"The Warrior looks at the column of Fear, where he reads: “you are about to enter an unknown and dangerous world where all that you have learned up to ...

And one has to understand that braveness is not the absence of fear but rather the strength to keep on going forward despite the fear.
~ Paulo Coelho ~












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