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amanda2u2


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The Paradoxical Commandments
by Dr. Kent M. Keith


People are illogical, unreasonable, and self-centered.
Love them anyway.

If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish ulterior motives.
Do good anyway.

If you are successful, you will win false friends and true enemies.
Succeed anyway.

The good you do today will be forgotten tomorrow.
Do good anyway.

Honesty and frankness make you vulnerable.
Be honest and frank anyway.

The biggest men and women with the biggest ideas can be shot down by the smallest men and women with the smallest minds.
Think big anyway.

People favor underdogs but follow only top dogs.
Fight for a few underdogs anyway.

What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight.
Build anyway.

People really need help but may attack you if you do 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 have anyway.

© Copyright Kent M. Keith 1968, renewed 2001







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Good one for printing.

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Toni Baloney


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Hi Amanda,


This was  definitely a put on "Fridge" Post.


Thanks for sharing it.  With God's Guidance, doing the best we can do,  completely letting  go of the outcome, with NO expectations, we are learning, eh?


Toni



 



-- Edited by Toni Baloney at 10:46, 2006-04-07

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Hey Amanda,


Thank you for the message. I have forwarded it to family and sponsees. I really needed to hear this today. The blessings you share help us all heal and recover. The truth in this quote builds a better world. The past will be cleaner when I understand my part...


Blessings, JV.



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Cabbageheadchris


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Hi Amanda, great post, one minor addition:


Honesty and frankness make you vulnerable.
Be honest and frank anyway. BUT DO IT WITH TACT!


Got myself in trouble for being a bit too honest in the past (In work)


Hope you (and everyone else here) are well and sober, bye for now.


 


Best wishes.


 


Chris.


 


 



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thanks JohnV  I really appreciate you and your wise and insightful shares of your experience, strength and hope too.


Chris,, great addition...  I have the same problem and have to work hard on tact also.


toni, yep,, that is what it boils down to, eh? "completely letting  go of the outcome, with NO expectations, we are learning, eh?"


love in recovery,


amanda



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