A Poem for Kathleen E....
The Paradoxical Commandments by Dr Kent M. KeithPeople 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.
The good you do today will be forgotten tomorrow.
Do good 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.
People really need help but may attack you if you do help them.
Help people anyway.
Give the world the best you have and you’ll get kicked in the teeth.
Give the world the best you have anyway.
Comments (12)
I could underwrite this.......esp. the last one.
That is so sweet of you.
I know your horses really love you! Funny to say that? No! Because animals know nice people!!
Ed, really the animals know nice people. No one can t lie an animal, moved by the spirit first.
DW_this is for u!!!
Hi Mr. Lonelyboy!
Frank, it is not me the poem is for...I am a rock....a warrior.
Ed, ta for the compliments
Mia-may the Good Lord protect u all the days of your life.