Surviving is important. Thriving is elegant.
- Topic: Action, Work
- Location: Lake Tahoe
- Photo: Jeffrey Benjamin
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A friend may be waiting behind a stranger's face.
The one hand trying to wash itself is a pitiful spectacle, but when one hand washes the other, power is increased, and it becomes a force to be reckoned with.
You don't need another person, place or thing to make you whole. God already did that. Your job is to know it.
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