Plan for Life

[enoch]

Whether you're religious or not, this is a simple, elegant plan for life. These words hang, framed in the hallway in my house. I put it there as a reminder that when I go out into the world I should do with this wisdom in mind. I don't go out much anymore ( :lol: ) so I thought I'd share it with those who do.


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, people may be jealous.
Be happy anyway.

The good you do today, people will often forget tomorrow.
Be good anyway.

Give the world the best you have, and it may never be enough.
But 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 Mother Teresa

[boris]

thats beautiful, i think i might get that on my wall too, there have been many times where ive needed that reminder

[Beekeeper]

Ah, Mother Therese, I knew I'd seen it before. It's good. It's wise. You could definitely live by it.

I like Rudyard Kipling's poem "If" too. It's not as simple and, maybe, not as sound but it seems to express a similar type of wisdom (albeit without MT's gender neutral languge).

If

If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you;
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or, being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or, being hated, don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise;

If you can dream - and not make dreams your master;
If you can think - and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with triumph and disaster
And treat those two imposters just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to broken,
And stoop and build 'em up with wornout tools;

If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breath a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on";

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with kings - nor lose the common touch;
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you;
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run -
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And - which is more - you'll be a Man my son!

:D

[LittleBee]

Beekeeper and Enoch, those were such wonderfull posts!

Thank you :-D

I will have them both printed and hang them in my working room ;-)

XXX