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They carried me, like you did, when I would fall asleep. I awoke into the arms of Jesus, the One who gave His life for me! It's so beautiful up here, Mama. > > A pure river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God. Imagine my joy seeing Jesus face to face! His smile - so warm... His face - so radiant..."Welcome home - My child!" He tenderly said. > > Oh, don't be sad for me, Mama. I can run and jump dance and sing! I feel so light on my feet like I'm dreaming, Mama! Sometimes I laugh as I dance in the presence of the angels. The curse of death has lost its sting. Oh, don't cry for me . > > Death is sorrowful with its separation. Cry for a while only . Although God called me home so early, with so many dreams we had, so many songs unsung. I'll be in your heart, in your cherished memories. The moments we had will carry you through. Oh remember, Mama, when at bedtime, I'd crawl up in your bed ? You would tell me stories of Jesus and the love for us He had. I looked into your face as you read to me in the candlelight. "Will the angels come to carry me home too, Mama?" You chuckled teasingly, ruffling my hair. "Yes, my little angel, but you have to wait. On bended knees you prayed for me, a tear splashed down your cheek. "Was that a tear Mama?" I asked you softly. A tender sigh escaped your lips... gathering your thoughts together.. " Yes, my little angel, tears in my heart water my prayers." you said softly, kissing me goodnight. > > I remember those nights, Mama your treasured stories. Mama's lullabies that I tucked in my heart. In the darkness, the slamming of Daddy's door echoed his drunkenness in the night. Through the thin walls, I could hear you cry. An angel weeps, my mama. "Take care of Mama..." I asked God softly, watering my prayers with tears. That night, Mama when you prayed for me, I got down on my knees. The moonlight danced on the wooden floors when I asked God to save me. > > Although I didn't know what to say at first, I remember what you said. Pray from your heart, dear child,you said tenderly, turning to the door to leave. "Dear Jesus, I am a sinner. I'm sorry for my sins. I'm sorry they were so mean to you when they nailed you to the tree. Come into my heart, Lord Jesus, and should the angels come, take me to heaven with You. And Jesus...I hear Mama crying, watch her while she sleeps. Forgive Daddy for being so mean, as You have forgiven me. In Jesus' name. Amen." Jesus came into my life that night, dear Mama! In the darkness, I could feel you smile. Bells rang for me in heaven! My name written in the Book of Life. So don't cry for me, dear Mama, > > I'm here in heaven because of you. Jesus needs you now, for there are my brothers. There's more work on earth for you to do. One day when your work is over, the angels shall come to carry you. safely into the arms of Jesus, the One who loved and died for you. ### How to Turn Any Problem Into a Peaceful Prayer? URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/how-to-turn-any-problem/ Last updated: 2026-04-28T09:30:40.000Z What changes would you like to experience right now? If you had a magic wand, what would you wish for? Your answers are the foundations for your affirmations, prayers, and manifestations. With your answers, you can resolve and heal ANY situation! Let’s say that you wished for a better job, more money, a soulmate, increased health, and so forth. With the current world energy flowing at such a rapid rate, our thoughts and feelings are magnetizing and attracting at record speeds! *So for a better job: say:* Thank you for my meaningful, exciting, prosperous, and interesting job. *For more money, say:* I am completely financially secure and supported in all ways. *For a soulmate say:* I am happy, honored, loved, and in love with my kind, faithful, and healthy soulmate *For increased health say:* My body is completely healthy, energized, and vitalized now and always. If you find yourself complaining about any situation, you have a wonderful foundation to turn the situation into a blessing! Complaints affirm that you’re a victim to outside forces or other people. You ARE powerful and aren’t a victim to anything or anyone. You always have choices that you can make. Secondly, complaints are affirmations and prayers which attract that which you’re complaining about. In other words, more of the same. So if you find yourself thinking or saying a complaint like: “I don’t have enough time!” take the words and rearrange them into a positive statement that affirms what you desire as already being true: “I have plenty of time!” and “I have all the time in the world.” These statements will help you to relax, let go of fear or stress, and have the experience of more time. Call upon the Archangel Jophiel, the angel of beauty, to lift your thoughts if you ever feel stressed, worried, or afraid. Jophiel is a wonderful healer, who illuminates our mind with love and peace. This strong angel is happy to shoulder your burdens and take them to God for healing and transmutation. Here is a powerful prayer: “Lord, I am giving you every care, worry, and concern, and asking that you infuse my thoughts and feelings with God’s love and peace. Please help me to see, feel, and experience Divine Light right now. Please help me to let go and surrender this situation for my highest and best good. Please help to ensure that my needs and my loved ones needs are met, and that we are safe, protected, and provided for. (If there’s anything specific that you need help with, say or think it here). *Thank you* God.” \~ Doreen Virtue ### The Paradox of our Time URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/the-paradox-of-our-time/ Last updated: 2026-04-26T09:30:26.000Z > The paradox of our time in history is that we have taller buildings but shorter tempers; wider freeways, but narrower viewpoints. We spend more, but have less; we buy more but enjoy less We have bigger houses and smaller families, more conveniences, but less time; we have more degrees, but less sense; more knowledge, but less judgment; more experts, yet more problems, more medicine, but less wellness. We drink too much, smoke too much, spend too recklessly, laugh too little, drive too fast, get too angry, stay up too late, get up too tired, read too little, watch TV too much, and pray too seldom. > > We have multiplied our possessions, but reduced our values. We talk too much, love too seldom, and hate too often. We've learned how to make a living, but not a life, we've added years to life not life to years. We've been all the way to the moon and back, but have trouble crossing the street to meet a new neighbor. > > We conquered outer space but not inner space. > > We've done larger things, but not better things. > > We've cleaned up the air, but polluted the soul. > > We've conquered the atom, but not our prejudice. > > We write more, but learn less. > > We plan more, but accomplish less. > > We've learned to rush, but not to wait. > > We build more computers to hold more information to produce more copies than ever, but we communicate less and less. > > These are the times of fast foods and slow digestion; big men and small character; steep profits and shallow relationships. > > These are the days of two incomes but more divorce, fancier houses but broken homes. These are days of quick trips, disposable diapers, throw-away morality, one-night stands, overweight bodies, and pills that do everything from cheer to quiet, to kill. It is a time when there is much in the show window and nothing in the stock room. > > A time when technology can bring this letter to you, and a time when you can choose either to share this insight, or to just hit delete. > > Remember, spend some time with your loved ones, because they are not going to be around forever. > > Remember, say a kind word to someone who looks up to you in awe, because that little person soon will grow up and leave your side. > > Remember, to give a warm hug to the one next to you, because that is the only treasure you can give with your heart and it doesn't cost a cent. > > Remember, to say "I Love you" to your partner and your loved ones, but most of all mean it. A kiss and an embrace will mend hurt when it comes from deep inside of you. > > Remember to hold hands and cherish the moment, for some day, that person will not be there again. > > Give time to Love, give time to speak, give time to share the precious thoughts in your mind. > > by George Carlin ### God is Best Healer URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/time-answer-forgiveness-pain-killer-god-healer/ Last updated: 2026-04-24T09:30:42.000Z > "Time is still the best answer, forgiveness is still the best Pain-killer and God is still the best healer." ### Learn something from everyone who passes through our lives URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/learn-lessons-painful-priceless/ Last updated: 2026-04-22T09:30:28.000Z "We learn something from everyone who passes through our lives. Some lessons are painful, some are painless, but all are priceless." ### Live Life You Have Imagined URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/live-life-you-have-always-imagined/ Last updated: 2026-04-20T09:30:32.000Z "Be bold enough to use your voice, brave enough to listen to your heart, and strong enough to live the life you have always imagined." ### Love someone who gives you Feelings URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/they-give-feelings-you-never-thought-you-needed/ Last updated: 2026-04-18T09:30:04.000Z "Love someone not because they give you what you need but because they give you feelings you never thought you needed." ### You get in return what you give URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/want-love-respect-get-in-return-what-you-give/ Last updated: 2026-04-16T09:30:24.000Z "Be a reflection of what you'd like to see in others. If you want love, give love. If you want honesty, give honesty. If you want respect, give respect. You get in return what you give." ### Some people are beautiful just in what they are URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/some-people-beautiful-what-they-are/ Last updated: 2026-04-14T09:30:04.000Z > “Sometimes people are beautiful, not in looks, not in what they say, just in what they are.” \~ Markus Zusak ### Why it's so hard to Trust people? URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/people-ask-hard-trust-people/ Last updated: 2026-04-12T09:30:11.000Z > "People ask me why it's so hard to Trust people, and I ask them why is it so hard to keep a Promise." ### Every Man in a mess needs a Woman URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/queen-protect-king/ Last updated: 2026-04-10T09:30:55.000Z > "Every Man needs a Woman when his Life is a mess, because just like the Game of Chess, the Queen protects the King." ### Don't Think too much URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/dont-think-too-much/ Last updated: 2026-04-08T09:30:43.000Z > "Don't think too much. You'll create a problem that wasn't even there in the first place." ### If a man wants you, nothing can keep him away URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/man-wants-you-nothing-keep-away/ Last updated: 2026-04-06T09:30:50.000Z > If a man wants you, nothing can keep him away. If he doesn't want you, nothing can make him stay. > > Stop making excuses for a man and his behavior. Allow your intuition (or spirit) to save you from heartache. Stop trying to change yourselves for a relationship that's not meant to be. Slower is better. Never live your life for a man before you find what makes you truly happy. > > If a relationship ends because the man was not treating you as you deserve then heck no, you can't "be friends." A friend wouldn't mistreat a friend. Don't settle. If you feel like he is stringing you along, then he probably is. Don't stay because you think "it will get better." You'll be mad at yourself a year later for staying when things are not better. > > The only person you can control in a relationship is you. Avoid men who've got a bunch of children by a bunch of different women. He didn't marry them when he got them pregnant, Why would he treat you any differently? Always have your own set of friends separate from his. Maintain boundaries in how a guy treats you. If something bothers you, speak up. Never let a man know everything. He will use it against you later. > > You cannot change a man's behavior. Change comes from within. Don't EVER make him feel he is more important than you are...even if he has more education or in a better job. Do not make him into a quasi-god. He is a man, nothing more nothing less. Never let a man define who you are. > > Never borrow someone else's man. Oh Lord! If he cheated with you, he'll cheat on you. A man will only treat you the way you ALLOW him to treat you. All men are NOT dogs. You should not be the one doing all the bending...compromise is a two-way street. You need time to heal between relationships...there is nothing cute about baggage... deal with your issues before pursuing a new relationship. > > You should never look for someone to COMPLETE you...a relationship consists of two WHOLE individuals...look for someone complimentary...not supplementary. Dating is fun...even if he doesn't turn out to be Mr.. Right. Make him miss you sometimes...when a man always know where you are, and your always readily available to him- he takes it for granted. > > Don't fully commit to a man who doesn't give you everything that you need. Keep him in your radar but get to know others. Share this with other ladies..... You'll make someone SMILE, another RETHINK her choices, and another woman PREPARE. > > \~ MaryRone Shell ### Avoid Rude, Critical & Argumentative people URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/less-respond-rude-critical-argumentative-people/ Last updated: 2026-04-04T09:30:40.000Z > "The less you respond to rude, critical, argumentative people, the more peaceful your life will become." ### 5 ways to be Happy URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/five-ways-to-be-happy/ Last updated: 2026-04-02T09:30:39.000Z > 1\. Free your Heart from Hatred > > 2\. Free your Mind from Worries > > 3\. Live Simply > > 4\. Expect Less > > 5\. Have a deep relationship with God ### Never try to change a person you love URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/never-try-to-change-a-person-you-love/ Last updated: 2026-03-30T09:30:56.000Z "Never try to change a person you love, because the very effort to change says that you love half, and the other half of the person is not accepted." ### Promises mean Nothing without Proof URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/actions-speak-louder-words/ Last updated: 2026-03-28T09:30:12.000Z > "Actions really do speak louder than words and promises mean nothing without proof." ### I have Learned URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/i-have-learned/ Last updated: 2026-03-26T09:30:14.000Z > I’ve Learned… > > That the best classroom in the world is at the feet of an elderly person. > > That when you’re in love, it shows. > > That just one person saying to me, “You’ve made my day!” makes my day. > > That having a child fall asleep in your arms is one of the most peaceful feelings in the world. > > That being kind is more important than being right. > > That you should never say no to a gift from a child. > > That I can always pray for someone when I don’t have the strength to help him in some other way. > > That no matter how serious your life requires you to be, everyone needs a friend to act goofy with. > > That sometimes all a person needs is a hand to hold and a heart to understand. > > That simple walks with my father around the block on summer nights when I was a child did wonders for me as an adult. > > That life is like a roll of toilet paper. The closer it gets to the end, the faster it goes. > > That we should be glad God doesn’t give us everything we ask for. > > That money doesn’t buy class. > > That it’s those small daily happenings that make life so spectacular. > > That under everyone’s hard shell is someone who wants to be appreciated and loved. > > I’ve Learned… > > That the Lord didn’t do it all in one day. What makes me think I can? > > That to ignore the facts does not change the facts. > > That when you plan to get even with someone, you are only letting that person continue to hurt you. > > That love, not time, heals all wounds. > > That the easiest way for me to grow as a person is to surround myself with people smarter than I am. > > That everyone you meet deserves to be greeted with a smile. > > That there’s nothing sweeter than sleeping with your babies and feeling their breath on your cheeks. > > That no one is perfect until you fall in love with them. > > That life is tough, but I’m tougher. > > That opportunities are never lost; someone will take the ones you miss. > > That when you harbor bitterness, happiness will dock elsewhere. > > That I wish I could have told my Mom that I love her, one more time, before she passed away. > > That one should keep his words both soft and tender, because tomorrow he may have to eat them. > > That a smile is an inexpensive way to improve your looks. > > That I can’t choose how I feel, but I can choose what I do about it. > > That when your newly born grandchild holds your little finger in his little fist, that you’re hooked for life. > > That everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you’re climbing it. > > That it is best to give advice in only two circumstances; when it is requested and when it is a life-threatening situation. > > That the less time I have to work with, the more things I get done. > > by Andy Rooney ### Wake up Each Day and be Thankful for Life URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/someone-somewhere-fighting-survive/ Last updated: 2026-03-24T09:30:51.000Z "No matter how good or bad you think life is, wake up each day and be thankful for life. Someone somewhere else is fighting to survive." ### Don't Cheat in a Relationship URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/dont-cheat-relationship/ Last updated: 2026-03-22T09:30:03.000Z "Don't cheat in a relationship. If you are not happy then just leave." ### Expectation is the root of all heartache URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/expectation-root-heartache/ Last updated: 2026-03-20T09:30:21.000Z "Expectation is the root of all heartache." \~ William Shakespeare > **Tom: Is there any other thing that can cause us pain?** > > **Guru: Expectation.** > > **Tom: What do you mean?** > > **Guru: When we take up a body, life actually promises us nothing.** > > **Tom: What do you mean?** > > **Guru: As an example, when we took up a body, life never promised us how long it would last.** > > **Tom: It didn’t?** > > **Guru: So it may last for 25 years.** > > **Tom: Then?** > > **Guru: We may feel disappointed.** > > **Tom: You mean we shouldn’t feel disappointed?** > > **Guru: Life will last as long as it’ll last. So why should we feel disappointed?** > > **Tom: So why do we feel disappointed?** > > **Guru: Because we’ve been taught to expect life to last around 75 years and when it doesn’t, we feel disappointed.** > > **Tom: Life is short.** > > **Guru: But if we don’t have expectation, then there is no disappointment.** > > **Tom: So disappointment is caused by expectation, and not by actual happening.** > > **Guru: Right, disappointment comes when we compare a happening with some reference point.** > > **Tom: Remove the reference point, then there is no disappointment.** > > **Guru: Exactly, without expectation, we’ll just observe whatever happens is whatever happens.** > > **\~ Tommy Wong** > > © Wisdom Quotes & Stories ### No Love is Greater than Mother's Love !!!!! URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/no-love-is-greater-than-mothers-love/ Last updated: 2026-03-18T09:30:09.000Z > A mother (97 years old), feeding and taking care of her paralysed son (60 years old) everyday for more than 19 years . > > Be Grateful for Our Beloved Parents, Thank You for Your Unconditional Love and Care since we were born. We Love You Always. :) > > \*If you are deeply touched by this picture, please feel free to Share your LOVE with your Parents & friends. ### Beautiful Things Happen in your Life URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/beautiful-things-happen-in-life/ Last updated: 2026-03-16T09:30:33.000Z > "Beautiful things happen in your life when you distance yourself from all the negative things." ### The Jar of Life URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/the-jar-of-life/ Last updated: 2026-03-14T09:30:27.000Z > A philosophy professor stood before his class with some items on the table in front of him. When the class began, wordlessly he picked up a very large and empty jar and proceeded to fill it with rocks, about 2 inches in diameter. He then asked the students if the jar was full. They agreed that it was. > > So the professor then picked up a box of pebbles and poured them into the jar. He shook the jar lightly. The pebbles, of course, rolled into the open areas between the rocks.He then asked the students again if the jar was full. They agreed it was.The professor picked up a box of sand and poured it into the jar. Of course, the sand filled up everything else. > > He then asked once more if the jar was full. The students responded with a unanimous “Yes.”“Now,” said the professor, “I want you to recognize that this jar represents your life. The rocks are the important things – your family, your partner, your health, your children – things that if everything else was lost and only they remained, your life would still be full.The pebbles are the other things that matter – like your job, your house, your car. > > The sand is everything else. The small stuff.” “If you put the sand into the jar first,” he continued “there is no room for the pebbles or the rocks. The same goes for your life. > > If you spend all your time and energy on the small stuff, you will never have room for the things that are important to you. Pay attention to the things that are critical to your happiness. Play with your children. Take your partner out dancing. There will always be time to go to work, clean the house, give a dinner party and fix the disposal. > > Take care of the rocks first – the things that really matter. Set your priorities. The rest is just sand.” ### The Indescribable Love URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/the-indescribable-love/ Last updated: 2026-03-12T09:30:53.000Z > Once upon a time all feelings and emotions went to a coastal island for a vacation. According to their nature, each was having a good time. Suddenly, a warning of an impending storm was announced and everyone was advised to evacuate the island. > > The announcement caused sudden panic. All rushed to their boats. Even damaged boats were quickly repaired and commissioned for duty.Yet, Love did not wish to flee quickly. There was so much to do. But as the clouds darkened, Love realised it was time to leave. Alas, there were no boats to spare. Love looked around with hope. > **Just then Prosperity passed by in a luxurious boat. Love shouted, “Prosperity, could you please take me in your boat?”** > > “No,” replied Prosperity, “my boat is full of precious possessions, gold and silver. There is no place for you.” > > A little later Vanity came by in a beautiful boat. Again Love shouted, “Could you help me, Vanity? I am stranded and need a lift. Please take me with you.” > > Vanity responded haughtily, “No, I cannot take you with me. My boat will get soiled with your muddy feet.” > > Sorrow passed by after some time. Again, Love asked for help. But it was to no avail. “No, I cannot take you with me. I am so sad. I want to be by myself.” > > When Happiness passed by a few minutes later, Love again called for help. But Happiness was so happy that it did not look around, hardly concerned about anyone. > > Love was growing restless and dejected. Just then somebody called out, “Come Love, I will take you with me.” Love did not know who was being so magnanimous, but jumped on to the boat, greatly relieved that she would reach a safe place. > > On getting off the boat, Love met Knowledge. Puzzled, Love inquired, “Knowledge, do you know who so generously gave me a lift just when no one else wished to help?” > > Knowledge smiled, “Oh, that was Time.” > > “And why would Time stop to pick me and take me to safety?” Love wondered. > > Knowledge smiled with deep wisdom and replied, “Because only Time knows your true greatness and what you are capable of. Only Love can bring peace and great happiness in this world.” > > “The important message is that when we are prosperous, we overlook love. When we feel important, we forget love. Even in happiness and sorrow we forget love. Only with time do we realize the importance of love. Why wait that long? Why not make love a part of your life today?” ### A son's love to his Father URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/a-sons-love-to-his-father/ Last updated: 2026-03-10T09:30:14.000Z > An old Italian gentleman lived alone in New Jersey. He wanted to plant his annual tomato garden, but it was very difficult work, as the ground was very hard. His only son, Vincent, who used to help him, was unfortunately in prison. The old man wrote a letter to his son and described his predicament: > > *Dear Vincent,* > > *I am feeling pretty sad because it looks like I won’t be able to plant my tomato garden this year. I’m just getting too old to be digging up a garden plot. I know if you were here my troubles would be over. I know you would be happy to dig the plot for me, like in the old days.* > > *Love, Papa* > > A few days later he received a letter from his son. > > *Dear Papa,* > > *Don’t dig up that garden. Let me reveal a secret. That’ s where the bodies are buried.* > > *Love, Vinnie* > > At 4 a.m. The next morning, FBI agents and local police were all over the place digging up the entire area without finding any bodies. They apologized to the old man and left. Next day the old man received another letter from his son. > > *Dear Papa,* > > *Go ahead and plant the tomatoes now. That’s the best I could do under the circumstances.* > > *Love you, Vinnie* ### Real Men Never Stop Trying URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/real-men-never-stop-trying/ Last updated: 2026-03-08T09:30:34.000Z "Real men never stop trying to show a girl how much she means to him, even after he’s got her." > Actually, men and women are real. So it should read: 'Loyal men never stop trying to show a woman how much she means to him, even after he's got her.' And, when a woman has a loyal man, she too should remain loyal & never stop trying to show a man how much he means to her, even after she's got him.' \~ Rosie Mambypamby Diaz > > He's within you. The word ' WOMAN ' consists of ' MAN ' in it, ' Mrs.' consists ' Mr.' in it, ' FEMALE ' consists of ' MALE ' in it, ' MADAM ' consists of ' ADAM ' in it....so long & so forth...just pluck them out & distribute. \~ Prasad Menon > > You keep the romance alive and keep you love fresh everyday. You show her how much you love her don't just tell her. Never let your marriage grow dull and it will last a life time. Keep the love of Jesus in your heart and you home and it will last forever. \~ Marilyn Rice Daniels > > © Wisdom Quotes & Stories ### Beauty and Personality URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/beauty-attracts-eyes-personality-captures-heart/ Last updated: 2026-03-06T09:30:54.000Z > "Beauty attracts the eyes, but personality captures the heart." ### Peace of mind URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/peace-of-mind/ Last updated: 2026-03-04T09:30:10.000Z > Once Buddha was walking from town to town with his followers. This was in the initial days. They happened to pass a lake and Buddha told one of his disciples, “I am thirsty. Get me some water from that lake.” > > The disciple walked up to the lake and noticed that some people were washing clothes in the water and he also saw a bullock cart crossing through the lake. As a result, the water became very muddy, very turbid. The disciple returned to tell Buddha “The water in there is very muddy. I don’t think it is fit to drink.” > > After about half an hour, again Buddha asked the same disciple to go back to the lake and get him the water to drink. The disciple obediently went back to the lake. This time he found that the lake had absolutely clear water in it. The mud had settled down and the water above it looked fit to be had. So he collected some water in a pot and brought it to Buddha. > > Buddha looked at the water, and then he looked up at the disciple and said, “See what you did to make the water clean. You let it be and the mud settled down on its own and you got clear water. Your mind is also like that. When it is disturbed, just let it be. Give it a little time. It will settle down on its own. You don’t have to put in any effort to calm it down. It will happen effortlessly.” > > Buddha says having 'peace of mind is an effortless process. When there is peace inside you, that peace permeates to the outside. It spreads around you and in the environment. ### Steve Jobs' Commencement Address at Stanford University URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/steve-jobs-commencement-address-at-stanford-university/ Last updated: 2026-03-02T09:30:17.000Z > I am honored to be with you today at your commencement from one of the finest universities in the world. I never graduated from college. Truth be told, this is the closest I’ve ever gotten to a college graduation. Today I want to tell you three stories from my life. That’s it. No big deal. Just three stories. > > The first story is about connecting the dots. > > I dropped out of Reed College after the first 6 months, but then stayed around as a drop-in for another 18 months or so before I really quit. So why did I drop out? > > It started before I was born. My biological mother was a young, unwed college graduate student, and she decided to put me up for adoption. She felt very strongly that I should be adopted by college graduates, so everything was all set for me to be adopted at birth by a lawyer and his wife. Except that when I popped out they decided at the last minute that they really wanted a girl. So my parents, who were on a waiting list, got a call in the middle of the night asking: “We have an unexpected baby boy; do you want him?” They said: “Of course.” My biological mother later found out that my mother had never graduated from college and that my father had never graduated from high school. She refused to sign the final adoption papers. She only relented a few months later when my parents promised that I would someday go to college. > > And 17 years later I did go to college. But I naively chose a college that was almost as expensive as Stanford, and all of my working-class parents’ savings were being spent on my college tuition. After six months, I couldn’t see the value in it. I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life and no idea how college was going to help me figure it out. And here I was spending all of the money my parents had saved their entire life. So I decided to drop out and trust that it would all work out OK. It was pretty scary at the time, but looking back it was one of the best decisions I ever made. The minute I dropped out I could stop taking the required classes that didn’t interest me, and begin dropping in on the ones that looked interesting. > > It wasn’t all romantic. I didn’t have a dorm room, so I slept on the floor in friends’ rooms, I returned coke bottles for the 5¢ deposits to buy food with, and I would walk the 7 miles across town every Sunday night to get one good meal a week at the Hare Krishna temple. I loved it. And much of what I stumbled into by following my curiosity and intuition turned out to be priceless later on. Let me give you one example: > > Reed College at that time offered perhaps the best calligraphy instruction in the country. Throughout the campus every poster, every label on every drawer, was beautifully hand calligraphed. Because I had dropped out and didn’t have to take the normal classes, I decided to take a calligraphy class to learn how to do this. I learned about serif and san serif typefaces, about varying the amount of space between different letter combinations, about what makes great typography great. It was beautiful, historical, artistically subtle in a way that science can’t capture, and I found it fascinating. > > None of this had even a hope of any practical application in my life. But ten years later, when we were designing the first Macintosh computer, it all came back to me. And we designed it all into the Mac. It was the first computer with beautiful typography. If I had never dropped in on that single course in college, the Mac would have never had multiple typefaces or proportionally spaced fonts. And since Windows just copied the Mac, it’s likely that no personal computer would have them. If I had never dropped out, I would have never dropped in on this calligraphy class, and personal computers might not have the wonderful typography that they do. Of course it was impossible to connect the dots looking forward when I was in college. But it was very, very clear looking backwards ten years later. > > Again, you can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something – your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life. > > My second story is about love and loss. > > I was lucky – I found what I loved to do early in life. Woz and I started Apple in my parents’ garage when I was 20\. We worked hard, and in 10 years Apple had grown from just the two of us in a garage into a $2 billion company with over 4000 employees. We had just released our finest creation – the Macintosh – a year earlier, and I had just turned 30\. And then I got fired. How can you get fired from a company you started? Well, as Apple grew we hired someone who I thought was very talented to run the company with me, and for the first year or so things went well. But then our visions of the future began to diverge and eventually we had a falling out. When we did, our Board of Directors sided with him. So at 30 I was out. And very publicly out. What had been the focus of my entire adult life was gone, and it was devastating. > > I really didn’t know what to do for a few months. I felt that I had let the previous generation of entrepreneurs down – that I had dropped the baton as it was being passed to me. I met with David Packard and Bob Noyce and tried to apologize for screwing up so badly. I was a very public failure, and I even thought about running away from the valley. But something slowly began to dawn on me – I still loved what I did. The turn of events at Apple had not changed that one bit. I had been rejected, but I was still in love. And so I decided to start over. > > I didn’t see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life. > > During the next five years, I started a company named NeXT, another company named Pixar, and fell in love with an amazing woman who would become my wife. Pixar went on to create the world’s first computer animated feature film, Toy Story, and is now the most successful animation studio in the world. In a remarkable turn of events, Apple bought NeXT, I returned to Apple, and the technology we developed at NeXT is at the heart of Apple’s current renaissance. And Laurene and I have a wonderful family together. > > I’m pretty sure none of this would have happened if I hadn’t been fired from Apple. It was awful tasting medicine, but I guess the patient needed it. Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don’t lose faith. I’m convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved what I did. You’ve got to find what you love. And that is as true for your work as it is for your lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on. So keep looking until you find it. Don’t settle. > > My third story is about death. > > When I was 17, I read a quote that went something like: “If you live each day as if it was your last, someday you’ll most certainly be right.” It made an impression on me, and since then, for the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: “If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?” And whenever the answer has been “No” for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something. > > Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything – all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure – these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart. > > About a year ago I was diagnosed with cancer. I had a scan at 7:30 in the morning, and it clearly showed a tumor on my pancreas. I didn’t even know what a pancreas was. The doctors told me this was almost certainly a type of cancer that is incurable, and that I should expect to live no longer than three to six months. My doctor advised me to go home and get my affairs in order, which is doctor’s code for prepare to die. It means to try to tell your kids everything you thought you’d have the next 10 years to tell them in just a few months. It means to make sure everything is buttoned up so that it will be as easy as possible for your family. It means to say your goodbyes. > > I lived with that diagnosis all day. Later that evening I had a biopsy, where they stuck an endoscope down my throat, through my stomach and into my intestines, put a needle into my pancreas and got a few cells from the tumor. I was sedated, but my wife, who was there, told me that when they viewed the cells under a microscope the doctors started crying because it turned out to be a very rare form of pancreatic cancer that is curable with surgery. I had the surgery and I’m fine now. > > This was the closest I’ve been to facing death, and I hope it’s the closest I get for a few more decades. Having lived through it, I can now say this to you with a bit more certainty than when death was a useful but purely intellectual concept: > > No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don’t want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life’s change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new. Right now the new is you, but someday not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away. Sorry to be so dramatic, but it is quite true. > > Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary. > > When I was young, there was an amazing publication called The Whole Earth Catalog, which was one of the bibles of my generation. It was created by a fellow named Stewart Brand not far from here in Menlo Park, and he brought it to life with his poetic touch. This was in the late 1960′s, before personal computers and desktop publishing, so it was all made with typewriters, scissors, and polaroid cameras. It was sort of like Google in paperback form, 35 years before Google came along: it was idealistic, and overflowing with neat tools and great notions. > > Stewart and his team put out several issues of The Whole Earth Catalog, and then when it had run its course, they put out a final issue. It was the mid-1970s, and I was your age. On the back cover of their final issue was a photograph of an early morning country road, the kind you might find yourself hitchhiking on if you were so adventurous. Beneath it were the words: “Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.” It was their farewell message as they signed off. Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish. And I have always wished that for myself. And now, as you graduate to begin anew, I wish that for you. > > Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish. ### True love isn't Romeo and Juliet who died together URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/true-love-isnt-romeo-juliet/ Last updated: 2026-02-28T09:30:56.000Z "True love isn't Romeo and Juliet who died together. It's Grandma and Grandpa who grew old together." ### Fake people have an image to maintain URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/fake-people-have-image-to-maintain/ Last updated: 2026-02-26T09:30:21.000Z "Fake people have an image to maintain. Real people just don't care." ### I Found Someone URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/i-found-someone/ Last updated: 2026-02-24T09:30:24.000Z I found someone who will listen to me what I am saying and stays with me until my last breath. I found someone who will pray to God for all our dreams to come true. I found someone who will kiss me when I need. I found someone who will always hang out with me and make every day a memorable one. I found someone who will cook food for me. I found someone who will believe in myself and my efforts to achieve our goals. I found someone who will give me love whenever I need. I found someone who will take care of me when I am sick. I found someone who will hug me when things are not good around me and will say that everything will be fine and not lose hopes and have faith. I found someone who will always be with me when I am alone. I found someone who will be naughty, crazy and funny every single day. I love to see what I become when I am around you. You taught me what love is. I am having so much fun with you, my love, my soul mate, my sweetheart, my angel and my life. Love you Forever. Tejas Patel ### Be a First-rate Version of Yourself URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/be-first-rate-version-of-yourself/ Last updated: 2026-02-22T09:30:06.000Z > "Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else." \~ Judy Garland ### When Life Gives You a Hundred Reasons to Cry URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/thousand-reasons-to-smile/ Last updated: 2026-02-20T09:30:10.000Z > "When life gives you a hundred reasons to cry, show life that you have a thousand reasons to smile." ### Happiness Comes When We Stop Complaining URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/happiness-comes-when-we-stop/ Last updated: 2026-02-18T09:30:57.000Z "Happiness comes when we stop complaining about the troubles we have and say thank you to God for the troubles we don't have." ### Need a Friend, I'll be always there for you URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/will-be-always-there-for-you/ Last updated: 2026-02-16T09:30:47.000Z > "If you're alone, I'll be your shadow. If you want to cry, I'll be your shoulder. If you want a hug, I'll be your pillow. If you need to be happy, I'll be your smile... But anytime you need a friend, I'll be always there for you." ### What You Think About? URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/what-you-think-about/ Last updated: 2026-02-14T09:30:37.000Z > "It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about." \~ Dale Carnegie ### Clay Balls and Hidden Treasure URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/clay-balls/ Last updated: 2026-02-12T09:30:24.000Z > A man was exploring caves by the seashore. In one of the caves he found a canvas bag with a bunch of hardened clay balls. It seemed someone had rolled clay balls and left them out in the sun to bake. They intrigued the man so he took the bag out of the cave with him. > > As he strolled along the beach, he threw the clay balls one at a time out into the sea as far as he could. He thought little about it until he dropped one of the balls which cracked open to reveal a beautiful, precious stone. > > Excited the man started breaking open the remaining clay balls and found each one contained a similar treasure. > > He found thousands of dollars worth of jewels in the 20 or so clay balls he had left. Then it struck him that he had thrown maybe 50 or 60 of the clay balls with their hidden treasure into the sea and had missed a golden chance to make so much money. > > It’s like that with people. We look at someone, maybe even ourselves, and we see the external clay vessel which doesn’t look like much from the outside. It isn’t always beautiful or sparkling so we discount it. We see that person as less important than someone more beautiful or stylish or well known or wealthy. But we have not found time to find the real treasure hidden inside that person by God. > > Everybody is unique. There is a treasure in each and every one of us. If we ask God to show us that person the way He sees them, then the clay begins to peel away and the brilliant gem begins to shine forth. > > May we not miss a fortune in friendships because the gems were hidden in bits of clay. > > Author Unknown ### If You Truly Love Someone URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/if-you-truly-love-someone/ Last updated: 2026-02-10T09:30:42.000Z "If you truly love someone, then the only thing you want for them is to be happy even if its not with you." ### When You Feel like Giving Up URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/when-you-feel-like-giving-up/ Last updated: 2026-02-08T09:30:31.000Z > "When you feel like giving up, remember why you held on for so long in the first place." ### When You Realize Who Really Matters URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/there-comes-point-in-life/ Last updated: 2026-02-06T09:30:00.000Z > "There comes a point in your life when you realize who really matters, who never did, and who always will." ### Forgive! But Don't Forget URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/wise-forgive-forget/ Last updated: 2026-02-04T09:30:00.000Z > "The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naïve forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget." ### The Size of Sorrow URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/the-size-of-sorrow/ Last updated: 2026-08-06T08:15:24.000Z ![The Size of Sorrow](https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/content/images/www-wisdomquotesandstories-com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/the-size-of-sorrow.jpg) > An experienced master grew tired of his apprentice’s complaints one day. It was time to teach him lesson. > > One morning, he sent him to get some salt. When he returned, the master told him to mix a handful of salt in a glass of water and then drink it. > > “How does it taste?” the master asked. “Bitter,” said the apprentice. > > The master chuckled and then asked the young man to take the same handful of salt and put it in the lake. The two walked in silence to the nearby lake and once the apprentice threw his handful of salt in the water, the old man said, “Now drink from the lake.” > > As the water dripped down the young man's chin, the master asked, “How does it taste?” “Fresh,” remarked the apprentice. > > “Do you taste the salt?” asked the master. “No,” said the young man. At this the master sat beside him and explained softly, > > “The pain of life is pure salt; no more, no less. The amount of pain in life remains exactly the same. However, the amount of bitterness we taste depends on the container we put the pain in. So when you are in pain, the only thing you can do is to enlarge your sense of things. Stop being a tumbler. Become a lake.” ### Stop Worrying about Pleasing Others URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/do-more-what-makes-you-happy/ Last updated: 2026-02-01T09:30:41.000Z "Stop worrying about pleasing others so much & do more of what makes you happy." ### Time is Free, but it's Priceless URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/time-is-free-but-its-priceless/ Last updated: 2026-01-30T09:30:44.000Z “Time is free, but it's priceless. You can't own it, but you can use it. You can't keep it, but you can spend it. Once you've lost it you can never get it back.” ### The Gold Box - It’s the thing I valued most in my life URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/the-gold-box/ Last updated: 2026-01-28T09:30:15.000Z > It had been some time since Jack had seen the old man as he lived hectic life. Jack moved clear across the country in pursuit of his dreams. He had little time to think about the past and often no time to spend with his wife and son. He was always working on his future. > > Over the phone, his mother told him, “ Mr Belser died last night. The funeral is on Wednesday.” > > Memories flashed through his mind like an old newsreel as he sat remembered his childhood days. > > “Jack, did you hear me?” > > “Oh sorry, Mom. Yes, I heard you. It’s been so long since I thought of him. I’m sorry, but I honestly thought he died years ago,” Jack said. > > “Well, he didn’t forget you. Every time I saw him he’d ask how you were doing. He’d reminisce about the many days you spent over ‘his side of the fence’ Mom told him. > > “I loved that old house he lived in,” Jack said. > > “You know, Jack, after your father died, He stepped in to make sure you had a man’s influence in your life,” she said. > > “He’s the one who taught me carpentry,” he said. “I wouldn’t be in this business if it weren’t for him. He spent a lot of time teaching me things he thought were important.. Mom, I’ll be there for the funeral,” Jack said. > > He kept his word. Jack caught the next flight to his hometown. Mr. Belser’s funeral was small and uneventful. He had no children of his own, and most of his relatives had passed away. > > The night before he had to return home, Jack and his Mom stopped by to see the old house next door one more time. > > Standing in the doorway, Jack paused for a moment. It was like crossing over into another dimension, a leap through space and time. > > The house was exactly as he remembered. Every step held memories. Every picture, every piece of furniture… Jack stopped suddenly. > > “What’s wrong, Jack?” his Mom asked. > > “The box is gone,” he said. > > “What box?” Mom asked. > > “There was a small gold box that he kept locked on top of his desk. I must have asked him a thousand times what was inside. All he’d ever tell me was ‘It is the thing I value most,’” Jack said. > > It was gone. Everything about the house was exactly how Jack remembered it, except for the box. He figured someone from the Belser family had taken it. > > “Now I’ll never know what was so valuable to him,” Jack said. “I better get some sleep. I have an early flight home, Mom.” > > It had been about two weeks since Mr. Belser died. Returning home from work one day Jack discovered a note in his mailbox. “Signature required on a package. No one at home. Please stop by the main post office within the next three days,” the note read. > > Early the next day Jack retrieved the package. The small box was old and looked like it had been mailed a hundred years ago. The handwriting was difficult to read, but the return address caught his attention. > > “Mr. Harold Belser” it read. > > Jack took the box out to his car and ripped open the package. There inside was the gold box and an envelope. Jack’s hands shook as he read the note inside. > > “Upon my death, please forward this box and its contents to Jack Bennett. It’s the thing I valued most in my life.” A small key was taped to the letter. His heart racing, as tears filling his eyes, Jack carefully unlocked the box. There inside he found a beautiful gold pocket watch. > > Running his fingers slowly over the finely etched casing, he unlatched the cover. Inside he found these words engraved: > > “Jack, Thanks for your time! -Harold Belser.” > > “The thing he valued most…was…my time.” > > Jack held the watch for a few minutes, then called his office and cleared his appointments for the next two days. “Why?” Janet, his assistant asked. > > “I need some time to spend with my son,” he said. “Oh, by the way, Janet… thanks for your time!” > > \~ Unknown. ### Before you Speak, Listen URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/before-you-speak-listen/ Last updated: 2026-01-26T09:30:25.000Z "Before you Speak, Listen. Before you Write, Think. Before you Spend, Earn. Before you Invest, Investigate. Before you Criticize, Wait. Before you Pray, Forgive. Before you Quit, Try. Before you Retire, Save. Before you Die, Give." ### Sorry means Nothing URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/promises-mean-everything/ Last updated: 2026-01-24T09:30:08.000Z "Promises mean everything, but after they are broken, sorry means nothing." ### Yesterday, Tomorrow and Today URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/im-going-to-be-happy-today/ Last updated: 2026-01-22T09:30:28.000Z > "Each morning when I open my eyes I say to myself: I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it." ### How much you put in the Hours? URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/how-much-you-put-in/ Last updated: 2026-01-20T09:30:21.000Z > "What counts is not the number of hours you put in, but how much you put in the hours. " ### Donkey in the well - Life lesson URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/donkey-in-the-well/ Last updated: 2026-08-06T08:15:23.000Z > This is story of donkey which teaches you a lesson. One day a farmer's donkey fell down into a well . The animal cried piteously for hours as the farmer tried to figure out what to do. Finally, he decided that animal was old and the well needed to be covered up anyway; it just wasn't worth it to save the donkey. > > He invited all his neighbors to come over and help him. They all grabbed a shovel and began to shovel dirt into the well. At first, the donkey realized what was happening and cried horribly. Then, to everyone's amazement he quieted down.A few shovel loads later, the farmer was astonished at what he saw. > > With each shovel of dirt that hit his back, the donkey would shake it off and take a step up.As the farmer's neighbors continued to shovel dirt on top of the animal, he would shake it off and take a step up. Pretty soon, everyone was amazed to see the donkey stepped up over the edge of the well and happily trotted off ! > > **MORAL :** > **Life is going to shovel dirt on you, all kinds of dirt. The trick is to shake it off and take a step up. Each of our troubles is a stepping stone to higher success. We can get out of the deepest wells just by not stopping, never giving up ! Shake it off and take a step up.