Guiding Thoughts…
This seems to be a week for sharing favourites. I had the following piece posted on the bulletin board above my desk during the last years while I was working, and I looked at it often. – Wendy Barker
THE WISE WAY
People are often unreasonable, illogical and self-centred;
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 may destroy overnight;
Build anyway.
If you find serenity and happiness, others 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 all between you and God;
It was never between you and them anyway.
~by Kent M. Keith, age 19, published 1968
(Mother Theresa kept a copy on her wall)