TWENTY-SEVEN

The Paradoxical Commandments by Kent M. Keith

proudly displayed in Mother Teresa’s Calcutta’s Children’s Home.

People are illogical, unreasonable, and self-centered. Love them anyway.

If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish ulterior motives. Do good anyway.

If you are successful, you will win false friends and true enemies. Succeed anyway.

Honesty and frankness make you vulnerable. Be honest and frank anyway.

The biggest men and women with the biggest ideas can be shot down by the smallest men and women with the smallest minds. Think big anyway.

People favor underdogs but follow only top dogs. Fight for a few underdogs anyway.

What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight. Build anyway.

Give the world the best you have and you’ll get kicked in the teeth. Give the world the best you have anyway.

The reason I love these, the reason they make sense, is because how I feel about me and my actions or how my God feels about me and my actions is much more important than those who knowingly or unknowingly destroy, belittle, or hate.