Mother Teresa’s Anyway Poem
People are often 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 some true enemies; If you are honest and frank, people may cheat you; What you spend years building, someone could destroy overnight; If you find serenity and happiness, they may be jealous; The good you do today, people will often forget tomorrow; Give the world the best you have, and it may never be enough; You see, in the final analysis, it is between you and your God; |
IF by Rudyard Kipling
IF you can keep your head when all about you If you can dream – and not make dreams your master; If you can make one heap of all your winnings If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue, |
Genuine epitaphs taken from Boothill Graveyard, Tombstone, Arizona:
Here lies George Johnson hanged by mistake in 1882.
He was right |
Boothill |
Here lies Lester Moore Four slugs for a 44 No Les, no more. |
Boothill |
William Henry Davies
What is this life if, full of care, |
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Both Sides Now Joni Mitchell
Rows and floes of angel hair But now they only block the sun I’ve looked at clouds from both sides now Moons and Junes and Ferris wheels But now it’s just another show I’ve looked at love from both sides now Tears and fears and feeling proud But now old friends are acting strange I’ve looked at life from both sides now I’ve looked at life from both sides now |
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The Two Children by WH Davies
“Ah, little boy! I see “Ah, little girl with wool! – |
W H Davies |
Watch your thoughts, they become words; watch your words, they become actions; watch your actions, they become habits; watch your habits, they become character; watch your character, for it becomes your destiny.Frank Outlaw Late President of the Bi-Lo stores |
Frank Outlaw |
‘Teach a parrot to say ‘supply and demand’ and you have an economist.’
I thought this was said by Thomas Carlyle but maybe not. So the Monty Python team were not the first to come up with a ‘parrot’ joke! |
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