** > **Remember the five simple rules to be happy:** > > 1\. Free your heart from hatred - Forgive. > > 2\. Free your mind from worries - Most of it never happen. > > 3\. Live simply and appreciate what you have. > > 4\. Give more. > > 5\. Expect less from people but more from God. ### What type of relationship you would like to have? URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/what-type-of-relationship-you-would-like-to-have/ Last updated: 2026-01-16T09:30:57.000Z "I want a relationship where we talk like best friends, play like kids, argue like husband and wife, and protect each other like siblings." ### God Help Me! URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/god-help-me/ Last updated: 2026-01-14T09:30:14.000Z > It was a merry afternoon at the hall. Oh, one could see that a toy-car race was being held, and the final round is a few minutes away. There were only four participants left and each of them proudly exhibit their own made toy-car. In fact the rule of the game was that the toy-car had to be one's own handmade. > > Among the players, was one child whose toy-car wasn't in any way looking marvelous nor special in its look, though surprisingly he was one of the four boys who made it so far to the final round. Compared to his other players, his toy-car was the least magnificent and imperfect. Some of the audience doubted the toy-car capability to race against the other three. > > Yes, it was true, the toy car looked pretty dull. With simple wood materials and few blinking lamps on its top, the toy car didn’t appear so interesting as compared to the other lavishly decorated toy-cars. Even so, the owner was less proud with his toy car, since it was original of his own creation. > > Every kid got his car ready on the start line, and at the slightest signal from the jury, they pushed the toy-car as fast as they can. They pushed and pushed, ran and ran along with the car as fast as they could, and at the end, surprisingly, the kid with the least magnificent looking toy car got his toy car touching the finish line first among other players. > > **The champion was then asked by the organizer before receiving his award, "Hey champion kid, We saw you praying before the final round started, you must have prayed deeply to God that you may win this tournament, didn't you?"** > **The champion was silent for a moment, then replied, "No sir, that was not what I prayed, I thought it was not fair to ask for God to help me defeat the other players. I only prayed that God help me not to cry if I lose." After a few moments of silence by the audience, the hall was then filled with applauses from the audience.** > > How often do we pray that our wish may be granted? But do we realize that sometimes our wishes are just the opposite of what the others may pray for? If God exists in the conventional sense, then does God side on one but not the other? > > There are many things more important than just winning or losing. Wouldn't it be better for us if we pray to accept whatever the result may be? Be it a defeat or a win, we can still choose to be happy. ### Your kids require you most of all to love them for who they are URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/kids-require-you-most-of-all-to-love-them/ Last updated: 2026-01-12T09:30:45.000Z "Your kids require you most of all to love them for who they are, not to spend your whole time trying to correct them." \~ Bill Ayers ### The Real Talent URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/the-real-talent/ Last updated: 2026-01-10T09:30:19.000Z > After winning several archery contests, the young and rather boastful champion challenged a Zen master who was renowned for his skill as an archer. The young man demonstrated remarkable technical proficiency when he hit a distant bull's eye on his first try, and then split that arrow with his second shot. > > "There," he said to the old man, "see if you can match that!" Undisturbed, the master did not draw his bow, but rather motioned for the young archer to follow him up the mountain. Curious about the old fellow's intentions, the champion followed him high into the mountain until they reached a deep chasm spanned by a rather flimsy and shaky log. > > Calmly stepping out onto the middle of the unsteady and certainly perilous bridge, the old master picked a far away tree as a target, drew his bow, and fired a clean, direct hit. "Now it is your turn," he said as he gracefully stepped back onto the safe ground. > > Staring with terror into the seemingly bottomless and beckoning abyss, the young man could not force himself to step out onto the log, no less shoot at a target. > > "You have much skill with your bow," the master said, sensing his challenger's predicament, "but you have little skill with the mind that lets loose the shot." ### True measure of an individual URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/true-measure-individual-treats-person/ Last updated: 2026-01-08T09:30:36.000Z > "The true measure of an individual is how he treats a person who can do him absolutely no good." \~ Ann Landers ### Happy Living Life URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/happiness-life/ Last updated: 2026-01-06T09:30:40.000Z > "I never really wanted a perfect Life. Just one that's Happy." ### I have no idea what's awaiting me URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/i-have-no-idea-whats-awaiting-me/ Last updated: 2026-01-04T09:30:16.000Z "I have no idea what's awaiting me, or what will happen when this all ends. For the moment I know this: there are sick people and they need curing.” \~ Albert Camus ### It's very easy to judge someone else's actions URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/its-very-easy-to-judge-someone-elses-actions/ Last updated: 2026-01-02T09:30:59.000Z “No one truly knows what they will do in a certain situation until they are actually in it. It's very easy to judge someone else's actions by what you assume your own would be, if you were in their shoes. But we only know what we THINK we would do, not what we WOULD do.” \~ Ashly Lorenzana ### You allow negativity by your choice URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/the-soul-does-not-absorb-negativity/ Last updated: 2025-12-30T09:30:19.000Z "The soul does not absorb negativity by accident, always by choice." \~ Dodinsky ### There's a story behind every person URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/theres-a-story-behind-every-person/ Last updated: 2025-12-28T09:30:17.000Z "There's a story behind every person. There's a reason why they're the way they are. They aren't just like that because they want to. Something in the past created them, and sometimes it's impossible to fix them." ### A Twenty Second Hug URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/a-twenty-second-hug/ Last updated: 2025-12-26T09:30:14.000Z Did you know that a twenty second hug release the bonding hormone and neurotransmitter oxytocin, which is nature's anti-depressant and anti-anxiety treatment? ### How can you move on? URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/how-can-you-move-on/ Last updated: 2025-12-24T09:30:30.000Z “The truth is, unless you let go, unless you forgive yourself, unless you forgive the situation, unless you realize that the situation is over, you cannot move forward.” \~ Steve Maraboli ### Thank the past for a better future URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/thank-the-past-for-a-better-future/ Last updated: 2025-12-22T09:30:41.000Z “Pain makes you stronger. Tears make you braver. Heartbreak makes you wiser. So thank the past for a better future.” ### The most outstanding organ URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/the-most-outstanding-organ/ Last updated: 2025-12-20T09:30:26.000Z "The brain is the most outstanding organ. It works for 24 hours, 365 days, right from your birth until you fall in love." ### I'm too busy loving the people who love me URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/im-too-busy-loving-the-people-who-love-me/ Last updated: 2025-12-18T09:30:50.000Z "I don't have time to worry about who doesn't like me. I'm too busy loving the people who love me." ### Don't waste words on people who deserve your silence URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/dont-waste-words-on-people-who-deserve-your-silence/ Last updated: 2025-12-16T09:30:25.000Z "Don't waste words on people who deserve your silence. Sometimes the most powerful thing you can say is nothing at all." \~ Mandy Hale ### Handle some things on your own URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/handle-things-on-your-own/ Last updated: 2025-12-14T09:30:22.000Z "People aren't always going to be there for you, that's why you need to learn to handle things on your own." ### Be First to Apologize, Forgive & Forget URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/apologize-forgive-forget/ Last updated: 2025-12-12T09:30:11.000Z “The first to apologize is the bravest. The first to forgive is the strongest. The first to forget is the happiest.” ### Spend life with who makes you happy URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/spend-life-with-who-makes-you-happy/ Last updated: 2025-12-10T09:30:09.000Z "Spend life with who makes you happy, not who you have to impress." ### Friends are like rainbows URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/friends-are-like-rainbows/ Last updated: 2025-12-08T09:30:36.000Z "Friends are like rainbows, they shine the brightest in a storm." ### Juggle Balls URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/juggle-balls/ Last updated: 2025-12-06T09:30:35.000Z Imagine life as a game in which you are juggling some five balls in the air. You name them - work, family, health, friends and spirit and you're keeping all of these in the air. You will soon understand that work is a rubber ball. If you drop it, it will bounce back. But the other four balls - family, health, friends and spirit are made of glass. If you drop one of these, they will be irrevocably scuffed, marked, nicked, damaged or even shattered. They will never be the same. You must understand that and strive for balance in your life. How? 1. **Don't undermine your worth by comparing yourself with others. It is because we are different that each of us is special.** 2. **Don't set your goals by what other people deem important. Only you know what is best for you.** 3. **Don't take for granted the things closest to your heart. Cling to them as you would your life, for without them, life is meaningless.** 4. **Don't let your life slip through your fingers by living in the past or for the future. By living your life one day at a time, you live ALL the days of your life.** 5. **Don't give up when you still have something to give. Nothing is really over until the moment you stop trying.** 6. **Don't be afraid to admit that you are less than perfect. It is this fragile thread that binds us each together.** 7. **Don't be afraid to encounter risks. It is by taking chances that we learn how to be brave.** 8. **Don't shut love out of your life by saying it's impossible to find. The quickest way to receive love is to give; the fastest way to lose love is to hold it too tightly; and the best way to keep love is to give it wings.** 9. **Don't run through life so fast that you forget not only where you've been, but also where you are going.** 10. **Don't forget that a person's greatest emotional need is to feel appreciated.** 11. **Don't be afraid to learn. Knowledge is weightless, a treasure you can always carry easily.** 12. **Don't use time or words carelessly. Neither can be retrieved. Life is not a race, but a journey to be savored each step of the way.** Written by the CEO of Coca-Cola ### A Beautiful True Love Story URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/beautiful-true-love-story/ Last updated: 2025-12-04T09:30:10.000Z > One day, a young guy and a young girl fell in love. > > But the guy came from a poor family. The girl’s parents weren't too happy. > > So the young man decided not only to court the girl but to court her parents as well. In time, the parents saw that he was a good man and was worthy of their daughter’s hand. > > But there was another problem: The man was a soldier. Soon, war broke out and he was being sent overseas for a year. The week before he left, the man knelt on his knee and asked his lady love, “Will you marry me?” She wiped a tear, said yes, and they were engaged. They agreed that when he got back in one year, they would get married. > > But tragedy struck. A few days after he left, the girl had a major vehicular accident. It was a head-on collision. > > When she woke up in the hospital, she saw her father and mother crying. Immediately, she knew there was something wrong. > > She later found out that she suffered brain injury. The part of her brain that controlled her face muscles was damaged. Her once lovely face was now disfigured. She cried as she saw herself in the mirror. “Yesterday, I was beautiful. Today, I’m a monster.” Her body was also covered with so many ugly wounds. > > Right there and then, she decided to release her fiance from their promise. She knew he wouldn't want her anymore. She would forget about him and never see him again. > > For one year, the soldier wrote many letters—but she wouldn't answer. He phoned her many times but she wouldn't return her calls. > > But after one year, the mother walked into her room and announced, “He’s back from the war.” > > The girl shouted, “No! Please don’t tell him about me. Don’t tell him I’m here!” > > The mother said, “He’s getting married,” and handed her a wedding invitation. > > The girl’s heart sank. She knew she still loved him—but she had to forget him now. > > With great sadness, she opened the wedding invitation. > > And then she saw her name on it! > > Confused, she asked, “What is this?” > > That was when the young man entered her room with a bouquet of flowers. He knelt beside her and asked, “Will you marry me?” > > The girl covered her face with her hands and said, “I’m ugly!” > > The man said, “Without your permission, your mother sent me your photos. When I saw your photos, I realized that nothing has changed. You’re still the person I fell in love. You’re still as beautiful as ever. Because I love you!” > > There was once this guy who is very much in love with his girl. This romantic guy folded 1,000 pieces of paper cranes as a gift to his girl. > > Although, at that time he was just a small fry in his company, his future didn't seem too bright, they were very happy together. Until one day, his girl told him she was going to Paris and will never come back. She also told him that she cannot visualize any future for the both of them, so they went their own ways there and then… > > Heartbroken, the guy agreed. But when he regained his confidence, he worked hard day and night, slogging his body and mind just to make something out of himself. > > Finally with all the hard work and the help of friends, this guy had set up his own company … > > You never fail until you stop trying. One rainy day, while this guy was driving, he saw an elderly couple sharing an umbrella in the rain walking to some destination. Even with the umbrella, they were still drenched. It didn't take him long to realize they were his girl’s parents. > > With a heart in getting back at them, he drove slowly beside the couple, wanting them to spot him in his luxury sedan. He wanted them to know that he wasn't the same any more; he had his own company, car, condo, etc. He made it! What he saw next confused him, the couple was walking towards a cemetery, and so he got out of his car and followed…and he saw his girl, a photograph of her smiling sweetly as ever at him from her tombstone and he saw his paper cranes right beside her… > > Her parents saw him. He asked them why this had happened. They explained, she did not leave for France at all. She was ill with cancer. She had believed that he will make it someday, but she did not want to be his obstacle… therefore she had chosen to leave him. Just because someone doesn't love you the way you want them to, doesn't mean they don’t love you with all they have. She had wanted her parents to put his paper cranes beside her, because, if the day comes when fate brings him to her again…he can take some of those back with him… > > Once you have loved, you will always love. For what’s in your mind may escape but what’s in your heart will remain forever. > > The guy just wept…The worst way to miss someone is to be sitting right beside her knowing you can’t have her, see her or be with her ever again……… ### People never remember the million times you've helped them URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/people-never-remember-the-million-times-youve-helped-them/ Last updated: 2025-12-02T09:30:49.000Z "People never remember the million times you've helped them, only the one time you don't." > Life is to live with miracle creating attitudes like giving, forgiving, loving, positive and grateful attitude which can drive your life towards best quality of life. You can accomplish inner joy and peace when you help someone from your holy heart without any expectation in return. Sometime people may make you feel upset and disappoint you once you are unable to help them, even though you have been helping them as per their expectation most of time. So set the standard and your own life philosophy to help only deserving person and who can understand the meaning of your help. Once you help to deserving person then there will be no space for any disappointment in your life. \~ Dhiraj Raj > > © Wisdom Quotes & Stories ### The Story of the Rainbow URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/the-story-of-the-rainbow/ Last updated: 2025-11-30T09:30:58.000Z > **Once upon a time, all the colors in the world started to quarrel; each claimed that she was the best, the most important, the most useful, the favourite.** > > **Green said: “Clearly I am the most important. I am the sign of life and of hope. I was chosen for grass, trees, leaves — without me all the animals would die. Look out over the countryside and you will see that I am in the majority.”** > > **Blue interrupted: “You only think about the earth, but consider the sky and the sea. It is water that is the basis of life and this is drawn up by the clouds from the blue sea. The sky gives space and peace and serenity. Without my peace you would all be nothing but busybodies.”** > > **Yellow chuckled: “You are all so serious. I bring laughter, gaiety and warmth into the world. The sun is yellow, the moon is yellow, the stars are yellow. Every time you look at a sunflower the whole world starts to smile. Without me there would be no fun.”** > > **Orange started next to blow her own trumpet: “I am the color of health and strength. I may be scarce, but I am precious for I serve the inner needs of human life. I carry all the most important vitamins. Think of carrots and pumpkins, oranges, mangoes. I don’t hang around all the time, but when I fill the sky at sunrise or sunset, my beauty is so striking that no one gives another thought to any of you.”** > > **Red could stand it no longer. He shouted out: “I’m the ruler of you all, blood, life’s blood. I am the color of danger and of bravery. I am willing to fight for a cause. I bring fire in the blood. Without me the earth would be empty as the moon. I am the color of passion and love; the red rose, poinsettia and poppy.”** > > **Purple rose up to his full height. He was very tall and he spoke with great pomp: “I am the color of royalty and power. Kings, chiefs and bishops have always chosen me for I am a sign of authority and wisdom. People do not question me — they listen and obey.”** > > **Indigo spoke much more quietly than all the others, but just as determinedly: “Think of me, you all become superficial. I represent thought and reflection, twilight and deep waters. You need me for balance and contrast, for prayer and inner peace.”** > > **And so the colors went on boasting, each convinced that they were the best. Their quarrelling became louder and louder. Suddenly there was a startling flash of brilliant white lightning; thunder rolled and boomed. Rain started to pour down relentlessly. The colors all crouched down in fear, drawing close to one another for comfort.** > > **Then Rain spoke:** > > **“You foolish colors, fighting among yourselves, each trying to dominate the rest. Do you not know that God made you all? Each for a special purpose, unique and different. God loves you all. God wants you all. Join hands with one another and come with me. God will stretch you across the sky in a great bow of color, as a reminder that you are all loved by God and that you can live together in peace - a promise that he is with you - a sign of hope for tomorrow.”** > > **And so whenever God has used a good rain to wash the world, He puts the rainbow in the sky, and when we see it, let us remember to appreciate one another with all the inherent differences.** ### Every person has the power to make others happy URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/every-person-has-the-power-to-make-others-happy/ Last updated: 2025-11-28T09:30:04.000Z “Every person has the power to make others happy. Some do it simply by entering a room - others by leaving the room. Some individuals leave trails of gloom;others, trails of joy. Some leave trails of hate and bitterness;others, trails of love and harmony. Some leave trails of cynicism and pessimism;others trails of faith and optimism. Some leave trails of criticism and resignation;others trails of gratitude and hope. What kind of trails do you leave?” \~ William Arthur Ward ### You have the Power URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/you-have-the-power-to-say/ Last updated: 2025-11-26T09:30:30.000Z "You have the power to say: This is not how my story ends." ### There is no one perfect way to be a good mother. URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/there-is-no-one-perfect-way-to-be-a-good-mother/ Last updated: 2025-11-24T09:30:04.000Z "There is no one perfect way to be a good mother. Each mother has different challenges, different skills and abilities, and certainly different children. Some may have to work part-or full-time; some may work at home; some may divide their lives into periods of home and family and work. What matters is that a mother loves her children deeply and, in keeping with the devotion she has for God and her husband, prioritizes them above all else." \~ Elder M. Russell Ballard ### Cut the Rope URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/cut-the-rope/ Last updated: 2025-11-22T09:30:53.000Z > As the night fell heavy in the heights of the mountains a climber got lost and could not see anything. All was black and there was zero visibility. The moon and the stars were covered by the clouds. He continued climbing disorientated, but only a few feet away from the top of the mountain, suddenly he slipped and fell into the air, falling at great speed. He could only see black spots as he went down, and the terrible sensation of being sucked by gravity. > > He kept falling, and in the moments of great fear, it came to his mind all the good and bad episodes of his life. He was thinking now about how close death was getting, when all of a sudden he felt the rope tied to his waist pull him very hard. His body was hanging in the air. > > Only the rope was holding him and in that moment of stillness he had no other choice but to scream:“Help me God.” > > All of a sudden a deep voice coming from the sky answered, “What do you want me to do?” “Save me God.” And God replied “Do you really think I can save you?” “Of course I believe You can.” > > “Then cut the rope tied to your waist.” > > There was a moment of silence and the man decided to hold on to the rope with all his strength. The next morning the rescue team reported that a climber was found dead and frozen, his body hanging from a rope. His hands holding tight to it. > > He was hanging only three feet away from the ground! > > What are the attachments that are robbing you of the precious gift of life? ### Why do you always insist on taking the hard road URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/why-do-you-always-insist-on-taking-the-hard-road/ Last updated: 2025-11-20T09:30:28.000Z Someone once asked me, "Why do you always insist on taking the hard road?" I replied, "Why do you assume I see two roads?" ### When a guy tells you ... URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/when-a-guy-tells-you/ Last updated: 2025-11-18T09:30:38.000Z > "When a guy tells you that you're hot; he is looking at your body. When a guy tells you that you're pretty; he is looking at your face. When a guy tells you that you're beautiful; he is looking at your heart." ### The only things you can take when you leave this world URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/only-things-you-can-take-when-you-leave-this-world/ Last updated: 2025-11-16T09:30:01.000Z "The only things you can take when you leave this world are the things you've packed inside your heart." ### Who Really Loves God URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/who-really-loves-god/ Last updated: 2025-11-14T09:30:55.000Z > Saint Teresa of Avila, the 16th century Spanish mystic, saw an angel rushing towards her, carrying a torch and a bucket of water. > > “Where are you going with that torch and bucket,” she asked; “what will you do with them?” > > “With the water,” the angel answered, “I will put out the fires of hell, and with the fire I will burn down the mansions of heaven; then we will see who really loves God.” > > I wonder if we could live our lives without the threat of punishment or the promise of reward. Could we just do the right thing because it is the right thing? ### Authentic Prayer URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/authentic-prayer/ Last updated: 2025-11-12T09:30:47.000Z > **Late one evening a poor farmer on his way back from the market found himself without his prayer book. The wheel of his cart had come off right in the middle of the woods and it distressed him that this day should pass without him having said his prayers.** > > **So this is the prayer he made: “I have done something very foolish, Lord. I came away from home this morning without my prayer book and my memory is such that I cannot recite a single prayer without it. So this is what I am going to do: I shall recite the alphabet five times very slowly and you, to whom all prayers are known, can put the letters together to form the prayers I can’t remember.”** > > **And the Lord said to his angels, “Of all the prayers I have heard today, this one was undoubtedly the best because it came from a heart that was simple and sincere.”** > > **Real prayer is when you humbly and simply weave together a few of your own words from the bottom of your heart.** > > **\~ Paulo Coelho** ### Deep Listening URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/deep-listening/ Last updated: 2025-11-10T09:30:56.000Z > **Once two friends were walking down the sidewalk on a busy street during rush hour. There were all sorts of noise in the city; car horns honking, feet shuffling, people talking! And amid all the noise, one of the friends turned to the other and said, “I hear a cricket.”** > > **“No way,” her friend responded. “How could you hear a cricket with all of this noise? You must be imagining it. Besides, I’ve never seen a cricket in the city.”** > > **“No really, I do hear a cricket. I’ll show you.” She stopped for a moment, then led her friend across the street to a big cement planter with a tree in it. Pushing back the leaves she found a little brown cricket.** > > **“That’s amazing!” said her friend, “You must have a super-human hearing. What’s your secret?”** > > **“No, my hearing is just the same as yours. There’s no secret,” The first woman replied. “Watch, I’ll show you.” She reached into her pocket, pulled out some loose change, and threw it on the sidewalk. Amid all of the noise of the city, everyone within thirty feet turned their head to see where the sound of the money was coming from.** > > **“See,” she said. “It’s all a matter of what you are listening for.”** > > **Silence is not the absence of noise but the refined tuning of the soul to the sounds and movements that usually go unnoticed.** > > **\~ Elisa Davy Pearmain** ### The past is where you learned the lesson URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/past-where-you-learned-lesson/ Last updated: 2025-11-08T09:30:00.000Z > "The past is where you learned the lesson. The future is where you apply the lesson, don't give up in the middle." > > Life is the fusion of past and present which gives birth to future. In fact past is just like shadow of your own shadow which doesnt determines your quality of life rather it gives life shifting lesson for discovering your best present. Once you discover your best present then it can paves solid highway for your quality future. So live your present designing it in your best way as life is too short to live with your past pain and hurts. As you are best architect of your destiny and responsible incharge of your life, never giveup despite of stormy adversities. Just celebrate every fraction of second in deserving way. \~ Dhiraj Raj > > **© Wisdom Quotes & Stories** ### Mother's Hands URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/mothers-hands/ Last updated: 2025-11-06T09:30:59.000Z > One young man went to apply for a managerial position in a big company. He passed the initial interview, and now would meet the director for the final interview. > > The director discovered from his CV that the youth’s academic achievements were excellent. He asked, “Did you obtain any scholarships in school?” > > The youth answered “no”. > > "Was it your father who paid for your school fees?” > > “My father passed away when I was one year old, it was my mother who paid for my school fees.” he replied. > > "Where did your mother work?” > > “My mother worked as clothes cleaner.” > > The director requested the youth to show his hands. The youth showed a pair of hands that were smooth and perfect. > > " Have you ever helped your mother wash the clothes before?” > > “Never, my mother always wanted me to study and read more books. Besides, my mother can wash clothes faster than me. > > The director said, “I have a request. When you go home today, go and clean your mother’s hands, and then see me tomorrow morning. > > The youth felt that his chance of landing the job was high. When he went back home, he asked his mother to let him clean her hands. His mother felt strange, happy but with mixed feelings, she showed her hands to her son. > > The youth cleaned his mother’s hands slowly. His tear fell as he did that. It was the first time he noticed that his mother’s hands were so wrinkled, and there were so many bruises in her hands. Some bruises were so painful that his mother winced when he touched it. > > This was the first time the youth realized that it was this pair of hands that washed the clothes everyday to enable him to pay the school fees. The bruises in the mother’s hands were the price that the mother had to pay for his education, his school activities and his future. > > After cleaning his mother hands, the youth quietly washed all the remaining clothes for his mother. > > That night, mother and son talked for a very long time. > > Next morning, the youth went to the director’s office. > > The Director noticed the tears in the youth’s eyes, when he asked: “Can you tell me what have you done and learned yesterday in your house?” > > The youth answered,” I cleaned my mother’s hand, and also finished cleaning all the remaining clothes’ > > “I know now what appreciation is. Without my mother, I would not be who I am today. By helping my mother, only now do I realize how difficult and tough it is to get something done on your own. And I have come to appreciate the importance and value of helping one’s family. > > The director said, “This is what I am looking for in a manager. I want to recruit a person who can appreciate the help of others, a person who knows the sufferings of others to get things done, and a person who would not put money as his only goal in life.” > > “You are hired.” > > This young person worked very hard, and received the respect of his subordinates. Every employee worked diligently and worked as a team. The company’s performance improved tremendously. > > A child, who has been protected and habitually given whatever he wanted, would develop an “entitlement mentality” and would always put himself first. He would be ignorant of his parent’s efforts. When he starts work, he assumes that every person must listen to him, and when he becomes a manager, he would never know the sufferings of his employees and would always blame others. As protective parents, are we really showing love or are we destroying our children instead? > > You can let your child live in a big house, eat a good meal, learn piano, watch on a big screen TV. But when you are cutting grass, please let them experience it. After a meal, let them wash their plates and bowls together with their brothers and sisters. It is not because you do not have money to hire a maid, but it is because you want to love them in a right way. You want them to understand, no matter how rich their parents are, one day their hair will grow gray, same as the mother of that young person. The most important thing is your child learns how to appreciate the effort and experience the difficulty and learns the ability to work with others to get things done. ### Reaching Level 80! URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/always-follow-your-dreams/ Last updated: 2025-11-04T09:30:12.000Z > There were once 2 brothers who lived on the 80th level. On coming home one day, they realized to their dismay that the lifts were not working and that they have to climb the stairs home. > > After struggling to the 20th level, panting and tired, they decided to abandon their bags and come back for them the next day. They left their bags then and climbed on. When they have struggled to the 40th level, the younger brother started to grumble and both of them began to quarrel. They continued to climb the flights of steps, quarreling all the way to the 60th floor. > > They then realized that they have only 20 levels more to climb and decided to stop quarreling and continue climbing in peace. They silently climbed on and reached their home at long last. Each stood calmly before the door and waited for the other to open the door. And they realized that the key was in their bags which was left on the 20th floor. > > This story is reflecting on our life…many of us live under the expectations of our parents, teachers and friends when young. We seldom get to do the things that we really like and love and are under so much pressure and stress so that by the age of 20, we get tired and decided to dump this load. > > Being free of the stress and pressure, we work enthusiastically and dream ambitious wishes. But by the time we reach 40 years old, we start to lose our vision and dreams. We began to feel unsatisfied and start to complain and criticize. We live life as a misery as we are never satisfied. Reaching 60, we realize that we have little left for complaining anymore, and we began to walk the final episode in peace and calmness. > > We think that there is nothing left to disappoint us, only to realize that we could not rest in peace because we have an unfulfilled dream …. a dream we abandoned 60 years ago. > > ***So what is your dream? Follow your dreams, so that you will not live with regrets.*** ### The Value of a Friend URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/the-value-of-a-friend/ Last updated: 2025-11-02T09:30:11.000Z > One day a teacher asked her students to list the names of the other students in the room on two sheets of paper, leaving a space between each name. > > Then she told them to think of the nicest thing they could say about Each of their classmates and write it down. It took the remainder of the class period to finish the assignment, and as the students left the room, each one handed in the papers. That Saturday, the teacher wrote down the name of each student on a separate sheet of paper, and listed what everyone else had said about that individual. > > On Monday, she gave each student his or her list. Before long, the entire class was smiling. "Really?" she heard whispered. "I never knew that I meant anything to anyone!" and, "I didn't know others liked me so much," were most of the comments. > > No one ever mentioned those papers in class again. She never knew if they discussed them after class or with their parents, but it didn't matter. The exercise had accomplished its purpose. The students were happy with themselves and one another. That group of students moved on ... Several years later, one of the students was killed in Viet Nam and his teacher attended the funeral of that special student.The church was packed with his friends. One by one, those who loved him took a last walk by the coffin. The teacher was the last one to bless the coffin .. > > As she stood there, one of the soldiers who acted as pallbearer came up to her. "Were you Mark's math teacher?" he asked. She nodded: "yes." Then he said: "Mark talked about you a lot." After the funeral, most of Mark's former classmates went together to a luncheon. Mark's mother and father were there, obviously waiting to speak with his teacher. > > "We want to show you something," his father said, taking a wallet out Of his pocket "They found this on Mark when he was killed. We thought you might recognize it." > > Opening the billfold, he carefully removed two worn pieces of Notebook paper that had obviously been taped, folded and refolded many times. The teacher knew without looking that the papers were the ones on which she had listed all the good things each of Mark's classmates had said about him. “Thank you so much for doing that," Mark's mother said. "As you can see, Mark treasured it." > > All of Mark's former classmates started to gather around. Charlie smiled rather sheepishly and said, "I still have my list. It's in the top drawer of my desk at home." Chuck's wife said, "Chuck asked me to put his in our wedding album." "I have mine too," Marilyn said. "It's in my diary" Then Vicki, another classmate, reached into her pocketbook, took out Her wallet and showed her worn and frazzled list to the group. "I carry this with me at all times," Vicki said and without batting an eyelash, she continued: "I think we all saved our lists" That's when the teacher finally sat down and cried. She cried for Mark and for all his friends who would never see him again. > > The density of people in society is so thick that we forget that life will end one day. And we don't know when that one day will be. So please, tell the people you love and care for, that they are special and important. Tell them, before it is too late. ### People will judge you no matter what you do URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/people-will-judge-you-no-matter-what-you-do/ Last updated: 2025-10-30T09:30:43.000Z "Don't be embarrassed by who you are. They're going to judge you no matter what you do." ### Learn to accept instead of expect URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/learn-to-accept-instead-of-expect/ Last updated: 2025-10-28T09:30:43.000Z "When you learn to accept instead of expect, you'll have fewer disappointments." \~ Robert Fisher ### Know the value of things, not the price URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/know-the-value-of-things-not-the-price/ Last updated: 2025-10-26T09:30:09.000Z “Do not educate your children to be rich. Educate them to be happy. So when they grow up, they will know the value of things, not the price.” ### If you ask for my opinion URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/if-you-ask-for-my-opinion/ Last updated: 2025-10-24T09:30:50.000Z “I am not a bakery. I don't sugar coat anything. If you ask for my opinion that's what you'll get. Don't be mad when it's not what you want to hear.” ### Your mind is a garden. Your thoughts are the seeds. URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/your-mind-is-a-garden/ Last updated: 2025-10-22T09:30:38.000Z > "Your mind is a garden. Your thoughts are the seeds. You can grow flowers or you can grow weeds." > > Feed your mind with positive, abundant and life prospering thought which can open the channels of miracle creating doors which is divinely constructed for your prosperous and purposeful destined quality of life. As you yourself is script writer, director and controller of your thought as well as best architect of your destiny. So feed your mind with quality thought as it determines your quality of life. The valid truth says, "Your mind is like soil, just plant the quality of seeds inside your inner world for manifesting quality of circumstances in your external world." \~Dhiraj Raj > > **© Wisdom Quotes & Stories** ### 10 Ways To Love URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/10-ways-to-love/ Last updated: 2025-10-20T09:30:44.000Z > 1\. Listen > > 2\. Speak > > 3\. Give > > 4\. Pray > > 5\. Answer > > 6\. Share > > 7\. Enjoy > > 8\. Trust > > 9\. Forgive > > 10\. Promise > > You are divine conscious being in the form of human who deserve to live life in the light of love, happiness and compassion. So water yourself with miracle creating attitudes like giving, forgiving, loving,grateful attitude and make everyone feel great by loving them as they deserve. Beside all this if you want to align with divine God from your holy heart for manifesting your dream purpose then pray God and walk in the spiritual highway of god speaking God's word then you can attract destined quality of life filled with love, happiness and peace. \~ Dhiraj Raj > > **© Wisdom Quotes & Stories** ### Don't feel bad if someone rejects you or ignore you URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/dont-feel-bad-if-someone-rejects-you-or-ignore-you/ Last updated: 2026-08-06T08:15:23.000Z **“Don't feel bad if someone rejects you or ignore you. People usually reject and ignore expensive things because they can't afford them.”** ### A mother holds her children’s hands for a while, URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/a-mother-holds-her-childrens-hands-for-a-while/ Last updated: 2025-10-16T09:30:26.000Z "A mother holds her children’s hands for a while, but their hearts forever." ### Let our own light shine URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/let-our-own-light-shine/ Last updated: 2025-10-14T09:30:14.000Z "As we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same." \~ Nelson Mandela ### Say more Please and Thank You URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/say-more-please-and-thank-you/ Last updated: 2025-10-12T09:30:19.000Z Please and Thank You are still magic words. I just wish some people would use them more often. Manners cost nothing and are priceless. ### Always Beautiful URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/always-beautiful/ Last updated: 2025-10-10T09:30:09.000Z > A few weeks ago, my girlfriend and I were at a coffee shop after work just having an evening chill session. This elderly couple walked in holding hands but the gentleman had a cane and it seemed the lady was leading the way. After getting their order the settled into a corner and it was absolutely adorable. > > The guy was obviously blind, but he would casually stoke his wife’s hair telling her that she was beautiful over and over again. It was really sweet. She helped him to the door of the men’s room, which I was already in, and as him and I were washing up, I asked him since he was blind how could he tell how beautiful his wife was. > > He smiled and told me that he had been blind for 55 years, and that the image of his wife in his head is from 55 years ago, and she would always be that beautiful person in his mind. ### When you think you're rejected URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/when-you-think-youre-rejected/ Last updated: 2025-10-08T09:30:56.000Z **“Often you think when you're rejected that you are not good enough, but the truth is they weren't ready for all you have to offer.”** ### Silence is Golden URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/silence-is-golden/ Last updated: 2025-10-06T09:30:23.000Z "Silence is golden, unless you have a preschooler. Then, silence is very suspicious." ### Tears are prayers too URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/tears-our-prayers-too/ Last updated: 2025-10-04T09:30:13.000Z "Tears our prayers too. They travel to God when we can't speak." ### There's always a happy face waiting for you to get home URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/no-matter-how-crappy-your-day-is/ Last updated: 2025-10-02T09:30:14.000Z "No matter how crappy your day is, there is always a happy face waiting for you to get home." ### Abraham Lincoln never quits URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/abraham-lincoln-never-quits/ Last updated: 2025-09-30T09:30:01.000Z > Born into poverty, Lincoln was faced with defeat throughout his life. He lost eight elections, twice failed in business and suffered a nervous breakdown. > > He could have quit many times – but he didn’t and because he didn’t quit, he became one of the greatest presidents in the United States history. > > Here is a sketch of Lincoln’s road to the White House: > > **1816 His family was forced out of their home. He had to work to support them.** > **1818 His mother died.** > **1831 Failed in business.** > **1832 Ran for state legislature – lost.** > **1832 Also lost his job – wanted to go to law school but couldn’t get in.** > **1833 Borrowed some money from a friend to begin a business and by the end of the year he was bankrupt. He spent the next 17 years of his life paying off this debt.** > **1834 Ran for state legislature again – won.** > **1835 Was engaged to be married, sweetheart died and his heart was broken.** > **1836 Had a total nervous breakdown and was in bed for six months.** > **1838 Sought to become speaker of the state legislature – defeated.** > **1840 Sought to become elector – defeated.** > **1843 Ran for Congress – lost.** > **1846 Ran for Congress again – this time he won – went to Washington and did a good job.** > **1848 Ran for re-election to Congress – lost.** > **1849 Sought the job of land officer in his home state – rejected.** > **1854 Ran for Senate of the United States – lost.** > **1856 Sought the Vice-Presidential nomination at his party’s national convention – get less than 100 votes.** > **1858 Ran for U.S. Senate again – again he lost.** > **1860 Elected president of the United States.** ### Life Secrets URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/life-secrets/ Last updated: 2025-09-28T09:30:34.000Z > **The first day of school our professor introduced himself and challenged us to get to know someone we didn’t already know. I stood up to look around when a gentle hand touched my shoulder. I turned around to find a wrinkled, little old lady beaming up at me with a smile that lit up her entire being. She said, “Hi handsome. My name is Rose. I’m eighty-seven years old. Can I give you a hug?” I laughed and enthusiastically responded, “Of course you may!” and she gave me a giant squeeze.** > > “Why are you in college at such a young, innocent age?” I asked. I was curious what may have motivated her to be taking on this challenge at her age.“I always dreamed of having a college education and now I’m getting one!” she told me. > > After class we walked to the student union building and shared a chocolate milkshake. We became instant friends. Every day for the next three months, we would leave class together and talk nonstop. I was always mesmerized listening to this “time machine” as she shared her wisdom and experience with me. > > Over the course of the year, Rose became a campus icon and she easily made friends wherever she went. She loved to dress up and she reveled in the attention bestowed upon her from the other students. She was living it up. > > At the end of the semester we invited Rose to speak at our football banquet. > > She cleared her throat and began, “We do not stop playing because we are old; we grow old because we stop playing. > > There are only four secrets to staying young, being happy, and achieving success. > > You have to laugh and find humor every day. > > You’ve got to have a dream. When you lose your dreams, you die. > > Grow up by always finding opportunity in change . We have so many people walking around who are dead and don’t even know it! There is a huge difference between growing older and growing up. Anybody can grow older. That doesn’t take any talent or ability. > > Have no regrets. The elderly usually don’t have regrets for what we did, but rather for things we did not do. The only people who fear death are those with regrets.” > > One week after graduation Rose died peacefully in her sleep. > > Over two thousand college students attended her funeral in tribute to the wonderful woman who taught by example that it’s never too late to be all you can possibly be . > > ***REMEMBER, GROWING OLDER IS MANDATORY. GROWING UP IS OPTIONAL*** > > ***We make a Living by what we get, We make a Life by what we give.