Mother Teresa's Prayer

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 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 could destroy overnight:
...Build anyway.

If you find serenity and happiness, they 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:
...Give the world the best you`ve got anyway.

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


人們不講道理、思想謬誤、自我中心，不管怎樣，總是愛他們。

如果你做善事，人們說你自私自利，別有用心，不管怎樣，總是
要做善事。

如果你成功以後，身邊盡是假的朋友和真的敵人，不管怎樣，總
是要做成功。

你所作的善事明天就會被人遺忘，不管怎樣，總是要繼續做善
事。

誠實與坦率使你易受攻擊，但不管怎樣，總是要誠實與坦率。

你耗費數年所建設的可能毀於一旦，但不管怎樣，總是要建設。

人們確實需要幫助，然而如果你幫助他們，卻可能遭到攻擊，但
不管怎樣，總是要幫助。

將你所擁有最好的東西獻給世界，你可能會被踢掉牙齒，但不管
怎樣，總是要將你所擁有最好的東西獻給世界。

—— 錄自印度加爾各答的兒童之家牆上