Wings and roots
By Paulo Coelho
‘Blessed is he who gives his children wings and roots,’ says a proverb.
We need roots. There is a place in the world where we are born, where we learn a language, where we discover how our ancestors overcame their problems. At a given point, we become responsible for that place.
We need wings. They show us the endless horizons of the imagination, they carry us towards our dreams, they lead us to distant places. They are the wings that allow us to know the roots of our fellow human beings and to learn from them.
Blessed is he who has wings and roots, and wretched is he who only has one of the two.
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