And so. The thing that has happened.

Sunday Inspirational Quotational (first of a series? probably not)

I found a neat quote from Mother Teresa this morning that has me feeling heartily ashamed of being so wankerish yesterday:

"People are unreasonable, illogical, and self-centred; love them anyway. If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives; do good anyway. If you are successful, you win false friends and true enemies; succeed anyway. The good you do will be forgotten tomorrow; do good anyway. Honesty and frankness make you vulnerable; be honest and frank anyway. What you spent years building may be destroyed overnight; build anyway. People really need help, but may attack you if you help them; help people anyway. Give the world the best you have and you'll get kicked in the teeth; give the world the best you've got anyway."

Mother Teresa certainly wasn't without her faults, but this is pretty dang inspiring. I will do my best to live up to it for at least the next couple of hours*. Followed by going back to my usual mix of good intentions and manipulative pettiness coated with a generous frosting of self-righteousness.

*Less if Kerry shows up at church.

posted by annika fox @ 6:08 a.m.