Vandaag wat inspirerende woorden van een ‘grande dame’ die haar leven wijdde aan het helpen van de armen, zieken en misdeelden. Moeder Teresa – geboren 26 augustus 1910 in Skopje Macedonie, overleden 5 september 1997 in Calcutta India – was een Rooms Katholieke non die in 1979 de Nobelprijs voor de Vrede kreeg. Dit versje verscheen in het boekje ‘A Simple Path’, waarin ze levenstips geeft en over haar leven vertelt.  Het is hier te koop.

Anyway

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 God;
It was never between you and them anyway.

(Mother Teresa, A Simple Path)