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Do Good Anyway

published by TPOS on 5 February, 2009 - 11:42

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People are unreasonable, illogical 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.

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

People really need help but may attack you if you 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’ve got anyway.

You see, in the final analysis, It is between you and God;
It was never between you and them anyway.

Apologise

published by Seraphim on 4 February, 2009 - 21:34

Throughout life we make mistakes. Sometimes they're small and sometimes they're monumental. But more often then not, mistakes lead to hurting the people around us. Sometimes when the people around us hurt, instinctively we hurt too.

In such times, we are reminded that to err is human but to forgive is divine (or some such bs lol). Forgiveness is the act of acknowledging ones mistakes and regretting the decision we now wished we had not made. Something as simple as 'im sorry' can begin to mend even the most broken of hearts.
The act of forgiving is to like setting a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you. It takes much strength to forgive, for forgiveness is an attribute of the strong (Ghandi said that).

Upgrade

published by Ya'qub on 4 February, 2009 - 01:42

I didn't write this... but I really like it for some unknowable reason.

He enters the room.
It is white.
It smells empty.
There are no windows.

At the far end
two buttons, large red buttons, are mounted on the wall.
One is marked: Regular.
The other is marked: Premium.

He crosses.
Examines.
No further instructions.

He thinks for a moment
reaches out his hand
and presses “Premium.”

A buzzing sounds,
as from the ceiling
a massive cloud of bees is released.

They converge upon him.
Stinging. Stinging. Stinging.

He flees,
panicked,
remorseful,
yet strangely satisfied.

Gaza’s Tragedy

published by sajmal86 on 3 February, 2009 - 23:40

Gaza’s Tragedy

An Already worn-out Gaza was pounded by Israel in a three-week offensive, now a fragile ceasefire holds as the world watches and Gazans count their dead.

By SAAD AJMAL

It wasn’t the first time Israel has been at war with its neighbour the Palestinians and maybe
It won’t be the last either. It all started when a ceasefire between Israel and

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