[Assam] "Anyway"

[Alpana B. Sarangapani]

Dear All: 
 
I wanted to share this very inspirational poem by Mother Teresa. 
http://www.dbooth.org/guat2000/small/teresa.htm. This was given to us as an 'inspirational bookmark' on an  'semester opening day' session by our previous Chancellor of the college. I found it on the web again today. 
 
Hope you also enjoy it and get inspired by it to travel the road that life takes you...
 
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.
[Reportedly inscribed on the wall of Mother Teresa's children's home in Calcutta, and attributed to her. However, an article in the New York Times has since reported (March 8, 2002) that the original version of this poem was written by Kent M. Keith.] 
 

 

“In order to make spiritual progress you must be patient like a tree and humble like a blade of grass”.
 
 
 
 
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