Reply #7: this is WONDERFUL but it's not by Mother Theresa

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This resonates TOTALLY with Kerry, and this group, and Mother Teresa, too
BUT Here's the real source:
Kent M. Keith, "Anyway: the paradoxical commandments"
GP Putnam, publishers. 2001
His version is a little different (looks like the internet has been adding things and shifting them around. .
He first wrote these out at the age of 19, while still an undergrad at Harvard. He published it then as a booklet for high school students in 1968
Somehow eight of his original ten commandments ended up on a wall in Mother Teresa's children's home in Calcutta.
I just want to be sure the original guy gets the credit he deserves.

Here's his original wording.
1. People are illogical, unreasonable, and self-centered. Love them anyway.
2. If you do good, people ewill accuse you of selfish ulterior motives. Do good anyway.
3. If you are successful, you will win false friends and true enemies. Succeed anyway.
4. THe good you do today will be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway.
5. Honest and frankness makes 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.
8l 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'll get kicked in the teeth. Give the world the best you have anyway.