This poem was written by Mother Teresa and is engraved on the wall of her Home for Children in Calcutta.

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 your best and it may never be enough; Give the world your best anyway. You see, in the final analysis, it is between you and God; It was never between you and them anyway.

-- heather (h.m.metheny@att.net), March 04, 2002

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Thank you Heather. I love this quote. I have it written right inside my Bible, but I never knew who wrote it!

-- Melissa in SE Ohio (me@home.net), March 04, 2002.

She is one of my heroes..what a truly remarkable human being! I loved her telling folks that she was just a pencil in the hands of God...

-- lesley (martchas@bellsouth.net), March 04, 2002.

I am not too impressed with people but Mother Teresa did impress me. She came to a town not to far from my town a few years before she passed on ,I would have liked to have went to see her sorta like the people go see the Pope or Billy Graham.I wonder sometimes what it would be like to just walk a way from the things I own and work for Christ,but I am to greedy,and self centered.And scared.

-- willa in IL. (goodall6@hotmail.com), March 04, 2002.

Heather, I carry that with me when I do Pastorial work in the Hospitals. I'm glad yu printed it. I give it to certain patients. Blessings--Priscilla Mountain ASHE Acres Farm, Upstate,NY

-- Gary and Pris (MTASHEACRES@AOL.COM), March 10, 2002.