Decidurata Max Ehrman
Go placidly amidst the noise and haste,
and remember what peace there may be in silence,
as far as possible without surrender be
on good terms with all persons.
Speak your truth quietly and
clearly; and listen to others,
even the dull and the ignorant;
they too have their story.
Avoid loud and aggressive persons,
they arevexatious to the spirit.
If you compare yourself with others,
you may become vain or bitter;
for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself.
Enjoy your achievements as well as your plans.
Keep interested in your own career,
however humble;
it is a real possession in the changing fortunes of time.
Exercise caution in your business affairs;
for the world is full of trickery.
But let this not blind you to what virtue there is;
many persons strive for high ideals;
and everywhere life is full of heroism.
Be yourself.
Especially do not feign affection.
Neither be cynical about love;
for in the face of all aridityand disenchantment it is
as perennial as the grass
Take kindly the council of the years,
gracefully surrendering the things of youth.
Nurture strength of spirit to shield you in
sudden misfortune but do not distress
yourself with dark imaginings. Many fears
are born of fatigue
and loneliness.
Beyond a wholesome discipline,
be gentle with yourself,
you are a child of the universe,
no less than the trees and the stars;
you have a right to be here.
And whether or not it is clear to you,
nodoubt the universe is unfolding as it should,
therefore be at peace with god,
whatever you conceive him to be,
and whatever your labors and aspirations,
in the noisy confusion of life keep peace with your soul.
With all its shams, drudgery, and broken
dreams, it is still a beautiful world.
Be cheerful
Strive to be Happy
'IF' Rudyard Kipling
If you can keep your head when all about you
are losing theirs and blaming it on you.
If you could 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 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 them 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 inyou 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
60 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
English Journalist and Poet
INVICTUS WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY
Out of the night that covers me,
black asthe pit from pole,to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be,
for my unconquerable soul.
In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
under the bludgeoning's of chance
my head is bloody, but unbowed.
Beyond this place of wrath and tears
looms but the horror of the shade
and yet the menace of the years
finds and shall find me unafraid.
It matters not how straight the gate,
how charged with punishments the scroll,
I am the master of my fate,
I am the captain of my soul.
"When you arise in the morning,
think of what a precious privilege
it is to be alive to breathe,
to think, to enjoy, to love."
"Ask what is so unbearable
about this situation? why can't
you endure it? you will be
embarrassed to answer."
"Very little is needed for a
happy life; it is all within
yourself, in your way
of thinking"
"Stop allowing your mind to
be a slave, to be jerked about
by selfish impulses, to kick
against fate and the present,
and to mistrust the future."
"leave the wrong with
the person who did it."
"Be like the rock against which
the waves continually break;
it stands firm and around it the
seething waters are laid to rest."
"You need to avoid certain
things in your train of thought:
everything random, everything
irrelevant. And certainly everything
self-important or malicious."
"We have rational brains for a
reason. when impulse strikes,
remember rationality. Don't
sabotage your progress
out of short-term desire."
"If you are distressed by
anything external, the pain
is not due to the thing itself,
but to your estimate of it;
and this you have the power to
evoke at any moment."
"Don't waste the rest of your
time here worrying about other people
unless it affects the common good. It will keep
you from doing anything useful."
"You will be too preoccupied with
what so-and-so is doing, and why,
and what they're saying, and what
they're thinking and what they're up, to and
all the other things that throw
you off and keep you from
focusing on your own mind."
"If someone is able to show
me that what I think or do
is not right, I will happily
change for I seek the truth,
by which no one ever
was truly harmed."
"Harmed is the person
who continues in his
self-deception and ignorance."
"Be tolerant with others
and strict with yourself."
"Think of yourself as dead.
You have livedyour life.
Now take what's left
and live it properly."
"You're better off not giving
the small things more
time than they deserve."
"Waste no more time
arguing what a good
man should be. Be one."
"It's a disgrace in this life
when thesoul surrenders
first while the body refuses to."
"You have power over your
mind - not outside events.
Realize this, and you
will find strength."