Lunch Box Quotes

Number 2 is 17. Kinda crazy how fast it goes. There are so many things I could say about my not-so-little buddy, about his character, his love for building and creating, but to keep it simple, I just want him to know how proud I am that he is mine and to keep charting your own path. Don’t follow the crowd; never lose that spirit for adventure. Love you. BTW, the Varsity Boys and Girls both won yesterday.

I think Kipling says it best anyway:

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!

As a reminder, Lunch Box Quotes are notes I include in the kids’ lunches every day. Number 1 gets a text, but 2-4 typically get handwritten napkins. Today, we were making birthday breakfast for Number 2, so I’m running behind. It’s a text for 1, 2, and 3, and a note for 4

Visual credits to, Featured Image / Quotes: @Gitana1369877

Quotes: @lovedropx @HermannHessed @arealmofwonder

Quotes:

1. “If you want to know where your heart is, look to where your mind goes when it wanders.” — Walt Whitman

2. “Wherever you are, be all there.” — Jim Elliot

3. “Learning does not make one learned: there are those who have knowledge and those who have understanding. The first requires memory and the second philosophy.” ―Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

4. “Silence is not the absence of sound; it is the moment when you begin to hear yourself.” – Eckhart Tolle

Bonus Quote: “I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought; and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.” – G.K. Chesterton

Sources:

“If you want to know where your heart is, look to where your mind goes when it wanders.”

— Walt Whitman pic.twitter.com/xgegsStBiD

— love drops (@lovedropx) March 23, 2026

• “Wherever you are, be all there.”
— Jim Elliot pic.twitter.com/CqByEn2rWW

— Gitana (@Gitana1369877) March 19, 2026

“Learning does not make one learned: there are those who have knowledge and those who have understanding. The first requires memory and the second philosophy.”

―Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo pic.twitter.com/468n6RaAlK

— Hesse Philosophy (@HermannHessed) March 16, 2026

Silence is not the absence of sound; it is the moment when you begin to hear yourself. pic.twitter.com/kQ3JNUolKS

— Gitana (@Gitana1369877) March 21, 2026

“I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought; and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.”
~ G.K. Chesterton

The Rainbow (1892)
🎨 Nikolay Dubovskoy pic.twitter.com/GE4g8sZXIk

— Cian McCarthy (@arealmofwonder) March 24, 2026

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