Paradoxical life

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 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.

I like those. Thanks for posting them!

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How very true, LH....I'm keeping on with the RAK's anyway.

Many I know from personal experience. Glad to be on the right track.

Same here - and I'm going to try to ignore those who bitch that I didn't do more.

Tell you what, when I win a lottery and have nothing but free time, I'll happily do a lot more. Be happy I did something.

I guess it's time I add Laws of ducks again... (and this looks like a good place to put them)
The Laws of Ducks By Ken Fussichen, 1998

Duck Law No. 1: If it walks like a duck, talks like a duck, looks like a duck and cooks like a duck, it's a duck.
Restatement: All things are known by their attributes.

Duck Law No. 2: Even under ideal circumstances, no duck, no matter how noble or well intentioned, can be an eagle.
Restatement: All things must be what they are.

Duck Law No. 3: A duck can pretend to be an eagle except in times of adversity.
Restatement: Pretense and adversity are inversely proportional; adversity reveals the true nature of all things.

Duck Law No 4: No duck may be an eagle until it abandons its webbed feet and bill for talons and a beak.
Restatement: All things remain as they are until the attributes that define them are abandoned. Then, and only then, can they evolve.

Duck Law No. 5: Ducks are noble creatures. They shall not be penalized in the eyes of other creatures because they are not eagles.
Restatement: All things are honorable if they are what they are honestly, even if they are different from you.

Duck Law No. 6: The greatest duck that ever was cannot fly as high as even a modest eagle.
Restatement: If one would soar with eagles, do not swim with ducks.

Duck Law No. 7: Ducks flock. Eagles fly alone. Ducks and eagles never mingle.
Restatement: Choose company wisely.

Duck Law No. 8: A duck's quack doesn't echo. No one knows why.
Restatement: Sometimes there is no answer.
Added by TPP: Restatement of Restatement #8 "Mythbusters" proved that duck's quack does echo, but Will still stick with original Restatement: SOMETIMES THERE IS NO ANSWER!