Alow yourself to be happy and proud of your progress Too often we are hard on ourselves and feel bad about our lack of progress. We feel guilty that we’ve missed a couple of worko...

Life at age twenty seven is nothing what I envisioned when I was a child. I imagined by age twenty seven I would be in a serious relationship border line marriage, owning my own pl...

'What shall I do,' said a very little dog one day to his mother, 'to show my gratitude to our good master, and make myself of some value to him? I cannot draw or carry burdens like...

'Why don‘t you just rest your arms and let me push you?' 'No.'  'Your arms will get sorely. I‘ve been helping you do it for three months now.' 'I wheeled myself for 12 yea...

As a teenager，I felt I was always letting people down. I was rebellious1 out－side，but I wanted to be liked inside. Once I left home to hitch-hike2 to California with my friend...

The feathers of a Goose put the newly-fallen snow to the blush. Proud of this dazzling gift of Nature, she considered herself intended for a Swan, rather than for that which she wa...

They‘re gone now. 他们已经走了。 I stood in the driveway and watched my grown children drive off into the distance. I looked down the road until I could no longer see their vehicl...

One cold night the king called Nasreddin to him and said, "If you're able to spend this night in the courtyard with only your shirt on, I will give you one hundred gold co...

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...

    There was a big company located in St. Louis, Missouri. One day, after lunch, all the staff saw a poster beside the gate of the company. The poster read: “Yesterday ...