*** ### Proverbs From Around The World URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/proverbs-from-around-the-world/ Last updated: 2025-09-26T09:30:45.000Z 1\. The earth is a beehive, we all enter by the same door. \~ African Proverb 2\. What you see in yourself is what you see in the world. \~ Afghanistan Proverb 3\. He who does not wish for little things does not deserve big things. \~ Belgian Proverb 4\. A clever person turns great troubles into little ones and little ones into none at all. \~ Chinese Proverb 5\. Better to ask twice than to lose your way once. \~ Danish proverb 6\. A beautiful thing is never perfect. \~ Egyptian Proverb 7\. Better say nothing, than nothing to the purpose. \~ English Proverb 8\. The silence of a treacherous man is to be feared even more than his words. \~ Greek Proverb 9\. Fortune is a woman; if you neglect her today do not expect to regain her Tomorrow. \~ French Proverb 10\. Yesterday's promise, like tomorrow's never comes. \~ German Proverb 11\. The believer is happy; The doubter is wise. \~ Hungarian Proverb 12\. Life is a bridge. Crossover it, but build no house on it. \~ Indian proverb 13\. Vision without action is a daydream; action without vision is a nightmare. \~ Japanese proverb 14\. Aim high in your career but stay humble in your heart. \~ Korean proverb 15\. It's not enough to know how to ride -- you must also know how to fall. \~ Mexican proverb 16\. A handful of patience is worth more than a bushel of brains. \~ Netherlands proverb 17\. Good management is better than good income. \~ Portuguese proverb 18\. There is no shame in not knowing; the shame lies in not finding out. \~ Russian proverb 19\. Experience is not always the kindest of teachers, but it is surely the best. \~ Spanish Proverb 20\. Where there is a will, there is a way. \~ Thai proverb 21\. Having two ears and one tongue, we should listen twice as much as we speak. \~ Turkish proverb 22\. Opportunities, like eggs, come one at a time. \~ USA. Proverb 23\. Better to die than to live on with a bad reputation. \~ Vietnamese Proverb 24\. A spoon does not know the taste of soup, nor a learned fool the taste of wisdom. \~ Welsh proverb 25\. Life is like a game in which good shuffles the card, the devil deals them and we have to play the trumps. \~ Yugoslav proverb ### Forgiveness is a lovely idea URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/forgiveness-is-a-lovely-idea/ Last updated: 2025-09-24T09:30:33.000Z "Everyone says forgiveness is a lovely idea, until they have something to forgive." \~ C.S. Lewis ### Build a better world URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/build-a-better-world/ Last updated: 2025-09-22T09:30:09.000Z > Build a better world , said God. > > And I asked how? > > The world is such a vast place and so complicated now. > > I am small and useless. > > What can I do? > > God in all His wisdom said, > > "Just build a better you." ### The God and Soul URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/the-god-and-soul/ Last updated: 2025-09-20T09:30:55.000Z > God said to the little soul, "You may choose to be any Part of God you wish to be. You are absolute divinity experiencing itself. What aspect of divinity do you now wish to experience as You?" > > "You mean I have a choice", asked the little soul. God answered, "Yes. You may choose to experience any aspect of divinity in, as and through you." > > "Okay," said the little soul, "then I choose forgiveness. I want to experience myself as that aspect of God called complete forgiveness." > > Well this created a little challenge, as you can imagine. There was no one to forgive. All God had created was perfection and love. > > "No one to forgive?" asked the little soul, somewhat incredulously."No one," God repeated. "Look around you. Do you see any souls less than perfect, less wonderful than you?" > > At this the little soul twirled around and was surprised to see himself surrounded by all the souls in heaven. They had come from far and wide throughout the kingdom, because they heard that the little soul was having an extraordinary conversation with God. > > "I see none less perfect than I!" the little soul exclaimed. "Who, then, shall I have to forgive?" Just then another soul stepped forward from the crowd."You may forgive me" said this friendly soul."For what?" the little soul asked." I will come into your next physical lifetime and do something for you to forgive," replied the friendly soul. > > "But what? What could you, a being of such perfect light do to make me what to forgive you?" the little soul wanted to know. > > "Oh," smiled the friendly soul, "I'm sure we can think of something." "But why would you want to do this?" The little soul could not figure out wh y a being of such perfection would want to slow down it's vibration so much that it could do something 'bad'."Simple," the friendly soul explained, "I would do it because I love you. You want to experience yourself as forgiving, don't you? Besides you've done the same for me." "I have?" asked the little soul. > > "Of course, don't you remember? We've been All Of it, you and I. We've been the Up and the Down of it, and the Left and the Right of it. We've been the Here and the There of it, and the Now and the Then of it. We've been the Big and the Small of it, the Male and the Female of it and the Good and the Bad of it. We've been the All of it." > > "And we've done it by agreement, so that each of us might experience ourselves as the grandest part of God. For we have understood that... > > 'In the absence of that which You Are Not, that which you Are, is Not'. > > 'In the absence of cold you cannot be warm, in the absence of sad you cannot be happy. Without a thing called evil, the experience you call good cannot exist'. > > 'If you choose to be a thing, something or someone opposite to that has to show up somewhere in your universe to make that possible.' " > > The friendly soul then explained that those people are God's Special Angels and these conditions God's Gifts. > > "I ask only one thing in return," the friendly soul declared. > > "Anything, Anything," the little soul cried. He was excited now to know that he could experience every divine aspect of God. He understood now, The Plan. > > "In the moment that I strike you and smite you," said the friendly soul, "in the moment that I do the worst to you that you could ever imagine - in that self same moment...remember Who I Really Am." > > "Oh, I won’t forget!" promised the little soul. "I will see you in the perfection with which I hold you now, and I will remember Who You Are, always." > > \~ From the Book Conversations with God ### God’s Image URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/gods-image/ Last updated: 2025-09-18T09:30:01.000Z > A woman called a silversmith and made an appointment to watch him at work. She didn't mention anything about the reason for her interest. It was just a curiosity about the process of refining silver, she said. > > As she watched the silversmith, he held a piece of silver over the fire and let it heat up. He explained that in refining silver, one needed to hold the silver in the middle of the fire where the flames were hottest in order to burn away all the impurities. > > The woman thought about God holding us in such a hot spot. She pondered about the verse that says: "He sits as a refiner and purifier of silver." > > She asked the silversmith if it was true that he had to sit there in front of the fire the entire time the silver was being heated and refined. > > The man answered that yes, he not only had to sit there holding the silver, but he had to keep his eyes on the silver the entire time it was in the fire, until it is completely refined. If the silver was left a moment too long in the flames, it would be destroyed, he said. > > The woman was silent for a moment. Then she asked the silversmith, "How do you know when the silver is fully refined?" > > He smiled at her and answered, "Oh, that's easy. When I see my image in it." > > What a significant lesson the silversmith had imparted! The woman wondered. > > If today you are feeling the heat of the fire all around you, remember that God has His eyes on you and will keep watching you until He sees His image in you. And whatever you are going through, be sure, you will be a better person for it in the end. ### Where is the Treasure? URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/where-is-the-treasure/ Last updated: 2025-09-16T09:30:28.000Z > There was once a poor, God fearing Jew who lived in the city of Prague. One night he dreamt that he should journey to Vienna. There, at the base of a bridge leading to the King's palace, he would find a buried treasure. > > Night after night the dream recurred until, leaving his family behind, he traveled to Vienna to claim his fortune. The bridge, however, was heavily guarded. The watchful eyes of the King's soldiers afforded little opportunity to retrieve the treasure. Every day the poor Jew spent hours pacing back and forth across the bridge waiting for his chance. > > After two weeks time one of the guards grabbed him by the lapels of his coat and demanded, "What are you plotting? Why do you keep returning to this place day after, day?" Frustrated and anxious, he blurted out the story of his dream. When he finished, the soldier, who had been containing his mirth, broke into uncontrollable laughter. > > The poor Jew looked on in astonishment, not knowing what to make of the man's attitude. Finally, the King's guard caught his breath. He stopped laughing long enough to say, "What a foolish Jew you are believing in dreams. For just last night I dreamt that a poor Jew in that city has, buried in his cellar, a treasure which awaits discovery." > > The poor Jew returned home. He dug in his cellar and found the fortune. Upon reflection he thought, the treasure was always in my. possession. Yet, I had to travel to Vienna to know of its existence. > > One's self is the closest thing to God; instead of searching for him far and wide, one has to discover him within. > > The kingdom of God is within you. ### Guys are like Stars URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/guys-are-like-stars/ Last updated: 2025-09-14T09:30:13.000Z > "Guys are like stars. So many to pick from, but only one can make all your dreams come true." ### Don't postpone until it is too late URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/dont-say-theres-still-time/ Last updated: 2025-09-12T09:30:46.000Z Don't say, "There's still time" or "Maybe next time" because there's also the concept of "It's too late". > Don't worry about yesterday or tomorrow, there is only today. Be fearless. Listen to your heart. Envision your perfect day and go out there and live it. You have many smiles to share with those around you--and they with you. Radiate your love and feel that loving energy return to you. \~ Creig Crippen > > © Wisdom Quotes & Stories ### Let go of all the things that makes you Sad URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/simplest-way-happy/ Last updated: 2025-09-10T09:30:47.000Z "One of the simplest way to stay Happy is to let go of all the things that makes you Sad." > Life is but a vapor, try to count your blessings and focus on the positive things in life and you will automatically focus less and less on the negative, consequently feeling happier and more content. \~ Yvonne Pavlovsky > > You cannot run away from pains and problems (physical or mental), but you can decide not to let it run (or ruin) your life. \~ BK Sim > > © Wisdom Quotes & Stories ### You only need to find one good reason why it will work URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/find-good-reason-robert-anthony/ Last updated: 2025-09-08T09:30:01.000Z > "Forget about all the reasons why something may not work. You only need to find one good reason why it will." \~ Dr. Robert Anthony ### I will spend the rest of my life trying to make you happier URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/spend-rest-life-feel-happier/ Last updated: 2025-09-06T09:30:09.000Z > "You make me happier than I ever thought I could be and if you let me I will spend the rest of my life trying to make you feel the same way." ### If people are meant to be in your life, they will catch up URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/move-on-without-certain-people/ Last updated: 2025-09-04T09:30:45.000Z "Sometimes you have to move on without certain people. If they are meant to be in your life, they will catch up." ### Love is always a full time URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/love-always-full-time/ Last updated: 2025-09-02T09:30:01.000Z > "Love is always a full time. Never a part time. Never sometimes and certainly not just on your time." ### Givers and Takers ... URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/two-kinds-of-people-givers-takers/ Last updated: 2025-08-30T09:30:39.000Z > "There were two kinds of people in the world: Givers and Takers. The takers may eat better, but the givers sleep better." ### God always lead us URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/god-leads-us/ Last updated: 2025-08-28T09:30:59.000Z > "God always leads us to where we need to be not where we want to be." ### Your job won't take care of you when you are sick URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/family-friend-care-you/ Last updated: 2025-08-26T09:30:56.000Z "Your job won't take care of you when you are sick. Your family and friends will. Stay in touch." ### Before and After Marriage URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/before-after-marriage/ Last updated: 2025-08-24T09:30:12.000Z > BEFORE MARRIAGE > > **He: Yes. At last. It was so hard to wait.** > **She: Do you want me to leave?** > **He: NO! Don't even think about it.** > **She: Do you love me?** > **He: Of course! Over and over!** > **She: Have you ever cheated on me?** > **He: NO! Why are you even asking?** > **She: Will you kiss me?** > **He: Every chance I get!** > **She: Will you hit me?** > **He: Are you crazy! I'm not that kind of person!** > **She: Can I trust you?** > **He: Yes.** > **She: Darling!** > > AFTER MARRIAGE > > Read from the bottom going up > > \~ Unknown ### Do Not Limit Yourself URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/do-not-limit-yourself/ Last updated: 2025-08-22T09:30:37.000Z > My Grandmother was always encouraging me to set goals and work hard to achieve them. She would tell me not to be a follower and not to set limits on what I could achieve. She truly believed that there were no limits that you could achieve whatever you wanted. > > *A farmer won a first prize at the country fair for his huge radish that was the exact shape and size of a quart of milk bottle. Many were curious as to how the farmer was able to grow this radish that was the exact shape of a milk bottle. Finally one gentleman went up to the farmer and asked the question. The farmer replied, "It was easy. I got the seed growing and then I put it into the milk bottle. It had nowhere else to go."* > > You can use this story as an analogy to life - our lives are shaped by the kind of surroundings we place ourselves in, the people that we allow to influence us, and the goals we give ourselves. > > If we only dream and take no action then we get no further. But if we plan, set a goal and take action then our life takes a different shape. > > Don't limit yourself; don't put yourself in a bottle. Or in other words move out of what is comfortable and secure if you want to move forward. > > \~ Catherine Pulsifer ### Top to Toe URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/top-to-toe/ Last updated: 2025-08-20T09:30:04.000Z > From the top of my head to the bottom of my soles, > > If I were to be harsh and self-critical, > > I can easily point out exactly what is wrong, > > With each and every part of my body. > > To get a sample of the imperfections that lie within my body, > > Let us take a peek at the flaws that I can spot. > > My hair is too wavy and not thick enough, > > Forehead too high and too wide, > > Skin too oily and prone to breakouts, > > Pores too big and too visible, > > Eyebrows too sparse and eyelashes too few and short, > > Nose bridge too low and too fleshy, > > Teeth with gaps and not white enough, > > Lips too pale and chin too sharp, > > Face too longish and not oval enough, > > Hands too wrinkly and not slender, > > Back too pimply and littered with scar marks, > > Breasts too small and butt too fleshy, > > Thighs too heavy and calves too thick, > > Feet too broad and toes too dark. > > I could just burst into tears and lament > > on the tragedy of my bodily imperfections, > > In fact I used to fuss over them > > which quickly plunged my self worth into the pits. > > Over the years, > > I slowly got over that belittling stage, > > And come to realize that my imperfections make me > > Different from the rest of the people, > > And there is no one else that looks like me. > > In the midst of all these bodily imperfections, > > Lies the perfect me, > > And what a liberating thought! > > \~ Fion Lim ### Best Friends are people who make your problems their problems URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/best-friends-dont-let-go-through-alone/ Last updated: 2025-08-18T09:30:19.000Z "Best friends are people who make your problems their problems, just so you don't have to go through them alone." > True destined friends are alike minded people who are such a kind loving soul and they dare to stand with you and for you in every stormy circumstances without any personal selfish motives. Such friends loves you desperately without any fake masked identity and they love to make you feel great for who you are and what you are. So just keep such destined quality of friends as your valuable assets of life and give them tons of love as they deserve. \~ Dhiraj Raj > > © Wisdom Quotes & Stories ### The Carpenter's House URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/the-carpenters-house/ Last updated: 2025-08-16T09:30:01.000Z > An elderly carpenter was ready to retire. He told his employer-contractor of his plans to retire and live a more leisurely life with his wife enjoying his extended family. > > He would miss the paycheck, but he needed to call it a day. The contractor was sorry to see his good worker go and asked if he could build just one more house as a personal favour. The carpenter said yes, but in time it was easy to see that his heart was not in his work. He resorted to shoddy workmanship and used inferior materials. It was an unfortunate way to end his career. > > When the carpenter finished his work and the builder came to inspect the house, the contractor handed the front-door key to the carpenter. "This is your house," he said, "my gift to you." What a shock! What a shame! If he had only known he was building his own house, he would have done it all so differently. Now he had to live in the home he had built none too well. > > So it is with us. We build our lives in a distracted way, reacting rather than acting, willing to put up less than the best. At important points we do not give the job our best effort. Then with a shock we look at the situation we have created and find that we are now living in the house we have built. If we had realized that we would have done it differently. > > Think of yourself as the carpenter. Think about your life as your house. Each day you hammer a nail, place a board, or erect a wall. Build wisely. It is the only life you will ever build. Even if you live it for only one day more, that day deserves to be lived graciously and with dignity. The plaque on the wall says, "Life is a do-it-yourself project." Your life tomorrow will be the result of your attitudes and the choices you make today. ### Everyone you meet is afraid of something, loves something, and has lost something URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/afraid-loves-lost-something-jackson/ Last updated: 2025-08-14T09:30:35.000Z > "Remember that everyone you meet is afraid of something, loves something, and has lost something." - H. Jackson Brown Jr. ### Nourishing yourself URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/nourishing-yourself/ Last updated: 2025-08-12T09:30:01.000Z > While it is important to be caring, compassionate and loving to others, it is vital to be all those things to ourselves, when we give give give all the time, we have nothing left to give ourselves. > > We cannot be all things to all people all of the time, some times they will disagree with the way you do things, even if you are trying to help them. > > Some times in this modern day and age we rush with every thing, try and complete every thing at once, some times it is good to ask yourself, do i really need to do all this today or can it wait till tomorrow? > > Take time out to do the things you like to do, give to yourself, it is when we please ourselves, then we can please and be there for other's again, we replenish what it is we have given away, do what ever it is you enjoy doing, reading, watching television, going for a walk, being one with nature, it is important that you make time for yourself, put yourself on that list of things to do, we have to recharge a car battery , so take time to recharge yourself . > > Remember you are worth it, you being happy is a good way to begin to ensure that you can make other's happy. > > Caroline ### A small thing you do URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/sometimes-small-thing-you-do/ Last updated: 2025-08-10T09:30:09.000Z "Sometimes a small thing you do can mean everything in another person's life." > PEOPLE ALWAYS LOOKING FOR MAJOR THINGS EXCEPT FOR APPRECIATING THE SMALL BLESSING THEY HAVE BEFORE THEM BUT LORD I - THANK YOU FOR THEM ALL. \~ Shelley Frazier > > Every little thing,no matter how small,can mean the world to the person receiving it. \~ Sandy Price > > © Wisdom Quotes & Stories ### When the world seems to be falling down around you URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/world-seems-falling-down-around-you/ Last updated: 2025-08-08T09:30:25.000Z > “When the world seems to be falling down around you, it is really only falling into place” > > Have you ever wondered where sayings like this come from? If so, take a seat, a deep breath and read on……. > > WIN the war! > > If you ever feel stuck, be it over a person or situation. It could be even be just a block on an idea. However the root of this block came about, release is the best form of movement forward. Simply think or say …. > > "I shower this situation with love and blessings and release it back into the universe in love and light! Iforgive and release all negative feelings and thoughts. I move forward in power and peace as I know that all will work out exactly as it should do for the greater good of all." > > A lot of the times when we feel lower energies and thoughts: these feeling of being alone or lost are normally really nothing more that a nasty kick from the Ego. Your faith is telling you, that all is ok, yet ego wins this time round, why? > > Because once we are suffering from lower energies the mind is more likely to cling to a negative. This is nothing more than a learnt negative habit formed over years and years of negative thoughts and influences. In these cases clinging to an established negative habit appears much easier than forming a new positive one. So Ego wins out and keeps you in a circling habit that your heart and soul longs for freedom from. Ego does not like change or growth. As we know only negative can come from Ego, which is why it arrives when our defences and vibrations are low. Ego can also make an appearance when we are starting to SOAR and GROW. When life is falling into place and DREAMS are MANIFESTING, perhaps even more so, I will tell you now as you grow SPIRITUALLY, be ready for Ego to put up the fight of its life! > > This is why there are a lot of sayings like “When the world seems to be falling down around you, it is really only falling into place” Hold true to all sayings like this and create some of your own. Keep them close to hand, on the fridge or bedside your bed, anywhere. Somewhere so that they are in your face and ready to replace a negative thought the SECOND it arrives. Do not let that negative though spring any roots or get a foot in the door, do not let you’re mind give it a second glance, no quick ponders or hesitations. Dismiss it immediately and replace it with a positive immediately! Staying with these positive thoughts is one of your biggest defences against Ego. Remember Rome wasn’t build in a day, nor where your negative habits and nor will your positive habits. You need to put in the Fire Fight of your Soul and stick with it; with consistency and dedication your positive Soul thoughts will win and form the beautiful high vibration habits we all seek. > > Learning tools to shut the ego up are hugely effective in these times of the false negative senses. Name your ego, something that carries humour and is light in vibrations then pair this with a humorous mental image. Laughter at the self and in life is a VERY POWERFUL healing tool which radiates on a divine level straight from the soul and spirit. > > My Ego is called: Manure (because it’s full of it!) > > My Ego looks like: A Gremlin > > *(Gremlin image for my Ego was given to me by the lovely and wonderful Liz Cullen from the Healing Centre, thank you Liz xxx)* > > Thinking and visualising both those things make me laugh, and immediately my mind is refocused and laughing. Hey presto, my thoughts have changed to a positive and my vibrations have risen! Simple as that, with practice! > > Remember, it did take years to build up these negative habits. We just didn’t really stop to notice the process as the negative can be easier to believe and over look. There is great news with this realisation because there in lays a beaming ray of light. > > “If a negative habit can be built so strongly; then so can a positive one!” –Lesley McKeever > > Remembering the fact that negative feelings or thoughts are fake, is another great tool. It is only Ego trying to beat you again. Dismiss, dismiss, dismiss! > > Boosting your faith and mind with positive words, laughter, affirmations and prayer will carry you on through. Repeating your favourite song will also remove Ego from the equation, in song and within music, your soul is alive and burning, Ego will not get a look in. > > *Healing Task:* > > *Get a page and a pen, and for one day only, be very aware of how you talk to yourself and others. Notice how you are seeing situations or things that crop up during your day. Also notice how many times you think of the past. Write down all the negative and positives you thought of, said or did. The results over your day will shock you. By taking notice you can make the change. Then get two other pieces of paper and on one, write down all the negatives and on the other write the positives. I can wager which page has more on it for most.* > > *Put the page with all the positives somewhere where you can see them daily. Now take the page with the negative ones and burn them! While it is burning, breathe a sigh of relief and say* > > *“I respect everything you have done for me in the past Ego; I am now allowing my shining light to beam through. I thank you and release you Ego as you no longer serve me.* > > *SO it is SO* > > *Amen”* > > In everyday life use the above as your tools to grow. On deeper subjects you want to face, take each issue you want to tackle one at a time; we are all evolving, learning and growing spiritually every day. Baby Steps, love yourself and be fair and kind to you on the days you may slip up and let ego win. > > My biggest Soul Tip for from all this is CONSISTANCY! It will turn around, but you need to do the work! Practicing this once or twice is not going to do it, trust me! This is a LIFE Practice which you are to adopt, Ego will never stop trying so neither can you, but with your work you will weaken and quieten it. > > When in need: > > REPEAT AGAIN: > > I respect everything you have done for me in the past Ego; I am now allowing my shining light to beam through. I thank you and release you Ego as you no longer serve me. > > SO it is SO > > Amen > > Xx love and light xxx Les > > “Soul for Life” – Lesley McKeever ### Reason, Season or lifetime URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/reason-season-or-lifetime/ Last updated: 2025-08-06T09:30:24.000Z > People come into your life for a reason, a season or a lifetime. When you figure out which one it is, you will know what to do for each person. > > When someone is in your life for a REASON, it is usually to meet a need you have expressed. They have come to assist you through a difficulty; to provide you with guidance and support; to aid you physically, emotionally or spiritually. They may seem like a godsend, and they are. They are there for the reason you need them to be. Then, without any wrongdoing on your part or at an inconvenient time, this person will say or do something to bring the relationship to an end. Sometimes they walk away. Sometimes they act up and force you to take a stand. What we must realize is that our need has been met, our desire fulfilled; their work is done. The prayer you sent up has been answered and now it is time to move on. > > Some people come into your life for a SEASON, because your turn has come to share, grow or learn. They bring you an experience of peace or make you laugh. They may teach you something you have never done. They usually give you an unbelievable amount of joy. Believe it. It is real. But only for a season. > > LIFETIME relationships teach you lifetime lessons; things you must build upon in order to have a solid emotional foundation. Your job is to accept the lesson, love the person, and put what you have learned to use in all other relationships and areas of your life. > > It is said that love is blind but friendship is clairvoyant. > > \~ Carole ### Acceptance - The key to Enlightenment URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/acceptance-the-key-to-enlightenment/ Last updated: 2025-08-04T09:30:11.000Z > I finally have stopped running from me, and accepted some truths. > > I feel a great shift in myself, a real one, > > one I have been working on for some time. > > I claim my life, and my responsibility for positive change, and > > honor and will protect myself always. > > My point is... I 'get it' on a deeper level... > > means nothing unless I let it upset my peace of mind. > > People die, people get let go, relationships end or change and that > > is life it is not the end of the world. I have so much to be grateful for in my life, > > and it is not too late for me. > > I understand all the connections, connected the dots, > > and the lesson I was supposed to learn. > > No more ego, no expectations, no more drama, or being so hard on myself. > > I have to be done with all of that in all areas of my life. > > Only then can I truly be free from ego and embrace One Love and One Heart, > > being connected to Web of Life. Think, speak, and walk the spiritual path, knowing > > I am not alone. I am free to create and share in ways my ego never dreamed possible. > > \~ By Lorenza Angelo ### People only hear what they want to hear URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/people-only-hear-what-they-want/ Last updated: 2025-08-02T09:30:07.000Z > "Don't waste your time with explanations, people only hear what they want to hear." \~ Paolo Coelho ### Be happy for no reason, like a child URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/be-happy-no-reason-like-child/ Last updated: 2025-06-30T09:30:12.000Z > "Be happy for no reason, like a child. If you are happy for a reason, you're in trouble, because that reason can be taken from you." ### Unconditional Love is the Answer URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/unconditional-love/ Last updated: 2025-06-28T09:30:48.000Z > There was a time in my life I became afraid to love. Because all those times I fell in love, I got hurt. I thought maybe that's why it's called "falling" in love. > > I would give my all, loving deeply and wholeheartedly. It would be a truly emotional, extremely euphoric experience. I would dream about the object of my affection all day and all night, imagining good times together, thinking of what I can do or give him to show how much I cared. I would feel light as a feather, energized and excited, literally blooming with the joy I felt inside. Then somehow something would go wrong and my whole world would crash. Disappointment. Resentment. Anger. Pain. > > Why? Can we not love without pain? Is disappointment really a price to pay for all the happiness we feel when we're in love? Should we blindly accept that because we love we get hurt? > > It was only after many years of soul-searching and internalizing inspirational writings that I discovered that I can love without getting hurt. I finally understood that unconditional love was the answer. > > Love is one of the most powerful forces in the universe. It is the fire that burns inside, the essence of being. Love is the source of all our comfort and contentment. It is a precious gift that defines our purpose in life. If we keep in mind that we can indeed preserve its true meaning, we can love to the fullest and be happy the rest of our lives. > > Accept that people express love in different ways. > > How do YOU express your love? You say "I love you" three times a day, you kiss and embrace him every chance you get, you never forget your anniversaries, and you always prepare his favorite dishes. How does HE express his love? He rarely says "I love you", he seldom kisses you, he forgets your birthday, and he doesn't even try to cook. But he works overtime, walks the dog, helps you with the laundry, takes you to the movies, and calls you "Honey". He probably loves you as much as you love him, he just shows it differently. If you can accept that difference then you can have a healthier perspective of your relationship. > > Derive happiness from giving love. > > When you love, do it because you want to. There is indescribable joy in loving. Just give it. And cherish the satisfaction in having given someone something of yourself. It's like giving a gift. Whether it is appreciated or not, find joy in simply giving. > > Love without expecting anything in return. > > Now this is where pain comes in: when you demand something in return for the love you give. You are actually setting yourself up for disappointment because love cannot always be reciprocal. Love between two people can never be of the same intensity at the same time and place. No matter how much your partner loves you, she will never be able to fill all your needs all the time. And you are worst off if you believe you should love only when you are sure to receive equal love in return. Sad to say, you will be waiting in misery forever. > > Love now! > > The past is gone and the future is just a dream. All of yesterday's aches and pains, even the joys and laughter, are mere memories. Let them go. And your fantasies and worries? They may never come. So why dwell on them? Live now. Give love now. Do it now and enjoy the moment. That is the secret of inner contentment. > > Throw away those destructive habits. > > When you insist upon yourself that you always have to be in control, that you always have to be right, that others must always please you, you mold unreasonable expectations of yourself and the ones you love. Loving relationships are flexible, dynamic, and evolving. Give room for change and interaction. Allow for new behavior and learning experiences. When we welcome these into our lives, we open ourselves up to love and affection rather than anger and frustration. > > Yes, you will say that unconditional love is easier said than done. Especially when we have always believed that love is give and take. Try believing that love is simply giving. They say "Give until it hurts". Let's say "Love until it hurts no more". > > By Ruby Bayan ### Big Wheel Truck Stop URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/big-wheel-truck-stop/ Last updated: 2025-06-25T18:30:30.000Z > In September 1960, I woke up one morning with six hungry babies and just 75 cents in my pocket. > > Their father was gone. The boys ranged from three months to seven years; their sister was two. Their Dad had never been much more than a presence they feared. Whenever they heard his tires crunch on the gravel driveway they would scramble to hide under their beds. He did manage to leave $15 a week to buy groceries. > > Now that he had decided to leave, there would be no more beatings, but no food either. If there was a welfare system in effect in southern Indiana at that time, I certainly knew nothing about it. > > I scrubbed the kids until they looked brand new and then put on my best homemade dress, loaded them into the rusty old 51 Chevy and drove off to find a job. > > The seven of us went to every factory, store and restaurant in our small town. No luck. > > The kids stayed crammed into the car and tried to be quiet while I tried to convince who ever would listen that I was willing to learn or do anything.. I had to have a job. > > Still no luck. The last place we went to, just a few miles out of town, was an old Root Beer Barrel drive-in that had been converted to a truck stop. > > It was called the Big Wheel. > > An old lady named Granny owned the place and she peeked out of the window from time to time at all those kids. > > She needed someone on the graveyard shift, 11 at night until seven in the morning. > > She paid 65 cents an hour, and I could start that night. > > I raced home and called the teenager down the street that baby-sat for people. I bargained with her to come and sleep on my sofa for a dollar a night. > > She could arrive with her pajamas on and the kids would already be asleep. This seemed like a good arrangement to her, so we made a deal. > > That night when the little ones and I knelt to say our prayers, we all thanked God for finding Mommy a job. And so I started at the Big Wheel. > > When I got home in the mornings I woke the baby-sitter up and sent her home with one dollar of my tip money-- fully half of what I averaged every night. > > As the weeks went by, heating bills added a strain to my meager wage. The tires on the old Chevy had the consistency of penny balloons and began to leak. I had to fill them with air on the way to work and again every morning before I could go home. > > One bleak fall morning, I dragged myself to the car to go home and found four tires in the back seat. New tires! There was no note, no nothing, just those beautiful brand new tires. > > Had angels taken up residence in Indiana ? I wondered. I made a deal with the local service station. > > In exchange for his mounting the new tires, I would clean up his office. I remember it took me a lot longer to scrub his floor than it did for him to do the tires. > > I was now working six nights instead of five and it still wasn't enough. Christmas was coming and I knew there would be no money for toys for the kids .. > > I found a can of red paint and started repairing and painting some old toys. Then I hid them in the basement so there would be something for Santa to deliver on Christmas morning. > > Clothes were a worry too. I was sewing patches on top of patches on the boys pants and soon they would be too far gone to repair. > > On Christmas Eve the usual customers were drinking coffee in the Big Wheel. There were the truckers, Les, Frank, and Jim, and a state trooper named Joe. > > A few musicians were hanging around after a gig at the Legion and were dropping nickels in the pinball machine. > > The regulars all just sat around and talked through the wee hours of the morning and then left to get home before the sun came up. > > When it was time for me to go home at seven o'clock on Christmas morning, to my amazement, my old battered Chevy was filled full to the top with boxes of all shapes and sizes. > > I quickly opened the driver's side door, crawled inside and kneeled in the front facing the back seat. > > Reaching back, I pulled off the lid of the top box. > > Inside was whole case of little blue jeans, sizes 2-10! > > I looked inside another box: It was full of shirts to go with the jeans. > > Then I peeked inside some of the other boxes. There was candy and nuts and bananas and bags of groceries. There was an enormous ham for baking, and canned vegetables and potatoes. There was pudding and Jell-O and cookies, pie filling and flour. There was whole bag of laundry supplies and cleaning items. > > And there were five toy trucks and one beautiful little doll. > > As I drove back through empty streets as the sun slowly rose on the most amazing Christmas Day of my life, I was sobbing with gratitude. And I will never forget the joy on the faces of my little ones that precious morning. > Yes, there were angels in Indiana that long-ago December. And they all hung out at the Big Wheel truck stop.... > > THE POWER OF PRAYER. I believe that God only gives three answers to prayer: > > **1\. 'Yes!'** > **2\. 'Not yet.'** > **3! ‘I have something better in mind.'** > > God still sits on the throne, the devil is a liar. > > You may be going through a tough time right now but God is getting ready to bless you in a way that you cannot imagine. > > This prayer is powerful, and prayer is one of the best gifts we receive. There is no cost but a lot of rewards > > Let's continue to pray for one another. Here is the prayer:.... > > Father, I ask You to bless my friends, relatives and email buddies reading this right now. Show them a new revelation of Your love and power. Amen. > > If this story has inspired you please Share to bless others with the power of Prayer. God bless You! :) ### The World is a Wonderful Place URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/world-wonderful-place/ Last updated: 2025-06-24T09:30:20.000Z > A true story, happened in 1892 at Stanford University: > > An 18-year-old student was struggling to pay his fees. He was an orphan, and not knowing where to turn for money, he came up with a bright idea. He and a friend decided to host a musical concert on campus to raise money for their education. > > They reached out to the great pianist Ignacy J. Paderewski. His manager demanded a guaranteed fee of $2000 for the piano recital. A deal was struck and the boys began to work to make the concert a success. > > The big day arrived. But unfortunately, they had not managed to sell enough tickets. The total collection was only $1600\. Disappointed, they went to Paderewski and explained their plight. They gave him the entire $1600, plus a cheque for the balance $400\. They promised to honour the cheque at the soonest possible. > > “No,” said Paderewski. “This is not acceptable.” He tore up the cheque, returned the $1600 and told the two boys: “Here’s the $1600\. Please deduct whatever expenses you have incurred. Keep the money you need for your fees. And just give me whatever is left”. The boys were surprised, and thanked him profusely. > > It was a small act of kindness. But it clearly marked out Paderewski as a great human being. > > Why should he help two people he did not even know? We all come across situations like these in our lives. And most of us only think “If I help them, what would happen to me?” The truly great people think, “If I don’t help them, what will happen to them?” They don’t do it expecting something in return. They do it because they feel it’s the right thing to do. > > Paderewski later went on to become the Prime Minister of Poland. He was a great leader, but unfortunately when the World War began, Poland was ravaged. There were more than 1.5 million people starving in his country, and no money to feed them. Paderewski did not know where to turn for help. He reached out to the US Food and Relief Administration for help. > > The head there was a man called Herbert Hoover — who later went on to become the US President. Hoover agreed to help and quickly shipped tons of foodgrains to feed the starving Polish people. > > A calamity was averted. Paderewski was relieved. He decided to go across to meet Hoover and personally thank him. When Paderewski began to thank Hoover for his noble gesture, Hoover quickly interjected and said, “You shouldn’t be thanking me Mr. Prime Minister. You may not remember this, but several years ago, you helped two young students go through college. I was one of them.” > > The world is a wonderful place. What goes around comes around! ### How does one become a butterfly ? URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/how-become-butterfly/ Last updated: 2025-06-22T09:30:30.000Z > "How does one become a butterfly? You must want to fly so much that you are willing to give up being a caterpillar." - Trina Paulus ### Allow your Heart and Mind to Feel and Experience these things for / with him URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/allow-your-heart-and-mind/ Last updated: 2025-06-20T09:30:46.000Z > To melt by just looking in his eyes, > > To let your heart dance to the sound of his laugh, > > To hold his hand and never take for granted how it feels when he holds you with both, > > To take the chance of being wounded because you will not give him up freely, > > To have him consume your every dream, your every thought, your every waking moment, > > To be thankful for another night of falling asleep in his arms,and another day of waking up with him in your life, > > To get lost at the very thought of him, only to find your way back when he sneaks up from behind and kisses you, > > To let him know just how incomplete you would be without him, and how wonderful he is by just being who he is, > > To never let anything he accomplishes or achieves ever go unnoticed, > > To tell him you love him even more than you did the day before, > > To let your shoulder be his support when he has a bad day, > > To make sure you have food and beer ready for every game or race, then holler and cheer for his favorite team or driver because you love to watch it with him, > > To Learn that sometimes you have to sacrifice your happiness in return for his, > > To have passion with every kiss and mind blowing moves with each intimate moment, > > To never make him choose between his friends AND you, > > To take his breath away at least once a day by doing something unexpected, > > To always apologize when you're the one in the wrong, > > To miss him just as much when he's not in the same room with you as you would if he were gone for a few months, > > To always shower him with nice compliments, > > To never let two wrongs make a right, > > To let him captivate you by his own views and opinions, AND > > To ALWAYS love him with all you have, with all you are and everything you become. > > \~ Lisa Brooks ### A Businessman And A Cheque Story URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/business-cheque-story/ Last updated: 2025-06-18T09:30:44.000Z > The business executive was deep in debt and could see no way out. Creditors were closing in on him. Suppliers were demanding payment. He sat on the park bench, head in hands, wondering if anything could save his company from bankruptcy. > > Suddenly an old man appeared before him. "I can see that something is troubling you," he said. After listening to the executive's woes, the old man said, "I believe I can help you." > > He asked the man his name, wrote out a check, and pushed it into his hand saying, "Take this money. Meet me here exactly one year from today, and you can pay me back at that time." > > Then he turned and disappeared as quickly as he had come. The business executive saw in his hand a check for $500,000, signed by John D. Rockefeller, then one of the richest men in the world! > > "I can erase my money worries in an instant!" he realized. But instead, the executive decided to put the uncashed check in his safe. Just knowing it was there might give him the strength to work out a way to save his business, he thought. > > With renewed optimism, he negotiated better deals and extended terms of payment. He closed several big sales. Within a few months, he was out of debt and making money once again. > > Exactly one year later, he returned to the park with the uncashed check. At the agreed-upon time, the old man appeared. But just as the executive was about to hand back the check and share his success story, a nurse came running up and grabbed the old man. "I'm so glad I caught him!" she cried. "I hope he hasn't been bothering you. He's always escaping from the rest home and telling people he's John D. Rockefeller." And she led the old man away by the arm. > > The astonished executive just stood there, stunned. All year long he'd been wheeling and dealing, buying and selling, convinced he had half a million dollars behind him. > > Suddenly, he realized that it wasn't the money, real or imagined, that had turned his life around. It was his newfound self-confidence that gave him the power to achieve anything he went after. > > Moral: Confidence is nothing external. It comes from within . It comes from one's own commitment and dedication . You have it within, unleash your personal power! ### Cheerfulness is Contagious URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/cheerfulness-contagious-be-carrier/ Last updated: 2025-06-16T09:30:02.000Z > "Cheerfulness is contagious, but don't wait to catch it from others. Be a Carrier." ### A New Day. A New Beginning... URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/a-new-day-a-new-beginning/ Last updated: 2025-06-14T09:30:37.000Z > "This is the beginning of a new day. You have been given this day to use as you will. You can waste it or use it for good. What you do today is important because you are exchanging a day of your life for it. When tomorrow comes, this day will be gone forever; in its place is something that you have left behind...let it be something good." > > How many of us actually believe what we have just read above? If we have been following this mantra, we are sure you will testify to the positive feelings you experience and for those who haven’t, give it a shot and feel the difference. > > **Replace the negative with positive – thoughts or action – that’s the starting point for a good, smooth sailing path to happiness.** > **Challenge what you can do and what you cannot.** > **Get rid of something in your life that does not serve a purpose and add something better and new.** > > **If you encounter hurdles, instead of getting frustrated, calmly identify these and get working on them.** > **Leave aside grudges. Forgive someone you haven’t in a while – the feeling needs to be experienced, it cannot be explained.** > **It’s truly never too late to learn – take up something you haven’t for reasons unknown and feel the difference yourself.** > > Make your fresh beginning today and everyday! ### To forgive is the highest, most beautiful form of Love URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/forgive-highest-form-of-love/ Last updated: 2025-06-12T09:30:04.000Z "To forgive is the highest, most beautiful form of Love. In return, you will receive untold Peace and Happiness." \~ Robert Muller > Forgiving yourself and forgiving others for mistakes or hurts is like releasing negative energy from you and watering yourself with positive energy. Forgiving is giving yourself permission to drive your life in the light of love, positive attitude and grateful attitude for healing your pain and hurts. Some time life drowned us with pain, hurts and tears where forgiving attitude can attracts inner joy and inner peace from unexpected divine source.