The Story of the Pencil by Paulo Coelho

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by Paulo Coelho
THE STORY OF THE PENCIL
PENCIL
by Paulo Coelho
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The little boy was watching his grandfather writing a letter.
At a certain moment he asked:
PENCIL
by Paulo Coelho
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“Are you writing a story that happened to us? And is it by any chance 
a story about me?”
The grandfather stopped writing, smiled and said to his grandson:
 “I’m writing about you, that’s true. But the pencil I am using is more  important than the words I am writing. I hope you are like it when you grow up.” 
The boy looked at the pencil with curiosity, but did not see anything special about it.
“But it’s just like all the other pencils I have ever seen in my life!” 
“It all 
depends on how you look at things. There are five qualities in it that if you can 
manage to keep in yourself will make you a person always at peace with the 
world.
1
First quality:
you can do great things, but you must never forget that there is a hand that guides our steps. This hand we call God, and He must always guide it according to His will. 
you can do great things, but you must never forget that there is a 
hand that guides our steps. This hand we call God, and He must always guide 
it according to His will. 
2
Second quality:
from time to time I need to 
stop what I am writing 
and use a sharpener. 
This makes the pencil
suffer a little, but in the end it becomes sharper. So, learn how 
to bear some pains 
because they will make you a better person.
you can do great things, but you must never forget that there is a 
hand that guides our steps. This hand we call God, and He must always guide 
it according to His will. 
3
Third quality:
the pencil always lets you use an eraser to rub out what was 
wrong. Understand that correcting something that we have done is not 
necessarily bad, but rather something important to keep us on the path of 
justice.
you can do great things, but you must never forget that there is a 
hand that guides our steps. This hand we call God, and He must always guide 
it according to His will. 
5
Fifth quality:
It always leaves a mark. In the same way, 
know that everything you do in life will leave traces, and try to be aware of 
every action.”
you can do great things, but you must never forget that there is a 
hand that guides our steps. This hand we call God, and He must always guide 
it according to His will. 
Edited by:

De Guzman, Michael John D.
Bombay, AJ
Castillo, Joshua

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