I just received this glorious blessing of truth via PM, and I want to share it with everybody!
ANYWAY People are unreasonable, illogical, and self-centered. If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish ulterior motives. If you are successful, you will win some false friends and true enemies. The good you do today will be forgotten tomorrow. Honesty and frankness will make you vulnerable. What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight. People need help but will attack you if you help them. In the final analysis, it is between you and God.
Love them anyway.
Be kind anyway.
Succeed anyway.
Be good anyway.
Be honest and frank anyway.
Build anyway.
Help them anyway.
It was never between you and them anyway.
(Kent Keith originated this poem in 1968, and Mother Teresa placed it on her children's home in Calcutta in a slightly different version. As a result, many have attributed it to Mother Teresa).