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 -

Succeed anyway.

If you are honest, people may cheat you -

Be honest anyway.

What you may spend years building, someone may try to destroy overnight -

Build anyway.

If you find serenity and happiness, some people won't understand -

Be happy anyway.

The good you do today, people will often forget tomorrow -

Do good anyway.

Give the world the best you’ve got, and it may never be enough -

Give the best you’ve got anyway.

Because you see, in the final analysis, it is between you and God –

It was never between you and them,

anyway.

I recently thought of this quote that I have had saved on my computer for years. It can be a good reminder on difficult days of what it's really all about.

illustration courtesy of www.allposters.com

"Country Daisy" by Vanna Lam