\~Dhiraj Raj > > © Wisdom Quotes & Stories ### Let it go URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/choice-struggle-face-prepare-life/ Last updated: 2025-06-10T09:30:57.000Z "Let it go. Forget the people who make you sad. Don’t let them affect you. But never forget what they taught you. The choices you make, the struggles you face prepare you for life." ### Children teach us what life is about URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/children-teach-life/ Last updated: 2025-06-08T09:30:23.000Z "While we try to teach our children all about life, our children teach us what life is about." > I have 24 grandchildren, and 13 and counting, great grandchildren, and sometimes it's my younger great grandchildren, who are 5, and 7, who teach me. We go to the cemetery, to visit my parents, who are buried there, and they pick up pine cones, to put on all the graves, that have no flowers, because they say they don't anyone to feel bad ...if they don't have flowers. Children, have so much love and always see beauty in life. \~ Aubrey Iskenderian ### The ones who love you will never leave you URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/ones-who-love-you-never-leave-you/ Last updated: 2025-06-06T09:30:35.000Z "The ones who love you will never leave you. Even if there are hundred reasons to give up, they will find one reason to hold on." ### I need someone to say everything will be allright URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/take-hand-say-everything-allright/ Last updated: 2025-06-04T09:30:09.000Z > "I am a strong woman but every now & then, I also need someone to take my hand & say everything will be alright." ### Never sacrifice who you are URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/never-sacrifice-who-you-are/ Last updated: 2025-06-02T09:30:15.000Z "Never sacrifice who you are just because someone else has a problem with it." > I am who I am someone don't like it...that is their problem to deal with. I was not born to impress people with my character. Satisfy one and not the other I pass on that difficult test. I love myself. \~ CarlosyDanielle Cruz > > © Wisdom Quotes & Stories ### Pause before you start judging URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/everybody-has-issues-fighting-war/ Last updated: 2025-05-30T09:30:56.000Z > "Nobody is perfect, and nobody deserves to be perfect. Nobody has it easy, everybody has issues. You never know what people are going through. So pause before you start judging, criticizing, or mocking others. Everybody is fighting their own unique war." ### Relationships never dies URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/relationship-murdered-by-ego-attitude-ignorance/ Last updated: 2025-05-28T09:30:55.000Z "Relationship never dies a natural death. They are murdered by Ego, Attitude and Ignorance." > It seems no matter how hard one side TRIES to work things out, the other side is so eaten up with ego, attitude & ignorance. SO SAD. \~ Jo Lynn Haussmann > > They drag a third party in and abuse them by using them to punish and as a weapon. THE KIDS Do what you will to each other but leave them out of it. Remember they're not property you don't own them. \~ Mary AD > > © Wisdom Quotes & Stories ### A Good Woman URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/pretty-face-nice-body-will-change/ Last updated: 2025-05-26T09:30:47.000Z "A pretty face gets old. A nice body will change, but a good woman will always be a good woman." > A good woman never change. Her body and face after time slowly change but in inner of their heart still remain in goodness shape because she is the really good woman. \~ Virgilio De Los Santos > > Good women will never change. God made her, it's the people around her that make the change. \~ Barbara Lopane > > © Wisdom Quotes & Stories ### I Like to Show you the Real me URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/show-you-real-me-you-must-be-special/ Last updated: 2025-05-24T09:30:38.000Z > "I’m not open to many people. I'm usually quiet and I don’t really like attention. So if I like you enough to show you the real me, you must be very special." ### Problems are like washing machines URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/problems-like-washing-machines/ Last updated: 2025-05-22T09:30:56.000Z > "Problems are like washing machines. They twist, they spin and knock us around. But in the end we come out cleaner, brighter and better than before." ### True man wins Love of a Good woman URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/earns-respect-trust-good-woman/ Last updated: 2025-05-20T09:30:52.000Z "A man is truly a man when he wins the love of a good Woman, earns her respect and keeps her trust." > Keep her respect and her trust, Man can win a good love of a woman. \~ Virgilio De Los Santos > > © Wisdom Quotes & Stories ### The worst regret in life is for the right things we did for the wrong one URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/worst-regret-not-wrong-things-did/ Last updated: 2025-05-18T09:30:34.000Z > "The worst regret we can have in life is not for the wrong things we did, but for the right things we did for the wrong one." ### If I Had My Life To Live Over URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/had-life-to-live-over/ Last updated: 2025-05-16T09:30:16.000Z Written after she found out she was dying from cancer. I would have gone to bed when I was sick instead of pretending the earth would go into a holding pattern if I weren't there for the day. I would have burned the pink candle sculpted like a rose before it melted in storage. I would have talked less and listened more. I would have invited friends over to dinner even if the carpet was stained, or the sofa faded. I would have eaten the popcorn in the ‘good’ living room and worried much less about the dirt when someone wanted to light a fire in the fireplace. I would have taken the time to listen to my grandfather ramble about his youth. I would have shared more of the responsibility carried by my husband. I would never have insisted the car windows be rolled up on a summer day because my hair had just been teased and sprayed. I would have sat on the lawn with my grass stains. I would have cried and laughed less while watching television and more while watching life. I would never have bought anything just because it was practical, wouldn’t show soil, or was guaranteed to last a lifetime. Instead of wishing away nine months of pregnancy, I’d have cherished every moment and realized that the wonderment growing inside me was the only chance in life to assist God in a miracle. When my kids kissed me impetuously, I would never have said, “Later. Now go get washed up for dinner.” There would have been more “I love you’s.” More “I’m sorry’s.” But mostly, given another shot at life, I would seize every minute…look at it and really see it .. live it .and never give it back. Stop sweating the small stuff. Don’t worry about who doesn’t like you, who has more, or who’s doing what. Instead, let’s cherish the relationships we have with those who do love us. Let’s think about what God HAS blessed us with. And what we are doing each day to promote ourselves mentally, physically, emotionally. I hope you all have a blessed day. \~ By Erma Bombeck (written after she found out she was dying from cancer) ### Forget some people from your past URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/forget-some-people-from-past/ Last updated: 2025-05-14T09:30:17.000Z "Sometimes we need to forget some people from our past because of one simple reason; they just don’t belong to our future." ### Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/express-yourself-bruce-lee/ Last updated: 2025-05-12T09:30:39.000Z "Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it." \~ Bruce Lee > Comparing attitude constructs solid wall of failure, limitations and frustration in your life and creative attitude drives you towards your wildest dream constructing solid bridge between who you are and who you wanted to be. The valid truth says, “The greatest mines of the world exists within you but the matter of fact is, how deeper you can dig inside yourself to tap out your hidden greatness, infinite intelligence, true interest and passion”. Never ever try to underestimate your miracle creating divinely gifted intelligence seeing others at height of abundance, success, happiness and peace, actually behind every huge success and high quality of life there is higher degree of commitment and price paid so always use your logical conscious level of awareness programming your brain wisely. As valid truth says "If you bridge the gap between who you are and who you desired to be utilizing your divine gifts then you can be who you desired to be with ease". \~ Dhiraj Raj > > © Wisdom Quotes & Stories ### It’s better to be single with high standards URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/better-to-be-single/ Last updated: 2025-05-10T09:30:11.000Z "It’s better to be single with high standards than in a relationship settling for less." > Is better to be single than having someone by your side and don't love you back.. It drags the life out of you... Even you keep hoping it will be OK... AT THE END there is nothing there for you.. Life never forget about yourself. \~ Kristina Fang > > Patience and understanding for someone is important, of course. And people change over time, so it's difficult to be patient when a "partner" makes changes that negatively affect you or if they have too many expectations (potentially double-standards), or acts in a bullying or threatening manner. But it's absolutely impossible IMHO if trust is lost. \~ Mike Filler > > Relationship with less settlement is better than settling with high standard person course less responsible you will do and will not get you much problem. \~ Virgilio De Los Santos > > © Wisdom Quotes & Stories ### Biggest coward is one who awakens a person's love URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/woman-love-bob-marley/ Last updated: 2025-05-08T09:30:36.000Z > "The biggest coward is a man who awakens a woman's love with no intention of loving her.” \~ Bob Marley ### Don't expect miracles to happen overnight URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/little-change-you-seek-will-come/ Last updated: 2025-05-06T09:30:07.000Z "You cannot expect miracles to happen overnight. Be patient, be loving and little by little the change you seek will come." > No regrets, no worries. Relax and breathe. Stay present, understanding that you did the best you could at the time, and you'll do your best in the future. Reliving past pain again and again, or chronically worrying about the future, do not help you accomplish anything. A self-imposed philosophy of perfection can overwhelm you. There is no contest to win and no race to finish. Simply love yourself and do your best, and you will avoid self-judgment, self-abuse, and regret. Change can happen in a moment. Be present and ready. You are exactly where you need to be.\~ Creig Crippen > > Actually that is the nature of Miracles, they happen when you don't expect them!! The other "little by little" is more in the realm of reality and perhaps even hope. \~ Tasos Malapetsas > > © Wisdom Quotes & Stories ### Life Together. True Love Story URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/life-together/ Last updated: 2025-05-04T09:30:24.000Z > One fine day, an old couple around the age of 70 walks into a lawyer's office. Apparently, they are there to file a divorce. > > Lawyer was very puzzled, after having a chat with them, he got their story.... This couple had been quarreling throughout their 40 plus years of marriage. Nothing ever seems to go right. > > They hang on because of their children, afraid that it might affect their up-bringing. Now, all their children have already grown up, have their own family, there's nothing else the old couple have to worry about. All they wanted is to lead their own life free from all these years of unhappiness from their marriage, so both agreed on a divorce.... > > Lawyer was having a hard time trying to get the papers done, because he felt that after 40 years of marriage at the age of 70, he couldn't understand why the old couple would still want a divorce.. > > While they were signing the papers, the wife told the husband.. "I really love you, but i really can't carry on anymore, I'm sorry.." "It's o.k., I understand.." said the husband. Looking at this, the lawyer suggested a dinner together with just the three of them. The wife thought, "Why not? since they are still gonna be friends.." At the dining table, there was a awkard silence. The first dish was roasted chicken. Immediately, the old man took the drumstick for the old lady.. "Take this, it's your favourite.." > > Looking at this, the lawyer thought there might still be a chance for the relationship, but the wife was frowning when she answered.. "This is always the problem. You always think so highly of yourself and never thought about how I feel. Don't you know that I hate drumsticks?" Little did she know that over the years, the husband have been trying all ways to please her. Little did she know that drumsticks was the husband's favourite. Little did he know that she never thought he understand her at all. Little did he know that she hates drumsticks even though all he wants is the best for her. > > That night, both of them couldn't sleep. Throught the night, they toss and turn repeatedly... After hours, the old man couldn't take it anymore, he knows that he still loves her, and he can't carry on life without her. He wants her back, he wants to tell her he is sorry. He wanted to tell her "I love you"... > > He picks up the phone, started dialing her number.... The ringing never stops.. He never stopped dialing.... > > On the other side, she was sad. She couldn’t understand how come after all these years, he still doesn't understand her at all. She loves him a lot, but she just can't take it anymore.... The phone rang but she refuses to answer knowing that it's him... "What's the point of talking now that it's over... I have asked for it and now I wanna keep it this way. If not I will lose face.." She thought. With the phone still ringing, she decided to pull out the phone cord... Little did she remember, he had heart problems... > > The next day, she received news that he had passed away... She rushed down to his apartment and saw his body lying on the couch still holding on to the phone. He had a heart attack when he was trying to get through to her phone line.... > > As sad as she was, she have to clear his belongings. When she was looking through the drawers, she saw this insurance policy dated from the day they got married with the beneficiary being her. And together in those files, there was this note. > > "To my dearest wife, > > By the time you're reading this, I'm sure I'm no longer around. I bought this policy for you. Though the amount is only $100k, I hope it will be able to help me continue my promise that I have made when we got married. I might not be around anymore but I want this amount of money to continue taking care of you just like the way I will if I could have live longer. I want you to know I will always be around by your side. I love you. " > > Tears flowed like river...... > > "When you love someone, let them know... You never know what will happen the next minute... Learn to build a life together.. Learn to love each other... For who they are.. Not what they are..." ### In life, it takes someone's absence to value their presence URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/someones-absence-value-presence/ Last updated: 2025-05-02T09:30:46.000Z > "In life, it takes sadness to know what happiness is, noise to appreciate silence & someone's absence to value their presence." ### The elevator to success is out of order URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/elevator-success-joe-girard/ Last updated: 2025-04-30T09:30:41.000Z > "The elevator to success is out of order. You'll have to use the stairs.. one step at a time." \~ Joe Girard ### Things are being loved, and people are being used URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/people-created-to-love/ Last updated: 2025-04-28T09:30:57.000Z "People were created to be Loved, things were created to be used, the reason why the world is in chaos, is because things are being loved, and people are being used." ### Small minds can't comprehend big spirits URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/big-spirits-great-mind/ Last updated: 2025-04-26T09:30:40.000Z > "Small minds can't comprehend big spirits. To be great, you have to be willing to be mocked, hated, and misunderstood. Stay strong." ### Tell people how much they mean to you URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/never-miss-opportunity-tell-people/ Last updated: 2025-04-24T09:30:41.000Z "Time goes by so fast, people go in and out of your life. You must never miss the opportunity to tell these people how much they mean to you." \~ Alexander Graham Bell > Life is miraculous progressive journey where we used to encounter with countless people and every people are destined to encounter with us for a definite reason. We encounter people for a reason, some gives life shifting lessons and some are shine of our life who becomes our part of life. So be grateful and let them know how precious they mean to you and for your life which can make them feel great as well. \~ Dhiraj Raj > > © Wisdom Quotes & Stories ### I like flaws and am most comfortable around those who have them URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/myself-entirely-flaws-good-intentions/ Last updated: 2025-04-22T09:30:06.000Z “I like flaws and am most comfortable around those who have them. I, myself, am made up entirely of flaws, stitched together with good intentions.” \~ Augusten Burroughs ### Mother’s Love URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/mothers-love/ Last updated: 2025-04-20T09:30:19.000Z > **A little boy came up to his mother in the kitchen one evening while she was fixing supper, and handed her a piece of paper that he had been writing on. After his Mom dried her hands on an apron, she read it, and this is what it said:** > **For cutting the grass: $5.00** > **For cleaning up my room this week: $1.00** > **For going to the store for you: $.50** > **Baby-sitting my kid brother while you went shopping: $.25** > **Taking out the garbage: $1.00** > **For getting a good report card: $5.00** > **For cleaning up and raking the yard: $2.00** > **Total owed: $14.75** > **Well, his mother looked at him standing there, and the boy could see the memories flashing through her mind. She picked up the pen, turned over the paper he’d written on, and this is what she wrote:** > **For the nine months I carried you while you were growing inside me:** > **No Charge** > **For all the nights that I’ve sat up with you, doctored and prayed for you:** > **No Charge** > **For all the trying times, and all the tears that you’ve caused through the years:** > **No Charge** > **For all the nights that were filled with dread, and for the worries I knew were ahead:** > **No Charge** > **For the toys, food, clothes, and even wiping your nose:** > **No Charge** > **Son, when you add it up, the cost of my love is:** > **No Charge.** > **When the boy finished reading what his mother had written, there were big tears in his eyes, and he looked straight at his mother and said, “Mom, I sure do love you.” And then he took the pen and in great big letters he wrote: “PAID IN FULL”.** > > **Lessons:** > **You will never know your parents worth till you become a parent** > **Be a giver not an acquirer, especially with your parents. there is a lot to give, besides money.** > > BECAUSE MONEY IS THE WORST WAY OF MEASURING HAPPINESS. ### Repeat Positive Thoughts until your Mind repeats them back to you URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/repeat-positive-thoughts/ Last updated: 2025-04-18T10:30:41.000Z "Repeat Positive Thoughts until your Mind repeats them back to you." > Your quality of thought determines your quality of things, circumstances and people you can attract in your life. Your inner world is home for heaven where you have to plant the seeds of love, kindness, dream, compassion, positive thought and peace which can attracts alike from the universe as universe is neutral to your thought, decision and action where no rectification takes place. Whatever you are thinking and saying with solid conviction and strong self belief is fuel for your miracle creating mind “Subconscious” which paves solid foundation for your glorifying and gratifying future. The best philosophy of life says, “Feed your mind with positive, abundant and life prospering thought which can open the channels of miracle creating doors which is divinely constructed for your prosperous and purposeful living." \~ Dhiraj Raj > > © Wisdom Quotes & Stories ### How others see you is not important URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/how-you-see-yourself/ Last updated: 2025-04-16T09:30:40.000Z "How others see you, is not important, how you see yourself means everything." > It doesn't matter whatever other says or thinks about you but it does matter what you says or think about you, as it determines your quality of life. Just always get driven by your inner guidance system and rise above negative voices coming from external crowd. Actually you are blessed divine conscious being in the form of human, so be grateful, love yourself and live your life with purpose in the light of love, happiness, compassion and peace. \~ Dhiraj Raj > > © Wisdom Quotes & Stories ### Why people keep hurting you URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/why-people-hurting-you/ Last updated: 2025-04-14T09:30:50.000Z > "Don't ask why people keep hurting you. Ask yourself why are you allowing it to happen." ### We aim too low and we reach it URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/aim-too-low-we-reach-it/ Last updated: 2025-04-12T09:30:42.000Z "The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it." \~ Michelangelo ### Person trusted you more than you deserved URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/trusted-you-much-more-than-you-deserved/ Last updated: 2025-04-10T09:30:54.000Z > "If you succeed in cheating someone, don’t think that person is a fool. Realize that the person trusted you much more than you deserved." ### No man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/helping-himself-ralph-waldo-emerson/ Last updated: 2025-04-08T09:30:11.000Z > "It is one of the most beautiful compensations in life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself." \~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ### Where the Love of our Lost ones pours URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/heaven-love-shines-happy/ Last updated: 2025-04-06T09:30:41.000Z "Perhaps they are not Stars, but rather openings in Heaven where the Love of our Lost ones pours through and shines down upon us to let us know they are Happy." > The sun and all the stars are little holes through wich the universe benefit from God's glory and compassion, because He loves us so much. The sun heals, purify, fortify and does not discriminate who or what to care for. Every one and everything benefit. POWER, HONOR AND GLORY BE TO OUR CREATOR, The Great God of heaven !!! He is Mighty full. \~ Adeline Jean > > © Wisdom Quotes & Stories ### Being a Full time Mother URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/mother-salary-pure-love/ Last updated: 2025-04-04T09:30:15.000Z > "Being a full time Mother is one of the highest salaried jobs since the payment is pure Love." \~ Mildred B Vermont ### Best therapy in the world URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/best-therapy-time-out-friends/ Last updated: 2025-04-02T09:30:37.000Z "The best therapy in the world is time out with your friends." > We all live in an orbit of sorts, following our paths. But sometimes in life something will knock you out of your normal orbit and temporarily shake you. And in that moment you may feel like you're flying aimlessly through space. But rest assured, you will always return to your path, your orbit, your home. You return home with your own love and light and your family and friends--like moons that stabilize you and ensure you're safe. Nothing can stop that loving energy--it will always guide you home. \~ Creig Crippen > > © Wisdom Quotes & Stories ### Do Stupid things while young URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/do-stupids-things-while-young/ Last updated: 2025-03-30T09:30:53.000Z "If you don’t do stupid things while you are young, you will have nothing to talk about when you are old." > I'm not old, but I'm not a teenager too. Nowadays I laugh with the mistakes that I committed when I was a teenager. Experience comes with the lifetime. \~ Nilvan Lima > > I JUST NEED TO FINE SOMEONE TO GROW OLD WITH AND WE WOULD HAVE A LOT OF THINGS TO TALK ABOUT CUZ I HAVE DONE A LOT OF CRAZY THINGS WHEN I WAS YOUNG. \~ Beth Wills > > © Wisdom Quotes & Stories ### Daddy Hands URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/daddy-hands/ Last updated: 2025-03-28T09:30:47.000Z > I awoke in the night to find my husband, Marty, gently rocking our baby son, Noah. I stood for a moment in the doorway, watching this amazing man with whom I was so blessed to share my life, lovingly stroke Noah’s fat pink cheeks in an effort to comfort him. I felt in my heart that something was seriously wrong with Noah. This was one of several nights Noah had been up, burning with a high fever. > > Tears filled my eyes as I watched my beautiful husband move Noah’s little cheek up against his own chest, so that Noah could feel the vibrations of his voice. Noah is deaf. Learning to comfort him has brought on a whole new way of thinking for us. We relied on our voices, a soothing lullaby, audio toys, and music to comfort our other children. But with Noah, we need to use touch, sight, the feel of our voices, and most importantly, the use of sign language to communicate emotions and a sense of comfort to him. My husband made the sign for “I love you” with his hand and I saw a tear roll down his cheek as he placed Noah’s tiny, weak hand on top of his. > > We had taken Noah to the doctor more times than I can remember. It had been a week and a half and Noah’s fever remained very high and very dangerous, despite everything the doctor or we had tried. I knew in my soul the way only a mother can know, that Noah was in trouble. I gently touched my husband’s shoulder and we looked into each other’s eyes with the same fear and knowledge that Noah’s wasn’t getting any better. I offered to take over for him, but he shook his head, and once again, my husband stayed stubbornly and resolutely with our child. > > When morning finally came, we called the doctor who examined him and declared that Noah needed hospitalization. We drove to the hospital in a neighboring town whre he was admitted. It was a tortuous night, filled with battery of tests that made my son’s tiny little voice echo through the halls as he screamed over and over. When the first batch of tests were done, the nurse informed us that a spinal tap would be necessary as meningitis was suspected. With tears streaming down his face, he humbly asked the Lord to heal our son. > > A short time later, the resident doctor came in. He told us that Noah’s first results were back, and that he had Influenza A. No spinal tap was needed! Noah would recover and soon be back to his zesty, tornado little self. Our faith in Lord was being answered. Next day he was released from the hospital. We couldn’t pack fast enough! > > A few days later, I was cooking dinner. Noah was healing, slowly but surely. I felt at peace . I peeked around the corner into the living room, and chuckled at the picture of my husband, sitting in his “daddy chair”, Noah in his lap. They were reading a book. They both looked up and caught me watching them, and my husband and I simultaneously signed “I love you” to each other, then to Noah. And then Noah put his little arm up, trying to shape his tiny hand in his own effort to sign “I love you” to his daddy. I watched with tears as my husband carefully helped him form his tiny fingers into the sign with his own gentle hands. Daddy hands. > > *By Susan Fahncke* ### Why most Relationships fail? URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/most-relationships-fail/ Last updated: 2025-03-26T09:30:03.000Z "Most relationships fail because we spend too much time pointing out each other’s mistakes and not enough time enjoying each other’s company." > It takes two people to work on a relationship and if one lusts over someone else there isn't anything you can do because everyone thinks it's greener on the other side everything in life you have to work on it. \~ Sarah Jacobs > > Why not to enjoy the happy time-Let value the laughs not the pain and hurts which I don't deserved in trouble relationship. \~ Mhez Syn Sedenio > > Sometimes we forget that we are just humans, nobody is perfect and if we really love each other, we have to communicate and work things out. \~ Carla Garrell > > Nowadays, both the man, and the woman, need to learn to communicate better and stop worrying about what this one has, looks at, walk, wear...I can go on and on. \~ Sonia Alvarez > > If we stop seeing and focusing on other's faults.maybe then we would see ours more clearly...that is if you are willing to accept your own shortcomings. \~ Laurie Higgins > > © Wisdom Quotes & Stories ### Sweetest things you can do for a Girl URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/girl-on-your-heart-mind/ Last updated: 2025-03-24T09:30:24.000Z > "The sweetest things you can do for a girl are the little things that let her know she's in your heart and on your mind." ### Things always have a way of working out URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/things-always-have-way/ Last updated: 2025-03-22T09:30:00.000Z "Things always have a way of working out. Never underestimate the power of Prayer, Faith and Love." ### Someone makes you smile even when not around URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/nice-someone-in-life/ Last updated: 2025-03-20T09:30:30.000Z > "**It’s always nice to have someone in your life that makes you smile even when they are not around."** ### Never play with the feelings of others URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/lose-person-lifetime/ Last updated: 2025-03-18T09:30:01.000Z > "Never play with the feeling of others because you may win the game but the risk is that you will surely lose the person for the life time." ### The story of a woodcutter URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/story-of-woodcutter/ Last updated: 2025-03-16T09:30:03.000Z > **Once upon a time, a very strong woodcutter asked for a job in a timber merchant and he got it. The pay was really good and so was the work condition. For those reasons, the woodcutter was determined to do his best.** > > His boss gave him an axe and showed him the area where he supposed to work. > > The first day, the woodcutter brought 18 trees. > > “Congratulations,” the boss said. “Go on that way!” > > Very motivated by the boss words, the woodcutter tried harder the next day, but he could only bring 15 trees. The third day he tried even harder, but he could only bring 10 trees. Day after day he was bringing less and less trees. > > “I must be losing my strength”, the woodcutter thought. He went to the boss and apologized, saying that he could not understand what was going on. > > “When was the last time you sharpened your axe?” the boss asked. > > “Sharpen? I had no time to sharpen my axe. I have been very busy trying to cut trees…” > > *Our lives are like that. We sometimes get so busy that we don’t take time to sharpen the “axe”. In today’s world, it seems that everyone is busier than ever, but less happy that ever.* > > *Why is that? Could it be that we have forgotten how to stay “sharp”? There’s nothing wrong with activity and hard work. But we should not get so busy that we neglect the truly important things in life, like our personal life, taking time to get close to our Creator, giving more time for our family, taking time to read etc.* > > *We all need time to relax, to think and meditate, to learn and grow. If we don’t take the time to sharpen the “axe”, we will become dull and lose our effectiveness.* > > *From: 7 Habits of Highly Effective People* ### Life is too short to worry URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/life-short-have-fun-fall-in-love/ Last updated: 2025-03-14T09:30:10.000Z > "Life is too short to worry about stupid things. Have fun. Fall in love. Regret nothing, and don’t let people bring you down." ### God is with us each step of the way URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/god-with-us-each-step/ Last updated: 2025-03-12T09:30:35.000Z "No matter how smooth or how rough the day, God is with us each step of the way." > Life is complex miraculous progressive journey where you have to rise above every stormy circumstances gathering lion like courage and confidence by shifting yourself from comfort zone to uncomfort zone. Everyday is blessed new gifted day to create miracles, if you begin your journey watering yourself with right wisdom, right philosophy, positive winning attitude and lighting the fire of strong self belief and faith of Lord. So you can rise above any complex stormy adversities if you put God on first place as he loves you unconditionally. Never give up in the highway of life seeing stormy adversities as every toughest adversities gives birth to great achiever, just keep fighting the battle of life for victor tag believing that you can accomplish it in the light of faith of God. \~ Dhiraj Raj > > © Wisdom Quotes & Stories ### I admire people who smile despite too much pain URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/real-fighter-moment-start-to-smile/ Last updated: 2025-03-10T09:30:52.000Z "I admire those people who can stay calm despite of too much pain. But, I love those who cry for a while, but after the tears have fallen, you'll see a real fighter the moment they start to smile." > Keep on fighting because sometimes its easy to feel like you the only one in the world who's struggling, frustrated, unsatisfied or barely getting by, but that feeling's a lie., just hold on and find courage to face it all for anothr day and everythng shall be well with you. \~ Promise Zamantungwa > > Give way to tears when it seems to heavy into your heart to carry on. Just like a heavy dark clouds, need to pour the heavy rain into the ground to let the sun shine again. \~ Josefina Asis > > © Wisdom Quotes & Stories ### Love who your heart wants URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/love-who-heart-wants/ Last updated: 2025-03-08T09:30:41.000Z "Love who your heart wants, not what your eyes want. Don’t worry about what others say or think. This love is yours, not theirs." > Love yourself, know you are empowered to choose, live with passion, and lead with love. These are the keys to a life filled with happiness. \~ Creig Crippen > > Not all our loves will be able or willing to give back to us. Learn what you can and love again. Love is the only gift which grows larger when we give it away and shrinks when we keep it to ourselves. \~ Kuma Rhyu > > © Wisdom Quotes & Stories ### Let God deal with the things people do URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/god-deal-things-will-smith/ Last updated: 2025-03-06T09:30:27.000Z "Throughout life people will make you mad, disrespect you and treat you bad. Let God deal with the things they do, cause hate in your heart will consume you too." > Stay with the process. It's not easy, but it's worth it. Release emotions of the past that no longer serve you. Connect with your generous and compassionate spirit. Be thankful for the growth that comes from forgiveness. Live in the present and with an open heart. \~ Creig Crippen > > YES IT'S DIFFICULT LETTING GO, BUT HOW ABOUT IT;S TIME TIRED OF BEING HELD HOSTAGE BY THE PAST, NOTHING BEATS A TRY JFT I WILL PRACTISE LETTING GO OF THE PAST, IT HAS NO PLACE IN MY FUTURE. MOVING FORWARD!!!! \~ Melva Reed > > Every person who lies or speaks evil or steals from me I just turn them over to God. I hate to react to their bad behavior. \~ Linda Gardner > > © Wisdom Quotes & Stories ### My father will forever be my king URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/father-king/ Last updated: 2025-03-04T09:30:20.000Z > "One day my prince will come. But my father will forever be my king." ### Easier to build up a Child than to repair an Adult URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/choose-words-wisely/ Last updated: 2025-03-02T09:30:36.000Z "It is easier to build up a Child than it is to repair an Adult. Choose your words wisely." > A child's mind is so fragile and needs to be fed the right ideals and truths about how a good life works. \~ Julie Jones > > © Wisdom Quotes & Stories ### Best revenge is Happiness URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/best-revenge-happiness/ Last updated: 2025-02-28T09:30:33.000Z > "The best revenge is Happiness, because nothing drives people more crazy than seeing someone actually having a good Life." **Transcend Happiness and Unhappiness** **Happiness arises from the thinking mind** **Unhappiness also spring from the same source** **They are like the floating cloud that come and go** **The floating cloud itself originally does not exist.** **Just as the Sky is always clear and blue** **It does not hold or hinder the floating cloud** **We should view happiness and unhappiness as an illusion** **Let it come, let it go.** May All Be Well And Happy! \~ BK Sim ### The Marine’s Father URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/marines-father/ Last updated: 2025-02-26T09:30:24.000Z > **A nurse took the tired, anxious serviceman to the bedside.** > > **“Your son is here,” she said to the old man. She had to repeat the words several times before the patient’s eyes opened.** > > **Heavily sedated because of the pain of his heart attack, he dimly saw the young uniformed Marine standing outside the oxygen tent. He reached out his hand. The Marine wrapped his toughened fingers around the old man’s limp ones, squeezing a message of love and encouragement.** > > **The nurse brought a chair so that the Marine could sit beside the bed. All through the night the young Marine sat there in the poorly lighted ward, holding the old man’s hand and offering him words of love and strength. Occasionally, the nurse suggested that the Marine move away and rest awhile.** > > **He refused. Whenever the nurse came into the ward, the Marine was oblivious of her and of the night noises of the hospital – the clanking of the oxygen tank, the laughter of the night staff members exchanging greetings, the cries and moans of the other patients.** > > **Now and then she heard him say a few gentle words. The dying man said nothing, only held tightly to his son all through the night.** > > **Along towards dawn, the old man died. The Marine released the now lifeless hand he had been holding and went to tell the nurse. While she did what she had to do, he waited.** > > **Finally, she returned. She started to offer words of sympathy, but the Marine interrupted her.** > > **“Who was that man?” he asked.** > > **The nurse was startled, “He was your father,” she answered.** > > **“No, he wasn’t,” the Marine replied.** > > **“I never saw him before in my life.”** > > **“Then why didn’t you say something when I took you to him?”** > > **“I knew right away there had been a mistake, but I also knew he needed his son, and his son just wasn’t here. When I realized that he was too sick to tell whether or not I was his son, knowing how much he needed me, I stayed.”** ### Once a Mom, always a Mom URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/grown-kids-always-precious-baby/ Last updated: 2025-02-24T09:30:18.000Z "Once a Mom, always a Mom. No matter how grown the kids are they will always be your precious babies in your eyes." > The grown kids get angry at older Moms because now they're too busy for Mom to talk to them. When they were little they loved to play and do things with Mommy. What happens between little and grown is so strange and their attitudes change completely along with beliefs in values taught to them when they were young. All we can do is pray for them and let God dot the rest. Take care all you grown children your Moms will always always think of you as their little children. So GET Used to it. Call your Moms every few months to let them know you're still OK. \~ Lillian Rogers > > When I call my son baby, he is 53\. He doesn't like it. He doesn't like it. He doesn't realize i am calling him darling, sweetheart, honey or baby. Those are love names. Not.little boy. I know he is grown.but I love him dearly and he is my only son. So he is my baby no matter how old.he.gets. The sad part he doesn't want people to think he is a mama.s boy. Some times that makes me feel that he is ashamed of me. So when I say I love you baby. He.says, mom, let me grow up. Please....Son wake up.and.smell.the roses. His son is 30\. I am not stupid. I love you son. My baby, my darling etc. \~ Joan Gomez > > Sometimes we don't let them go, but that's what parents are here for to advise and guide because we have wisdom from experience in life you'll always be our babies to us you all bring us such joy when you smile! God bless our children! \~ Marilyn Katz O'Rourke > > Your son will always be your little boy and your daughters will always be your little girls! \~ Felicisima Nietes De Jesus > > They're all grown-ups now but i still have their sweet voices in my ear, the way they laughed and talked...it's implanted in my memory...i love my kids so much. \~ Emelina Fabian Frobel > > You break your mother's Arms when you were a baby, and when you r old you break her Heart. \~ Beth Juaton Dulap > > © Wisdom Quotes & Stories ### Never explain to anyone URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/never-explain-to-anyone/ Last updated: 2025-02-22T09:30:36.000Z "Never explain to anyone. Because the person who likes you doesn't need it, and the person who dislikes you won’t believe it." > I have said that for years. "You don't owe your friends an explanation and your enemy's won't believe you anyway." \~ Tony Maner > > © Wisdom Quotes & Stories ### You are wealthy when you have something money can’t buy URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/something-money-cant-buy/ Last updated: 2025-02-20T09:30:48.000Z "You aren't wealthy until you have something that money can’t buy." > Your Salvation comes Judgment Day. No amount of money or even the most of the most precious stone you may have.and you can not resale or be bought by anyone. Your love life who passed away, his body and soul will be there at till the judgment day and his spirit went back to the creator and your money absolutely nothing can do no matter what you do. \~ Eujyn Angelo > > © Wisdom Quotes & Stories ### I Fall Rise & make Mistakes URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/hurt-alive-human-thankful/ Last updated: 2025-02-18T09:30:06.000Z "I fall, I rise, I make mistakes, I live, I learn, I’ve been hurt, but I’m alive. I’m human and I’m not perfect but I’m thankful." > I'm very thankful that for all the people that have purposely set out to ruin my rep as a kind , giving, soft hearted person. Never were stronger then the morals I will always stand by, whether they are believed or not, and made me weaken to there Bitter, Selfish, ways in which they have no choice but to batter a person without knowledge of truth just to feel better about themselves. That is if they even know who they even are anymore cause I sure as hell don't. \~ Melissa Roberts > > I am very thankful for God and his Blessings..I have lived and learned from my mistakes. I live by allowing God to lead me and all I have to do is follow in his steps a he guides me. \~ Patricia Watson > > **Maybe we are not perfect but we are a piece of the Divine. We are miracles even if we are not yet perfect. Heartbeat, breathing, thinking, moving, seeing those are all miracles. The point is to appreciate it.** > > > © Wisdom Quotes & Stories ### Strong women fights battles nobody knows URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/strongest-women-fights-battles-nobody-knows/ Last updated: 2025-02-16T09:30:36.000Z "Sometimes the strongest women are the one who love beyond all faults, cry behind closed doors and fights battles that nobody knows about." > I've been through all this when you're facing a difficulties in life especially for a single mother and a woman who need to support the family without man in the house. Crying was the good medicine and praying strengthen you back, feel like nobody care until I knew God. So just have faith and stand up and smile again.. Let the tears rain down and overcome it with prayer. \~ Emma Rasmah > > © Wisdom Quotes & Stories ### Never forget the one who remembers you URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/never-forget-one-who-remember/ Last updated: 2025-02-14T09:30:11.000Z "Never misuse the one who likes you, Never say busy to the one who needs you, Never cheat the one, who really trust you, Never forget the one, who always remember you." > If you really love someone never take them for granted - always show him that you love him - always be faithful and treat him with respect. \~ Anita Maria Harsha > > © Wisdom Quotes & Stories ### The Miracle of $1.11: A True Story URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/miracle-one-dollars-eleven-cents/ Last updated: 2025-02-12T09:30:02.000Z > Tess was a precocious eight year old 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 were moving to an apartment complex next month because Daddy didn’t have the money for the doctor bills and our house. Only a very costly surgery could save him now and it was looking like there was no-one to loan them the money. She heard Daddy say to her tearful Mother with whispered desperation, “Only a miracle can save him now.” > > Tess went to her bedroom and pulled a glass jelly jar from its hiding place in the closet. She poured all the change out on the floor and counted it carefully. Three times, even. The total had to be exactly perfect. No chance here for mistakes. Carefully placing the coins back in the jar and twisting on the cap, she slipped out the back door and made her way 6 blocks to Rexall’s Drug Store with the big red Indian Chief sign above the door. She waited patiently for the pharmacist to give her some attention but he was too busy at this moment. Tess twisted her feet to make a scuffing noise. Nothing. She cleared her throat with the most disgusting sound she could muster. No good. > > Finally she took a quarter from her jar and banged it on the glass counter. That did it! > > “And what do you want?” the pharmacist asked in an annoyed tone of voice. “I’m talking to my brother from Chicago whom I haven’t seen in ages,” he said without waiting for a reply to his question. > > “Well, I want to talk to you about my brother,” Tess answered back in the same annoyed tone. “He’s really, really sick… and I want to buy a miracle.” > > “I beg your pardon?” said the pharmacist. > > “His name is Andrew and he has something bad growing inside his head and my Daddy says only a miracle can save him now. So how much does a miracle cost?” > > “We don’t sell miracles here, little girl. I’m sorry but I can’t help you,” the pharmacist said, softening a little. “Listen, I have the money to pay for it. If it isn’t enough, I will get the rest. Just tell me how much it costs.” > > The pharmacist’s brother was a well dressed man. He stooped down and asked the little girl, “What kind of a miracle does you brother need?” > > “I don’t know,” Tess replied with her eyes welling up. “I just know he’s really sick and Mommy says he needs an operation. But my Daddy can’t pay for it, so I want to use my money.” > > “How much do you have?” asked the man from Chicago. “One dollar and eleven cents,” Tess answered barely audibly. “And it’s all the money I have, but I can get some more if I need to. > > “Well, what a coincidence,” smiled the man. “A dollar and eleven cents – the exact price of a miracle for little brothers.” He took her money in one hand and with the other hand he grasped her mitten and said, “Take me to where you live. I want to see your brother and meet your parents. Let’s see if I have the kind of miracle you need.” > > That well dressed man was Dr. Carlton Armstrong, a surgeon, specialising in neuro-surgery. The operation was completed without charge and it wasn’t long until Andrew was home again and doing well. Mom and Dad were happily talking about the chain of events that had led them to this place. > > “That surgery,” her Mom whispered. “was a real miracle. I wonder how much it would have cost?” > > Tess smiled. She knew exactly how much a miracle cost… one dollar and eleven cents … plus the faith of a little child. ### A Successful Marriage URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/a-successful-marriage/ Last updated: 2025-02-10T09:30:17.000Z "A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person." > It is important to realize people change, and as a result your love changes. I think in order to have a successful relationship, you have to be able to adapt and find new ways to love the person your with. People are going to change as their lives change. The reason you fell in love with someone ten , twenty years ago may not be the same reason you love them now. I believe that a successful marriage requires you to stay in love with the person as they change and develop. > > Doesn’t it mean that if you keep falling in love it sort of means you were out of love at some point? It's more like a successful marriage requires nourishing of the love that is already there. > > \~ Dana Sampson > > © Wisdom Quotes & Stories ### Lessons I Learned From My Father... URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/lessons-i-learned-from-my-father/ Last updated: 2025-02-08T09:30:51.000Z > Some people We face in life are happiest when they are miserable. Learn to recognize these people and stay away from them for they just want to drag you into their mire. > > Surround yourself with people who make you want to be a better a person. > > When things are going bad in your life and you feel discouraged – know that things will get better. Hard times come and go. > > Decide what kind of person you want to be and then become that person. > > Be still, watch and listen – you learn more by observing. > > When it comes to politics… most people are not on the left or the right but in the middle and we all pretty much want the same thing; an opportunity to be all we can be. > > Parents should focus on only one goal concerning their children and that is to train them to become the best adults they can possibly be. So stop making your kids feel like shit because they aren’t perfect yet. They are in training, be patient with them and teach rather than criticize. > > The World is a REALLY interesting place to explore and try and understand. Explore ! > > Look for the moral high ground in all situations and take it… it isn’t always obvious and often it is easier and even considered acceptable to just ignore it… but don’t! > > Your word is who you are. If you deceive another, it destroys the basis on which your relationship is based; the truth about who you are to the other person. > > Animals and bugs are more afraid of you than you are of them. It is only when they feel threatened that they might hurt you, so go ahead and get close. > > Dogs don’t shit where they sleep. We should treat the earth better than we do and clean it up, otherwise it won’t be worth living on. > > Before you judge someone, put yourself in their shoes… how they were raised and what their circumstances are, you might see things from a different perspective and gain a little compassion and understanding. > > Just as you decide what kind of person you want to be and work to become that, decide what kind of world you want to live in and work to make it. Do not choose a career or a path that adds to the destruction of society. > > Honest self reflection is one of the best things you can train yourself to do for your own growth and for your relationships. Be willing to look at yourself with an honest eye and ask the hard questions. Have you been too harsh, judging, irresponsible, or thoughtless? If so, then work on making it right. > > Each and every day in your life wake up and ask yourself, “How can I be a better person today than I was yesterday?” Always be working on personal growth to be the best you, you can be! > > Lavone Lambert 1937-2010 > > Miss you, Dad! - Terena ### Love, Wealth & Success URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/love-wealth-success/ Last updated: 2025-02-06T09:30:40.000Z > A woman came out of her house and saw three old men sitting in her front yard. She did not recognize them but She said, “ I don’t think I know you, but please come in and have something to eat.” > > “ Is the man of the house home?” they asked. “No”, she said. “He’s out.” “Then we cannot come in”, they replied. > > In the evening when her husband came home, she told him what had happened. “Go tell them I am home and invite them in,” he said. The woman went out to search them and invited them in. “We do not go into a house together,” they replied. “Why is that?” she wanted to know. One of the old men explained: “His name is Wealth,” he said pointing to one of his friends, and said pointing to another one, “He is Success, and I am Love.” Then he added, “Now go in and discuss with your husband which one of us you want in your home.” > > The woman went in and told her husband what was said. Her husband was overjoyed. “How nice!” he said. “Since that is the case, let us invite Wealth. Let him come and fill our home with wealth!” His wife disagreed. “My dear, why don’t we invite Success?” Their daughter-in-law was listening from the other corner of the house. She jumped in with her own suggestion: “Would it not be better to invite Love? Our home will then be filled with love!” > > “Let us heed our daughter-in-law’s advice,” said the husband to his wife. “Go out and invite Love to be our guest.” The woman went out and invited Love to come in . Love got up and started walking in toward the house. The other two also got up and followed him. > > Surprised, the lady asked Wealth and Success: “I only invited Love, why are you coming in?” The old men replied together: “If you had invited Wealth or Success, the other two of us would’ve stayed out, but since you invited Love, wherever He goes, we go with him. Wherever there is Love, there is also Wealth and Success!” > > Author Unknown ### Compassion URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/compassion/ Last updated: 2025-02-04T09:30:40.000Z > Compassion is a part of love, with out compassion we have no empathy for others, the lonely and the homeless, the elderly would all be ignored by the human race. > > So Compassion is really a valuable asset to ourselves and to others, it is some thing that needs to be nourished and developed, with out Great people like the Dalai Lama, Mother Theresa, Gandhi, Nelson Mandela, the world would have been a far poorer place to live in, than it is today. > > There are so many people on our planet that need our compassion on a daily basis, it does not have to be on a huge scale, but just by giving our friendship , a kind word or a smile, might make a big difference to some one, as it might well have been a long time since they last had the hand of friendship extended , or that loving smile to embrace them. > > Luckily there are many people with this gift of compassion, it makes the world go round, it makes for a nicer life for all envolved, it is good for the giver as well as the reciever. > > So spread that bit of love and happiness today and allow your heart to grow. > > \~ Carole ### Inspirational Story URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/a-truly-inspirational-story/ Last updated: 2025-02-02T09:30:18.000Z > Two men, both seriously ill, occupied the same hospital room. One man was allowed to sit 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 in the bed by the window could sit up, he would pass the time by describing to his room mate all the things he could see outside the window. The man in the other bed began to live for those one hour periods where his world would be broadened and enlivened by all the activity and color of the world outside. > > The window overlooked a park with a lovely lake. Ducks and swans played on the water while children sailed their model boats. Young lovers walked arm in arm amidst flowers of every color and a fine view of the city skyline could be seen in the distance. As the man by the window described all this in detail, the man on the other side of the room would close his eyes and imagine the picturesque scene. > > One warm afternoon the man by the window described a parade passing by. Although the other man couldn’t hear the band – he could see it. In his mind’s eye as the gentleman by the window portrayed it with descriptive words. Days and weeks passed. > > One morning, the day nurse arrived to bring water for their baths only to find the lifeless body of the man by the window, who had died peacefully in his sleep. She was saddened and called the hospital attendants to take the body away. > > As soon as it seemed appropriate, the other man asked if he could be moved next to the window. The nurse was happy to make the switch, and after making sure he was comfortable, she left him alone. Slowly, painfully, he propped himself up on one elbow to take his first look at the real world outside. He was amazed to see that it faced a blank wall. The man asked the nurse about the deceased room mate who had lied to him for weeks. The nurse responded that the man was blind and could not even see the wall. > > He was so sorry that he couldn't express his gratitude to his friend who had tried so hard to inspire , to encourage and to lift his spirit. ### Everyone makes mistake in life as they are human URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/everyone-makes-mistake-in-life/ Last updated: 2025-02-01T09:30:35.000Z Everyone makes mistake in life, but that doesn’t mean they have to pay for them the rest of their life. Sometime good people make bad choices. It doesn’t mean they’re bad. It means they’re human. > I worked as a nurse in a prison for 5 years and I have to say it is devastating how inmates are treated. I was very afraid at first and after working their for a bit, I have to say I've never felt threatened from an inmate. It was the Correctional Officers who were the scary, crazy ones. There is no help or support for these people to get their lives back on track and society is so judgmental. 