"If you see life as a stepping stone to a larger possibility then there is no failure" - Sahguru Jaggi Vasudev
If— By Rudyard Kipling (‘Brother Square-Toes’—Rewards and Fairies) 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 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! https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46473/if---
"Never doubt that a small group of committed citizens can change the world: indeed it's the only thing that ever has" - Margaret Mead ( American Anthropologist 1901-1971)
"Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority" - Thomas Huxley ( British scientist and humanist, defender of Darwinism 1825-1895)
"A blind man knows he can not see, and is glad to be led, though it be by a dog; but he that is blind in understanding, which is the worst blindness of all, believes he sees the best, and scorns a guide" - Samuel Butler
"Dedication involves making the space to let ideas take hold; every tree was once a seed and every company was once an idea" - Zephyr Bolch-Joergensen