Friday, January 8, 2010

mother teresa

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 successful you will win some false friends and true enemies;

succeed anyway.


If you are honest people may cheat you;

be honest 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 end, it is between you and God;

it was never between you and them anyway.

2 comments:

OlsonFamily6 said...

wow! those are some good mottos to breathe in. you forget sometimes, getting caught up in other people's drama, that it really isn't about us and them anyways.

LOVE you!

Jen House Photography said...

I love you, too, Leslie! All those quotes were by Mother Teresa.