99% of inmates in prison are there to support drug and alcohol addictions. 1% are actually violent. I live in Canada but I don't think it's much different in the US. \~ Reneigh Pickunyk > > No one is perfect. Mistakes at all stages are made, but one who rises after every fall is a person who knows how to fight. \~ Preeti Batra > > © Wisdom Quotes & Stories ### How to Treat a Girl? URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/how-to-treat-a-girl/ Last updated: 2025-01-30T09:30:13.000Z > 1\. Whatever you do, don't just show up at their house...they run around in their underwear just like we do. > > 2\. Don't cheat on them. It may seem foolproof, but girls tell each other everything about everything. Trust me, they WILL find out. > > 3\. Beware of every single male relative and all guy friends. Any of them would kick your ass at the drop of a hat, and a lot of them wouldn't even wait for the damn hat. > > 4\. Never miss an opportunity to tell them they're beautiful. > > 5\. Don't refuse to kiss in front of your friends. If they laugh at you, it's because they're jealous. > > 6\. If they slap you hard, you deserved it. > > 7\. Don't be afraid to touch them if you want to. If they're going out with you in the first place, it's because they like being in your arms. > > 8\. You can be dirty minded in private, really...most of them are not offended by it... > > 9\. Not all of them eat like birds, a lot of them can eat like whales. > > 10\. Most of them don't mind paying half of everything, but they do discuss these things with their friends. Realize that if you make your girlfriend pay half all the time, everyone will know about it . > > 11\. Do you honestly need all your money that much? Be a man, pay all the time! > > 12\. Every girl should eventually get three things from her boyfriend- a stuffed animal, one of his sweatshirts, and a really pretty ring. Even if it's not a serious relationship. > > 13\. Make sure she gets home safely as often as you can. If you're dropping her off, walk her to the door. If you aren't dropping her off, call to be sure she's home safely. > > 14\. If a guy is bothering her, it is your right to kick the s\*\*t out of him. > > 15\. If you're talking to a female friend of yours, pull your girlfriend closer. > > 16\. Never, ever slap her, even if it's just in a joking way. Even if she swats you first, and says, "Oh, you're so dumb" or something, never make any gestures back. > > 17\. You're dead meat if you can't get along with their pets, parents and best friends. Be prince charming to their friends, Mr. Polite to their parents, and make sure to be nice to their animals. > > 18\. Don't flirt with their moms...that's just freaky. > > 19\. If you don't like the way they drive, you do it. > > 20\. If you're officially dating, and you're introducing her to your friends, you'd better damn well introduce her as your girlfriend. > > 21\. Don't stress where you go for every date. They really only want to be with you. > > 22\. If they complain that something hurts, rub it for them without being asked. > > 23\. Girls are fragile. Even if you're play fighting/wrestling, be very gentle. > > 24\. Memorize their god damned birthdays. You forget her birthday and you're basically screwed for life. > > 25\. Don't marinade the cologne, but smell good. > > 26\. Don't give her something stupid for her birthday or Christmas or Valentine's day. It doesn't have to be expensive, but it has to be meaningful. > > 27\. If you think the relationship isn't going to last, don't wait to find out. It will only hurt you more if you draw it out. > > 28\. After you've been dating for a while, realize that they really have started to trust you. Then you have a lot more responsibility, priviledge and control than you would think. Be careful with it. ### Don't tell your secrets to anyone URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/trust-no-one/ Last updated: 2025-01-28T09:30:06.000Z > "Trust no one, tell your secrets to nobody and no one will ever betray you." ### Walk with God URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/walk-with-god-always-reach-destination/ Last updated: 2025-01-26T09:30:22.000Z "Those who walk with God, always reach their destination." > YOU ARE WALKING WITH YOURSELF ... YOU ARE CREATOR GODS IN THE MAKING ...SOME OF YOU ALREADY KNOW ...OTHERS WILL REALIZE THIS AT A LATER POINT IN YOUR PATH ---- WALK WITH YOURSELF AND NEVER AGAINST YOURSELF , THAT IS YOUR DUTY TO BE TRUE TO YOURSELF AT ALL TIMES TRUST THE PROCESS .... GO WITH THE FLOW OF SELF REALIZATION AND JOYFUL CREATIVITY ! FOLLOW YOUR HEART ! \~ Stella Eszter Komlosi > > HE HOLDS MY HAND, AND GUIDES ME , STRENGTHENS ME, DIRECTS ME, AND PROTECTS ME....ALWAYS !" I AM HUMBLE TO HIM, AND I DO MY BEST TO BE OBEDIENT ! \~ Sylvester Butler > > If your road is beautiful then worry about the destination, if your destination is beautiful then don't worry about the road... May!! God help you all. \~ Guru Raaj > > © Wisdom Quotes & Stories ### What is Ego? URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/ego/ Last updated: 2025-01-24T09:30:15.000Z > The ego exists on misery – the more misery the more nourishment for it. In blissful moments the ego totally disappears, and vice versa: if the ego disappears, bliss starts showering on you. If you want the ego, you cannot forgive, you cannot forget – particularly the hurts, the wounds, the insults, the humiliations, the nightmares. Not only that you cannot forget, you will go on exaggerating them, you will emphasize them. You will tend to forget all that has been beautiful in your life, you will not remember joyous moments; they serve no purpose as far as the ego is concerned. Joy is like poison to the ego, and misery is like vitamins. > > You will have to understand the whole mechanism of the ego. If you try to forgive, that is not real forgiveness. With effort, you will only repress. You can forgive only when you understand the stupidity of the whole game that goes on within your mind. The total absurdity of it all has to be seen through and through, otherwise you will repress from one side and it will start coming from another side. You will repress in one form; it will assert in another form – sometimes so subtle that it is almost impossible to recognize it, that it is the same old structure, so renovated, refurnished, redecorated, that it looks almost new. > > \~ Osho ### Employment Miracle URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/employment-miracle/ Last updated: 2025-01-22T09:30:05.000Z > Are you having trouble finding a job? Don’t give up! > > Gabriel graduated but couldn’t find a job for over a year. Follow his story below to find out what valuable advices he received from his mother and what miracles he received. > > Gabriel left his seat and walked the length of his room pondering over what to do about his unemployment status. He’s been at home now for a year after graduating last February and has not been able to apply for the many job vacancies he had come across because their requirements were rather too high. > > He has no work experience yet but a majority of the adverts demanded a minimum of 3 years. ‘Will I ever gain employment?’ was a disturbing question hidden down within his soul. > > He’s been studying an advert for a ‘customer service officer’ at a telecom company but the job specification was bizarre; ‘5 years work experience; 35 to 45 age range; masters is an added advantage’ and so on. > > He had managed part of his father’s business while he was still alive and was quite good at helping out confused customers to access the services they needed. How was he going to communicate that in his cover letter as work experience? He’s 24 and only has a first degree. Different thoughts ran through his mind prompting him to tell lies. Returning to his seat, he was going to fabricate lies as advised by a colleague to construct a cover letter that would meet all the requirement, but just when he was going to press the keyboard, his conscience smote him, reminding him that the biblical Joseph did not refuse to yield to Potiphar’s wife because he respected her husband rather because he feared to sin against God. > > As he sat reading through other job adverts, his mother walked in. “Hey baby, you look depressed” she said, pulling a seat next to him. “Gab, never give up; don’t you ever stop applying; keep on at it until there be no more adverts. Only yield not to temptation for I can say assuredly that just as Mordecia was remembered by the King, even so will God put in the heart of an employer to remember you.” > > “Mum, I found a vacancy that suits my experience but the academic qualification and years of experience demanded are too high.” > > “No baby, they ain’t high; it’s a thing of the mind. Change your mind set. You know what? Applying for such positions give employers the impression that one is courageous and that’s a plus in itself. It tells them you would dare to take on herculean tasks. So go ahead and apply. Never go for job offers that meet all your qualifications for such are low paying, less innovative nor satisfying rather, go for the big fish.” > > After much encouragement, Gabriel applied for the position and three weeks later while he washed his mother’s car, his phone vibrated when a text message found it. > > “Hello Gabriel? You are being invited for an interview for the position you applied for at ADSE telecommunications this Thursday. Check your email for more info but please confirm you will be coming.” > > On reading that, he developed mixed feelings. This is the first time he’s been invited for an interview but then when he thought of his chances, his heart died. Ceasing from washing, he went inside to show his mum the text. > > “Baby, I can read your mind; the fears, doubts, anxiety etc but all that are not necessary. Guess what your first step should be?” > > “I don’t know, mum.” > > “Confirm that you will be there,” she said looking into his eyes. > > “Mum!!!” > > “You heard me, baby. Reply the text straight away.” > > Letting out a deep breath, Gabriel replied the text. “What’s next mum?” > > “God, that all. You’ve done your part, full stop. Go read around the duties of a customer care manager and leave Him with the rest.” > > On getting to the venue three days after, he realized that he was the only interviewee not gorgeously dressed. Seeing the multitude that showed up for the interview, his heart began to race. Not long after he sat down, a lass walked up to him. > > “Please, can I help you?” > > “I came for the interview.” > > “Are you sure? You’re not putting on a suit,” she asked. > > Shocked by the question, “I don’t have one,” he managed to say. > > “Hmmm, let’s hope you don’t get turned back by the panelists,” she said wearing a sardonic smile. Gabriel’s frustrations grew worst but then his mother’s faith in him was quite comforting. Looking through the crowd, his eyes met with those of a lad who approached him. Taking a seat next to him, “did you come with a letter?” > > “What letter?” > > “A note from an influential person; a politician, governor or minister to support your candidacy?” > > “I don’t know any.” > > “That’s rather strange; you don’t come for such interviews without a letter from the crème de la crème.” > > Just as fear was going to envelop his heart, he remembered his mother’s words, God keeps away flies from the tailless cow. > > **Observing the file that the young man held in his hand, “what did you bring with you?”** > **Opening his folder, “I came with the best of everything I could lay my hands on. My masters degree certificate, PhD certificate; scholarship award certificates and those of the volunteering and short courses I have undertaken. Lastly, a letter from a senator who happens to be a family friend.”** > > On hearing that, Gabriel excused himself and went to the gents. Staring at his image in the mirror, he held his thin file against his chest. Remembering the Lord’s words, he whispered a word of prayer daring to trust in His everlasting arms. > > “Gabriel Matthews,” a clerk came out to call. On entering the room, Gabriel found a set of mean looking men and women that formed the panel. > > “Take your seat, please,” a lady asked him looking through a set of thick bottles hanging loose over her eyes. After the introduction, she threw in the first question. Gabriel was white, not sure where in the world to find the answers. The second question did not leave him any better. Next, the panelists began to laugh, “are you here for the interview?” > > Pulling him together after being knocked off, he managed to nod, “yes.” > > As their eyeballs searched his body length, he was reminded that they were checking out on his dressing. “Weren’t you thought to borrow or steal or buy a cheap suit and tie when going for an interview?” > > Not sure he knew what next to do, “excuse me Sirs and Mas, can I ask for a 5 minutes break?” > > “Why?” > > “I want to have a short prayer.” > > On hearing that, they bursted to laughter. “You think that would help? You should have fasted for forty days and nights before coming but anywhere, permission granted.” > > Gabriel hurried to the gents again and staring at himself in the mirror, he wept. Perceiving that an explanation for his red eyes could be demanded, he quickly washed his face and brought out from his pocket, a Gideon bible, searching the psalms. The young lion do lack and suffer hunger but they that seek the Lord shall not want any good thing. > > Closing it, he whispered a word of prayer and returned to the room. On seeing him, the panelists resumed their laughter but just as they were going to throw him another question, an elderly man walked in. > > “Hello everyone,” he greeted as he took his seat. “I’m sorry for joining this late. I had lots of things to sort out at home.” > > “It’s ok sir,” the panelists echoed; a gesture that made Gabriel suspect he probably was the CEO of the company. > > “How many persons have been interviewed already?” > > “Six, sir.” > > “That’s fine. Guess what? Barca caned Bayer Leverkusen yesterday. I’m so happy.” > > “Boss, you and football,” a male panelist teased him. > > “Oh, what’s life without the game,” the CEO replied laughing. “I’m sure this gentleman is a Barca fan, ain’t you?” He asked looking at Gabriel. Responding to the question, Gabriel nodded. > > “I knew it. So how many goals did Lionel Messi score?” > > “Five.” > > “Brilliant, you must be smart. These are the kind of persons we need in this company. You can go now,” he told Gabriel who left the room not sure if he was in a trance. > > Two days later, Gabriel received a text asking him to resume work in 2 weeks time. Reading the message, he ran to show his mother who on reading for herself embraced him. > > “Mum, I can’t believe this. What’s the place of football in a customer care manager’s interview?” > > “Baby, God doesn’t look far nor does he use strange things to bless us rather, he uses what we already have or know to give us what we want. If he could make an ass speak so as to save Balaam’s life, how much more using football. It can be that simple when God is in it.” ### The Awakening URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/awakening/ Last updated: 2025-01-20T09:30:01.000Z > A time comes in your life when you finally get it...when, in the midst of all your fears and insanity, you stop dead in your tracks and somewhere the voice inside your head cries out...ENOUGH! Enough fighting and crying and blaming and struggling to hold on. > > Then, like a child quieting down after a tantrum, you blink back your tears and begin to look at the world through new eyes. This is your awakening. You realize it's time to stop hoping and waiting for something to change, or for happiness, safety and security to magically appear over the next horizon. > > You realize that in the real world there aren't always fairy tale endings, and that any guarantee of "happily ever after" must begin with you... and in the process a sense of serenity is born of acceptance. > > You awaken to the fact that you are not perfect and that not everyone will always love, appreciate or approve of who or what you are... and that's OK. They are entitled to their own views and opinions. You learn the importance of loving and championing yourself... and in the process a sense of new found confidence is born of self-approval. > > You stop complaining and blaming other people for the things they did to you - or didn't do for you - and you learn that the only thing you can really count on is the unexpected. > > You learn that people don't always say what they mean or mean what they say and that not everyone will always be there for you and that everything isn't always about you. So, you learn to stand on your own and to take care of yourself... and in the process a sense of safety and security is born of self-reliance. > > You stop judging and pointing fingers and you begin to accept people as they are and to overlook their shortcomings and human frailties... and in the process a sense of peace and contentment is born of forgiveness. You learn to open up to new worlds and different points of view. You begin reassessing and redefining who you are and what you really stand for. You learn the difference between wanting and needing and you begin to discard the doctrines and values you've outgrown, or should never have bought into to begin with. > > You learn that there is power and glory in creating and contributing and you stop maneuvering through life merely as a "consumer" looking for your next fix. You learn that principles such as honesty and integrity are not the outdated ideals of a bygone era, but the mortar that holds together the foundation upon which you must build a life." > > You learn that you don't know everything, it's not your job to save the world and that you can't teach a pig to sing. You learn that the only cross to bear is the one you choose to carry and that martyrs get burned at the stake. Then you learn about love. You learn to look at relationships as they really are and not as you would have them be. You learn that alone does not mean lonely. > > You stop trying to control people, situations and outcomes. You learn to distinguish between guilt and responsibility and the importance of setting boundaries and learning to say NO. You also stop working so hard at putting your feelings aside, smoothing things over and ignoring your needs. > > You learn that your body really is your temple. You begin to care for it and treat it with respect. You begin to eat a balanced diet, drink more water, and take more time to exercise. > > You learn that being tired fuels doubt, fear, and uncertainty and so you take more time to rest. And, just as food fuels the body, laughter fuels our soul. So you take more time to laugh and to play. > > You learn that, for the most part, you get in life what you believe you deserve, and that much of life truly is a self-fulfilling prophecy. You learn that anything worth achieving is worth working for and that wishing for something to happen is different than working toward making it happen. More importantly, you learn that in order to achieve success you need direction, discipline and perseverance. > > You also learn that no one can do it all alone, and that it's OK to risk asking for help. You learn the only thing you must truly fear is fear itself. You learn to step right into and through your fears because you know that whatever happens you can handle it and to give in to fear is to give away the right to live life on your own terms. > > You learn to fight for your life and not to squander it living under a cloud of impending doom. > > You learn that life isn't always fair, you don't always get what you think you deserve and that sometimes bad things happen to unsuspecting, good people... and you learn not to always take it personally. You learn that nobody's punishing you and everything isn't always somebody's fault. It's just life happening. > > You learn to admit when you are wrong and to build bridges instead of walls. You learn that negative feelings such as anger, envy and resentment must be understood and redirected or they will suffocate the life out of you and poison the universe that surrounds you. > > You learn to be thankful and to take comfort in many of the simple things we take for granted, things that millions of people upon the earth can only dream about: a full refrigerator, clean running water, a soft warm bed, a long hot shower. > > Then, you begin to take responsibility for yourself by yourself and you make yourself a promise to never betray yourself and to never, ever settle for less than your heart's desire. > > You make it a point to keep smiling, to keep trusting, and to stay open to every wonderful possibility. > > You hang a wind chime outside your window so you can listen to the wind. > > Finally, with courage in your heart, you take a stand, you take a deep breath, and you begin to design the life you want to live as best you can. ### Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/happiness-can-found-darkest-times/ Last updated: 2025-01-18T09:30:48.000Z > "Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light." Albus Dumbledore ### Value and Invest in yourself URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/value-invest-in-yourself/ Last updated: 2025-01-16T09:30:03.000Z > If you are into financial investment, you’re probably very familiar with Mr. Warren Buffet (1951–present). He is the most successful investor in the world. His investment strategies are legendary and many people seek to learn after him. > > Even more respectable, he pledged to give away 99% of his wealth (more than $30 billions at the time of the pledge in 2006) to non-profit foundations, mostly to Bill Gate’s Foundation. > > Mr. Buffet often travels to universities to give speeches to educate and motivate students. Here is one of his speeches to teach us the value of our body, to invest in ourselves, in education for a great future. > > Imagine that a Genie offers you any car in the world. The catch is that it is the only car you will ever own. What would you do? > > You would read the manual ten times, change the oil twice as often as required, and you would take fastidious care so that that car remained the car of your dreams forever. > > Think about what this tells you about your body. > > You get only one mind and one body–the same ones you will have at 20, 40, 60, etc. > > Take care of them and maximize their potential. It will be too late to take care of your body and mind (and car) later on. You can maintain them, but it is hard or impossible to undo big mistakes or negligence later on. You do not want to end up with a wreck on your hands. > > Your main asset in life is yourself. > > Treat yourself as a valuable asset. I often explain to students that I would be willing to pay today for a percentage of the future earnings of good students. > > If you value yourself, and invest in yourself, you will be worth a great deal through out your lifetime, both to yourself and to your community. > > By Warren Buffet ### Father & Son A Real-Life Story URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/father-son-a-real-life-love-story/ Last updated: 2025-01-14T09:30:57.000Z > This is a real life story of Rick Hoyt born 43 years ago in Winchester, Massachusetts. Somehow his umbilical cord became wrapped around his neck, leaving him brain-damaged and unable to control his limbs. The doctors told Rick's parents that he would be a vegetable for the rest of his life. But Dick Hoyt, Rick's father, didn't believe it. He noticed the way Rick's eyes followed him around the room. > > When Rick was 11 they took him to the engineering department at Tufts University and asked if there was anything to help the boy communicate. "No way,'' Dick says he was told. "There's nothing going on in his brain.'' "Tell him a joke,'' Dick countered. They did. Rick laughed. > > Turns out a lot was going on in his brain. Rigged up with a computer that allowed him to control the cursor by touching a switch with the side of his head, Rick was finally able to communicate. First words? "Go Bruins!'' And after a high school classmate was paralyzed in an accident and the school organized a charity run for him, Rick pecked out, "Dad, I want to do that.'' > > Yeah, right. How was Dick, a self-described "porker'' who never ran more than a mile at a time, going to push his son five miles? Still, he tried. "Then it was me who was handicapped,'' Dick says. "I was sore for two weeks.'' > > That day changed Rick's life. "Dad,'' he typed, "when we were running, it felt like I wasn't disabled anymore!'' > > And that sentence changed Dick's life. He became obsessed with giving Rick that feeling as often as he could. He got into such hard-belly shape that he and Rick were ready to try the 1979 Boston Marathon. "No way,'' Dick was told by a race official. The Hoyt's weren't quite a single runner, and they weren't quite a wheelchair competitor. So, for the first few years, Dick and Rick just joined the massive field and ran anyway. > > Later, they would find a way to get into the race officially: In 1983 they ran another marathon so fast they made the qualifying time for Boston the following year. > > Then somebody said, "Hey, Dick, why not a triathlon?'' How's a guy who never learned to swim and hadn't ridden a bike since he was six going to haul his 110-pound kid through a triathlon? Still, Dick tried. Now they've done 212 triathlons, including four grueling 15-hour Ironman Competitions in Hawaii. > > This year, at ages 65 and 43, Dick and Rick finished their 24th Boston Marathon, in 5,083 rd place out of more than 20,000 starters. Their best time? Two hours, 40 minutes in 1992 - only 35 minutes off the world record. > > There is no limit to what perseverance can achieve in life. ### The Black Dot URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/black-dot/ Last updated: 2025-01-12T09:30:54.000Z > A small town chamber of commerce invited a speaker to address its annual dinner. The community’s economy was bad, people were discouraged, and they wanted this motivational speaker to give them a boost. > > During her presentation, the speaker took a large piece of white paper and made a small black dot at the center with a marking pen. Then she held the paper up before the group and asked them what they saw. > > One person quickly replied, “I see a black dot.” > > “Okay, what else do you see?” > > Others joined in agreement: “A black dot.” > > “Don’t you see anything besides the dot?” – she asked. > > A resounding “No” came from the audience. > > “What about the sheet of paper?” – asked the speaker. “I am sure you have all seen it”, she said, “But you have chosen to overlook it.” > > “In life, we also tend to overlook and take for granted many wonderful things that we have or happen around us and focus our attention and energy on small, dotlike failures and disappointments. The so called ‘problems’ that we have are usually like the black dot on the paper. They are small and insignificant if we can widen our horizon and look at the whole picture.” > > Are you one of the person who focus your attention and energy on dot-like problems? ### Everyone is valuable no matter who they are or what they do. URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/everyone-is-valuable/ Last updated: 2025-01-10T09:30:18.000Z > During my second year of nursing school our professor gave us a quiz. I breezed through the questions until I read the last one: "What is the first name of the woman who cleans the school?" Surely this was a joke. I had seen the cleaning woman several times, but how would I know her name? I handed in my paper, leaving the last question blank. > > Before the class ended, one student asked if the last question would count toward our grade. "Absolutely," the professor said. "In your careers, you will meet many people. All are significant. They deserve your attention and care, even if all you do is Smile and say Hello." \~ Joann C. Jones > > **Who do you meet every day but hardly know?** > **What are you communicating by your lack of a personal relationship with people who you meet but don’t really communicate with on a daily basis?** > > **What opportunities to expand our influence and to be enriched by relationships are we missing?** > **Can simply learning someones name be considered kindness?** > > \~ Joe Palmer ### Bill Gates on Life URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/bill-gates-on-life/ Last updated: 2025-01-08T09:30:39.000Z > To anyone with kids, of any age, or anyone who has ever been a kid, here's some advice Bill Gates dished out at a high school speech about 11 things they did not learn in school. He talks about how feel-good politically correct teachings created a full generation of kids with no concept of reality and how this concept set them up for failure in the real world. > > Rule 1: Life is not fair - get used to it. > > Rule 2: The world won't care about your self-esteem. The world will expect you to accomplish something BEFORE you feel good about yourself. > > Rule 3: You will NOT make 40 thousand dollars a year right out of high school. You won't be a vice-president with a car phone, until you earn both. > > Rule 4: If you think your teacher is tough, wait until you get a boss. He doesn't have tenure. > > Rule 5: Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity. Your grandparents had a different word for burger flipping - they called it opportunity. > > Rule 6: If you mess up, it's not your parents' fault, so don't whine about your mistakes, learn from them. > > Rule 7: Before you were born, your parents weren't as boring as they are now. They got that way from paying your bills, cleaning your clothes and listening to you talk about how cool you are. So, before you save the rain forest from the parasites of your parents' generation, try delousing the closet in your own room. > > Rule 8: Your school may have done away with winners and losers but life has not. In some schools they have abolished failing grades and they'll give you as many times as you want to get the right answer. > > Rule 9: Life is not divided into semesters. You don't get summers off and very few employers are interested in helping you find yourself. Do that on your own time. > > Rule 10: Television is NOT real life (nor are video games . In real life people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs. > > Rule 11: Be nice to nerds. Chances are you'll end up working for one. ### I'm old school URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/old-school-believe-good-manners/ Last updated: 2025-01-06T09:30:47.000Z > "I'm old school, I believe in having good manners, respecting my elders and helping others when I can." ### A Bowl of Noodles from a Stranger URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/bowl-noodles/ Last updated: 2025-01-04T09:30:16.000Z > That night, Sue quarreled with her mother, then stormed out of the house. While enroute, she remembered that she did not have any money in her pocket, she did not even have enough coins to make a phone call home. > > At the same time, she went through a noodle shop, picking up sweet fragrance, she suddenly felt very hungry. She wished for a bowl of noodles, but she had no money! > > The seller saw her standing wheat faltered before the counter and asked: > > \- Hey little girl, you want to eat a bowl? > > \- But … but I do not carry money … she shyly replied. > > \- Okay, I’ll treat you – the seller said – come in, I will cook you a bowl. > > A few minutes later the owner brought her a steaming bowl of noodles. Ate some pieces, Sue cried. > > \- What is it? – He asked. > > \- Nothing. I am just touched by your kindness! – Sue said as she wiped her tears. > > \- Even a stranger on the street gives me a bowl of noodles, and my mother, after a quarrel, chased me out of the house. She is cruel!! > > The seller sighed: > > \- Girl, why did you think so? Think again. I only gave you a bowl of noodles and you felt that way. Your mother had raised you since you were little, why were you not grateful and disobeyed your mom? > > Sue was really surprised after hearing that. > > “Why did I not think of that? A bowl of noodles from a stranger made me feel indebted, and my mother has raised me since I was little and I have never felt so, even a little.” > > On the way home, Sue thought in her head what she would say to her mother when she arrives home: “Mom, I’m sorry. I know it is my fault, please forgive me … ” > > Once up the steps, Sue saw her mother worried and tired of looking for her everywhere. Upon seeing Sue, her mother gently said: “Sue, come inside honey. You are probably very hungry? I cooked rice and prepared the meal already, come eat while it is still hot …” > > Can not control any longer, Sue cried in her mom’s hands. > > In life, we sometimes easy to appreciate the small actions of some people around us, but for the relatives, especially parents, we see their sacrifices as a matter of natural … > > Parental love and concern are the most precious gifts we have been given since birth. > > Parents do not expect us to pay back for nurturing us …… but have we ever appreciated or treasure the unconditional sacrifice of our parents? ### Adults narrow their imagination URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/understand-rules-we-become-adults/ Last updated: 2025-01-02T09:30:22.000Z > "We think we understand the rules when we become adults, but what we really experience is a narrowing of the imagination." ### Do you build Bridge or Fence? URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/build-bridge-fence/ Last updated: 2024-12-30T09:30:55.000Z > Once upon a time two brothers, who lived on adjoining farms, fell into conflict. It was the first serious rift in 40 years of farming side by side, sharing machinery, and trading labour and goods as needed without a conflict. > > Then the long collaboration fell apart. It began with a small misunderstanding and it grew into a major difference, and finally it exploded into an exchange of bitter words followed by weeks of silence. > > One morning there was a knock on the older brother’s door. He opened it to find a man with a carpenter’s tool box. > > “I'm looking for a few days’ work.” – he said. “Perhaps you would have a few small jobs here and there I could help with?” > > “Yes.” – said the older brother. “I do have a job for you. Look across the creek at that farm. That’s my neighbour; in fact, it’s my younger brother. Last week there was a meadow between us and he took his bulldozer to the river levee and now there is a creek between us. Well, he may have done this to spite me, but I’ll do him one better.” > > “See that pile of lumber by the barn? I want you to build me a fence –an 8-foot fence — so I won’t need to see his place or his face any more.” > > The carpenter said, “I think I understand the situation. Show me the nails and the post-hole digger and I’ll be able to do a job that pleases you.” > > The older brother had to go to town, so he helped the carpenter get the materials ready and then he was off for the day. > > The carpenter worked hard all that day measuring, sawing, nailing. About sunset when the farmer returned, the carpenter had just finished his job. > > The farmer’s eyes opened wide, his jaw dropped. There was no fence there at all. It was a bridge — a bridge stretching from one side of the creek to the other! A fine piece of work, handrails and all — and the neighbour, his younger brother, was coming toward them, his arms outstretched — “You are quite a fellow to build this bridge after all I’ve said and done.” > > The two brothers stood at each end of the bridge, and then they met in the middle, taking each other’s hand. > > They turned to see the carpenter hoist his toolbox onto his shoulder. > > “No, wait! Stay a few days. I've a lot of other projects for you,” said the older brother. > > “I’d love to stay on,” the carpenter said, “but I have many more bridges to build.” ### The Missing Watch URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/missing-watch/ Last updated: 2024-12-28T09:30:32.000Z > **There once was a farmer who discovered that he had lost his watch in the barn. It was no ordinary watch because it had sentimental value for him.** > > **After searching high and low among the hay for a long while; he gave up and enlisted the help of a group of children playing outside the barn.** > > **He promised them that the person who found it would be rewarded.** > > **Hearing this, the children hurried inside the barn, went through and around the entire stack of hay but still could not find the watch. Just when the farmer was about to give up looking for his watch, a little boy went up to him and asked to be given another chance.** > > **The farmer looked at him and thought, “Why not? After all, this kid looks sincere enough.”** > > **So the farmer sent the little boy back in the barn. After a while the little boy came out with the watch in his hand! The farmer was both happy and surprised and so he asked the boy how he succeeded where the rest had failed.** > > **The boy replied, “I did nothing but sit on the ground and listen. In the silence, I heard the ticking of the watch and just looked for it in that direction.”** > > **A peaceful mind can think better than a worked up mind. Allow a few minutes of silence to your mind every day, and see, how sharply it helps you to set your life the way you expect it to be!** ### Real wealth and real beauty depends on how you value yourself URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/real-wealth-beauty-value-yourself/ Last updated: 2024-12-26T09:30:58.000Z > "Makeup doesn't make you prettier. Money doesn't make you richer. Real wealth and real beauty depends on how you value yourself." ### Strength URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/strength/ Last updated: 2024-12-24T09:30:55.000Z > When we are going through times of adversity, It is good to draw back from the emotion for a minute and remember that you have had bad times before, that you have climbed over challenges before, what ever situation you are going through, this is just one moment in time. > > Know in your heart that 6 months on from here or a year that it may not affect you in quite the same way, you are stronger than you give yourself credit for, you are a survivor, you have all ready learnt along the path of life what it is you need to get you through this trial in your life at this time. > > Give yourself the time you need to heal, have patience with your self and know that this situation will not last forever, acknowledge that you are a strong person. > > Do what ever you can to help yourself, if it means taking time out from the situation give yourself that time, talk to some one who has been through the same as you, but remember all is not lost, you will work your way through this situation , just as you have through other situations before in the past, remember another time, when you were not sure how you would get through it, and take time to reflect on that for a moment and see how far you have come. > > As the seasons change so do we, remember life moves in cycles all the time, change is constant and nothing remains the same forever, you can get through this . > > "Storms Make Deeper Roots." \~ Dolly Parton ### The Founding of KFC URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/kentucky-fried-chicken-kfc/ Last updated: 2024-12-22T09:30:47.000Z > In 09-Sep-1890, Harland David Sanders was born just outside of Henryville, Indiana in the U.S.A. His father passed away when he was 6, and from young he had to look after his mother, younger brother and sister. Dropping out of school, he worked at various odd jobs such as a farm assistant, fireman, soldier and boat operator. > > In 1955, at the age of 65, he was living on a monthly check of only $105\. After paying off his debts, he was virtually broke. Not wanting to accept his fate, he decided to franchise his method of cooking chicken using a secret recipe he developed, and decided to go on the road to sell his recipe to restaurants. > > For 2 years, Harland Sanders traveled America, visiting over 1000 restaurants, door to door. He would cook his chicken for the restaurant owners on the spot, and if they liked it, they would enter into an agreement with him. However, everywhere he went, he faced rejections, doors being slammed in his face, even insults and criticism. Nobody gave him a chance. > > Undaunted, he persisted, and finally, at the 1009th restaurant, he met a man who was willing to adopt his idea. > > By 1964, 10 years from the day he started, there were 600 restaurants selling his trademark chicken. And today, around the world, there are more than 11,000 KFC outlets in 80 countries. All because a 65 year old man never gave up on his dream. > > **Moral:** > > ***It’s a number game. If a 65 year old man can face more than a thousand rejections and setbacks before succeeding, then what about us?*** ### Let go of your Stresses URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/let-go-of-your-stresses/ Last updated: 2024-12-20T09:30:10.000Z > A psychologist walked around a room while teaching stress management to an audience. As she raised a glass of water, everyone expected they’d be asked the “half empty or half full” question. Instead, with a smile on her face, she inquired: ”How heavy is this glass of water?” > > Answers called out ranged from 8 oz. to 20 oz. > > She replied, “The absolute weight doesn’t matter. It depends on how long I hold it. If I hold it for a minute, it’s not a problem. If I hold it for an hour, I’ll have an ache in my arm. If I hold it for a day, my arm will feel numb and paralyzed. In each case, the weight of the glass doesn’t change, but the longer I hold it, the heavier it becomes.” > > She continued, “The stresses and worries in life are like that glass of water. Think about them for a while and nothing happens. Think about them a bit longer and they begin to hurt. And if you think about them all day long, you will feel paralyzed – incapable of doing anything.” > > It’s important to remember to let go of your stresses. As early in the evening as you can, put all your burdens down. Don’t carry them through the evening and into the night. Remember to put the glass down! ### The most important part of your body URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/warmest-part-of-your-body/ Last updated: 2024-12-18T09:30:38.000Z > My mother used to ask me what is the most important part of the body. > > Through the years I would take a guess at the correct answer. When I was younger, I thought sound was very important to us as humans, so I said, "My ears, Mommy." > > She said, "No. Many people are deaf yet they manage. I will ask you again soon." > > Several years passed before she asked me again. So this time I told her, "Mommy, sight is very important to everybody, so it must be our eyes." > > She looked at me and told me, " Incorrect. There are many people in World who are blind." > > Stumped again, I continued my quest for knowledge and over the years, Mother asked me a couple more times and always her answer was, "No. I shall wait for right answer , my child." > > Then one year, my grandfather died. Everybody was hurt. Everybody was crying. Even my father cried. I remember that especially because I seldom saw him cry. > > My Mom looked at me when it was our turn to say our final good-bye to my Grandfather. She asked me, "Do you know the most important body part yet, my dear?" . > > She saw the confusion on my face and told me, "This question is very important. It shows that you have really lived in your life. For every body part you gave me in the past, I have told you were wrong and I have given you an example why. > > But today is the day you need to get the answer." > > She looked down at me . I saw her eyes well up with tears. She said, "My dear, the most important body part is your shoulder." I asked, "Is it because it holds up my head?" > > She replied, "No, it is because it can hold the head of a friend or a loved one when they cry. Everybody needs a shoulder to cry on sometime in life, my dear. I only hope that you have enough love and friends that you will always have a shoulder to cry on when you need it." > > It is made for others and not for yourself. It is sympathetic to the pain of others. > > People will forget what you said. People will forget what you did . But people will NEVER forget how you made them feel. > > Good friends are like stars. You don't always see them, but you always know they are there to lend their shoulder. ### I love you for being you URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/everything-love-being-you/ Last updated: 2024-12-16T09:30:16.000Z > **I love it when you run your fingers through my rugged hair,** > **I love it when you get jealous because other boys will stare,** > **I love it when you call me beautiful and compliment me so,** > **I love it when you seem so confused as if you don't know,** > **Ilove the way you stare at me and look into my eyes,** > **My heart gets so heavy and deep that all the time just flies,** > **I love the way you kiss me so gentle you lips so calm,** > **I love the way you hold my hand and rubb your fingers against my palm,** > **I love it when you wrap your arms around me the way that I felt,** > **When you stare me down and hug me tight I just want to melt,** > **I love your beautiful smile everytime I see it I want to faint,** > **Your laugh is so soothing it heals me like you're a saint,** > **I love the way you whisper to me when someone is nearby,** > **I love it when you say sweet things that make me want to cry,** > **I love the way you look at me with that cute little puppy face,** > **It seems as if you are so sad or simply out of place,** > **I love the way you are so confident in everything you do,** > **But most of all out of everything I love you for being you!** > > \~ Meagan marie Whitmire ### Hold me Tight Daddy URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/hold-tight-daddy/ Last updated: 2024-12-14T09:30:16.000Z > A little girl and her father were crossing a bridge. > > **The father was kind of scared so he asked his little daughter:** > **"Sweetheart, please hold my hand so that you don't fall into the river." The little girl said:** > **"No, Dad. You hold my hand."** > **"What's the difference?" Asked the puzzled father.** > > **"There's a big difference," replied the little girl.** > **"If I hold your hand and something happens to me, chances are that I may let your hand go. But if you hold my hand, I know for sure that no matter what happens, you will never let my hand go."