Everything that ever happened to me that was important happened in the desert.

Michael Ondaatje
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  1. When you put the hard work in... reward will come out.

  2. An excuse will not wake up early

  3. Always take failure as an opinion never as an option.

  4. No one whose steps are truly ordered by God will ever attempt to walk over another human being.

  5. Don't quit. A wind from nowhere could turn it.

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