An Open Letter to the Ladies of Lit

No pics this post... I just want you to know that you make each of my days better, just by being you. Yep, you. Each one of the people on here has added to the fun, relaxation, and joy I have experienced on here. Thank you.
 
Perhaps it's from a different time, but I hope you can learn lessons from this, and, if that's your thing, find one just like this...

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 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!"

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with Kings---nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
If all men count with you, but none too much:
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And---which is more---you'll be a Man, my son!
Rudyard Kipling
 
Fractals are endlessly repeating patterns of mathematical beauty...

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They are fascinating.

http://www.roadschooled.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/snowflake_fractal-400x298.jpg

But what you might be surprised to know is that no matter how amazing fractals are...

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Now matter how complex...

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You are more amazing, more complex, and far more beautiful...
 
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