The Two Lions (Inspiring Short Story about Life) An old Lion sat down to teach his grandson about life. a fight going on inside me,” he tells the young boy, “a fight between two lions.” “One wolf is evil. It’s full of malice, anger, greed, self-pity and false pride. The other is good. It’s full of peace, love, joy, kindness, and humility.” “This same fight is going on inside you and everyone else on the face of the earth.” The grandson was quiet, pondering this revelation for a moment before asking, “Grandfather, which lion will win?” The old man ...Read More

How to Hunt a Monkey “Do you know how hunters of old used to trap monkeys?” A man asked child. “Rather than chasing them up a tree or shooting arrows from below, they’d put a heavy glass jar with a narrow neck on the floor, which had the monkeys’ favourite food inside. They’d then step back and hide, waiting for the unsuspecting animal to approach. When it did, the monkey would reach inside, clench a fist around the food, and try to pull it out. However, the narrow neck of the jar would stop the poor monkey from getting ...Read More

Laziness won’t get you anywhere“In ancient times, a king had his men place a boulder on a roadway. He hid in the bushes, and watched to see if anyone would move the boulder out of the way. Some of the king’s wealthiest merchants and courtiers passed by and simply walked around it.Many people blamed the King for not keeping the roads clear, but none of them did anything about getting the stone removed.One day, a peasant came along carrying vegetables. Upon approaching the boulder, the peasant laid down his burden and tried to push the stone out of the ...Read More

Mother’s Day A man stopped at a flower shop to order some flowers to be wired to his who lived two hundred miles away. As he got out of his car he noticed a young girl sitting on the curb sobbing. He asked her what was wrong and she replied, “I wanted to buy a red rose for my mother and I don’t have enough money.” The man smiled and said, “Come on in with me. I’ll buy you a rose.” He bought the little girl her rose and ordered his own mother’s flowers. As they were leaving he ...Read More

The Search for Happiness Once upon a time, a seminar on personal development drew a crowd of 100 people. speaker comes to a halt in the middle of their presentation and decides to lead an impromptu group exercise. He gives each guest a balloon and instructs them to write their name on it. After that, the balloons are collected and placed in a nearby room. The speaker then urges the 100 guests to enter the room and locate the balloon with their name on it within 5 minutes. As they rush in, pushing and crashing with one another in ...Read More

Peasant OR Queen A queen ordered her men to place a boulder in the centre of the major route into and out of town in ancient times. The queen then crept into hiding, waiting for someone to come to their senses and move it out of the way. The boulder was passed by wealthy merchants and courtiers without a second glance. A couple of them held their queen responsible for the state of the roads. However, no one intervened. A peasant strolled down the street with a sack of vegetables to sell at the market one day. He came ...Read More

Life is Greatful There was a blind girl who hated herself just because she was blind. She hated everyone, her loving boyfriend. He was always there for her. She said that if she could only see the world, she would marry her boyfriend. One day, someone donated a pair of eyes to her and then she could see everything, including her boyfriend. Her boyfriend asked her, “Now that you can see the world, will you marry me?” The girl was shocked when she saw that her boyfriend was blind too, and refused to marry him. Her boyfriend walked away ...Read More

Learn from Mistakes Thomas Edison tried two thousand different materials in search of a filament for the light bulb. none worked satisfactorily, his assistant complained, “All our work is in vain. We have learned nothing.” Edison replied very confidently, “Oh, we have come a long way and we have learned a lot. We know that there are two thousand elements which we cannot use to make a good light bulb.” Keep Your Dream I have a friend named Monty Roberts who owns a horse ranch in San Ysidro. ...Read More

Blind Man’s Motivation Two men, both seriously ill, occupied the same hospital room. One man was allowed to up in his bed for an hour each afternoon to help drain the fluid from his lungs. His bed was next to the room’s only window. The other man had to spend all his time flat on his back. The men talked for hours on end. They spoke of their wives and families, their homes, their jobs, their involvement in the military service, where they had been on vacation. Every afternoon when the man ...Read More

A Wise Man’s Jokes A wise man once encountered a gathering of people who kept harping on the problems. One day, he told them a joke instead of listening to their complaints, and everyone burst out laughing. Then he said the joke once more. Several folks grinned. The man then told the joke a third time, but nobody responded. You won't laugh at the same joke more than once, the man remarked with a smile. What are you hoping to gain by making the same complaint over and over again? The Moral: If you continually whining about ...Read More

Face Difficulties Positively This parable is told of a farmer who owned an old mule. The mule fell into farmer’s well. The farmer heard the mule praying or whatever mules do when they fall into wells. After carefully assessing the situation, the farmer sympathized with the mule, but decided that neither the mule nor the well was worth the trouble of saving. Instead, he called his neighbors together, told them what had happened, and enlisted them to help haul dirt to bury the old mule in the well and put him out of his misery. Initially the old mule ...Read More