** > > In any relationship, the essence of trust is not in its bind, but in its bond. So hold the hand of the person whom you love rather than expecting them to hold yours... ### When Trouble Pushes you to the Edge URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/trust-god-he-will-teach-you-to-fly/ Last updated: 2024-12-12T09:30:14.000Z "When trouble pushes you to the edge. TRUST GOD! Either He will catch you when you fall or He will teach you to FLY." ### One small positive thought URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/positive-thought-morning/ Last updated: 2026-08-06T08:15:23.000Z "One small positive thought in the morning can change your whole day." > Everyday is blessed gifted new day to create miracles for discovering your true self utilizing your gifted intelligence in the light of positive and grateful attitude backed by cheerful smile. Once you begin your day watering yourself with right wisdom, right philosophy and positive winning attitude backed by pleasing attitude then your day can be constrictive, productive and dream relevant outcomes can be manifested. So Feed your mind with positive, abundant and life prospering thought which can open the channels of miracle creating doors which is divinely constructed for your prosperous destined quality of life. As valid truth says, "Quality of your thought determines your quality of life you live, quality of people you align with and quality of circumstances you can attract." \~Dhiraj Raj > > © Wisdom Quotes & Stories ### Everyone who is in your life is not meant to stay URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/everyone-life-part-journey-stay/ Last updated: 2024-12-08T09:30:28.000Z > "Everyone who is in your life is meant to be a part of that journey, but not all of them are meant to stay." ### Never make yourself feel like Nothing URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/never-make-yourself-feel-nothing/ Last updated: 2024-12-06T09:30:25.000Z "Never make yourself feel like Nothing, to make someone else feel like Everything." ### To be rich is what you have in your heart URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/what-you-have-in-your-heart/ Last updated: 2024-12-04T09:30:06.000Z > "To be rich is not what you have in bank account, but what you have in your heart." ### Our love is unconditional URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/our-love-unconditional-george-strait/ Last updated: 2024-12-02T09:30:14.000Z > "Our love is unconditional we knew it from the start. I see it in your eyes. You can feel it from my heart. From here on after let's stay the way we are right now and share all the love and laughter that a lifetime will allow." \~ George Strait ### Love is just a word waiting for definition URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/love-is-just-word/ Last updated: 2024-11-30T09:30:47.000Z > "Love is just a word until you find someone who gives it the definition." ### Missing someone URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/wishing-they-were-right-there-with-you/ Last updated: 2024-11-28T09:30:00.000Z "Missing someone isn’t about how long it has been since you’ve seen them or the amount of time since you’ve talked. It’s about that very moment when you're doing something and wishing they were right there with you." > Sometimes in some moment while we are busy, we remember someone the moment we are with them,get us keep reviving some topic of conversation. \~ Virgilio De Los Santos > > © Wisdom Quotes & Stories ### People like that are hard to find URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/people-like-that-hard-to-find/ Last updated: 2024-11-26T09:30:51.000Z > "If you find someone who makes you smile, who checks up on you often to see if you're okay. Who watches out or you and wants the best for you. Who loves and respects you. Don't let them go. People like that are hard to find." ### Perfect Relationship is about how fast you resolve URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/perfect-relationship-bounce-back-normal/ Last updated: 2024-11-24T09:30:37.000Z "Perfect Relationship is not that you never get angry, upset or irritated with each other. It's how fast you resolve & bounce back to normal." ### Be a survivor not a victim URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/hold-head-up-high-survivor/ Last updated: 2024-11-22T09:30:35.000Z "Someone once asked me how l hold my head up so high after all I’ve been through. I said, it’s because no matter what, I am a survivor. Not a victim." > Have the courage to let go of control. You are not a victim. Choose to forgive yourself for mistakes made and learn from each one. You are empowered. Challenge and face fears, embracing opportunities as they come. Change can happen in a moment. Be present and ready. You are exactly where you need to be. \~ Creig Crippen > > © Wisdom Quotes & Stories ### Thank you God for all I have URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/take-minute-thank-you-god/ Last updated: 2024-11-20T09:30:16.000Z "Dear God I wanna take a minute not to ask anything from you but simply to say thank you for all I have." > EVEN WHEN YOU HAVE NOTHING AND YOUR WHOLE WORLD SEEMS TO BE CRUMBLING DOWN,WHEN FAMILY AND FRIENDS SEEM TO HAVE LEFT YOU IN THE WIND,,REMEMBER TO THANK GOD EVERYDAY NOT JUST FOR THE GOOD BUT ALSO THE BAD TRUST THAT HE NEVER EVER GIVES US MORE THAN WE CAN HANDLE....I KNOW RIGHT NOW I'M GOING THROUGH A LOT AND EVERYDAY I THANK GOD FOR MY LIFE..AND EVERYDAY HE BLESSES ME. \~ Elizabeth Resendez > > All that I want from the Lord is to get closer to Him. He knows what we NEED, so I just say "Lord, let Your will be done in my life". \~ John W Halstead > > Dear God thank you for everything you have given me and done for me also I would like to thank you for another day to be here I love u with every beat of my heart and would not have it any other way. \~ Steph Joseph Mayes > > © Wisdom Quotes & Stories ### I respect me URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/cutting-people-out-of-life/ Last updated: 2024-11-18T09:30:03.000Z "Cutting people out of my life does not mean I hate them, it simply means I respect me." > You gotta do what you gotta do... especially important to cut out people who pretend to be your friend & all the while they are working behind the scene to hurt you or take from you somehow... when or if you ever find out this is going on with a "frienemy"... it is definitely time to cut these type of people out of your life. YES, most definitely, before you get betrayed by manipulation. \~ Becky Serna > > Negative people sometimes helps us to see our weaknesses, just to improve ourselves, but if you will notice that they ruin our life then it's the time to get rid of them and pray for negative people to God, because only HIM can change them. We have to RESPECT FOR EACH OTHER. God Bless! \~ Modesta Bautista Garcia > > I now live alone for the first time in my life and NEVER feel lonely, unlike when I was living with those who bent over backwards to devalue me every day. \~ Janice Bullock > > Just because I let you go doesn't mean I don't like you because I do just sometimes we just have to let go to grow. \~ Jean Hubbard > > © Wisdom Quotes & Stories ### The best kind of friend URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/walk-away-feeling-best-conversation/ Last updated: 2024-11-16T09:30:51.000Z "The best kind of friend is the one you could sit on a porch with, never saying a word, and walk away feeling like that was the best conversation you've had." ### A Moment of Misunderstanding URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/single-moment-misunderstanding/ Last updated: 2024-11-14T09:30:33.000Z "A single moment of misunderstanding is so poisonous, that it makes us forget the hundred lovable moments spent together within a minute." > Construct the solid bridge of love, mutual understanding, respect, loyalty and trust so that such bridge can gives life time mileage to your strong bond of relationships. As life is precious and it must be lived in the light of love,happiness and peace despite of any stormy circumstances encountered in the highway of life. \~ Dhiraj Raj > > © Wisdom Quotes & Stories ### I want! I want! I want! Everyday you hear people saying what they want URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/everyday-hear-people-saying/ Last updated: 2024-11-12T09:30:26.000Z **"I want. I want. I want. Everyday you hear people saying what they want. Well this is what I want. I want people who are sick to be healed. I want children with no families to be adopted. I want people to never have to worry about food and shelter and heat. Most of all, I would like to see our people start to care for one another."** > Life is to live and let live others in the light of love and happiness as life is for once and we must live it fullest with difference maker tag. So spread your wings of love, respect, kindness, happiness, help and peace all around the world so that you can fly at mountainous height of abundance, happiness, success and peace. As valid law of universe says, "The more you give, the more you get from unexpected divine source and the more you love to others, the more you get loved from others in return." \~ Dhiraj Raj > > © Wisdom Quotes & Stories ### Being with no one is better than being with the wrong ones URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/fly-solo-strongest-wings/ Last updated: 2024-11-10T09:30:24.000Z "Being with no one is better than being with the wrong ones. Sometimes those who fly solo have the strongest wings." > Being solo is a time to find yourself, reflect on the past, get to know who you are and what you deserve, and realise you don't have to settle for second best...BUT NEVER SLAM THE DOOR SHUT....single mother 16yrs....and that means VERY SINGLE BY CHOICE....no boyfriends, I chose to raise my five kids and when the time is right the door will be opened again...heartache prepares and teaches you discernment for the real thing when it does come along...being single for five minutes only leads you to more heartache because you will make the same mistakes again by jumping in the pool too soon. WISDOM IS LEARNING FROM YOUR MISTAKES AND NOT REPEATING THEM. \~ Joanne Mbrace > > Solo for me... Loving it and It gives me time to focus on just me. Been hurt enough, this is my time to heal spiritual, emotional and find my innerself of the person Im hoping for. I have to much caring for people Im at a time its for me...Take care of me. \~ Ali Eldridge > > I love to be with me because one is a company. Two is crowd. Three is the universe. I suppose in the end, the whole of life becomes an act of letting go, but what always hurts the most is not taking a moment to say goodbye. \~ Ganesh Upadhhyay > > We are never alone when we love ourselves. When we give love to the people in need we never feel alone. \~ Isabelle Parise > > It's very safe/secure to be alone, but let God control your life and don't be afraid to venture out and trust in the people that God is sending into your life. \~ Kay Knipfel > > We need to sit alone from time to time, it doesn't mean that we are sad but it means that we are trying to be closer to ourselves. \~ Alisar Al Haj Ali > > To be with GOD is better than to be alone or with wrong ones. as God is the most gracious and the most merciful. \~ Nazih Abdel-fattah > > © Wisdom Quotes & Stories ### A bend in the road is not the end of the road, unless you fail to make the turn URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/bend-road/ Last updated: 2024-11-08T09:30:15.000Z > "A bend in the road is not the end of the road, unless you fail to make the turn." ### If one day you feeling like crying, call me URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/feel-crying-call-me/ Last updated: 2024-11-06T09:30:51.000Z "If one day you feeling like crying, call me. I can't promise to make you laugh, but I'm willing to cry with you." > We used to encounter stormy circumstances in the miraculous progressive journey of life where we used to find our self hurt, broke and alone. We need some emotional and spiritual support from our alike minded rich hearted destined quality of person who can give solid stand to rise above such stormy times. Actually a minor hug and positive uplifting words from our alike minded loving persons can help to heal our pain and hurt in such darkest times. As valid truth says, "Quality friends are connected emotionally and spiritually with our holy soul and dare to give solid stand with us and for us in every stormy adversities." \~ Dhiraj Raj > > © Wisdom Quotes & Stories ### Always go for whatever makes you happy URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/trapped-between-feelings/ Last updated: 2024-11-04T09:30:09.000Z "If you are trapped between your feelings and what other people think is right, always go for whatever makes you happy. Unless, you want everybody to be happy except you." ### The Missing Rib URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/missing-rib/ Last updated: 2024-11-02T09:30:43.000Z > A very young lady who was in love asked her fiancee. Girl: Tell me. Who, in this world do you love most? > > Boy: You're the one I love, of course! > > Girl: Deep down In your heart, what do you think I am to you? > > The boy thought deeply for a minute and looked straight into the girl's eyes and said, "You are my missing rib. It was recorded that God saw that Adam was alone, during one of his sleeps, God took one of Adam's rib and from it, created Eve and ever since, every man has been searching for his missing rib. I'm grateful to God because I've found you." A few months later, they got wedded. After their wedding, the couple had a sweet and happy married life for a while. > > But unfortunately, on the long run, the youthful couple began to drift apart due to the busy schedules of life and the never-ending worries of daily problems, their life became mundane. As all these challenges posed by the harsh realities of life began to fade away their dreams and love for each other. Soon, the couple began to have more and more quarrels and each quarrel became more and more heated. > > One day, after one of their quarrels, the girl ran out of the house. At the other side of the road, she shouted, "You don't love me!"The boy grew very angry and hated her childish behavior and out of annoyance, replied, "Maybe, it was even a mistake for us to have been together! You were never my missing rib!"Suddenly, she became quiet and stood there for a while. He regretted what he said greatly but words once uttered can never be taken back. With tears, she went inside to pack her belongings and was determined to break-up. But before she left the house, she said, "If I'm really not your missing rib, please let me go." She continued, "It is less painful this way. Let's go on our separate ways". > > \* Six years passed \* > > He never remarried but he had tried to find out about her life . She had left the country and back. She had married a foreigner and divorced. He felt bad that she never waited for him. In the dark and lonely night, he felt the lingering ache in his heart . He couldn't bring himself to admit that he was missing her. One day, they finally met. At the airport, a place where there were many reunions and good byes. He was going away on a business trip. She was standing there alone, with just a security door separating them. She smiled gently at him. > > Boy: How are you doing? > > Girl: Not bad, I'm fine. How about you? Have you found your missing rib? > > Boy: Not yet. > > Girl: I'll be flying to New York city in the next flight. Boy: I'll be back in 2 weeks time. Call me when you're back. You know my number. Nothing has changed, it's still the same. With a smile, she nodded, turned around and waved him good bye. > > About a week later, he heard of her death. She had deceased in New York city, in an event that shocked the world. At midnight, once again, he lit his cigarette. And like before, he felt the lingering ache in his heart. He finally knew and admitted.... She was the missing rib that he had carelessly broken. > > Never make a decision in haste. Trust God. Keep Him first and love your spouse deeply through God. Let God be the center of your family and everything will be in its right place. ### The Size of your Success URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/success-size-robert-kiyosaki/ Last updated: 2024-10-30T09:30:15.000Z > "The size of your success is measured by the strength of your desire; the size of your dream; and how you handle disappointment along the way." \~ Robert Kiyosaki ### Don't Judge me URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/reason-things-i-do/ Last updated: 2024-10-28T09:30:06.000Z > "Don't judge me, you can't handle half of what I've dealt with. There's a reason I do the things I do, there's a reason I am who I am." ### A tear is made of 1% water and 99% feelings URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/tear-made-of-water-feelings/ Last updated: 2024-10-26T09:30:15.000Z > A tear is made of 1% water and 99% feelings ### Mistakes are painful when they happen URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/mistakes-painful-when-happen/ Last updated: 2024-10-24T09:30:35.000Z > “Mistakes are painful when they happen, but year's later collection of mistakes is called experience, which leads to success.” \~ Denis Waitley ### While one person hesitates because he feels inferior URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/person-hesitates-feels-inferior/ Last updated: 2024-10-22T09:30:54.000Z “While one person hesitates because he feels inferior, the other is busy making mistakes and becoming superior.” \~ Henry C. Link ### Live in the present and make it beautiful URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/live-present-make-beautiful/ Last updated: 2024-10-20T09:30:29.000Z "Don't cry over the past, it's gone. Don't stress about the future, it hasn't arrived. Live in the present and make it beautiful." > Past is just like shadow of your own shadow which doesnt determines your quality of life rather it just gives slight life shifting lesson to discover your best present. Once you discover your best present despite of stormy circumstances then it can paves solid highway for your quality future. As everyday is blessed new gifted day to create miracles and discover your true self. So live your present fullest and make it constructive, productive and dream relevant. \~ Dhiraj Raj > > © Wisdom Quotes & Stories ### Have faith that everything will work out for the best URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/everything-work-out-best/ Last updated: 2024-10-18T09:30:19.000Z "Sometimes the best thing you can do is not think, not wonder, not imagine, not obsess. Just breathe, and have faith that everything will work out for the best." ### God always has something for you URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/god-has-something-for-you/ Last updated: 2024-10-16T09:30:14.000Z "God always has something for you, a key for every problem, a light for every shadow, a relief for every sorrow & a plan for every tomorrow." > No regrets, no worries. Relax and breathe. Stay present, understanding that you did the best you could at the time, and you'll do your best in the future. Reliving past pain again and again, or chronically worrying about the future, do not help you accomplish anything. A self-imposed philosophy of perfection can overwhelm you. There is no contest to win and no race to finish. Simply love yourself and do your best, and you will avoid self-judgment, self-abuse, and regret. \~ Creig Crippen > > © Wisdom Quotes & Stories ### Make a Brand new ending URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/start-now-make-brand-new-ending/ Last updated: 2024-10-14T09:30:25.000Z "Though no one can go back and make a brand new start. Anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending." \~ Carl Bard > Become present and appreciate where you are at this very moment. Celebrate your path. It may be a path of discovery. It may be a path toward a specific destination. Or it may be a path away from your old ways. Take a moment to look back and see just how far you have come. Wherever you are in your journey is a starting point. Whoever or whatever it is you’re chasing, slow down. Enjoy and appreciate your path. Your journey is your destination. \~ Creig Crippen > > © Wisdom Quotes & Stories ### Find the Courage to let go URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/find-courage-let-go-of-what-cant-change/ Last updated: 2024-10-12T09:30:36.000Z "One of the happiest moments ever, is when you find the courage to let go of what you can’t change." ### Not every person is going to understand you URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/every-right-to-ignore-it/ Last updated: 2024-10-10T09:30:22.000Z "Not every person is going to understand you and that’s okay. They have a right to their opinion and you have every right to ignore it." > There are three sides of an opinion. Yours, others and the right one. Never mind if they ignore you. What is important is you have given your side, whichever is right that depends on whoever will give the opinion. If he is your friend you may be right but if he is your detractor definitely you will be wrong. \~ Lutgarda Pilapil > > To try to explain yourself endlessly , will take a toll , so do yourself a favor and free yourself from those that constantly judge you, they have no right, take control of your life and leave them behind. \~ Ivette Lebron > > My belief is wrong but may be right if discussed; and your belief is right but may be wrong if discussed. \~ William Kassar > > People do have a right to there own opinion, that's cool, but if they are rude about it, you have the right to ignore them and walk away. \~ Corina Salazar > > I don't want everyone to know everything about me to be able to understand me anyway. That would be too easy and too predictable. \~ Susanne Barbour > > **You don't need to be understood by others. Just embrace yourself for who you are. \~ Elsa Melster** > > > © Wisdom Quotes & Stories ### Choose a Job you love URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/job-love-life/ Last updated: 2024-10-08T09:30:38.000Z “Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.” \~ Confucius ### 60 Tips for a Great Life - Robin Sharma URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/60-tips-stunnigly-great-life/ Last updated: 2024-10-06T09:30:11.000Z 1\. Exercise daily. 2\. Get serious about gratitude. 3\. See your work as a craft. 4\. Expect the best and prepare for the worst. 5\. Keep a journal. 6\. Read “The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin”. 7\. Plan a schedule for your week. 8\. Know the 5 highest priorities of your life. 9\. Say no to distractions. 10\. Drink a lot of water. 11\. Improve your work every single day. 12\. Get a mentor. 13\. Hire a coach. 14\. Get up at 5 am each day. 15\. Eat less food. 16\. Find more heroes. 17\. Be a hero to someone. 18\. Smile at strangers. 19\. Be the most ethical person you know. 20\. Don’t settle for anything less than excellence. 21\. Savor life’s simplest pleasures. 22\. Save 10% of your income each month. 23\. Spend time at art galleries. 24\. Walk in the woods. 25\. Write thank you letters to those who’ve helped you. 26\. Forgive those who’ve wronged you. 27\. Remember that leadership is about influence and impact, not title and accolades. 28\. Create unforgettable moments with those you love. 29\. Have 5 great friends. 30\. Become stunningly polite. 31\. Unplug your TV. 32\. Sell your TV. 33\. Read daily. 34\. Avoid the news. 35\. Be content with what you have. 36\. Pursue your dreams. 37\. Be authentic. 38\. Be passionate. 39\. Say sorry when you know you should. 40\. Never miss a moment to celebrate another. 41\. Have a vision for your life. 42\. Know your strengths. 43\. Focus your mind on the good versus the lack. 44\. Be patient. 45\. Don’t give up. 46\. Clean up your messes. 47\. Use impeccable words. 48\. Travel more. 49\. Read “As You Think”. 50\. Honor your parents. 51\. Tip taxi drivers well. 52\. Be a great teammate. 53\. Give no energy to critics. 54\. Spent time in the mountains. 55\. Know your top 5 values. 56\. Shift from being busy to achieving results. 57\. Innovate and iterate. 58\. Speak less. Listen more. 59\. Be the best person you know. 60\. Make your life matter. \~ Robin Sharma ### Life has many ways of testing a person's will URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/life-tests-person-will/ Last updated: 2024-10-04T09:30:19.000Z "Life has many ways of testing a person's will, either by having nothing happen at all or by having everything happen all at once." ### We realized that monsters were inside us URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/monsters-under-beds/ Last updated: 2024-10-02T09:30:09.000Z > "We stopped checking for monsters under our beds when we realized they were inside us." \~ Sam Steven ### Respect is earned URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/respect-honest-trust-loyalty/ Last updated: 2024-09-30T09:30:37.000Z "Respect is earned. Honesty is appreciated. Trust is gained. Loyalty is returned." > Life is to live with your own quality philosophy in the light of miracle creating attitudes like giving, forgiving, loving and grateful and positive attitude. If you spread your wings of love, kindness, respect, trust, happiness and peace throughout the world then you can attract alike in abundant way from unexpected divine source. As universe is neutral to your thought, decision and action. So choice is yours, what you want to attract in your highway of life, as per universe law, "If you want to get loved, you need to send love and if you want to get hatred then you need to send hatred to the universe." \~ Dhiraj Raj > > © Wisdom Quotes & Stories ### We make a life by what we give URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/we-make-a-living/ Last updated: 2024-09-28T09:30:14.000Z > "We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give." - Winston Churchill ### Sometimes we need someone to simply be there URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/someone-supported-cared/ Last updated: 2024-09-26T09:30:52.000Z "Sometimes we need someone to simply be there, not to fix anything or do anything in particular, but just to let us feel we are supported and cared about." ### I will always love you URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/what-remains-will-always-love-you/ Last updated: 2024-09-24T09:30:30.000Z > By the moon as I sit to seek your glory, the white roses I see creates a new story. Seasons are many their reasons are few, what remains is that I love you. ### It is our perception that makes the difference in the way we feel URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/perception-makes-difference/ Last updated: 2024-09-22T09:30:25.000Z 'HATE' has 4 letters, but so does 'LOVE.' 'ENEMIES' has 7 letters, but so does 'FRIENDS.' 'LYING' has 5 letters, but so does 'TRUTH.' 'HURT; has 4 letters, but so does 'HEAL.' Transformed every negative energy into an aura of 'Possibility.' It is our perception that makes the difference in the way we feel. > Just water yourself with right wisdom, right philosophy and miracle creating attitudes like giving, forgiving, loving and grateful attitude for destined quality of life. Once you plant the seeds of love, integrity, positive attitude and happiness then you can radiate positive vibes to make huge difference in others life which is expected by Lord from each one of us. As valid truth says, "We are programmer of our quality of thought and our quality of thought is designer of our life". \~ Dhiraj Raj > > © Wisdom Quotes & Stories ### Don't cry because it is over URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/smile-because-it-happened/ Last updated: 2024-09-20T09:30:31.000Z "Don't cry because it is over. Smile because it happened." > Never regret a single act of yours, you did it because you wanted it. If it turned out, in the end, that the thing didn't fall according to your desires, be proud of yourself that YOU TRIED, thou in vain. \~ Loida Dumlao > > © Wisdom Quotes & Stories ### Every woman deserves a man who loves and respects her URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/woman-deserves-man-loves-respect-her/ Last updated: 2024-09-18T09:30:14.000Z > "Every woman deserves a man who loves and respects her and every man deserves a woman who appreciates his efforts." \~ Pamela Mosley Davis ### Goodbyes make you think URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/good-byes-make-you-think/ Last updated: 2024-09-16T09:30:05.000Z > "Goodbyes make you think. They make you realize what you've lost, what you have and what you took for granted." ### Fruit of Love URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/fruit-faith-love-mother-teresa/ Last updated: 2024-09-14T09:30:03.000Z > "The fruit of Faith is Love, and the fruit of Love is service." \~ Mother Teresa ### Haters will broadcast your Failure URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/haters-broadcast-failure/ Last updated: 2024-09-12T09:30:08.000Z "Haters will broadcast your Failure, but whisper your Successes." > **Haters will only stay around haters and they all have a similar mission for keeping barriers on the roads of success for winners or capable people who can do it. They will do hell number of things to let those all down by passing negativity because they think it’s not at all possible for me. To be honest, winners are busy every day in competing themselves to give them self-confidence and go to the next level. Winners are fearless for any kind of battle and they already know that they will make it possible someday. When these haters see that you have a new circle of positive people that you are surrounding yourself with, and they are no longer apart of that. They get mad. Step up to the plate, get your life in order and become a Hero. NOT a CHAMPION. \~** [Tejas Patel](https://www.facebook.com/tejas.writer?hc%5Flocation=timeline) > > © Wisdom Quotes & Stories ### True friends simply value you URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/true-friends-simply-value-you/ Last updated: 2024-09-10T09:30:41.000Z > "True friends do not value for what you can do for them. They simply value you." ### The Lost Wallet URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/lost-wallet/ Last updated: 2024-09-08T09:30:13.000Z > As I walked home one freezing day, I stumbled on a wallet someone had lost in the street. I picked it up and looked inside to find some identification so I could call the owner. But the wallet contained only three dollars and a crumpled letter that looked as if it had been in there for years. > > The envelope was worn and the only thing that was legible on it was the return address. I started to open the letter, hoping to find some clue. Then I saw the dateline–1924\. The letter had been written almost 60 years ago. > > It was written in a beautiful feminine handwriting on powder blue stationery with a little flower in the left-hand corner. It was a “Dear John” letter that told the recipient, whose name appeared to be Michael, that the writer could not see him anymore because her mother forbade it. Even so, she wrote that she would always love him. > > It was signed, Hannah. > > It was a beautiful letter, but there was no way except for the name Michael, that the owner could be identified. Maybe if I called information, the operator could find a phone listing for the address on the envelope. > > “Operator,” I began, “this is an unusual request. I’m trying to find the owner of a wallet that I found. Is there anyway you can tell me if there is a phone number for an address that was on an envelope in the wallet?” > > She suggested I speak with her supervisor, who hesitated for a moment then said, “Well, there is a phone listing at that address, but I can’t give you the number.” She said, as a courtesy, she would call that number, explain my story and would ask them if they wanted her to connect me. > > I waited a few minutes and then she was back on the line. “I have a party who will speak with you.” > > I asked the woman on the other end of the line if she knew anyone by the name of Hannah. She gasped, “Oh! We bought this house from a family who had a daughter named Hannah. But that was 30 years ago!” > > **“Would you know where that family could be located now?” I asked.** > **“I remember that Hannah had to place her mother in a nursing home some years ago,” the woman said. “Maybe if you got in touch with them they might be able to track down the daughter.”** > > She gave me the name of the nursing home and I called the number. They told me the old lady had passed away some years ago but they did have a phone number for where they thought the daughter might be living. > > I thanked them and phoned. The woman who answered explained that Hannah herself was now living in a nursing home. > > This whole thing was stupid, I thought to myself. Why was I making such a big deal over finding the owner of a wallet that had only three dollars and a letter that was almost 60 years old? > > Nevertheless, I called the nursing home in which Hannah was supposed to be living and the man who answered the phone told me, “Yes, Hannah is staying with us.” > > Even though it was already 10 p.m., I asked if I could come by to see her. “Well,” he said hesitatingly, “if you want to take a chance, she might be in the day room watching television.” > > I thanked him and drove over to the nursing home. The night nurse and a guard greeted me at the door. We went up to the third floor of the large building. In the day room, the nurse introduced me to Hannah. > > She was a sweet, silver-haired oldtimer with a warm smile and a twinkle in her eye. I told her about finding the wallet and showed her the letter. The second she saw the powder blue envelope with that little flower on the left, she took a deep breath and said, “Young man, this letter was the last contact I ever had with Michael.” > > She looked away for a moment deep in thought and then said softly, “I loved him very much. But I was only 16 at the time and my mother felt I was too young. Oh, he was so handsome. He looked like Sean Connery, the actor.” > > “Yes,” she continued. “Michael Goldstein was a wonderful person. If you should find him, tell him I think of him often. And,” she hesitated for a moment, almost biting her lip, “tell him I still love him. You know,” she said smiling as tears began to well up in her eyes, “I never did marry. I guess no one ever matched up to Michael…” > > I thanked Hannah and said goodbye. I took the elevator to the first floor and as I stood by the door, the guard there asked, “Was the old lady able to help you?” > > I told him she had given me a lead. “At least I have a last name. But I think I’ll let it go for a while. I spent almost the whole day trying to find the owner of this wallet.” > > I had taken out the wallet, which was a simple brown leather case with red lacing on the side. When the guard saw it, he said, “Hey, wait a minute! That’s Mr. Goldstein’s wallet. I’d know it anywhere with that bright red lacing. He’s always losing that wallet. I must have found it in the halls at least three times.” > > **“Who’s Mr. Goldstein?” I asked as my hand began to shake.** > **“He’s one of the oldtimers on the 8th floor. That’s Mike Goldstein’s wallet for sure. He must have lost it on one of his walks.” I thanked the guard and quickly ran back to the nurse’s office. I told her what the guard had said. We went back to the elevator and got on. I prayed that Mr. Goldstein would be up.** > > **On the eighth floor, the floor nurse said, “I think he’s still in the day room. He likes to read at night. He’s a darling old man.”** > **We went to the only room that had any lights on and there was a man reading a book. The nurse went over to him and asked if he had lost his wallet. Mr. Goldstein looked up with surprise, put his hand in his back pocket and said, “Oh, it is missing!”** > > “This kind gentleman found a wallet and we wondered if it could be yours?” > > I handed Mr. Goldstein the wallet and the second he saw it, he smiled with relief and said, “Yes, that’s it! It must have dropped out of my pocket this afternoon. I want to give you a reward.” > > “No, thank you,” I said. “But I have to tell you something. I read the letter in the hope of finding out who owned the wallet.” > > **The smile on his face suddenly disappeared. “You read that letter?”** > **“Not only did I read it, I think I know where Hannah is.”** > > He suddenly grew pale. “Hannah? You know where she is? How is she? Is she still as pretty as she was? Please, please tell me,” he begged. > > **“She’s fine…just as pretty as when you knew her.” I said softly.** > **The old man smiled with anticipation and asked, “Could you tell me where she is? I want to call her tomorrow.” He grabbed my hand and said, “You know something, Mister? I was so in love with that girl that when that letter came, my life literally ended. I never married. I guess I’ve always loved her.”** > > **“Mr. Goldstein,” I said, “Come with me.”** > **We took the elevator down to the third floor. The hallways were darkened and only one or two little night-lights lit our way to the day room where Hannah was sitting alone watching the television. The nurse walked over to her.** > > “Hannah,” she said softly, pointing to Michael, who was waiting with me in the doorway. “Do you know this man?” > > She adjusted her glasses, looked for a moment, but didn’t say a word. Michael said softly, almost in a whisper, “Hannah, it’s Michael. Do you remember me?” > > She gasped, “Michael! I don’t believe it! Michael! It’s you! My Michael!” He walked slowly towards her and they embraced. The nurse and I left with tears streaming down our faces. > > “See,” I said. “See how the Good Lord works! If it’s meant to be, it will be.” > > About three weeks later I got a call at my office from the nursing home. “Can you break away on Sunday to attend a wedding? Michael and Hannah are going to tie the knot!” > > It was a beautiful wedding with all the people at the nursing home dressed up to join in the celebration. Hannah wore a light beige dress and looked beautiful. Michael wore a dark blue suit and stood tall. They made me their best man. > > The hospital gave them their own room and if you ever wanted to see a 76-year-old bride and a 79-year-old groom acting like two teenagers, you had to see this couple. > > A perfect ending for a love affair that had lasted nearly 60 years. ### The Real Pearl Necklace URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/real-pearl-necklace/ Last updated: 2024-09-06T09:30:55.000Z > Jenny was a bright-eyed, pretty five-year-old girl. One day when she and her mother were checking out at the grocery store, Jenny saw a plastic pearl necklace priced at $2.50. > > How she wanted that necklace, and when she asked her mother if she would buy it for her, her mother said, “Well, it is a pretty necklace, but it costs an awful lot of money. I’ll tell you what. I’ll buy you the necklace, and when we get home we can make up a list of chore that you can do to pay for the necklace. And don’t forget that for your birthday Grandma just might give you a whole dollar bill, too. Okay?” > > Jenny agreed, and her mother bought the pearl necklace for her. Jenny worked on her chores very hard every day, and sure enough, her grandma gave her a brand new dollar bill for her birthday. Soon Jenny had paid off the pearls. > > How Jenny loved those pearls. She wore them everywhere-to kindergarten, bed and when she went out with her mother to run errands. The only time she didn’t wear them was in the shower; her mother had told her that they would turn her neck green. > > Now Jenny had a very loving daddy. When Jenny went to bed, he would get up from his favorite chair every night and read Jenny her favorite story. One night when he finished the story, he said, “Jenny, do you love me?” > > “Oh yes, Daddy, you know I love you,” the little girl said. > > “Well, then, give me your pearls.” > > “Oh! Daddy, not my pearls!” Jenny said. “But you can have Rosie, my favorite doll. Remember her? You gave her to me last year for my birthday. And you can have her tea party outfit, too. Okay?” > > “Oh no, darling, that’s okay.” Her father brushed her cheek with a kiss. “Good night, little one.” A week later, her father once again asked Jenny after her story, “Do you love me?” > > “Oh yes, Daddy, you know I love you.” > > “Well, then, give me your pearls.” > > Oh, Daddy, not my pearls! But you can have Ribbons, my toy horse. Do you remember her? She’s my favorite. Her hair is so soft, and you can play with it and braid it and everything. You can have Ribbons if you want her, Daddy,” the little girl said to her father. > > “No, that’s okay,” her father said and brushed her cheek again with a kiss. “God bless you, little one. Sweet dreams.” > > Several days later, when Jenny’s father came in to read her a story, Jenny was sitting on her bed and her lip was trembling. “Here, Daddy,” she said, and held out her hand. > > She opened it and her beloved pearl necklace was inside. She let it slip into her father’s hand. With one hand her father held the plastic pearls and with the other he pulled out of his pocket a blue velvet box. Inside of the box were real, genuine, beautiful pearls. > > He had them all along. He was waiting for Jenny to give up the cheap stuff so he could give her the real thing. > > The same with our Heavenly Father, He is waiting for us to give up the cheap/fake things in our lives. Are you holding on to harmful relationships, habits, activities… which you have come so attached to that it seems impossible to let go? Sometimes it is so hard to see what is in the other hand but do believe one thing, God will never take away something without giving us something better. ### Take every opportunity URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/take-every-opportunity/ Last updated: 2024-09-04T09:30:44.000Z > I was sitting on a bench. When I noticed a young mother with two children who were small. The youngest one was whining, "Pick me up," I heard him beg, but the mother's face grew angry as the child clung to her leg. "Don't hang on to me," she shouted, as she pushed his hands away. > > I wish I'd had the courage to go up to her and say: The time will come too quickly when those little arms that tug, Won't ask for you to hold them or won't freely give a hug. > > The day will sneak up subtly just as it did with me, When you can't recall the last time that your child sat on your knee. > > Like those sacred, pre-dawn feedings when we cherished time alone. Our babies grow and leave behind those special times we've known. > > So when your child comes to you with a book that you can share, Or asks that you would tuck him in and help him say his prayer... > > When he comes to sit and chat or would like to take a walk, Before you answer that you can't because there's no time to talk... > > Remember what all parents learn so many times too late, That years go by too quickly and that childhood doesn't wait. > > Take every opportunity if one should slip away Reach hard to get it back again, don't wait another day. > > I watched that mother walk away, her children followed near, I hope she'll pick them up before her chances disappear... > > \~Unknown ### Connections are made with the heart, not the tongue URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/connections-are-made-with-heart/ Last updated: 2024-09-02T09:30:42.000Z > “You can talk with someone for years, everyday, and still, it won't mean as much as what you can have when you sit in front of someone, not saying a word, yet you feel that person with your heart, you feel like you have known the person for forever, connections are made with the heart, not the tongue.” \~ C. JoyBell C. ### Make someone Happy URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/someone-happy-because-you-exist/ Last updated: 2024-08-30T09:30:16.000Z > "When you feel that you are not happy with your life, always think that you make someone happy because you exist." ### Don’t let the bitterness steal you sweetness URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/be-soft-take-pride-believe-beautiful/ Last updated: 2024-08-28T09:30:52.000Z “Be soft. Do not let the world make you hard. Do not let pain make you hate. Do not let the bitterness steal your sweetness. Take pride that even though the rest of the world may disagree, you still believe it to be a beautiful place.” \~ Kurt Vonnegut ### You can control your attitude towards what happens to you URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/control-attitude-mastering-change/ Last updated: 2024-08-26T09:30:51.000Z "You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude towards what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you." > There are things in life that you don't have any control of, just have to suck it up and learn from your experiences in life then you may have a better look in to the insight of things around you. \~ Wayne Anthony Neuner > > We all face different situations like problems, but each one of us decide to deal with them in different ways. \~ Alisar Al Haj Ali > > © Wisdom Quotes & Stories ### Negative committee sit down and shut up URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/negative-committee-bradford/ Last updated: 2024-08-24T09:30:04.000Z "Tell the negative committee that meets inside your head to sit down and shut up." \~ Ann Bradford > Notice your thoughts without getting caught up in them. By not judging feelings or blaming them on anyone else, there’s a shift in something much bigger—your sense of self worth will get stronger. Every situation presents you with the opportunity to make the choice of how you react, learn, and grow. \~ Creig Crippen > > © Wisdom Quotes & Stories ### Six Ethics in Life URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/six-ethics-life/ Last updated: 2024-08-22T09:30:53.000Z > Six Ethics in Life. Before you Pray, believe. Before you Speak, Listen. Before you Spend, Earn. Before you Write, Think. Before you Quit, Try & before you Die, live. ### Love is like falling down in the end you're left Hurt URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/love-is-like-falling-down/ Last updated: 2024-08-20T09:30:58.000Z "Love is like falling down in the end you're left Hurt, Scarred and with a memory of it forever." ### You are either Passenger or a Pilot URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/life-passenger-pilot/ Last updated: 2024-08-18T09:30:50.000Z > "In life you are either a Passenger or a Pilot its your Choice." ### A Girl won't believe she's beautiful URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/someone-special-tells-beautiful/ Last updated: 2024-08-16T09:30:02.000Z > "A girl won't believe she's beautiful unless someone special tells her she is." ### Love yourself, trust your choices, and everything is possible URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/love-yourself-trust-choices/ Last updated: 2024-08-14T09:30:00.000Z > "Remember, there are no mistakes, only lessons. Love yourself, trust your choices, and everything is possible." \~ Cherie Carter Scott ### A successful man URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/successful-man-david-brinkley/ Last updated: 2024-08-12T09:30:05.000Z > "A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him." \~ David Brinkley ### Don't count on others to respect your feelings URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/count-on-others-to-respect-my-feelings/ Last updated: 2024-08-10T09:30:50.000Z "I learned the hard way that I cannot always count on others to respect my feelings, even if I respect theirs. Being a good person doesn't guarantee that others will be good people too. You only have control over yourself and how you choose to be as a person. As for others, you can only choose to accept them or walk away." > Some time we have to study the facts of what is around you , Whatever it may be as we cant just judge every thing without proper understanding towards what it . As we are still on Earth and survive. We learn try to understand it properly then make decision. \~ Ednan Cyrill > > If someone can't extend the common courtesy of respecting your feelings then in the interest of your own self respect you must walk away. \~ Marsha Glickler Sereno > > © Wisdom Quotes & Stories ### Fall in Love with someone who deserves your Heart URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/love-someone-deserves-heart/ Last updated: 2024-08-08T09:30:50.000Z "Fall in Love with someone who deserves your Heart, not someone who Play with it." > Love is a flush you feel when something touches your soul like when you first hold or touch your new born child, the first smile or glance you get from someone across the room your looking at and thinking about, the engulfing warmth you sense from the first kiss with that person and if that warmth is not present than it is not love ,because it has to a mutual experience, if it is not present than it just a romantic moment and a learning experience. \~ Robert R. Lewis > > © Wisdom Quotes & Stories ### Don’t tell your problems to people URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/dont-tell-your-problems-to-people/ Last updated: 2024-08-06T09:30:51.000Z "Don’t tell your problems to people: 80% don’t care; and the other 20% are glad you have them." \~ Lou Holtz > Some people really don't like you to be happy or see you succeed in life, but don't spend your energy worrying about them, just trust God and live the best you can so that even those who hate you will have nothing bad to say about you. \~ Hajanthung Lotha > > Tell it to God,there is no friend like Him and He specializes in solving problems. Human being are world newscaster and mockers. \~ Omobolaji Bolaji > > Lots of people complain for nothing because they want more power, more flashing and they don't even appreciate the family and health they have. \~ Isabelle Parise > > © Wisdom Quotes & Stories ### Great Rules for Easy Living URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/great-rules-easy-living/ Last updated: 2024-08-04T09:30:49.000Z If you open it, close it. If you turn it on, turn it off. If you unlock it, lock it up. If you break it, admit it. If you can’t fix it, call in someone who can. If you borrow it, return it. If you value it, take care of it. If you make a mess, clean it up. If you move it, put it back. If it belongs to someone else and you want to use, get permission. If you don’t know how to operate it, leave it alone. If it’s none of your business, don’t ask questions. If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. If it will brighten someone’s day, say it. If it will tarnish someone’s reputation, keep it to yourself. ### Prove that the things you say are true URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/can-say-sorry-love-you-million-times/ Last updated: 2024-08-02T09:30:48.000Z "You can say sorry a million times, say I love you as much as you want, say whatever you want, whenever you want. But if you are not going to prove that the things you say are true, then don't say anything at all. Because if you can't show it, your words don't mean a thing." > You should always show the love instead of just saying it. Saying it means something to us also but we would believe it more by showing it. Always show love to the person your with and you can't go wrong. \~ Karen S Massey > > It doesn't matter how much you say it, how much you show it--if someone doesn't want to believe it, there is NO amount of words OR action that can prove it. \~ Stacy Valdez > > © Wisdom Quotes & Stories ### Smile is a symbol of Hope & Strength URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/smile-symbol-hope-strength/ Last updated: 2024-07-30T09:30:47.000Z "Just because a person Smiles all of the time, doesn't mean their Life is Perfect. That smile is a symbol of Hope & Strength." ### Spend twice as much time and half as much money with your children URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/want-children-turn-out-well/ Last updated: 2024-07-28T09:30:23.000Z "If you want your children to turn out well, spend twice as much time with them, and half as much money." > Children needs quality time with their parents and it will stay in their memory forever. \~ Rosalinda Cruz > > MONEY IS NOT AN ISSUE, QUALITY AND QUANTITY OF THE TIME YOU GIVE THEM IS!!!! but if u go beyond your means and spend too much and don't show your kids the value of money in the right way then that's not the right way to me....how I did it as a single mother of one girl for 17 beautiful YEARS AND NOW SHE IS GODS ANGEL AND IS AN INSPIRATION TO SO MANY AROUND HER I AM SO VERY PROUD OF HER AND I GET THE RESPECT FROM HER, SO BY RAISING HER ON MY OWN, I AM A VERY PROUD MOMMA. \~ Joyce Mcgraw > > Loving your children's should not always involve monetary...kisses and hugs and just spending time going for a walk with them give me lot of joys. \~ Rapiah Mohd > > © Wisdom Quotes & Stories ### Each day I am thankful URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/each-day-thankful/ Last updated: 2024-07-26T09:30:34.000Z "Each day I’m thankful for nights that turned into mornings, Friends that turned into family, Dreams that turned into reality and likes that turned into love." ### Sometimes accept that you are wrong URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/sometimes-swallow-your-pride/ Last updated: 2024-07-24T09:30:39.000Z "Sometimes you have to shut up, swallow your pride and accept that you’re wrong. It’s not giving up, it’s growing up." > Admitting to when your wrong helps you grow up. I'm one of those people who learnt the hard way, by mainly listening other people. Once I learnt who my friends were, I knew what had to be done. I had to change myself to be a better person and not be like them any longer, it was a few years back, when I was a little younger when I went through that, loosing friends, changing who I was I still am changing who I am and I'm doing good with that. But just because you admit something when your wrong isn't as bad as people think, you actually feel good inside. I may have lost a few friends but I also gained a few better ones along the way, to where I am now and to who I am now. I see it like this, if I've done something wrong I say I done it, if I've said something about someone I'll tell that person I said it, I'm open, upfront, brutally honest when asked a question, I love hard, sweet and softly, I know who my friends are and always will be no matter the distance between us, I've dropped all the drama lovers that use to be around me, I don't let what others say about me get me down, I just laugh it off, people say whatever they want and can about me, I really don't care what people say about me, I know what I do and what I don't do AND so does my boyfriend, so talk about me all you want, it makes me feel important. People can be so funny at times, I'm 37 years old, I finally have the life I've always wanted, but never had, I have a great man and a wonderful daughter, they are my little family. I learnt the hard way, I lost some friends, But I now have my perfect little family, I have good trusting friends, I know now who I am, I've changed to be a different person for good reason, I'm happy, I'm a stronger person than what I use to be, as I continue to learn how people are, slowly showing me their true colors more and more everyday, I find myself yet trying to decide on how and what to do, I'm not just choosing for myself anymore ya know, that's what makes it so hard I guess, but I'll make it through it, I did before and I can again. That's part of growing up isn't it, you learn something new everyday, ya know by saying that it really doesn't mater your age or what you go through in your life, we never grow up we learn as we grow and we grow as we learn, around and around we go til we stop, does that make any since? You have only one life make it count for something, never do something you don't want to do, because you may get stuck then what will you do? You'll be like me, sitting alone, rethinking things through, trying to remember why you feel in love to see if you still are, life is short it's up to you on how long you want yours to be, choose your path wisely, once you put all your heart into something then I guess you mainly open your eyes, to see the one you thought you were in love with start to make you have doubts, regrets, wanting to turn back time so you can stop yourself from maybe making another mistake in your life, but you find yourself once again learning and understanding that you are still having to grow up a little more. So if I'm the person I say I am in all this long advice, my thoughts and feelings, I'm admitting to thinking I'm starting to have some doubts, rethinking about the part of my life I've maybe lost, thinking about if I want to continue learning or I want to make things grow? Sorry everyone for the long comment, it helps me to write, type a story. It depends if I have a notebook near or if I'm on here, it just so happens I've been on here for the past 4 hours, trying to clear my mind think about some things and look where it's led me. Cherish the choices you make and Blessed be. \~ Earlene Bowling > > © Wisdom Quotes & Stories ### Breakups sometimes meant for wakeups URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/breakups-meant-for-wakeups/ Last updated: 2024-07-22T09:30:47.000Z > "Breakups aren’t always meant for makeups, sometimes, they’re meant for wakeups." ### Don’t ever mistake my silence URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/silence-calmness-kindness/ Last updated: 2024-07-20T09:30:47.000Z > "Don’t ever mistake my silence for ignorance, my calmness for acceptance and my kindness for weakness." ### Appreciate what still remains URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/look-forward-whats-coming-next/ Last updated: 2024-07-18T09:30:32.000Z > "Appreciate what still remains and look forward to what's coming next." ### If you are not willing to learn, no one can help you URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/determined-to-learn-no-one-can-stop-you/ Last updated: 2024-07-16T10:30:55.000Z > "If you are not willing to learn, no one can help you. If you are determined to learn, no one can stop you”. ### Good friends are like stars, always there URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/good-friends-like-star/ Last updated: 2024-07-14T09:30:01.000Z "Good friends are like stars, you don’t always see them, but you know they are always there." ### The truth will set you free URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/truth-set-you-free/ Last updated: 2024-07-12T09:30:05.000Z “The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.” \~ Gloria Steinem ### You can learn from mistakes and forgive yourself URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/learn-forgive-yourself-leon-brown/ Last updated: 2024-07-10T09:30:43.000Z "You cannot travel back in time to fix your mistakes, but you can learn from them and forgive yourself for not knowing better." \~ Leon Brown > You don't make mistakes, if you think it's a mistake, but after you live the consequenses of our mistakes you accept them. and try to not commit the same mistake all over again. \~ Greta Kajian > > © Wisdom Quotes & Stories ### You can steer yourself any direction you choose URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/steer-yourself-any-direction/ Last updated: 2024-07-08T09:30:53.000Z "You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose." > Challenge and face fears, embracing opportunities as they come. Change can happen in a moment. Be present and ready. You are exactly where you need to be. \~ Creig Crippen > > © Wisdom Quotes & Stories ### Marry with the Hope URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/men-marry-women-change/ Last updated: 2024-07-06T09:30:41.000Z > "Men marry women with the hope they will never change. Women marry men with the hope they will change. Invariably they are both disappointed.” \~ Albert Einstein ### Become who you really are URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/courage-grow-up-become/ Last updated: 2024-07-04T09:30:36.000Z > “It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.” \~ E.E. Cummings ### WHY did GOD make Me Without Arms or Legs? URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/why-did-god-make-me-without-arms-legs/ Last updated: 2024-07-02T09:30:40.000Z > Evangelist Nick Vujicic was born with neither arms nor legs, and questioned God for eight years why it was so. The answer changed his life, and through him that of tens of thousands of others. > > For the now 30-year-old Nick, founding president and CEO of the nonprofit organization Life Without Limbs, the most important thing in life was to understand why God made him without arms and legs. The inspirational speaker spent eight years asking God, "Why? Why was I born this way? I don't understand how can You say You love me when You allow me to stay in this pain." > > Vujicic, who has been living in California since 2007, was born in Brisbane, Australia. His parents – Pastor Boris Vujicic and nurse Dushka Vujicic – were not given any medical explanation or warning about his birth with neither arms nor legs. But Nick got the answer to his desperate prayers. John 9:1-3 spoke to him in a special way. The New Testament portion reads: "As he (Jesus) went along, he saw a man blind from birth. His disciples asked him, 'Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?' 