1. Don't worry about your self-image. We all have an image of ourselves, how we think we appear to others. It's usually wrong because we just don't know what other people think about us, and so it's...

Positive thinking is a significant element of happiness. In order to become a positive thinker, determination and consistency are important. The first thing to know about positive thinking is that...

If we could shrink the earth population to a village of precisely 100 people, with all the exsting human ratios remaining the same, it would look something like the following: There would be: 57...

"How are things back at the office?" one of the gentlemen in my bicycle tour group asked me as we were nearing the end of another lengthy ride through Croatia's scenic countryside. "I assume they...

When I was superintendent of schools in Palo Alto, California, Polly Tyner, the president of our board of trustees, wrote a letter that was printed in the Palo Alto Times. Polly's son, Jim, had...

Your job is important and part of what defines you as who you are. However, in order to be truly successful in life you need to be balanced. After fifteen years in the Information Technology...

Tess was a precocious eight-year-old girl when she heard her Mom and Dad talking about her little brother, Andrew. All she knew was that he was very sick and they were completely out of money. They...

My son Joey was born with club feet. The doctors assured us that with treatment he would be able to walk normally - but would never run very well. The first three years of his life were spent in...

Steve, a twelve-year-old boy with alcoholic parents, was about to be lost forever, by the U.S. education system. Remarkably, he could read, yet, in spite of his reading skills, Steve was failing. He...

When I was growing up, I had an old neighbor named Dr. Gibbs. He didn't look like any doctor I'd ever known. He never yelled at us for playing in his yard. I remember him as someone who was a lot...

One day a young man was standing in the middle of the town proclaiming that he had the most beautiful heart in the whole valley. A large crowd gathered, and they all admired his heart for it was...

There was a rich merchant who had 4 wives. He loved the 4th wife the most and adorned her with rich robes and treated her to delicacies. He took great care of her and gave her nothing but the best....

As the Lord God was creating the world he called upon his archangels. The Lord asked his archangels to help him decide where to put the Secret of Life. "Bury it in the ground," one angel replied....

I got an engagement ring for Christmas. My boyfriend and I had been dating for almost a year and both felt the time was right to join our lives together in holy matrimony. The month of January was...

My friend Gayle has been "living" with cancer for four years and it is progressively getting worse. During a conversation with another friend, Gayle expressed that one of her childhood wishes was to...

She had been shopping with her Mom in Wal-Mart. She must have been 6 years old, this beautiful brown haired, freckle-faced image of innocence. It was pouring outside. The kind of rain that gushes...

A long time before I was born, my Grandma and grandpa moved into the house on Beechwood Avenue. They had a young family-of 4 little girls little girls Slept in the attic in a big feather was cold...

We were a very motley crowd of people who took the bus every day that summer 3 years ago. During the early morning ride from the suburb, we sat drowsily with our collars up to our ears, a cheerless...

A long time ago, there was a huge apple tree. A little boy loved to come and play around it every day. He climbed to the tree top, ate the apples, took a nap under the shadow… He loved the tree and...

When I was growing up, I was embarrassed to be seen with my father. He was severely crippled and very short, and when we would walk together, his hand on my arm for balance, people would stare. I...

Eleven-year-old Angela was stricken with a debilitating disease involving her nervous system. She was unable to walk and her movement was restricted in other ways as well. The doctors did not hold...

If you have ever been discouraged because of failure, please read on. For often, achieving what you set out to do is not the important thing. Let me explain. Two brothers decided to dig a deep hole...

A young and successful executive was traveling down a neighborhood street, going a bit too fast in his new Jaguar. He was watching for kids darting out from between parked cars and slowed down when...

“ Why are you crying?” he asked his Mom. “ Because I’m a woman.” she told him. “ I don’t understand,” he said. His Mom just hugged him and said, “ And you never will” ... Later the little boy asked...

One fine afternoon I was walking along Fifth Avenue, when I remembered that it was necessary to buy a pair of socks. I turned into the first sock shop that caught my eye, and a boy clerk who could...

For washing the car.$5.00 For making my own bed this week.$1.00 Going to the provision shop$0.50 Playing with little sister ..$0.25 Taking out the rubbish..$1.00 Getting a good report card..$5.00...

Brownie and Spotty were neighbor dogs who met every day to play together. Like pairs of dogs you can find in most any neighborhood, these two loved each other and played together so often that they...

Now, there was a very young and beautiful wife, who became sick and nearly died. She was on her death bed and told her husband, "I love you very much, and I don't want to leave you. Please, after I...

A long time ago, there was a huge apple tree. A little boy loved to come and play around it every day. He climbed to the tree top, ate the apples, took a nap under the shadow… He loved the tree and...

When he told me he was leaving I felt like a vase which has just smashed. there were pieces of me all over the tidy, tan tiles. He kept talking, telling me why he was leaving, explaining it was for...

Recently divorced, I was in my 20s, had no job and was on my way downtown to go the rounds of the employment offices. I had no umbrella, for my old one had fallen apart, and I could not afford...

