Thursday, 25 December 2008

Merry Christmas to everyone!

Mother Teresa's Anyway Poem

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 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 your God;
It was never between you and them anyway.

5 comments:

Crafty Green Poet said...

Thanks for posting this, always a good one to read especially at this time of year.

Have a very happy Christmas

Hilda said...

I finally have time to go visiting! :)

Merry Christmas, Antonella! I hope you had a wonderful day with good food and good company!

Jenny said...

merry christmas.
Jenny <><

Yasmin said...

Merry christmas, lovely poem

Hugs

Yasmin
xx

Anonymous said...

I always loved that poem. Thanks for all your visits and comments, and I hope you had a lovely Christmas with your family. It sounds like Glasgow needs to prepare for a visit, no? :)