People are often unreasonable, illogical and self entered; 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 may never know who they are.
- There is no way you’ll please everyone. In life you can sit back and wait until you have the approval of everyone around you before you can make a change: it’s not coming.
- You can give up your right to live authentically and honestly, so that you never become the topic of conversation: what a waste.
- You can trim yourself back and keep parts of you hidden, but you’ll kill all that is special about you.
- You can continue to stifle yourself, your creativity, your dreams, your plans, your wishes and passions.
Or, you can say ‘screw it’, get yourself buckled up and drive off in the other direction.
Will you leave some people standing?
Probably.
Will some people be sitting waiting for you to return and fill you with ‘I told you so’. Maybe.
Only you can make the decision to never be held in an imaginary prison created for you by other people’s opinions.
A Lesson From Bond, James Bond
Sean Connery is from Edinburgh…
When ‘Msh Moneypenny Connery’ is out of town and making the headlines folks say ‘I remember him when he was just a milkman, who does he think he is now’ and when he’s in town they are lining the streets to touch and congratulate the man. See, Number 3’s!
Do you think for one second Connery worries and concerns himself with the people who are bitter about his success and former career as a milkman? Em, no!
You see, in the final analysis, it is between you and your God; It was never between you and them anyway.
I am Oladimeji Olaoluwa, i just wanna make common sense.
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