Somethings are so powerful you just have to read them again and again, and this particular poem is one of this things. I know I have shared this poem in past years, but today I read it again and it really hit me how much this poem describes the person we should all hope to be.<\/p>\n
So many things in life may work against us at different times, whether it is bad people, or bad circumstances, or bad feelings…and no matter what comes against us we have to learn to still stand strong and stand with integrity. We can’t ever let bad things make us become bad. No doubt it can take serious self-control\u00a0not to\u00a0lash back or\u00a0seek revenge or\u00a0have bad feelings toward those\u00a0who have wronged you,\u00a0but we have to remind ourselves\u00a0that God expects us to\u00a0control our own integrity and our own actions…no matter what anyone else may have done.\u00a0 And this poem is just a great reminder of all we should hope to be…<\/p>\n
IF<\/strong><\/span> If you can dream—and not make dreams your master; If you can make one heap of all your winnings If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue, -Rudyard Kipling<\/p>\n Great reminder!\u00a0 Have a fantastic day everyone!<\/p>\n ~Amy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Somethings are so powerful you just have to read them again and again, and this particular poem is one of this things. I know I have shared this poem in past years, but today I read it again and it really hit me how much this poem describes the person we should all hope to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2593,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[168,500,6607,46,251,60,2163,3432,6611,163,5310,3113,219,6613,41,6612,2190,743,189,29,606,65,451,2191,6606,257,2188,6608,6609,34,6610,38,729,1109,2194,1647,143,3736,112,1682,149,1173,3069,84,336,1428,3742,721],"class_list":["post-5724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-adversity","tag-appreciation","tag-aspire","tag-attitude","tag-balance","tag-beautiful","tag-begin","tag-blame","tag-cmmon","tag-courage","tag-crowds","tag-doubt","tag-dream","tag-enemy","tag-entrepreneur","tag-foes","tag-fools","tag-forgive","tag-friends","tag-god","tag-good","tag-gratitude","tag-heart","tag-hold-on","tag-hope-to-be","tag-humble","tag-if","tag-ill","tag-imostors","tag-integrity","tag-kings","tag-leadership","tag-lies","tag-loss","tag-man","tag-person","tag-poem","tag-rudyard-kipling","tag-self-improvement","tag-son","tag-success","tag-think","tag-triumph","tag-trust","tag-truth","tag-virtue","tag-winnings","tag-wise"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5724"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5724\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5725,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5724\/revisions\/5725"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nIf you can keep your head when all about you
\nAre losing theirs and blaming it on you;
\nIf you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
\nBut make allowance for their doubting too:
\nIf you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
\nOr, being lied about, don’t deal in lies,
\nOr being hated don’t give way to hating,
\nAnd yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise;<\/p>\n
\nIf you can think—and not make thoughts your aim,
\nIf you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
\nAnd treat those two impostors just the same:.
\nIf you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken
\nTwisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
\nOr watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
\nAnd stoop and build’em up with worn-out tools;<\/p>\n
\nAnd risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
\nAnd lose, and start again at your beginnings,
\nAnd never breathe a word about your loss:
\nIf you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
\nTo serve your turn long after they are gone,
\nAnd so hold on when there is nothing in you
\nExcept the Will which says to them: “Hold on!”<\/p>\n
\nOr walk with Kings—nor lose the common touch,
\nIf neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
\nIf all men count with you, but none too much:
\nIf you can fill the unforgiving minute
\nWith sixty seconds’ worth of distance run,
\nYours is the Earth and everything that’s in it,
\nAnd—which is more—you’ll be a Man, my son!<\/p>\n