Last Friday, I had a chance to meet Dr. Kent Keith who wrote a The Paradoxical Commandments.
Many people think it is written by Mother Teresa.
My JPNS 290 professor Linda Fujikawa introduced Dr. Kent Keith to our class.
His story was very interesting.
Many people think success, wealth, and power are the most important for life.
Or, this is what society makes us to believe.
However, he said to us the most meaningful value is not success, wealth or power, it is love.
Relationship, family and friends are the most important things in life.
If you seek for success, wealth, and power, you will not be able to find yourself happy.
If your relationship between family and friend is good, you feel happy even though you are not powerful succeeded rich person.
My parents always ask me what I am going to do for a job.
They want me to succeed, but it was annoying to me.
When I was listening to his story, I realized they don't really want me to succeed, what they truly want me is my happiness.
It is the family love.
They are not going to say they love me since it is not Japanese Culture.
But I know they do love me, and so do I.
http://www.paradoxicalcommandments.com/index.html
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
I would have to agree.
返信削除While success, wealth, and power can certainly make life much more comfortable; it would be a very empty life indeed without relationships, family, and friends to give it warmth and meaning.
Like they say, "money can't buy you happiness"...
I want to read this book. I think it will make me think about what is important in my life.
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