Do It Anyway

[rahim28]

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 some true enemies;
Succeed 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
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..

Mother Theresa

[margypops]

I love Mother Theresa who ever said those words she loved them, I am glad she chose to put them on her wall.thanks guys for sharing this with us .....

[rahim28]

Dear Caregiver
I think you got that right, here is what my search says :
C LaDeaux August 10, 2009 at 5:59 pm
Actually, Mother Teresa did not write " Do It Anyway ". It was written by Kent M. Keith, but Mother Teresa had it on the wall of her convent. It was originally called “The Ten Paradoxical Commandments for Christians”, and he wrote it when he was a 19-year-old sophomore at Harvard.
Thanks again

[caregiver222]

I have nothing against mother Theresa, but those sentences are almost exactly word for word in "Meditations"/

[rahim28]

Thanks for your information
If that is true
at least we could say : Marcus wrote but Theresa did

[caregiver222]

Mother Theresa has done a fine job of plagiarising the words of Marcus Aurelius, writing in "Meditations", written over a thousand years before she was born.