I want to get serious for a few minutes. I have a friend, a pen pal, whom I’ve been writing to on and off for about seven years. We always get down to the difficult questions and try to come up with an answer that satisfies us both. Sometimes we do disagree, but decide that the answer cannot be an objective one, so we leave it there.
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This is the first in what I hope will be an ongoing series of spiritual quotes and themes I’d like to share and invite comments on.
People are often unreasonable, illogical and self-centered.
Forgive them anyway.
If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives.
Be kind anyway.
If you are honest and frank, people may cheat you.
Be honest and frank anyway.
What you spend years building, someone could destroy overnight.
Build anyway.
If you find serenity and happiness, they may be jealous.
Be happy anyway.
The good you do today, people will often forget tomorrow.
Do good anyway.
Give the world the best you have, and it may never be enough.
Give the world the best you’ve got anyway.
You see, in the final analysis, it is between you and God.
It never was between you and them anyway.
CORRECTION (thanks to Bad Karma):
Mother Theresa didn’t write this, but she did have it hanging on the wall of her children’s home in Calcutta.
To give credit where it is due, it was written by Kent M. Keith, and it is both from a poem and a book titled “The Paradoxical Commandments.”
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