Thoughts

If

If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too,
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or being hated, don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise ;

If you can dream and not make dreams your master,
If you can think and not make thoughts your aim,
If you can meet Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same,
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken,
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to broken,
And stoop and build'em up with worn-out tools ;

If you can make one heap of all your winnings,
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings,
And never breathe a word about your loss,
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you,
Except the Will which says to them : "Hold on!",

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with Kings nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
If all men count with you, but none too much,
If you can fill the unforgiving minute,
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And, which is more, you'll be a man, my son.

RUDYARD KIPLING 

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 "My father did not tell me how to live, 
he lived right and allowed me the honor to watch him do it.

~Lee Standing Bear Moore

“Pleasure cannot be shared; like Pain, it can only be experienced or inflicted, and when we give pleasure to our Lovers or bestow Charity upon the Needy, we do so, not to gratify the object of our Benevolence, but only ourselves. For the Truth is that we are kind for the same reason as we are cruel, in order that we may enhance the sense of our own Power.”
- Aldous Huxley, British Writer, 1894 – 1963
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“The key to growth is the introduction of higher dimensions of consciousness into our awareness.”
Lao Tzu, Chinese philosopher, 6th century BC
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“The true purpose of education is to cherish and unfold the seed of immortality already sown within us; to develop, to their fullest extent, the capacities of every kind with which the God who made us has endowed us.”
— Anna Jameson, British author & educator, 1794–1860
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“The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence.”
— Rabindranath Tagore, Indian poet, 1861-1941
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“Truth is within ourselves: it takes no rise from outward things, what’er you may believe. There is an inmost center in us all, where truth abides in fullness.”
— Robert Browning, English poet, 1812-1889
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“Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.”
— Socrates, Greek philosopher, 469-399 BC
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“All that lies before us and all that lies behind us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson,
American writer, philosopher, and poet, 1803-1882
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“What I am looking for is not out there, it is in me.”
— Helen Keller,
American author and speaker, 1880–1968
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“There is a light that shines beyond the world, beyond everything, beyond all, beyond the highest heaven. This is the light that shines within your heart.”
— Upanishads, ancient Vedic texts
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“Call yourself back then to yourself, O soul, and seek in yourself all that you ought to get knowledge of.”
— Hermetic writings, Egypt circa 2nd century AD
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“The first peace, which is most important, is that which comes from within the souls of people when they realize their relationship, their oneness with the universe and all its powers, and when they realize that at the center of the universe dwells the great spirit, and that this center is really everywhere — it is within each of us.”
— Black Elk, Sioux Shaman, 1863–1950