Life, as I see it

He dropped out of 5th grade. But before that, he had already organized a peace rally, ran a marathon, and started his own bakery selling natural baked foods, door-to-door. Ocean Robbins, son of legendary John Robbins, was barely a teenager when he met Mrs. Gorbachev, numerous ambassadors and US senators, wrote for national magazines (and wrote a book), and became a voice for environmental concerns. At 16, in the mid 80s, Ocean took off in his car to reach out to the youth. Instead of 'just say no', he was urging youth to just say 'yes' -- yes to living with meaning, purpose, integrity and commitment. ' YES! ‘quickly became an organization. One school assembly after another, he would get people fired up about service and engaged in local community work. To date, his efforts have touched more than 625,000 students across the country, brought together leaders of tomorrow through their international youth jams , and inspired formation of more than 400 nonprofits! Sti...

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By Rudyard Kipling 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 ...