10 Ways to A Better Life
1. People are illogical,unreasonable and self-centered.
Love them anyway.
2. If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish ulterior motives.
Do good anyway.
3. If you are successful, you may win false friends and true enemies.
Succeed anyway.
4. The good you do today may be forgotten tomorrow.
Do good anyway.
5. Honesty and frankness make you vulnerable.
Be honest and frank anyway.
6. 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.
7. People favor underdogs but follow only top dogs.
Fight for a few underdogs anyway.
8. What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight.
Build anyway.
9. People really need help but may attack you if you do help them.
Help people anyway.
10.Give the world the best you have and you may get kicked in the teeth.
Give the world the best you have anyway.
From "Anyway": The Paradoxical Commandments by Kent M. Keith
Staff Features: A Glimpse of Grace
5 years ago
Words gilded with grace and truth and certainly ones to take heed of and live by!
ReplyDeleteThanks for this post :)
Thank you Jessica.
ReplyDeleteI like that, JoAnne. It's so true...people want you to win, but then when you do, they get jealous and start to undermine you. What a wonderful feeling to know we have Jesus to comfort us, wrap His arms around us and say, "it's going to be O.K., just hang on"!
ReplyDeleteThis is an awesome post! Thank you, JoAnne!
ReplyDeleteYou're welcome Christy! Thank you
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