Philanthropists!

   If you can see the good and the not so good, in yourself, in others, in life, and keep healthy perspective...   

   If you can maintain your composure and dignity, when those around you are losing theirs...

   If you can hold steadfast to the truth, and can speak it softly and clearly, while others are attempting to   
      distort or pervert it....

   If you can align yourself with right association and detach from wrong association...

   If you can embrace that which is life-enhancing and let go of that which is life-defeating...

   If you can transform adversity and difficulties into challenges and opportunities...

   If you can strive to do and be the best you can, and make a difference, great or small, in another's life...

   If you can stand up for what you believe in and value, keep your heart and thoughts pure, and cultivate
       a moral code and exemplify it in your life...

   If you can find meaning and purpose in your life, and maintain your will to live when those around you   
      are saying otherwise...

        Then know your finest moment is yet to come. And because of "you" the world is a better place.

                Timothy E. Stevenson November 22, 1997 © (revised July 2015)
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   Honouring…Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) and his inspirational poem - If