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She Had Just Realized There Were Two Things That Prevent Us From Achieving Our Dreams: Believing Them To Be Impossible Or Seeing Those Dreams Made Possible By Some Sudden Turn Of The Wheel Of Fortune, When You Least Expected It. For At That Moment, All Our Fears Suddenly Surface: The Fear Of Setting Off Along A Road Heading Who Knows Where, The Fear Of A Life Full Of New Challenges, The Fear Of Losing Forever Everything That Is Familiar.

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She Had Just Realized

Paulo Coelho

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She Had Just Realized There Were Two Things That Prevent Us From Achieving Our Dreams: Believing Them To Be Impossible Or Seeing Those Dreams Made Possible By Some Sudden Turn Of The Wheel Of Fortune, When You Least Expected It. For At That Moment, All Our Fears Suddenly Surface: The Fear Of Setting Off Along A Road Heading Who Knows Where, The Fear Of A Life Full Of New Challenges, The Fear Of Losing Forever Everything That Is Familiar.

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New Experiences

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I Think You Can Have 10,000 Explanations For Failure, But No Good Explanation For Success.

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Conquer The World

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