Inspiring – Curated Quotes

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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 imposters 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 wornout 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 breath 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”;
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October 16, 2016October 21, 2016 by Kenneth Kataiwa Batanyita

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It’s better to cross the line and suffer the consequences than to just stare at that line for the rest of your life.

August 15, 2016August 24, 2016 by Kenneth Kataiwa Batanyita

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Every morning I awake torn between a desire to save the world and an inclination to savor it. This makes it hard to plan the day. But if we forget to savor the world, what possible reason do we have for saving it? In a way, the savoring must come first.

July 18, 2016July 25, 2016 by Kenneth Kataiwa Batanyita

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If they ever tell my story let them say that I walked with giants. Men rise and fall like the winter wheat, but these names will never die. Let them say I lived in the time of Hector, tamer of horses. Let them say I lived in the time of Achilles.

July 10, 2016July 19, 2016 by Kenneth Kataiwa Batanyita

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The closer a man approaches tragedy the more intense is his concentration of emotion upon the fixed point of his commitment, which is to say the closer he approaches what in life we call fanaticism.

June 14, 2016June 15, 2016 by Kenneth Kataiwa Batanyita

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Most people want to save the entire world. It’s a lovely thought, and I’m not saying it’s not a noble pursuit – but it’s impossible to save everyone. You just have to pick your little corner of the world and focus your energy there. That’s the only way you will ever make a difference

April 11, 2016April 11, 2016 by Kenneth Kataiwa Batanyita

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There isn’t time, so brief is life, for bickerings, apologies, heart burnings, callings to account. There is only time for loving, and but an instant, so to speak, for that.

April 3, 2016March 28, 2016 by Kenneth Kataiwa Batanyita

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Integrity is doing the right thing even when no one is watching.

February 4, 2016February 3, 2016 by Kenneth Kataiwa Batanyita

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I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes, then you are making new things, trying new things, learning, living, pushing yourself, changing yourself, changing your world. You’re doing things you’ve never done before, and more importantly, you’re doing something. So that’s my wish for you, and all of us, and my wish for myself. Make new mistakes. Make glorious, amazing mistakes. Make mistakes nobody’s ever made before. Don’t freeze, don’t stop, don’t worry that it isn’t good enough, or it isn’t perfect, whatever it is: art, or love, or work or family or life. Whatever it is you’re scared of doing, do it. Make your mistakes, next year and forever.

January 1, 2016January 2, 2016 by Kenneth Kataiwa Batanyita