Pearls Of Wisdom

Plan for Life - by Mother Teresa

People are often unreasonable, illogical, and self-centred.

Forgive them anyway

If you are kind, people may accuse you of self, ulterior motives

Be kind anyway

If you are successful, you will win some false friends and 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’ve got anyway

You see, in the final analysis, it is all between you and God, It was never between you and them anyway.

"Manifest Your Glory" (extracted from Nelson Mandela's inaugural speech, 1994)

"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our

deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is

our light, not our darkness that most frightens us.

We ask ourselves:

Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?

Actually, who are not to be? Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you.

 We were born to manifest the glory that is within us. It is not just in some of us; it is in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.

As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others."