Happiness is when...
what you think, feel, say, and do are the same thing.
Ghandi
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IF...
If you can keep your head when all about you
are losing theirs and blaming it you;
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you
but make allowances for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired of waiting,
Or be lied about but don't deal in lies,
Or being hated, don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good or 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 with triumph and disaster
and treat those two imposters just the same
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to md stoop and build a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to broken
and stoop and buid 'em with worn out tools |
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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 breath a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and senew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
and so 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,
your's is the earth and everything that's in it,
and which is more, you'll be a man, my son!
A poem
by Rudyard Kipling
circa 1900 |
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