Advice from Mother Teresa

People are often unreasonable, illogical and self -centred.
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 make 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 may destroy overnight.
Build anyway.
If you find serenity and happiness, people 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.
But give the world the best you have anyway.
You see, in the final analysis, it is between you and God;
It was never between you and them anyway.

When my friend Sandy gave me the above my immediate reaction was that I would post it on my blog. But then I thought – what about Humanists. Most of the Humanists I know have as high or a higher moral code than those who worship a God. Then I realised there is an answer there as well – just change the bottom lines to
You see, in the final analysis, it is between you and yourself;
It was never between you and them anyway.