Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.

—Paulo Coelho

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About Paulo Coelho

Portrait of Paulo Coelho

Paulo Coelho de Souza ( KWEL-yoo, koo-EL-yoo, -⁠yoh, Portuguese: [ˈpawlu kuˈeʎu]; born 24 August 1947) is a Brazilian lyricist and novelist. He has been a member of the Brazilian Academy of Letters since 2002. His 1988 novel The Alchemist is an international best-seller.

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It's the simple things in life that are the most extraordinary; only wise men are able to understand them.

—Paulo Coelho

One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving.

—Paulo Coelho

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Be brave, young lovers, and follow your star.

—Oscar Hammerstein II

Cruelty is easy, and it breeds only misery. Kindness is harder, and you have to be brave to give it. To be cruel, you can stay closed off from everyone, wear a mask, but to be kind, in essence, to show love, you have to make yourself vulnerable, show your true self to someone and open yourself up to rejection.

—L.H. Cosway in The Nature of Cruelty

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I am stronger than depression and I am braver than loneliness and nothing will ever exhaust me.

—Elizabeth Gilbert in Love

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I don't think you have to do something so big to be brave. And it's the little things that are harder anyway.

—Morgan Matson in Since You've Been Gone

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A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer.

—Ralph Waldo Emerson

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