Inner Beauty: Mother Teresa
12 July 2007
When we think of beauty Mother Teresa may not be the first person that comes to mind. However, she was one of the most beautiful people that has ever lived. I really wished that her life was more of a focus instead of the many young ladies who are plastered on the tabloids month after month. I have learned the following lessons from studying her life.
- Sometimes we have to break tradition in order to better serve others. Mother Teresa traded in her traditional Loreto habit for a simple white cotton sari with a blue border.
- Never give up, even when you can’t see the good you are doing. The first year of her ministry, Mother Teresa was penniless & had to beg for food & supplies. This helped her to be empathetic with the people she would help.
- You are never done serving. Even if you have won a Noble prize there is more to be done. Even if you are tired & have been working at it for 39 years.
I first heard this poem entitled “Anyways” & it was said that Mother Teresa wrote it. After some research, there was a theory that it just hung on the wall of one of her orphanages & was called, “The Final Analysis”. So, wikiquote has it simply as unsourced, but it’s something that I try to keep in mind when I get angry, hard to believe that someone with the screename Sarakastic would get angry, but it does happen.
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.
