The Paradoxical Commandements, by Kent Keith.

[Amber]

* 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 to 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.

What do you guys think, true untrue or what. I can tell ya this that I will never be a politican with these commandements.

[Mitera Nikkou]

I wouldn't call that paradoxical. More like... Living in your own world and having no soul. Just seems completely mechanical-minded to me.

[P-tan]

High five!

The complexities of life gives me energy!

[Ijuin]

The point, I think, is that we are to fight against our own natures because to give in to our impulses would result in our tearing each other apart.