, so must one not let the failures, which are
inevitable at the start of a new and especially noble creation, get the best of
one and make one loose hope. If a good creation were to happen without failures
and difficulties, then it would definitely loose its significance.
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