1. Don't go for looks；they can deceive. Don't go for wealth；even that fades away. Go for someone who makes you smile because it takes only a smile to make a dark day seem bright. 2. Sometimes things...

A friend talked about his familys great-aunt, life never wore comfortable shoes, walked up and down in huge shoes. Son the younger generation if you ask her, she will say: "shoe sizes are the same...

After the rain，a difficult spider to the wall has been fragmented network， due to damp walls，it must climb the height， it will fall， which one to climb， repeatedly falling and… No. a person to see，...

I still remember that performance. The audience confirmed my effort with their thunderous applause. All the details of practicing before the show came into my mind. I was wearing a smile on the...

1. The best way to predict the future is to create it. 2. When you finally get your own happiness, you will understand the previous sadness is a kind of treasure, which makes you better to hold and...

1. Fearlessness is like a muscle. I know from my own life that the more I exercise it, the more natural it becomes to not let my fears run me. 2. Be strong but not rude. Be kind but not weak. Be...

1. When life puts you in tough situations, don't say "why me", say "try me". 2. Luck is what happens when prepapration meets opportunity. 3. Don't limit your challenges. Chanllenge your limits. 4....

Once upon a time there was a child ready to be born. So one day he asked God, “They tell me you are sending me to earth tomorrow but how am I going to live there being so small and helpless?”  ...

There is a hill near my home that I often climb at night. The noise of the city is a far-off murmur. In the hush of dark I share the cheerfulness of crickets and the confidence of owls. But it is...

Between the preparation and the work,the apprenticeship and the actual dealing with a task or an art,there comes, in the experience of many young men,a period of uncertainty and wandering which is...

Remember that a lot… goes forever Live a life of serenity, not a life of regrets Remember that a little love goes along way Life’s treasures are people … together Realize that it’s never to late Do...

1. Count your blessings, not your trouble 2. You’ll make it through whatever comes along 3. Within you are so many answers. Understand , have courage be strong 4. Don’t put limits on yourself 5. So...

1. Great minds have purpose, others have wishes. 2. Being single is better than being in an unfaithful relationship. 3. If you find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn’t lead anywhere. 4....

1. Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm. 2. Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced. 3. A guy who...

1. When there’s no expectation, losing won’t bring hurt, gaining makes you surprised. 2. Sometimes your plans don’t work out because God has better ones. 3. How much truth of heart in one’s life is...

1. Sweat is the lubricant of success. 2. If you are doing your best,you will not have to worry about failure. 3. Energy and persistence conquer all things. 4. Bravery never goes out of fashion. 5....

  1. Every noble work is at first impossible. 2. We improve ourselves by victories over ourselves. There must be contests, and we must win. 3. Giving is a reward in itself. 4. Never...

1. Don't try so hard, the best things come when you least expect them to. 2. Man struggles upwards; water flows downwards. 3. One needs 3 things to be truly happy living in the world: some thing to...

Once upon a time in a land far far away, there was a wonderful old man who loved everything. animals, spiders, insects... One day while walking through the woods the nice old man found a cocoon of a...

I have a friend named Monty Roberts who owns a horse ranch in San Sedro. he has let me use his house to put on fund-raising events to raise money for youth at risk programs. The last time I was...

A young and successful executive was traveling down a neighborhood street, going a bit too fast in his new jaguar. he was watching for kids darting out from between parked cars and slowed down when...

There once was a little boy who had a bad temper.His father gave him a bag of nails and told him that every time he lost his temper, he must hammer a nail into the back of the fence.   The...

One day a rich father took his young son on a trip to the country with the firm purpose to show him how poor people can be. They spent a day and night in the farm of a very poor family. When they...

When I was a child of seven years old , my friends , on a holiday ,filled my pocket with coppers . I went at once to a shop where they sold toys for children . Being charmed with the sound of a...

The hardworking blacksmith Jones used to work all day in his shop and so hard working was he that at times he would make the sparks fly from his hammer. The son of Mr. Smith, a rich neighbor, used...

It was Christmas 1961. I was teaching in a small town in Ohio where my twenty seven third graders eagerly anticipated the great day of gifts giving.   Each day the children produced some new...

It was Thanksgiving morning and in the crowded kitchen of my small home I was busy preparing the traditional Thanksgiving turkey when the doorbell rang. I opened the front door and saw two small...

Tom Peterson worked for many years to build a solid business selling television sets, stereo systems, and home appliances. He gave people good value, a full satisfaction guarantee, and friendly...

Marie was a single mother of two children in a rural Missouri community. She worked full-time during the day and sold handcrafted leather gifts on weekends. She also dedicated much spare time to...

One day, an expert in time management was speaking to a group of students and, to drive home a point, used an illustration those students will never forget.   As he stood in front of the group...

When the three travelers went out in the morning, a traveler carried an umbrella, and another traveller took a cane, and the third travelers did not take anything.   Returning home at night,...