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see
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(sorry forgot where I got these images)
IF
by Rudyard Kipling
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 with triumph and
disaster
and treat those two imposters just
the same;
if you can bear to hear the trust
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 all 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 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!
happy new year my friends
peace, love, health & happiness
xo m
goodnight 2008
image from design*sponge
12/11/08 diy project by kate
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