'Neither this man nor his parents sinned,' said Jesus, 'but this happened so that the works of God might be displayed in him.'" > > The Life Without Limbs author described his feelings after reading these verses. "I got goosebumps on my skin I don't even have, and I had faith because I understood something. You see, all I wanted to know was that God knew what He was doing with me." > > By the age of 19, Nick started to fulfill his dream of being able to encourage other people and bring them the Gospel of Jesus through motivational speaking and sharing his testimony about how God changed his life and gave him a future and a hope. The desire to have arms and legs has remained, Vujicic admitted. Initially, he thought, "Lord, if you give me arms and legs, I'll go around the world and share your power with the world." He said he still has ups and downs in life. "I am just like you." > > Vujicic said he has failed God every single day, but has relies on Philippians 1:6: "Being confident of this, that he who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus." Vujicic recalled he and dozens of his Christian friends once prayed for 90 minutes for his arms and legs in a farm in a jungle in India. They made arms and legs with clay, and prayed it turn into flesh and bone. It didn't happen, but he had peace in his heart as he saw an eagle soaring in the sky throughout those 90 minutes. He said it was as if God was smiling, and was happy he had the faith to pray. > > "Please give me arms and legs. But if You don't give me arms and legs, I trust You." This has been Vujicic's prayer. He said his commitment to Jesus is "to want His plan, and not my plan ... even when I don't understand." > > You are praying for something, but what if God says "no" to that? he asked. "Is He still God? Yes. Will He waste your pain? No." He quoted Romans 8:28, "And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose." Vujicic, who has traveled around the world, sharing his story with millions of people, said he's grateful to God for saving him from the two biggest disabilities: sin and death. > > He said when he was 10 he wanted to commit suicide, and wanted to see someone like him so that he wouldn't be alone. Five years ago in California, he finally met a baby named Daniel, who too was born without arms and legs ... " exactly like me." "Not getting a miracle, I can be a miracle to Daniel ... an older brother of Daniel his whole life ... encourage him." Nick said if he truly lived without arms and legs throughout his life just so I can hug Daniel in heaven, it's all worth it." > > "I found the purpose of my existence, and also the purpose of my circumstance. There's a purpose for why you're in the fire," he says on his ministry's website. "If God can use a man without arms and legs to be His hands and feet, then He will certainly use any willing heart!" ### You never get the opportunity to replace the words you spoke URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/opportunity-replace-words-spoken/ Last updated: 2024-06-30T09:30:37.000Z "Don’t mix bad words with your bad mood. You’ll have many opportunities to change a mood, but you’ll never get the opportunity to replace the words you spoke." > THATS SO TRUE ONCE YOU SAY IT THERES NO TAKING IT BACK,, ALL THE IM SORRIES IN THE WORLD WONT HELP CAUSE AT ONE POINT YOU MUST HAVE FELT THAT WAY,, IM JUST SAYIN THINK BEFORE YOU SPEAK WORDS ARE POWERFUL AND CAN HURT WORSE THEN BEING PHYSICALLY HIT!!!SO PLEASE BE CAREFUL OF HOW YOU SAY THINGS!!! YOU NEVER KNOW HOW MUCH YOU CAN HURT SOME ONE. \~ Elizabeth Resendez > > We should always act as if you were holding a baby in your arms and how a baby since when your upset. \~ Sarah Jacobs > > Always speak the truth and you will never have that time to regret of the word you had spoken earlier. \~ Julius Kilavile Shaggy > > A bullet fired from gun, and words fired from mouth both are irreversible, hence use wisely. \~ Gagan Sharma > > You can say you're sorry, but you cannot erase words once they are spoken, they are forever written on the other persons heart, even if she or he forgives you. \~ Roger Carol LeBlanc > > We need to be careful what we say with our mouths to others, some people never forget or forgive and words can also destroy others mentally. \~ Richall Antenette Elms > > © Wisdom Quotes & Stories ### Don't stuck somewhere you don't belong URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/growth-change-painful/ Last updated: 2024-06-28T09:30:25.000Z "Growth is painful. Change is painful. But nothing is as painful as staying stuck somewhere you don’t belong." > Don't beat yourself up! True growth takes time. It's a process that requires self-love and compassion. Learn and grow every day, with each experience, and in every loving moment. Celebrate how far you've already come, make loving choices, and peacefully continue on your amazing journey. > > It may not be easy, but it will be worth it. You are only confined by the walls you build yourself. Don't fear change, change fear. Have compassion for yourself and know that you change and grow with every forward step you take on your journey. \~ Creig Crippen > > © Wisdom Quotes & Stories ### It's nice when someone cares URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/someone-remembers-small-details-about-you/ Last updated: 2024-06-26T09:30:45.000Z "Its nice when someone remembers small details about you, not because you always remind them, but just because they care." ### If you Love Two people, Choose the Second one URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/choose-second-one-if-you-really-loved-first/ Last updated: 2024-06-24T09:30:46.000Z "If you love two people at the same time, choose the second one because if you really loved the first one you wouldn’t have fallen for the second." > One can love someone and that love can dwindle for she may not be receiving what she had before and although she still loves the first one, the second one can bring more love while the first love fades away, then there is also that love one can never have but settles for the love that loves her and just deals with it. One can fall in love with a second love if that love is stronger than the first love ever was, just because one loves someone doesn't mean a much more stronger love can cross ones path. \~ Telitha Bond Carter > > © Wisdom Quotes & Stories ### When You Thought I wasn't Looking URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/when-you-thought-i-wasnt-looking/ Last updated: 2024-06-22T09:30:58.000Z "When you thought I wasn't looking, I saw you hang my first painting on the refrigerator, and I immediately wanted to paint another one. I saw you feed a stray cat, and I learned that it was good to be kind to animals. I saw you make my favorite cake for me and I learned that little things can be the special things in life. I heard you say a prayer, and I knew there is a God I could always talk to and I learned to trust in God. I saw you make a meal and take it to a friend who was sick, and I learned that we all have to help take care of each other. I saw you give of your time and money to help people who had nothing and I learned that those who have something should give to those who don't. I felt you kiss me good night and I felt loved and safe. **I saw you take care of our house and everyone in it and I** **learned we have to take care of what we are given.** I saw how you handled your responsibilities, even when you didn't feel good, and I learned that I would have to be responsible when I grow up. I saw tears come from your eyes and I learned that sometimes things hurt, but its all right to cry. I saw that you cared and I wanted to be everything I could be. **I watched you, and I learned most of life's lessons I need to** **know to be a good and productive person when I grow up.** I looked at you and wanted to say, 'Thanks for all the things I saw when you thought I wasn't looking.'" Each one of us - whether Parent, Grandparent or Friend - can influence the Life of a Child... Be a GOOD influence. ### When Someone You Love Dies URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/always-keeping-them-tucked-safely-in-your-heart/ Last updated: 2024-06-20T09:30:35.000Z > "When someone you love dies you never quite get over it you just slowly learn how to go on without them but always keeping them tucked safely in your heart." ### I want to be remembered as the Girl who always smiles URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/girl-smiles-even-heart-broken/ Last updated: 2024-06-18T09:30:51.000Z > "I want to be remembered as the Girl who always smiles even when her Heart is broken, and the one that could always brighten up your day even if she couldn't brighten her own." ### Your Heart is where your Mind wanders URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/want-to-know-where-your-heart-is/ Last updated: 2024-06-16T09:30:20.000Z > "If you want to know where your Heart is look to where your Mind goes when it wanders." ### When I look back on my life URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/strength-learned-lesson-pride/ Last updated: 2024-06-14T09:30:44.000Z "When I look back on my life, I see pain, mistakes and heart ache. When I look in the mirror, I see strength, learned lessons, and pride in myself." ### I have faith that everything is going to be 'ok' ! URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/future-uncertain-have-faith/ Last updated: 2024-06-12T09:30:41.000Z “Even though my future is uncertain. I choose to brace the unknown and have faith that everything is going to be 'ok'!” > You yourself is divine being in the form of human gifted with infinite intelligence and hidden treasures. You yourself is script writer, director, controller and best architect of your life and destiny and you can create miracles by your passionate commitment. As valid truth says, "Nobody else gonna eat for you, dream for you, breathe for you and act for you except you yourself for yourself". So your quality of future is determined your own passionate commitment in the light of persistence, patience, self belief and strong faith of Lord." \~ Dhiraj Raj > > © Wisdom Quotes & Stories ### The Most Precious Jewels Around Your Neck URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/precious-jewels-arms-children/ Last updated: 2024-06-10T09:30:14.000Z > "The Most Precious Jewels You'll Ever Wear Around Your Neck Are The Arms Of Your Children." ### Confidence gives us power to face any challenges URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/confidence-face-challenges/ Last updated: 2024-06-08T09:30:21.000Z "Umbrella can't stop the rain but can make us stand in the rain, confidence may not bring success but gives us power to face any challenges." > Confidence has such miracle creating power which can bridges you with your dream destination despite of stormy circumstances encountered in the highway of your life and success. So just program yourself from within referring right wisdom, right philosophy and positive winning attitude then it will be reflected back in your confidence which can act like your guidance system and can drive you for getting crowned with victor tag. \~ Dhiraj Raj > > © Wisdom Quotes & Stories ### People Expose What's Wrong with You URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/people-expose-whats-wrong-with-you/ Last updated: 2024-06-06T09:30:42.000Z "Sometimes people expose what’s wrong with you, because they can’t handle what’s right about you." > It makes them feel better to point out our flaws. Everyone has them. Being nice and kind, costs nothing, and makes a person feel good. \~ Micki Coffman > > © Wisdom Quotes & Stories ### Be strong URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/beg-yourself-be-strong/ Last updated: 2024-06-04T09:30:52.000Z "That moment when you have to beg yourself to stop crying & tell yourself, "Be strong." > Life is miraculous progressive journey where life may knock you down, people may knock you down and negative circumstances may knock you down physically, financially, emotionally and spiritually. Actually despite of such huge knocks you need to gatherlion like courage as well as solid confidence to get up spiritually from within firing the light of faith and self belief from within then you can get crowned with victor tag. As valid truth says, "You are divine conscious being in the form of human who is born to be victor not to be victim". \~ Dhiraj Raj > > © Wisdom Quotes & Stories ### Love always Protects, Trusts, Hopes & Perseveres URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/love-patient-kind-trust-hope/ Last updated: 2024-06-02T09:30:13.000Z > "Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres." ### Appreciate Life’s Annoying Little Things URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/appreciate-life-annoying-things/ Last updated: 2024-05-30T09:30:03.000Z > **Lessons from 9/11, the annoying little things:** > > **As you might know, the head of a major company survived the tragedy of “9/11” in New York because his son started kindergarten.** > > **Another fellow was alive because it was his turn to bring donuts.** > > **One woman was late because her alarm clock didn’t go off in time.** > > **One was late because of being stuck on the NJ Turnpike because of an auto accident.** > > **One of them missed his bus.** > > **One spilled food on her clothes and had to take time to change.** > > **One’s car wouldn’t start.** > > **One went back to answer the telephone.** > > **One had a child that dawdled and didn’t get ready as soon as he should have.** > > **One couldn’t get a taxi.** > > **The one that struck me was the man who put on a new pair of shoes that morning, took the various means to get to work but before he got there, he developed a blister on his foot. He stopped at a drugstore to buy a Band-Aid. That is why he is alive today.** > > **Now when I am stuck in traffic…** > > **– miss an elevator…** > > **– turn back to answer a ringing telephone…** > > **– all the little things that annoy me…** > > **– I think to myself…** > > **this is exactly where God wants me to be at this very moment.** > > **The next time your morning seems to be going wrong,** > > **– the children are slow getting dressed,** > > **– you can’t seem to find the car keys,** > > **– you hit every traffic light…** > > **– don’t get mad or frustrated;** > > **God is at work watching over you.** > > **May God continue to bless you with all those annoying little things – and may you remember and appreciate their possible purpose.** ### If A Dog Was Your Teacher URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/if-a-dog-was-your-teacher/ Last updated: 2024-05-28T09:30:46.000Z > These are some of the lessons you might learn… > > When loved ones come home, always run to greet them , Never pass up the opportunity to go for a joyride . Allow the experience of fresh air and the wind in your face to be pure ecstasy. > > When it’s in your best interest ,practice obedience. > > Let others know when they’ve invaded your territory. > > Take naps and stretch before rising . Run romp and play daily > > Thrive on attention and let people touch you .Avoid biting, when a simple growl will do. > > On warm days stop to lie on your back on the grass . On hot days drink lots of water and lay under a shady tree. > > When you’re happy dance around and wag your entire body. > > No matter how often you’re scolded , don’t buy into the guilt thing and pout . Run right back and make friends. > > Delight in the simple joy of a long walk . Eat with gusto and enthusiasm . Stop when you have had enough. > > Be loyal . Never pretend to be something you’re not . > > If what you want lies buried ,dig until you find it. > > When someone is having a bad day , be silent , sit close by and nuzzle him gently. ### When I was rejected , I was re-directed to something better URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/redirected-to-something-better/ Last updated: 2024-05-26T09:30:17.000Z > "Every time I thought I was being rejected from something good, I was actually being re-directed to something better." ### A woman who loves you will always stick around URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/woman-loves-you-stick-around/ Last updated: 2024-05-24T09:30:01.000Z > "A woman who truly loves you will be angry at you for so many things but will always stick around." ### Speak carefully in front of children URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/choose-words-carefully-front-of-childrens/ Last updated: 2024-05-22T09:30:29.000Z "What should not be heard by little ears should not be spoken by big mouths. Choose your words carefully in front of children." > When you have your grandchildren with you remember to never say anything bad about their parents even if they ask you, I made this mistake once and their mom still has not let me forget my mistake. And believe me I will never say anything about her to them ever again! Lesson well learned from this Grandmother. \~ Patti Gonderman Maasjo > > Children are innocent. We adults are to protect them and love them, besides their little minds do not even think like adults do, nor should they be expected to. Our Heavenly Father loves HIS children and we are commanded to do so as well. \~ Tonia Ballard > > Let kids stay kids as long as possible....they don't need to be in on every conversation adults are having....especially if the adults are spouting off negative stuff. \~ Larry Fawsitt > > © Wisdom Quotes & Stories ### Let Karma do its thing URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/be-patient-let-karma-do-its-thing/ Last updated: 2024-05-20T09:30:48.000Z "Be Patient and let Karma do its thing. Never seek Revenge as it takes over your Life and Thoughts." > Karma comes around to everyone...it is not only a negative. It is an energy returning to its source. If the energy was negative, that is how it will return. However, if it was positive energy, that will return to its source as well. There is no better justice than Karma! \~ Donnette Selix > > What ever your beliefs are and whatever you want to call it......What goes around, comes around. I do believe in KARMA and does mean I do not trust in God. With God All Things Are Possible. \~ Jeanette Cornish > > Karma is simply a part of the fabric of creation. It is functional and the manifestation of god's will. \~ Ryan Seepersad > > Karma is a Universal Law.... Religion is a Universal subjective belief ... \~ Kimberly Brailey > > You attract the things in your life to you, therefore; choose your thoughts more carefully and the rest will follow. Once you make the decision to always choose happiness, the rest will fall into place. Simply make mindful, loving choices and be the best you that you can be everyday. \~ Creig Crippen > > GOD is the driver of our lives. Whatever HE takes us it is HIS PLAN... HE loves us and HE wants the best for all of us. \~ Diane Saderland > > It Is Up To God , Judgment DAY will Come To All Of Us , So People Try To Treat People Like You Would Like to Be Treated , and The World Would be a Much Better Place ! \~ Ruth Nyberg > > © Wisdom Quotes & Stories ### Strong people forgive URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/weak-strong-intelligent/ Last updated: 2024-05-18T09:30:59.000Z > "Weak people revenge. Strong people forgive. Intelligent people ignore." ### Eyes always reveal what's hidden URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/eyes-reveal-hidden-below-surface/ Last updated: 2024-05-16T09:30:19.000Z > "A smile can hide the truth, the mouth can whisper lies, but the eyes always reveal what's hidden below the surface." ### Givers and Takers URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/two-kinds-people-givers-takers/ Last updated: 2024-05-14T09:30:16.000Z "There are two kinds of people in the world: Givers and Takers. The takers may eat better, but the givers sleep better." ### When you are down in life, you get to know who your friends are URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/know-who-your-friends/ Last updated: 2024-05-12T09:30:16.000Z "When you’re up in life, your friends get to know who you are. When you’re down in life, you get to know who your friends are." > It's not about who is real to your face, It's about who is stays real behind your back. \~ Audrey C. Levina > > There really have been "friends" that, when I think back, aren't around when things have been down in my life. \~ Tammy Wynne > > © Wisdom Quotes & Stories ### Strong people have their life in order with a smile URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/strong-people-life-in-order/ Last updated: 2024-05-10T09:30:20.000Z > Strong people always have their life in order. Even with tears in their eyes, they still manage to say “I am okay”, with a smile. ### Keep speaking the truth URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/keep-speaking-truth/ Last updated: 2024-05-08T09:30:15.000Z "The only people mad at you for speaking the truth are those living a lie. Keep speaking the truth." > Tell the truth and shame the devil is my most often used saying. I have tried to live by that for many, many years now. \~ Stefanie Sleep > > People those speak lies do not want me in their life. They know the truth is coming out one way or another. However God loves me. \~ Linda Gardner > > © Wisdom Quotes & Stories ### Don’t take people for granted URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/people-get-tired-eventually/ Last updated: 2026-08-05T08:23:51.000Z "Don’t take people for granted. No matter how much they love you, people get tired eventually." > When a person take you for granted and they just taking you for granted you don't have to allow them to keep taking you for granted and not love them, so why would you let them use you, that's what taking you for granted means, if they love you they wouldn't take advantage of you for no reason, they really don't love you, and with that being said you will get tired eventually. If a person loves you to be grateful, and love is for better or worse...but that person is taking you for granted he/she dose not love you or he or she wouldn't take you for granted at all. \~ Tina Galloway > > © Wisdom Quotes & Stories ### Take relationships seriously URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/take-relationships-seriously/ Last updated: 2024-05-04T09:30:06.000Z > "Call me old fashioned, but I actually take relationships seriously." ### Always tell someone how you feel URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/regret-last-lifetime/ Last updated: 2024-05-02T09:30:51.000Z > "Always tell someone how you feel because opportunities are in the blink of an eye but regret can last for a lifetime." ### Others can see that you are special URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/human-eyes-know-how-beautiful-it-is/ Last updated: 2024-04-30T09:30:30.000Z "Butterflies don’t know the colour of their wings, but human eyes know how beautiful it is. Likewise, you don’t know how good you are, but others can see that you are special." > That is what is called love and God has given that ability to appreciate and see that beauty or good or whatever you call it! In others, only to human beings and its a pity that the truly innocent humans in this world do not recognise this and always loose the ones that truly love them and fall for the gullible ones and realise what they have lost when their life is destroyed or compromised! So dear every innocent citizens of this world wake up and appreciate the love and beauty and good that others see in you and truly love you and want to protect you for that innocence and beauty in you. \~ Vijay Ramana Reddy Kondala > > © Wisdom Quotes & Stories ### No relationship is all sunshine URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/no-relationship-all-sunshine/ Last updated: 2024-04-28T09:30:34.000Z > "No relationship is all sunshine, but two people can share one umbrella and survive the storm together." ### Never lose your dignity and self respect URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/never-lose-dignity-self-respect/ Last updated: 2024-04-26T09:30:25.000Z "Never lose your dignity and self-respect trying to make people love and appreciate you when they just aren’t willing to." > DIGNITY IS IMPORTANT IN A PERSON WHO RESPECT THEM SELVES AND IN GOD. \~ Ronilo Legaspi > > People either like you or they don't and to attempt to try to make them like you is almost trying to be another person that you are not, in order to merely gain a possible false friendship...every one is unique and will find their own true friends or those that pass through their lives in times when meant to be. \~ Jules Kens-Starfish > > I now love and respect myself enough to stop trying to fix what isn't broken and realize the problem lies with the other person. Fixing them is in God's hands. \~ Janice Bullock > > When you love someone all those positives like appreciation should already be there and if any is lost someone did something wrong in that relationship rather just friends or more or whatever the case may be. \~ Tiffany Ama > > © Wisdom Quotes & Stories ### Success depends upon Maturity URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/success-depends-upon-maturity/ Last updated: 2024-04-24T09:30:31.000Z **Maturity is many things. It is the ability to base a judgment on the big picture, the long haul.** **It means being able to resist the urge for immediate gratification and opt for the course of action that will pay off later.** **One of the characteristics of the young is “I want it now.”** **Grown-up people can wait.** **Maturity is perseverance–the ability to sweat out a project or a situation, in spite of heavy opposition and discouraging setbacks, and stick with it until it is finished.** **The adult who is constantly changing friends and changing mates is immature. He/she cannot stick it out because he/she has not grown up.** **Maturity is the ability to control anger and settle differences without violence or destruction. The mature person can face unpleasantness, frustration, discomfort and defeat without collapsing or complaining. He/she knows he cannot have everything his/her own way every time. He/she is able to defer to circumstances, to other people-and to time. He/she knows when to compromise and is not too proud to do so.** **Maturity is humility. It is being big enough to say, “I was wrong.” And, when he/she is right, the mature person need not experience the satisfaction of saying, “I told you so.”** **Maturity is the ability to live up to your responsibilities, and this means being dependable. It means keeping your word. Dependability is the hallmark of integrity. Do you mean what you say-and do you say what you mean? Unfortunately, the world is filled with people who cannot be counted on. When you need them most, they are among the missing. They never seem to come through in the clutches. They break promises and substitute alibis for performance. They show up late or not at all. They are confused and disorganized. Their lives are a chaotic maze of broken promises, former friends, unfinished business and good intentions that somehow never materialize. They are always a day late and a dollar short.** **Maturity is the ability to make a decision and stand by it. Immature people spend their lives exploring endless possibilities and then doing nothing. Action requires courage. Without courage, little is accomplished.** **Maturity is the ability to harness your abilities and your energies and do more than is expected. The mature person refuses to settle for mediocrity. He/she would rather aim high and miss the mark than low-and make it.** **Maturity is the art of living in peace with that which cannot be changed, the courage to change that which should be changed, no matter what it takes, and the wisdom to know the difference.** By Ann landers ### Each day we live is a gift URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/thank-god-morning-evening/ Last updated: 2024-04-22T09:30:26.000Z "Each day we live is a gift, so thank God in the morning for another day of life, and thank God in the evening for getting you through the day." > I am very thankful for Blessings of God and ..I have lived and learned from my mistakes. I live by allowing God to lead me and all I have to do is follow in his steps as almighty guides me. \~ Tribhavan Singh > > © Wisdom Quotes & Stories ### Real Winners Don’t Give Up: A True Story URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/real-winners-dont-give-up-true-story/ Last updated: 2026-08-06T08:15:23.000Z This is a true story of a young woman who went through the most gruesome fire. When you read her story, you’ll realize that your trials are absolutely nothing compared to what this young girl went through. It was September 25, 2000\. Maricel Apatan was an 11-year old girl in Zamboanga. On that day, this little girl went with her uncle to draw water. Along the way, four men met them. They were carrying long knives. They told her uncle to face down on the ground, and they hacked him on the neck and killed him. Maricel was in total shock, especially that the men were their neighbors. She tried to escape, but the men ran after her. She cried, “Kuya, ‘wag po, ‘wag n’yo akong tagain! Maawa po kayo sa akin!” (“Don’t kill me! Have mercy on me!”) But they weren’t listening. With a long knife, a man slashed her on the neck too. Maricel fell to the ground and lost consciousness. When she woke up, she saw a lot of blood. She also saw the feet of the men around her, but she pretended to be dead. When they walked away, Maricel ran back home. But along the way, she saw that both her hands were falling off. Because the men hacked them too. She cried but she kept running. Sometimes, she would faint and fall to the ground. But she’d regain consciousness and run again. When she was near her home, Maricel called her mother. Upon seeing her daughter, her mother screamed in terror. She wrapped her bloodied child in a blanket and carried her to the hospital. Here was the problem: From her house to the highway, it was a 12-kilometer walk. It took them 4 hours just to reach the highway. When they arrived in the hospital, the doctors thought Maricel was going to die. But for 5 hours, they operated on her. It took 25 stitches to stitch together the long knife wound in her neck and back. Maricel barely survived. And she lost both of her hands. Ironically, the next day was Maricel’s birthday. She was 12 years old. But tragedy didn’t end there. When they went home, they saw their home was gone. It was ransacked and burned down by the goons. Being very poor, Maricel’s family also didn’t have P50,000 for their hospital bills. But God sent many angels along the way to help them. Archbishop Antonio Ledesma, a distant relative, paid for hospital bills and helped them bring the criminals to court. They were sentenced to prison. Today, she’s staying with the nuns at Regina Rosarii with Sr. Eppie Brasil, O.P. But this is the incredible miracle. Instead of staying down, Maricel kept running. Instead of cursing God why she had no hands, she now uses her wrists in incredible ways that will boggle your mind. Maricel was cited as the most industrious, best in computer, and most courteous in the *School for Crippled Children.* In 2008, she graduated from a course in Hotel and Restaurant Management. She even received a Gold medal for Arts and Crafts. In 2011, she finished her education to be a chef. Yes, a Chef without hands. Nothing can stop this young lady from reaching her dreams. Real Winners Don’t Give Up! 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Respect generates respect. Love creates love and the feeling of security (not just the word protection) is found in relationships that have to secure people in them. \~ Carroll Duchene > > © Wisdom Quotes & Stories ### If important enough , another person will always find time for you URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/person-excuses-lies-broken-promises/ Last updated: 2024-04-16T09:30:42.000Z "When you are important to another person, that person will always find a way to make time for you; No Excuses , No Lies , No Broken promises." > Don't leave the one that love you for the one you like because the one you like may easily leave you for the one they love BUT i will always LOVE YOU. \~ Okedokun Emmanuel > > © Wisdom Quotes & Stories ### When someone treats you badly URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/know-you-better-walk-away/ Last updated: 2024-04-14T09:30:39.000Z "No matter how badly people treat you, never drop down to their level. Just know you are better and walk away." > We can deal with bad people in many different ways which they depend on the situations we are in, sometimes we can choose ignorance, or keeping silent by putting a smile on the face, or do and say things not in their ways but in ours. \~ Alisar Al Haj Ali > > None of us are better then the other. Just some of us are in more pain or more dysfunctional then the other. I think if we can take a step back n see things for what they are it makes it less painful. \~ Michelle Hansen > > Keep your head up and your heart open. Move slowly and gracefully. Accept things for what they are. Find peace and stillness. Be love. \~ Creig Crippen > > © Wisdom Quotes & Stories ### Think hard before you walk away URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/think-hard-before-walk-away/ Last updated: 2024-04-12T09:30:45.000Z "Be mindful of what you throw away, be careful of what you push away, and think hard before you walk away." ### When you feel you can't take it anymore URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/when-you-feel-you-cant-take-it-anymore/ Last updated: 2024-04-10T09:30:59.000Z "When you feel you can't take it anymore. Take it to God and give it to him. Nothing is too big or too small for God to handle." ### I just appreciate what I have and what God has blessed me URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/smile-life-perfect-appreciate-god/ Last updated: 2024-04-08T09:30:02.000Z > "The smile on my face doesn't mean my life is perfect. I just appreciate what I have and what God has blessed me." ### 8 Rules to a Better Life URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/rules-better-life/ Last updated: 2024-04-06T09:30:33.000Z _No content available._ ### If you cannot get someone out of your mind URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/whisper-prayer-god-moves/ Last updated: 2024-04-04T09:30:18.000Z "If there’s someone you cannot get out of your mind, whisper a prayer for them, that’s how God moves." ### Stay positive and things will get better URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/thankful-rewarded-more-positive/ Last updated: 2024-04-02T09:30:52.000Z "When you are thankful for what you have, you are always rewarded with more. Try to stay positive and things will get better." > **Be peaceful and patient, knowing that everything happens in the perfect time and in the perfect way. Allow serenity and tranquility to flow through you. Stay relaxed and at peace with the world and with yourself. Radiate self-esteem, inner peace, love, and happiness. \~ Creig Crippen** > > © Wisdom Quotes & Stories ### Life Knocks you down URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/life-knocks-happiness-ability/ Last updated: 2024-03-30T09:30:06.000Z “Sometimes life knocks you on your ass... get up, get up, get up!!! Happiness is not the absence of problems, it's the ability to deal with them.” \~ Steve Maraboli > Life may knock you down, people may knock you down and negative circumstances may knock you down physically, financially, emotionally and spiritually but you need to gather lion like courage to get up spiritually from within firing the light of faith and self belief from within. Yes it’s natural to encounter with negative circumstances or setbacks as you are seeded with one definite purpose and ability to rise above it. Once you dare to rise above stormy circumstances visualizing your dream purpose vividly inside your mental video holding strong faith then nothing and no one can stop you. Just be in the battle field and win the battle of your life as it can define your true self and true identity of life. \~ Dhiraj Raj > > © Wisdom Quotes & Stories ### You must do the thing you think you cannot do URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/courage-confidence-fear/ Last updated: 2024-03-28T09:30:31.000Z “You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' You must do the thing you think you cannot do.”\~ Eleanor Roosevelt ### Somewhere a person who truly Cares is waiting for you URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/pain-tear-heart-heal-care/ Last updated: 2024-03-26T09:30:27.000Z > "No matter what Pain you have been through, Tears will dry, Broken Hearts will Heal and somewhere a person who truly Cares is waiting for you." ### I Love You Dad URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/love-you-dad/ Last updated: 2024-03-24T09:30:34.000Z A man had just bought a new car and was polishing it with great enthusiasm. While doing so, he saw his 4 yr old son picking up stone and scratching lines on the sides of the car. In anger, the man took the child's hand and hit it many times with wrench lying nearby not realizing that the child's hands were too soft to handle such an attack. At the hospital, the doctors had to amputate all the fingers as there were multiple fractures and fingers were badly mashed. When the child saw his repenting father , he asked, 'Dad when will my fingers grow back?' The man was so hurt and speechless; he went back to his car and kicked it a lot of times. Devastated by his own actions. sitting in front of that car he looked at the scratches; the child had written 'LOVE YOU DAD'. Anger and Love have no limits; choose the latter to have a beautiful, lovely life & remember this: Things are to be used and people are to be loved. The PROBLEM in today's world is that people are USED while things are LOVED... Always Keep this thought in mind. Watch your thoughts; they become words... Watch your words; they become actions... Watch your actions; they become habits... Watch your habits; they become character.. Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.... Remember today is the only day you'll have before it's over. ..... ### Good relationships URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/good-relationships-obstacles-together/ Last updated: 2024-03-22T09:30:55.000Z "Good relationships are not just about the good times you share. They are also about the Obstacles you go through Together and the Fact you still say: I love you in the End." > MY HUSBAND AND I TOOK THE BITTER WITH THE SWEET, AND WE OFTEN SAID I LOVE YOU. WE DID'NT HAVE TO BROADCAST IT TO THE WORLD, FOR THEY WERE OUTSIDE IN THE COLD LOOKING IN. WE WERE INSIDE IN THE GLOW THAT REAL LOVE RADIATES YOUR ENTIRE HOME WITH WITH THE HEAT COMING FROM THE HEART. SO WHEN YOU LOOK FOR LOVE IT IS THIS KIND I HOPE YOU FIND, A LOVE THAT WILL RADIATE YOUR HEART. YOUR HOME, AND YOUR WHOLE BEING. \~ Diane Williams > > Love isn't always perfect. It isn't a fairy tale or a storybook. And it doesn't always come easy. Love is overcoming obstacles, facing challenges, fighting to be together, holding on & never letting go. It is a short word, easy to spell, difficult to define, & impossible to live without. Love is work, but most of all, Love is realizing that every hour, every minute, & every second was worth it because you did it together. > > © Wisdom Quotes & Stories ### We could learn a lot from crayons URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/could-learn-from-crayons/ Last updated: 2024-03-20T09:30:30.000Z “We could learn a lot from crayons; some are sharp, some are pretty, some are dull, while others bright, some have weird names, but they all have learned to live together in the same box.” \~ Robert Fulghum ### Letter from Heaven URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/letter-from-heaven/ Last updated: 2024-03-18T09:30:01.000Z > When tomorrow starts without me, and I'm not there to see; If the sun should rise and find your eyes all filled with tears for me; I wish so much you wouldn't cry the way you did today, while thinking of the many things we didn't get to say. > > I know how much you love me, as much as I love you, And each time you think of me I know you'll miss me too; But when tomorrow starts without me, please try to understand, that an angel came and called my name and took me by the hand, And said my place was ready in heaven far above and that I'd have to leave behind all those I dearly love. > > But as I turned to walk away, a tear fell from my eye, for all life, I'd always thought I didn't want to die. I had so much to live for and so much yet to do, it seemed almost impossible that I was leaving you . I thought of all the yesterdays, the good ones and the bad, I thought of all the love we shared and all the fun we had. > > If I could relive yesterday I thought just for awhile I'd say good bye and kiss you and maybe see you smile. But then I fully realized that this could never be, for emptiness and memories would take the place of me. And when I thought of worldly things that I'd miss come tomorrow, I thought of you, and when I did, my heart was filled with sorrow. > > But when I walked through heaven's gate, I felt so much at home. When God looked down and smiles at me, from His great golden throne, He said, " This is eternity and all I've promised you". Today for life on what is past but here it starts anew. I promise no tomorrow, but today will always last, and since each day's the same day, there's no longing for the past. > > But you have been so faithful, so trusting, so true. Though there were times you did some things you knew you shouldn't do. But you have been forgiven and now at last you're free. So won't you take my hand and share my life with me? So when tomorrow starts without me. don't think we're far apart. for everytime you think of me, I'm right here in your heart. ### Be thankful for what you have URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/thankful-what-you-have/ Last updated: 2024-03-16T09:30:59.000Z "Be thankful for what you have. You have no idea how many people would love to have what you got." > I'M THANKFUL FOR EVERYTHING AND I FEEL BAD FOR THOSE WHO DON'T HAVE WHAT I HAVE AND ITS NOT MONEY THAT I HAVE, ITS FRIENDS AND FAMILY WHOM I LOVE DEARLY. \~ Roses Gumamela > > © Wisdom Quotes & Stories ### Greatest mental Freedom URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/greatest-mental-freedom/ Last updated: 2024-03-14T09:30:29.000Z "One of the Greatest mental Freedom is truly not caring what anyone else thinks of you." > Have a good image of who you are, that you don't need the approval of others to validate you. \~ Elsa Melster > > Let them think what they want because it a free world and as for you of course you know better than the rest in this world so free yourself from what people think of you be yourself that the best freedom anyone would ever have. \~ Noor Saad > > © Wisdom Quotes & Stories ### Lesson of the day : The evil you do remains with you URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/lesson-day-touching-story/ Last updated: 2024-03-12T09:30:11.000Z > A woman baked chapatti (roti) for members of her family and an extra one for a hungry passerby. She kept the extra chapatti on the window sill, for whosoever would take it away. Every day, a beggar came and took away the chapatti. He would express no gratitude but would muttered : “The evil you do remains with you: The good you do, comes back to you!” This went on, day after day. Every day, he came, picked up the chapatti and uttered the words: > > “The evil you do, remains with you: The good you do, comes back to you!” The woman felt irritated. “Not a word of gratitude,” she said to herself… “Everyday this beggar utters this jingle! What does he mean?” One day, exasperated, she decided to get rid of him forever” she said. She added poison to the chapatti she prepared for him! > > As she was about to keep it on the window sill, her hands trembled. She realized her terrible mistake .