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 may destroy overnight.
Build
anyway!
If
you find serenity and happiness, they may be jealous.
Be
happy anyway!
The
goods you do today, people will often forget tomorrow.
Do
good any way!
Give
the world the best you have and it may never be enough.
Give
the world the best you have anyway!
You
see in the final analysis it is all between you and God.
Lord,
Make me an instrument of thy peace!
Where
there is hatred,
Let me
so love.
Where
there is injury,
Pardon.
Where
there is doubt,
Faith.
Where
there is despair,
Hope.
Where
there is darkness,
Light.
Where
there is sadness,
Joy.
Oh
Devine Master,
Grant
That I
may not so much seek to be consoled,
As to
consol.
To be
understood,
As to
understand.
To be
loved,
As to
love.
For it
is in giving,
That
we’ve received.
And it
is in pardoning,
That we
are pardoned.
And it
is in dying to self,
That we
are born to eternal life.
Franchesco
13th
century