"People are often unreasonable, illogical, and self-centered: 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 true enemies: Succeed anyway. If you are honest and frank people will try to cheat you: Be honest anyway. What you spend years building, someone could destroy overnight: Build anyway. If you find serenity and happiness, they may be jealous of you: Be happy anyway. The good you do today, will often be forgotten by tomorrow: Do good anyway. Give the world the best you have, and it may never be enough: Give your best anyway. You see, in the final analysis, it is between you and God. It was never between you and them anyway."
-Mother Teresa
In the wake of this most horrific massacre of school children, I remind myself of the goodness there is in this world. And that it is possible to know of terrible things and still act with goodness.
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