Happy Birthday,
namasteyoga!
I was going to make a joke about the "If you can keep your head" quote... but then decided the whole poem is so very apt for you. I hope the Earth and everything that's in it is yours again this year.
"If"
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,
( Read more... )--Rudyard Kipling (1910)