Facing The Mighty Problems With Brain – Inspirational Story In a small Indian town, hundreds of years ago, small business owner owed a large sum of money to a moneylender. The moneylender was a very old, fat, bald unattractive looking guy that just so happened to love the business owner’s daughter. He decided tooffer the businessman a deal that would completely wipe out the debt he owed him. However, the catch was that we would only wipe out the debt if he could marry the businessman’s daughter. Needless to say, this proposal was met with a look of ...Read More

Story About Love And Other Feelings WE usually don’t understand the Importance of Emotions in our life. We just hem lightly. We should respect every emotion as these are the only Spices of Our Life. We should be aware of the correct use of emotions. Here is a story about Emotions and their Use and Importance. All emotions came together many years ago to take a vacation on a coastal island. Each of them was enjoying themselves, but one day a storm warning was issued, forcing everyone to leave the island. Everyone raced to their boats in a frenzy ...Read More

Teacher Never Dies without giving Some Lesson Teacher was dying, but still he was cheerful and kind. Students were around his deathbed. – Ask. While I’m still here, I can help you somehow. And he was showered with questions… The teacher listened to them and started crying. – You ruined my feast, dear ones! Now I see that I was a bad mentor… Fine, I will try to fix it in the last minutes of my life. And he said the following: – Every morning I would wake up with a smile on my face. I would meet the ...Read More

Happiness OR Money OR Power Once, a shah was riding in his palanquin through the town, looking through the at the scurrying people. Suddenly, he saw a lonely dervish sitting in the middle of the crowd, who was smiling and looking happy about something. The dervish was dressed poorly, and except the saucer for hand-outs and a road script he had nothing else besides him. The shah road past him and soon forgot what he saw. After a few days, the shah had to go the same way again, where he saw the same dervish again, completely happy, dozing ...Read More

The Bad is In You and Not In The World A long time ago there was a great shah. ordered to build a beautiful palace which had many wonderful things in it. Among other curiosities in the palace there was a hall, where all the walls, the sealing, the door and even the floor were made of mirror. The mirrors were so clear and smooth that visitors didn’t understand at once that there was a mirror in front of them – so accurately the mirrors would reflect the objects. Moreover, the walls of this hall were made in a ...Read More

World Has Imperfect Things My mother occasionally enjoyed cooking breakfast foods for dinner when I was a young child. after a long, arduous day at work, I specifically recall one night when she made breakfast. My mother set a plate of biscuits that were horribly burned, sausage and eggs in front of my father that evening so long ago. I can still picture me waiting to see if anyone noticed! In contrast, all my dad did was ask me how my day at school was while reaching for his biscuit and grinning at my mother. I don't recall what ...Read More

Happy Or Sad It’s Your Choice My wife, Tere, and I purchased a new car in December. Even though had tickets to fly from California to Houston to visit her family for Christmas, we decided to drive to Texas to break in the new car. We packed the car and took off for a wonderful week with Grandma. We had a wonderful time and stay to the last possible minute visiting with Grandma. On the return trip we needed to get home in a hurry, so we drove straight through — one person driving while the other one slept. ...Read More

Don’t Fear Death Make it Meaningful I died in a car crash. It’s not what you’d callbeautiful. It gory. It was messy. It was tragic.It wasn’t the way anyone would want to die, nor hope to be reunited with a lover, but it was what fate had in store for me. Julia broke up with me months before I died. She was ill, and she said to me,“I’m dying, James. You deserve someone you can grow old with – have kids and grandchildren and share a lifetime with. I can’t be that person.” I wanted to take care ...Read More

Do Good Get Goodness One day a man saw an old lady, stranded on the side of the road, even in the dim light of day, he could see she needed help. So he pulled up in front of her Mercedes and got out. His Pontiac was still sputtering when he approached her. Even with the smile on his face, she was worried. No one had stopped to help for the last hour or so. Was he going to hurt her? He didn’t look safe; he looked poor and hungry. He could see that she was frightened, standing out ...Read More

Who’s Cookie Thief A woman was waiting at an airport one night, with several long hours before her flight. hunted for a book in the airport shops, bought a bag of cookies and found a place to drop. She was engrossed in her book but happened to see, that the man sitting beside her, as bold as could be. . .grabbed a cookie or two from the bag in between, which she tried to ignore to avoid a scene. So she munched the cookies and watched the clock, as the gutsy cookie thief diminished her stock. She was getting ...Read More

Last Cab Ride Before Enlightenment Twenty years ago, James drove a cab for a living. One time James arrived the middle of the night for a pick up at a building that was dark except for a single light in a ground floor window. Under these circumstances, many drivers would just honk once or twice, wait a minute, then drive away. But I had seen too many impoverished people who depended on taxis as their only means of transportation. Unless a situation smelled of danger, I always went to the door. This passenger might be someone who needs my ...Read More