“What is this I am doing?” she said. She threw the chapatti into the fire, prepared another one and kept it on the window sill. As usual, the beggar came, picked up the chapatti and muttered his daily words: “The evil you do, remains with you: The good you do, comes back to you!” > > The beggar proceeded on his way, blissfully unaware of what had happened . Every day, as the woman placed the chapatti on the window sill, she offered a prayer for her son who had gone to a distant place to seek his fortune. For many months, she had no news of him. > > That very evening, there was a knock on the door. As she opened it, she was surprised to find her son standing in the doorway. He had grown thin and lean. His garments were tattered and torn. He was hungry, starved and weak. As he saw his mother, he said, “Mom, it’s a miracle I’m here. While I was but a mile away, I felt so weak that I collapsed. I would have died, but just then an old beggar passed by. I begged of him for a some of food, and he was kind enough to give me a whole chapatti. As he gave it to me, he said, “This is what I eat everyday: today, I shall give it to you, for your need is greater than mine!” > > Hearing these words , the mother's face turned pale. She leaned against the door for support. She remembered the poisoned chapatti that she had made that morning. Had she not burnt it in the fire, it would have been eaten by her own son, and he would have lost his life! > > It was then that she realized the significance of the words: “The evil you do remains with you: The good you do, comes back to you!” Do good and Don’t ever stop doing good, even if it is not appreciated at that time. > > If you like this, share it with others and I bet so many lives would be touched. ### Do what makes you happy URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/do-what-makes-you-happy/ Last updated: 2024-03-10T09:30:21.000Z > "If it makes you happy, do it. If it doesn't, then don't." ### True Love happens accidentally URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/true-love-moment/ Last updated: 2024-03-08T09:30:53.000Z > “There is never a time or place for true love. It happens accidentally, in a heartbeat, in a single flashing, throbbing moment.” \~ Sarah Dessen ### It’s time to Forgive yourself URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/time-forgive-yourself/ Last updated: 2024-03-06T09:30:36.000Z "It’s time to Forgive yourself for that thing you keep Beating yourself up about." > Don't beat yourself up! True growth takes time. It's a process that requires self-love and compassion. Learn and grow every day, with each experience, and in every loving moment. Celebrate how far you've already come, make loving choices, and peacefully continue on your amazing journey. \~ Creig Crippen > > Just do it! Get it out of the way and when you look back you'll find it is way back in the past. Just bow down talk to the LORD, give your life to HIM fully, with all your heart, don't look back and even you will be surprised what the LORD can do for you. \~ Frikkie de Necker > > © Wisdom Quotes & Stories ### Don't take Mirror seriously URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/true-reflection-your-heart/ Last updated: 2024-03-04T09:30:36.000Z "Don't take Mirror seriously. Your true Reflection is in your Heart." > I am so glad God looks inside instead of outside .There are so many special people that have some kind of flaw not one of us is perfect only Jesus was that.God thank you so much for seeing the true image. \~ Linda Dotterer > > © Wisdom Quotes & Stories ### I embrace people by the content of their Hearts URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/embrace-content-of-heart/ Last updated: 2024-03-02T09:30:11.000Z "I don't Judge people by the scriptures of their Faith or the scars from Past. I embrace them by the content of their Hearts." ### When I look back on the Past ... URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/overcome-people-bring-me-down/ Last updated: 2024-02-29T09:30:37.000Z > "From this day on, when I look back on the past, I will smile and say to myself, "I never thought I could do it, but I did. I overcome all the people who tried to bring me down." ### Things School doesn't teach you URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/school-love-teach-rich/ Last updated: 2024-02-28T09:30:41.000Z > “I've been making a list of the things they don't teach you at school. They don't teach you how to love somebody. They don't teach you how to be famous. They don't teach you how to be rich or how to be poor. They don't teach you how to walk away from someone you don't love any longer. They don't teach you how to know what's going on in someone else's mind. They don't teach you what to say to someone who's dying. They don't teach you anything worth knowing.” \~ Neil Gaiman ### A woman is like a tea bag URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/woman-like-tea-bag/ Last updated: 2024-02-26T09:30:33.000Z > “A woman is like a tea bag; you never know how strong it is until it's in hot water.” \~ Eleanor Roosevelt ### Things Change URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/things-change/ Last updated: 2024-02-24T09:30:19.000Z > Here is an inspirational true story of Alex W. Miller, a writer who worked at The Walt Disney Company in his own words . He was the one who wrote a children's story book entitled "Beyond The River": > > For most people, graduation is an exciting day - the culmination of years of hard work. My graduation day... was not. I remember that weekend two years ago. Family and friends had flown in from across the country to watch our class walk across that stage. But like everyone else in my graduating class, I had watched the economy turn from bad to worse in my senior year. We graduates had degrees, but very limited prospects. Numerous applications had not panned out and I knew that the next day, when my lease ended, I would no longer have a place to call home. > > The weeks ahead weren't easy. I gathered up everything I couldn't carry and put it into storage. Then, because I knew my small university town couldn't offer me any opportunities, I packed up my car and drove to Southern California to find work. But what I thought would take a week dragged into two, and then four, and 100 job applications later, I found myself in the exact same spot as I was before. And the due date to begin paying back my student loans was creeping ever closer. > > You know that feeling when you wake up and you are just consumed with dread? Dread about something you can't control - that sense of impending failure that lingers over you as you hope that everything that happened to you thus far was just a bad dream? That feeling became a constant in my life. Days felt like weeks, weeks like months, and those many months felt like an unending eternity of destitution. And the most frustrating part was no matter how much I tried, I just couldn't seem to make any progress. > > So what did I do to maintain my sanity? I wrote. Something about putting words on a page made everything seem a little clearer - a little brighter. Something about writing gave me hope. And if you want something badly enough... sometimes a little hope is all you need! I channeled my frustration into a children's book. Beyond the River was the story of an unlikely hero featuring a little fish who simply refused to give up on his dream. > > And then one day, without any sort of writing degree or contacts in the writing world - just a lot of hard work and perseverance - I was offered a publishing contract for my first book! After that, things slowly began to fall into place. I was offered a 2nd book deal. Then, a few months later, I got an interview with The Walt Disney Company and was hired shortly after. > > Don't give up. Even if things look bleak now, don't give up. Two years ago I was huddled in my car drinking cold soup right out of the can. Things change. If you work hard, give it time, and don't give up, things will always get better. Often times our dreams lie in wait just a little further upstream ... all we need is the courage to push beyond the river. ### When God Created Woman URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/god-woman/ Last updated: 2024-02-22T09:30:49.000Z > By the time the Lord made mothers, He was into the sixth day working overtime. An Angel appeared and said "Why are you spending so much time on this one?" > > And the Lord answered and said, "Have you read the specification sheet on her? She has to be completely washable, but not elastic; have 200 movable parts, all replaceable; run on black coffee and leftovers; have a lap that can hold three children at one time and that disappears when she stands up; have a kiss that can cure anything from a scraped knee to a broken heart; and have six pairs of hands." > > The Angel was astounded at the requirements for this one. "Six pairs of hands! No way!" said the Angel. The Lord replied, "Oh, it's not the hands that are the problem. It's the three pairs of eyes that mothers must have!" "And that's on the standard model?" the Angel asked. The Lord nodded in agreement, " one pair of eyes are to see through the closed door as she asks her children what they are doing even though she already knows. Another pair in the back of her head are to see what she needs to know even though no one thinks she can. And the third pair are here in the front of her head. She should understand and should not complain about errant child and love him or her without even saying a single word." > > The Angel tried to stop the Lord "This is too much work for one day. Wait until tomorrow to finish." "But I can't!" The Lord protested, "I am so close to finishing this creation. She already heals herself when she is sick AND can feed a family of six on a pound of hamburger " The Angel moved closer and touched the woman, "But you have made her so soft, Lord." "She is soft," the Lord agreed, "but I have also made her tough. You have no idea what she can endure or accomplish." "Will she be able to think?" asked the Angel. The Lord replied, "Not only will she be able to think, she will be able to reason, and negotiate." > > The Angel then noticed something and reached out and touched the woman's cheek. "Oops, it looks like You have a leak with this model in the middle of the face . I told You that You were trying to put too much into this one." "That's not a leak." the Lord objected. "That's a tear!" "What's the tear for?" the Angel asked. The Lord said, "The tear is her way of expressing her joy, her sorrow, her disappointment, her pain, her loneliness, her grief, and her pride." The Angel was impressed. "You are a genius, Lord. You thought of everything for this one. You even created the tear!" > > The Lord looked at the Angel and smiled and said, "I'm afraid you are wrong again. I created the woman, but she created the tear!" ### Hardest lesson in life is letting go URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/change-hardest-lesson-life/ Last updated: 2024-02-20T09:30:03.000Z Change: One of the hardest lesson in life is letting go. Whether it’s Guilt, Anger, Love, Loss, etc. Change is never easy, you fight to hold on and you fight to let go. > Release emotions of the past that no longer serve you. No regrets, no worries. Relax and breathe. Stay present, understanding that you did the best you could at the time, and you'll do your best in the future. Reliving past pain again and again, or chronically worrying about the future, do not help you accomplish anything. A self-imposed philosophy of perfection can overwhelm you. There is no contest to win and no race to finish. Simply love yourself and do your best, and you will avoid self-judgment, self-abuse, and regret. \~ Creig Crippen > > Sometimes change is just what you need. Sometimes you have get rid of people in your life that lives drama and starting problems. \~ Kathy Dupnik-swango > > Even though you know you need to just let go. It is still difficult.But is it true there is nothing there anymore but memories that you keep tucked away in your heart. \~ Mary Slate Walton > > © Wisdom Quotes & Stories ### I wish you enough URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/wish-you-enough/ Last updated: 2024-02-18T09:30:32.000Z > Recently, I overheard a mother and daughter in their last moments together at the airport as the daughter’s departure had been announced. Standing near the security gate, they hugged and the mother said: “I love you and I wish you enough.” > > The daughter replied, “Mom, our life together has been more than enough. Your love is all I ever needed. I wish you enough, too, Mom.” They kissed and the daughter left. > > The mother walked over to the window where I sat. Standing there, I could see she wanted and needed to cry. I tried not to intrude on her privacy but she welcomed me in by asking, “Did you ever say good-bye to someone knowing it would be forever?” “Yes, I have,” I replied. “Forgive me for asking but why is this a forever good-bye?” > > “I am old and she lives so far away. I have challenges ahead and the reality is the next trip back will be for my funeral,” she said. When you were saying good-bye, I heard you say, “I wish you enough.” May I ask what that means?” > > She began to smile. “That’s a wish that has been handed down from other generations. My parents used to say it to everyone.” She paused a moment and looked up as if trying to remember it in detail and she smiled even more. > > “When we said ‘I wish you enough’ we were wanting the other person to have a life filled with just enough good things to sustain them”. Then turning toward me, she shared the following, reciting it from memory, > > ***“I wish you enough sun to keep your attitude bright.*** > ***I wish you enough rain to appreciate the sun more.*** > ***I wish you enough happiness to keep your spirit alive.*** > ***I wish you enough pain so that the smallest joys in life appear much bigger.*** > ***I wish you enough gain to satisfy your wanting.*** > ***I wish you enough loss to appreciate all that you possess.*** > ***I wish you enough hellos to get you through the final good-bye.”*** > ***She then began to cry and walked away.*** > > Nurture Relationships. As they say, It takes a minute to find a special person. An hour to appreciate them. A day to love them and an entire life to forget them. ### Daddy's Empty Chair URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/daddys-empty-chair/ Last updated: 2024-02-16T09:30:25.000Z > A man’s daughter had asked the local minister to come and pray with her father. > > When the minister arrived, he found the man lying in bed with his head propped up on two pillows. > > An empty chair sat beside his bed. The minister assumed that the old fellow had been informed of his visit. > > “I guess you were expecting me," he said. > > ‘No, who are you?” said the father. > > The minister told him his name and then remarked, “I saw the empty chair and I figured you knew I was going to show up.” > > “Oh yeah, the chair,” said the bedridden man. “Would you mind closing the door?” Puzzled, the minister shut the door. > > “I have never told anyone this, not even my daughter,” said the man. “But all of my life I have never known how to pray.” > > “At church I used to hear the pastor talk about prayer, but it went right over my head.” > > “I abandoned any attempt at prayer,” the old man continued, “until one day four years ago, my best friend said to me, “Johnny, prayer is just a simple matter of having a conversation with Jesus.” > > “Here is what I suggest,” he said. > > “Sit down in a chair; place an empty chair in front of you, and in faith see Jesus on the chair. It’s not spooky because he promised, ‘I will be with you always’.” > > “Then just speak to him in the same way you’re doing with me right now.” > > “So, I tried it and I’ve liked it so much that I do it a couple of hours every day. > > I’m careful though. If my daughter saw me talking to an empty chair, she’d either have a nervous breakdown or send me off to the funny farm.” > > The minister was deeply moved by the story and encouraged the old man to continue on the journey. > > Then he prayed with him, anointed him with oil, and then returned to the church. > > Two nights later the daughter called to tell the minister that her daddy had died that afternoon. > > Did he die in peace?” he asked. > > Yes, when I left the house about two o’clock, he called me over to his bedside, told me how much he loved me, and kissed me on the cheek. > > When I got back from the store an hour later, I found him dead. > > There was something strange about his death. Apparently, just before Daddy died, he leaned over and rested his head on the chair beside the bed. > > What do you make of that?” The minister wiped a tear from his eye and said, “I wish we could all go like that.” ### Daddy’s Day URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/daddys-day/ Last updated: 2024-02-14T09:30:54.000Z > **Her hair was up in a ponytail** > **Her favorite dress tied with a bow** > **Today was Daddy's Day at school** > **And she couldn't wait to go.** > **But her mommy tried to tell her,** > **That she probably should stay home.** > **Why the kids might not understand,** > **If she went to school alone.** > **But she was not afraid;** > **She knew just what to say.** > **What to tell her classmates** > **Of why he wasn't there today.** > **But still her mother worried,** > **For her to face this day alone.** > **And that was why once again,** > **She tried to keep her daughter home.** > **But the little girl went to school,** > **Eager to tell them all.** > **About a dad she never sees,** > **A dad who never calls.** > **There were daddies along the wall in back,** > **For everyone to meet** > **Children squirming impatiently,** > **Anxious in their seats.** > **One by one the teacher called,** > **Each student from the class.** > **To introduce their daddy,** > **As seconds slowly passed.** > **At last the teacher called her name,** > **Every child turned to stare.** > **Each of them was searching,** > **For a man who wasn't there.** > **"Where's her daddy at?"** > **She heard a boy call out.** > **"She probably doesn't have one"** > **Another student dared to shout.** > **And from somewhere near the back,** > **She heard a daddy say,** > **"Looks like another deadbeat dad,** > **Too busy to waste his day."** > **The words did not offended her,** > **As she smiled up at her mom.** > **And looked back at her teacher,** > **Who told her to go on.** > **And with hands behind her back,** > **Slowly she began to speak.** > **And out from the mouth of a child,** > **Came words incredibly unique.** > **"My daddy couldn't be here,** > **Because he lives so far away.** > **But I know he wishes he could be,** > **Since this is such a special day.** > **And though you cannot meet him,** > **I wanted you to know.** > **All about my daddy,** > **And how much he loves me so.** > **He loved to tell me stories** > **He taught me to ride my bike.** > **He surprised me with pink roses,** > **And taught me to fly a kite.** > **We used to share fudge sundaes,** > **and ice cream in a cone.** > **And though you cannot see him,** > **I'm not standing here alone.** > **Cause my daddy's always with me** > **Even though we are apart.** > **I know because he told me,** > **He'll forever be in my heart."** > **With that, her little hand reached up,** > **and lay across her chest.** > **Feeling her own heartbeat,** > **Beneath her favorite dress.** > **And from somewhere in the crowd of dads,** > **Her mother stood in tears.** > **Proudly watching her daughter,** > **Who was wise beyond her years.** > **For she stood up for the love** > **Of a man not in her life.** > **Doing what was best for her,** > **Doing what was right.** > **And when she dropped her hand back down,** > **Staring straight into the crowd.** > **She finished with a voice so soft,** > **But its message clear and loud.** > **"I love my daddy very much,** > **He's my shining star.** > **And if he could he'd be here,** > **But heaven's just too far.** > **You see he was a fireman** > **And died just this past year.** > **When airplanes hit the towers** > **And taught Americans to fear.** > **But sometimes when I close my eyes,** > **It's like he never went away."** > **And then she closes her eyes,** > **And saw him there that day.** > **And to her mother's amazement,** > **She witnessed with surprise.** > **A room full of daddies and children,** > **All starting to close their eyes.** > **Who knows what they say before them,** > **Who knows what they felt inside.** > **Perhaps for merely a second,** > **They saw him at her side.** > **"I know you're with me Daddy."** > **To the silence she called out.** > **And what happened next made believers,** > **Of those once filled with doubt.** > **Not one in that room could explain it,** > **For each of their eyes had been closed.** > **But there on the desk beside her,** > **Was a fragrant long-stemmed pink rose.** > **And a child was blessed, if only for a moment,** > **By the love of her shining bright star.** > **And given the gift of believing,** > **That heaven is never too far.** > > \~ From the poem Daddy's Day, by Cheryl Costello-Forshey ### The Power Of Thoughts URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/power-thoughts/ Last updated: 2024-02-12T09:30:22.000Z > One day, a priest and his disciple arrived to the big city. They had no money with them, but they needed food and a place to stay. The disciple was sure that they were going to beg for their food, and sleep in the park at night. "There is a big park not far from here. We can sleep there at night", said the disciple. "In the open air?" Asked the priest."Yes", responded the student. The priest smiled and said: "No, tonight we are going to sleep in a hotel and eat there too". The student was amazed. "How?""Come and sit down", said the priest. > > They both sat down on the ground and the priest said:"When you focus your mind intently on any subject, it comes to pass." The priest closed his eyes and started to meditate with full concentration. After about ten minutes he got up and started to walk, with his disciple following him. They walked through several streets and alleys, until they arrived to a hotel. > > **"Come, let's enter inside", the priest said to his disciple. They just set foot in the entrance, when a well-dressed man approached them. "I am the manager of this hotel. You look like travelling priests and I believe you have no money. Would you like to work in the kitchen, and in return I'll give you food and a place to stay?"** **"Fine", responded the priest.** > > The disciple was perplexed and asked the priest: "Did you use any magic? How did you do that?" The priest smiled and said, "I wanted to show you how the power of thoughts works. When you think with full and strong concentration about something that you want to happen, and your mind does not resist the subject of your thought, your thought materializes." > > "The secret is concentrating, visualizing, seeing details, having faith and projecting mental and emotional energy into the mental scene. These are the general prerequisites. When your mind is empty from thoughts, and only one single thought is allowed to enter, it gains a very great power. One should be very careful with what he thinks. A concentrated thought is powerful, and exerts a very strong influence." > > The disciple looked at his teacher and said: "I see that I have to sharpen my concentration in order to be able to use this power." > > "Yes, this is the first step", responded the priest. ### The Most difficult phase of life URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/difficult-phase-you-dont-understand-yourself/ Last updated: 2024-02-10T09:30:31.000Z "The most difficult phase of life is not when no one understands you; It is when you don't understand yourself." > It is about self discover being honest and digging deep most importantly not letting others define you sometimes its just that simple, getting distance from people and places and get a fresh perspective be on your own and discover your authentic self. That's what I did recently and the rewards are greater than I ever could have imagined. Wish you well may you love yourself in all of your beautiful imperfection. \~ Wabi May > > If you can't trust yourself you will never get happiness though sometimes you doubt what you think is right because lack of confidence in yourself break the ice within you and you'll be surprise what you have in yourself. \~ Noor Saad > > © Wisdom Quotes & Stories ### Everyone is going to hurt you , find the ones worth suffering for URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/everyone-going-to-hurt-you/ Last updated: 2024-02-08T09:30:09.000Z “The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for.” \~ Bob Marley ### Life is like a book , turn the page for next chapter URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/life-like-book/ Last updated: 2024-02-06T09:30:12.000Z "Life is like a book. Some chapters sad, some happy, and some exciting. But if you never turn the page. You will never know what the next chapter holds." ### The best things in life URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/best-things-in-life/ Last updated: 2024-02-04T09:30:15.000Z "The best things in life are the people you love, the places you've seen and the memories you've made along the way." > The best things in life are not the material things that you want, but the people who stake to your side in every minute. \~ Emang Neri > > © Wisdom Quotes & Stories ### It's being here now that's important. There's no past and there's no future URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/being-here-now-important/ Last updated: 2024-02-02T09:30:13.000Z > “It's being here now that's important. There's no past and there's no future. Time is a very misleading thing. All there is ever, is the now. We can gain experience from the past, but we can't relive it; and we can hope for the future, but we don't know if there is one.” ### Best way to get over someone URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/cut-off-all-ties/ Last updated: 2024-01-30T09:30:10.000Z "The best way to get over someone is to cut off all ties." ### There's always going to be somebody who hates you URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/somebody-hates-dita-von-jeese/ Last updated: 2024-01-28T09:30:56.000Z > "You can be the ripest, juiciest peach in the world, and there's still going to be somebody who hates peaches." \~ Dita Von Teese ### Free time is the most expensive time you have URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/normally-spend-your-weekends/ Last updated: 2024-01-26T09:30:28.000Z > “If you only had 48 hours left to live, would you spend it like you normally spend your weekends? If not, why spend 2/7th of your life wasting your free time? After all, free time isn’t free. Free time is the most expensive time you have, because nobody pays for it but you. But that also makes it the most valuable time you have, as you alone stand to reap the profits from spending it wisely.” \~ Jarod Kintz ### When you completely Trust someone URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/friend-life-lesson-valuable/ Last updated: 2024-01-24T09:30:26.000Z "When you completely Trust another person, you will end up with one of two outcomes a Friend for life or a Lesson for life both, regardless of the outcome, are Valuable." ### The best feeling comes when ... URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/best-feeling-perfectly-happy/ Last updated: 2024-01-22T09:30:46.000Z "The best feeling comes when you realize that you're perfectly happy without the people you thought you needed the most." ### Work harder than anyone else and don't settle for less than what you want URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/my-past-taught-me/ Last updated: 2024-01-20T09:30:12.000Z > "My past taught me not to complain and just work hard if I want something, not blame unhappiness on other people, not blame my failures on other peoples' fortunes, work harder than anyone else, not let fear stop me, not settle for less than all I want." ### Knowledge cannot replace friendship URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/idiot-lose-you-patrick-spongebob/ Last updated: 2024-01-18T09:30:27.000Z "Knowledge cannot replace friendship, I'd rather be an idiot than lose you." \~ Patrick to Spongebob ### Life is like a cup of Tea URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/life-cup-tea/ Last updated: 2024-01-16T09:30:06.000Z "Life is like a cup of Tea, it's all in how you make it." > You, yourself is script writer, director and controller of your life. In fact you are best responsible architect to design your quality of life and destiny. So take massive passionate action on your dream purpose in the light of persistence, patience, strong self belief and faith of Gd to discover your true self despite of stormy circumstances. Life will never give you bed of roses, you need to lead your life towards destined quality of life through your personal passionate commitment. \~ Dhiraj Raj > > © Wisdom Quotes & Stories ### Keep people in your life that truly love you, motivate you, encourage you, inspire you, enhance you, and make you happy URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/keep-people-love-inspire-motivate-you/ Last updated: 2024-01-14T09:30:51.000Z > "Keep people in your life that truly love you, motivate you, encourage you, inspire you, enhance you, and make you happy. If you have people who do none of the above, let them go." ### In this world we have to take chances, sometimes they're worth it and sometimes they're not URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/take-chances-sometimes-worth/ Last updated: 2024-01-12T09:30:47.000Z "In this world we have to take chances, sometimes they're worth it and sometimes they're not, but I'm telling you now, you will never know until you try." ### Share your Happiness with others URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/sharing-happiness-with-others/ Last updated: 2024-01-10T09:30:18.000Z "Life is not about making others happy. Life is about sharing your happiness with others." > Yes live your life watering yourself with miracle creating attitudes like giving, forgiving, loving and grateful attitude as well as spread your wings of happiness,love, respect and peace then you can fly at mountainous height of success, happiness, abundance and peace. As valid truth says, "If you can love yourself and be happy from within then only you can love others and share your happiness with others." \~ Dhiraj Raj > > © Wisdom Quotes & Stories ### What holds you back URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/what-holds-you-back/ Last updated: 2024-01-08T09:30:21.000Z > "It's not who you are that holds you back, it's who you think you're not." ### Being humble is much more important than being wise URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/being-humble-important-than-wise/ Last updated: 2024-01-06T09:30:03.000Z > "Being humble is much more important than being wise. God doesn't need a proud mouth that speaks much, but a kind heart that listens a lot." ### I want all of you, forever, everyday. You and me everyday. URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/forever-everyday-you-me/ Last updated: 2024-01-04T09:30:34.000Z > “**So it's not gonna be easy. It's going to be really hard; we're gonna have to work at this everyday, but I want to do that because I want you. I want all of you, forever, everyday. You and me everyday.” \~ Nicholas Sparks** ### Live like it's Heaven on Earth URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/youve-gotta-dance/ Last updated: 2024-01-02T09:30:22.000Z > “You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching, Love like you'll never be hurt, Sing like there's nobody listening, And live like it's heaven on earth.” \~ William W. Purkey ### Never give up URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/show-never-give-up/ Last updated: 2023-12-29T21:30:52.000Z "No matter how you feel, get up, dress up, show up and never give up." > One thing I learned early in my life, how I feel is temporary, what is real is never as bad as how it feels. \~ Lori Sanders > > Get up, get dressed, put on some high heels and push past the rainstorm. It doesn't rain forever, then the rainbow. \~ Mindy Bondurant > > © Wisdom Quotes & Stories ### When you are healed URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/doesnt-make-cry-you-healed/ Last updated: 2023-12-29T21:30:26.000Z "When you can tell your story and it doesn't make you cry, you know you have healed." > Time does not heal wounds,but in time, we just forget that its there, because when we get to remember it, all the pain comes back and sometimes more painful. but of course we have to drive those pain away to set us free from it all. \~ Charito Hipolito > > You have to forgive yourself and let go it doesn't need to say it in words but through actions and instinct you know that is over. Do it and you will find inner peace. \~ Mitch Escalderon > > © Wisdom Quotes & Stories ### True colours of the people are seen in the worst times URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/worst-time-life-true-colors-people/ Last updated: 2023-12-25T21:30:31.000Z "It is during the worst times of Life that you will get to see the True colors of the people who say they care of you." > Those are the ones that you call "fair weather friends" the ones who promise a lot and don't deliver, or the ones "who expect you to open your pocketbook every time they do something for you." You should be friends because you want o be friends, not because you want something. \~ Ulla Camp > > In two phases of life there are when you at the top and at the bottom only times can tell who are your real & true friends so these phases of life will build a person in you what you are on the next round and make you wiser and mature enough to face the world. \~ Noor Saad > > > > © Wisdom Quotes & Stories > ### What goes around comes around URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/keep-circle-positive-peaceful-loving/ Last updated: 2023-12-23T21:30:06.000Z "What goes around comes around, keep the circle Positive, Peaceful and Loving." ### People with good character keep promises URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/people-promise-good-character/ Last updated: 2023-12-21T21:30:25.000Z "People with good intentions make Promises but people with good Character keep them." ### It’s not the song that makes you emotional URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/people-things-come-to-your-mind/ Last updated: 2023-12-19T21:30:16.000Z "Sometimes it’s not the song that makes you emotional. It’s the people and things that come to your mind when you hear it." > I always play love songs when am in love. I always pick the right song to play because the song says what my heart is feeling that my words can't say. \~ Anita Maria > > © Wisdom Quotes & Stories ### The Cracked Pot URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/cracked-pot/ Last updated: 2023-12-17T21:30:49.000Z > A water bearer in India had two large pots, each hung on each end of a pole which he carried across his neck. One of the pots had a crack in it, and while the other pot was perfect and always delivered a full portion of water at the end of the long walk from the stream to the master’s house, the cracked pot arrived only half full. > > For a full two years this went on daily, with the bearer delivering only one and a half pots full of water in his master’s house. Of course, the perfect pot was proud of its accomplishments. > > But the poor cracked pot was ashamed of its own imperfection, and miserable that it was able to accomplish only half of what it had been made to do. After two years of what it perceived to be a bitter failure, it spoke to the water bearer one day by the stream. > > “I am ashamed of myself, and I want to apologize to you.” > > “Why?” asked the bearer. “What are you ashamed of?” > > “I have been able to deliver only half my load because this crack in my side causes water to leak out all the way back to your master’s house. Because of my flaws, you have to do all of this work, and you don’t get full value from your efforts,” the pot said. > > The water bearer felt sorry for the old cracked pot, and in his compassion he said, “As we return to the master’s house, I want you to specially notice the beautiful flowers along the path.” > > Indeed, as they went up the hill, the old cracked pot noticed the sun warming the beautiful wild flowers on the side of the path. But at the end of the trail, it still felt bad because it had leaked out half its load, and so again the pot apologized to the bearer for its failure. > > The bearer said to the pot, “Did you notice that there were flowers only on your side of your path, but not on the other pot’s side? That’s because I have taken advantage of your flaw . I planted flower seeds on your side of the path, and every day while we walk back from the stream, you’ve watered them. For two years I have been able to pick these beautiful flowers to decorate my master’s table. Without you being just the way you are and without your help , he would not have this beauty to grace his house.” > > MORAL OF THE STORY: Do not underestimate yourself by comparing yourself with others. It’s our differences that make us unique & Beautiful. ### Through a Rapist's Eyes URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/through-rapist-eyes/ Last updated: 2023-12-15T21:30:09.000Z > NOTE - Please Take time to Read this. Very Important! > > Dear friends, > > Many of you may not have heard of the incident that happened to a friend of my son last week at about 6:30 pm right in front of the thickly-populated area of BPI-Katipunan, near shoppersville. she parked her car right in front of BPI to make a withdrawal and to do some groceries. > > As she was getting into her car after doing her chores, a man suddenly appeared beside her and tried to bully her into moving to the passenger seat. when she pressed her car horn to call attention, he pushed her in the car and pinned her down with his elbow on her neck. > > It was a good thing that she had the presence of mind to continue to struggle and press on her car horn to catch attention(even if she had to use her foot to do this) Her assailant even tried to make people believe that it was a domestic matter by telling the crowd not to get involved as it was a "private matter". But with the onlookers multiplying by the second, her assailant finally gave up and ran. that was when she stood up and shouted for help. Thank God the guy got caught and is now under police custody. > > Last Saturday, during the inquest, she told me that what gave her the guts to fight her assailant was the article "THROUGH A RAPIST'S EYES" forwarded to our e-groups! about a week prior to her attack. I am re-forwarding the article (you can find it at the bottom of this (e-mail) for everyone's benefit. please tell your friends, family, and loved ones about this. It works. may i just add that to a certain extent, we have to get ourselves involved if we see violence being committed on anyone like calling on a security guard or a police officer even if it appears to be a domestic matter. It seems that a lot of attackers use that tactic to get away with violence. Not many people know how to take care of themselves when faced with such a situation. Everyone, please be very, very careful. > > THOUGHT THIS WAS GOOD INFO TO PASS ALONG... > > FYI - Through a rapist's eyes! A group of rapists and date rapists in prison were interviewed on what they look for in a potential victim and here are some interesting facts: > > 1\] The first thing men look for in a potential victim is hairstyle. They are most likely to go after a woman with a ponytail, bun! , braid or other hairstyle that can easily be grabbed. They are also likely to go after a woman with long hair. Women with short hair are not common targets. > > 2\] The second thing men look for is clothing. They will look for women who's clothing is easy to remove quickly. Many of them carry scissors around to cut clothing. > > 3\] They also look for women using their cell phone, searching through their purse or doing other activities while walking because they are off guard and can be easily overpowered. > > 4\] The number one place women are abducted from / attacked at is grocery store parking lots. > > 5\] Number two is office parking lots/garages. > > 6\] Number three is public restrooms. > > 7\] The thing about these men is that they are looking to grab a woman and quickly move her to a second location where they don't have to worry about getting caught. > > 8\] If you put up any kind of a fight at all, they get discouraged because it only takes a minute or two for them to realize that going after you isn't worth it because it will be time-consuming. > > 9\] These men said they would not pick on women who have umbrellas,or other similar objects that can be used from a distance, in their hands. > > 10\] Keys are not a deterrent because you have to get really close to the attacker to use them as a weapon. So, the idea is to convince these guys you're not worth it. > > POINTS THAT WE SHOULD REMEMBER: > > 1\] If someone is following behind you on a street or in a garage or with you in an elevator or stairwell, look them in the face and ask them a question, like what time is it, or make general small talk: can't believe it is so cold out here, we're in for a bad winter. Now that you've seen their faces and could identify them in a line- up, you lose appeal as a target. > > 2\] If someone is coming toward you, hold out your hands in front of you and yell Stop or Stay back! Most of the rapists this man talked to said they'd leave a woman alone if she yelled or showed that she would not be afraid to fight back. Again, they are looking for an EASY target. > > 3\] If you carry pepper spray (this instructor was a huge advocate of it and carries it with him wherever he goes,) yelling I HAVE PEPPER SPRAY and holding it out will be a deterrent. > > 4\] If someone grabs you, you can't beat them with strength but you can do it by outsmarting them. If you are grabbed around the waist from behind, pinch the attacker either under the arm between the elbow and armpit or in the upper inner thigh - HARD. One woman in a class this guy taught told him she used the underarm pinch on a guy who was trying to date rape her and was so upset she broke through the skin and tore out muscle strands the guy needed stitches. Try pinching yourself in those places as hard as you can stand it; it really hurts. > > **5\] After the initial hit, always go for the groin. I know from a particularly unfortunate experience that if you slap a guy's parts it is extremely painful. You might think that you'll anger the guy and make him want to hurt you more, but the thing these rapists told our** > **instructor is that they want a woman who will not cause him a lot of trouble. Start causing trouble, and he's out of there.** > > 6\] When the guy puts his hands up to you, grab his first two fingers and bend them back as far as possible with as much pressure pushing down on them as possible. The instructor did it to me without using much pressure, and I ended up on my knees and both knuckles cracked audibly. > > 7\] Of course the things we always hear still apply. Always be aware of your surroundings, take someone with you if you can and if you see any odd behavior, don't dismiss it, go with your instincts. You may feel little silly at the time, but you'd feel much worse if the guy really was trouble. > > **FINALLY, PLEASE REMEMBER THESE AS WELL ....** > **I know you are smart enough to know these pointers but there will be some, where you will go "hmm I must remember that" After reading, forward it to someone you care about, never hurts to be careful in this crazy world we live in.** > > 1\. Tip from Tae Kwon Do: The elbow is the strongest point on your body. If you are close enough to use it, do it. > > 2\. Learned this from a tourist guide to New Orleans : if a robber asks for your wallet and/or purse, DO NOT HAND IT TO HIM. Toss it away from you.... chances are that he is more interested in your wallet and/or purse than you and he will go for the wallet/purse. RUN LIKE MAD IN THE OTHER DIRECTION! > > **3\. If you are ever thrown into the trunk of a car: Kick out the back tail lights and stick your arm out the hole and start waving like crazy. The driver won't see you but everybody else will. This has** > **saved lives.** > > 4\. Women have a tendency to get into their cars after shopping,eating, working, etc., and just sit (doing their checkbook, or making a list, etc. DON'T DO THIS! The predator will be watching you, and this is the perfect opportunity for him to get in on the passenger side,put a gun to your head, and tell you where to go. AS SOON AS YOU CLOSE the DOORS , LEAVE. > > **5\. A few notes about getting into your car in a parking lot, or parking garage:** > **a. Be aware: look around your car as someone may be hiding at the passenger side , peek into your car, inside the passenger side floor, and in the back seat. ( DO THIS TOO BEFORE RIDING A TAXI CAB) .** > > b. If you! u are parked next to a big van, enter your car from the passenger door. Most serial killers attack their victims by pulling them into their vans while the women are attempting to get into their cars. > > c. Look at the car parked on the driver's side of your vehicle, and the passenger side. If a male is sitting alone in the seat nearest your car, you may want to walk back into the mall, or work, and get a guard/policeman to walk you back out. IT IS ALWAYS BETTER TO BE SAFE THAN SORRY. (And better paranoid than dead.) > > 6\. ALWAYS take the elevator instead of the stairs. (Stairwells are horrible places to be alone and the perfect crime spot). > > 7\. If the predator has a gun and you are not under his control, ALWAYS RUN! The predator will only hit you (a running target) 4 in 100 times; And even then, it most likely WILL NOT be a vital organ. RUN! > > 8\. As women, we are always trying to be sympathetic: STOP IT! It may get you raped, or killed. Ted Bundy, the serial killer, was a good-looking, well educated man, who ALWAYS played on the sympathies of unsuspecting women. He walked with a cane, or a limp, and often asked "for help" into his vehicle or with his vehicle, which is when he abducted his next victim. > > I'd like you to forward this to all the women you know. It may save a life. A candle is not dimmed by lighting another candle. I was going to send this to the ladies only, but guys, if you love your mothers, wives, sisters, daughters, etc., you may want to pass it onto them, as well. > > Send this to any woman you know that may need to be reminded that the world we live in has a lot of crazies in it and it's better safe than sorry. ### Don't Judge a situation you have never been in URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/dont-judge-situation/ Last updated: 2023-12-13T21:30:46.000Z > "Don't Judge a situation you have never been in." ### Today will Never come again URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/blessing-encourage-words-heal/ Last updated: 2023-12-11T21:30:28.000Z "Today will Never come again. Be a blessing. Be a Friend. Encourage someone. Take time to Care. Let your words Heal and not Wound." > Take a moment or more out of the day to smile, make a nice comment or gesture to someone. Maybe even take a few minutes to converse with a total stranger who appears upset. The old phrase, do unto others as you would like for yourself is a motto I tend to follow. Try to be cordial and helpful instead of angry and hurtful to people. Give positive affirmations. \~ Mary Johnstone > > © Wisdom Quotes & Stories ### A Stormy night URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/stormy-night/ Last updated: 2023-12-09T21:30:16.000Z > One stormy night an elderly man and his wife entered the lobby of a small hotel in Philadelphia, USA trying to get out of the rain . They approached the front desk in order to get some shelter for the night. > > “Could you possibly give us a room here?” – the husband asked. The clerk gave a broad smile , looked at the couple and explained that it was unfortunate that there were three simultaneous conventions in town. “All of our rooms are taken,” the clerk said. “ But I can’t send a nice couple like you out into the rain at one o’clock in the morning. Would you perhaps be willing to sleep in my room? It’s not exactly a suite, but it will be good enough to make you folks comfortable for the night.” When the couple declined, the young man insisted . “Don’t worry about me, I shall be fine.” the clerk told them. So the couple agreed. > > As he paid his bill the next morning, the elderly man appreciated the kindness of the clerk and said to the clerk, “You deserve to be the kind of manager who should be the boss of the best hotel in town. Maybe someday I’ll build one for you.” The clerk looked at them and smiled. The three of them had a good laugh. As they drove away, the elderly couple agreed that the helpful clerk was indeed an exceptional manager. > > Two years passed. The clerk had almost forgotten the incident when he received a letter from the old man. It recalled that stormy night and enclosed a round-trip ticket to New York, asking the young man to pay them a visit. The old man met him in New York, and led him to the corner of Fifth Avenue and 34th Street. He then pointed to a great new building there, a pale reddish stone, with imposing elevation and watchtowers thrusting up to the sky. > > “That,” said the older man, “is the hotel I have just built for you to manage.” “You must be joking.” – the young man said. “I can assure you I am not.” – said the older man, a sly smile playing around his mouth. The older man’s name was William Waldorf-Aster, and that magnificent structure was the original Waldorf-Astoria Hotel. The young clerk who became its first manager was George C. Boldt. This young clerk never foresaw that a single act of kindness would catapult him to become manager of one of the world’s most glamorous hotels. > > Be kind to everybody. It will enrich you multi fold in the long run. ### Trust in God URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/trust-in-god/ Last updated: 2023-12-07T21:30:13.000Z > A man who had just got married was returning home with his wife . They were crossing a lake in a boat, when suddenly a great storm arose. The man was a warrior, but the woman became very much afraid because it seemed hopeless since the boat was small and it seemed that any moment they were going to be drowned. But the man remained silent and was at peace , calm and quiet, as if nothing was happening. > > The woman was terrified and trembling and asked, “Are you not afraid ?”. This may be our last moment of life! Only some miracle can save us; otherwise death is certain. > > The man laughed and took the sword out of its sheath. The woman was even more puzzled: What was he going to do? Then he brought the naked sword close to the woman’s neck almost touching it. > > He said, "Are you afraid ?" > > She started to laugh and said,"Why should I be afraid? If the sword is in your hands, why I should be afraid? I know you love me." > > "He put the sword back and said, You have got the answer ". I know God Loves us , and the storm is in His hands > > SO WHATSOEVER IS GOING TO HAPPEN IS GOING TO BE GOOD. If we survive, good; if we don’t survive, good, because everything is in His hands and He cannot do anything wrong. > > ***Moral: Develop Trust in God who is capable of transforming your whole life. Everything happens for a reason.*** ### People come into your life for a reason, a season or a lifetime URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/people-come-reason-season-lifetime/ Last updated: 2023-12-05T21:30:27.000Z > "People come into your life for a reason, a season or a lifetime. When you figure which it is, you will know exactly what to do." ### The Blind Boy URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/blind-boy/ Last updated: 2026-08-06T08:15:21.000Z A blind boy sat on the steps of a building with a hat by his feet. He held up a sign which said: “I am blind, please help.” There were only a few coins in the hat. ![blind boy 2](https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/content/images/www-wisdomquotesandstories-com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/blind-boy-2.jpg) A man was walking by. He took a few coins from his pocket and dropped them into the hat. He then took the sign, turned it around, and wrote some words. He put the sign back so that everyone who walked by would see the new words. Soon the hat began to fill up. A lot more people were giving money to the blind boy. That afternoon the man who had changed the sign came to see how things were. The boy recognized his footsteps and asked, “Were you the one who changed my sign this morning? What did you write?” The man said, “I only wrote the truth. I said what you said but in a different way.” What he had written was: “Today is a beautiful day and I cannot see it.” ![blind boy 3](https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/content/images/www-wisdomquotesandstories-com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/blind-boy-3.jpg) > Do you think the first sign and the second sign were saying the same thing? > > Of course both signs told people the boy was blind. But the first sign simply said the boy was blind. The second sign told people they were so lucky that they were not blind. Should we be surprised that the second sign was more effective? > > Moral of the story: Be thankful for what you have. Be creative. Be innovative. Think differently and positively. > > Invite others towards good with wisdom. Live life with no excuse and love with no regrets. When life gives you a 100 reasons to cry, show life that you have 1000 reasons to smile. Face your past without regret. Handle your present with confidence. Prepare for the future without fear. Keep the faith and drop the fear. > > Great men say, “Life has to be an incessant process of repair and reconstruction, of discarding evil and developing goodness…. In the journey of life, if you want to travel without fear, you must have the ticket of a good conscience.” > > The most beautiful thing is to see a person smiling. And even more beautiful is, knowing that you are the reason behind it. ### The Salty Coffee URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/salty-coffee/ Last updated: 2023-12-01T21:30:03.000Z > He met her at a party. She was so outstanding, many guys chasing after her, while he was so normal, nobody paid attention to him. > > At the end of the party, he invited her to have coffee with him, she was surprised but being polite, she promised. They sat in a nice coffee shop, he was too nervous to say anything, she felt uncomfortable, and she thought to herself, "Please, let me go home..." > > Suddenly he asked the waiter, "Would you please give me some salt? I'd like to put it in my coffee." Everybody stared at him, so strange! His face turned red but still, he put the salt in his coffee and drank it. She asked him curiously, "Why you have this hobby?" He replied, "When I was a little boy, I lived near the sea, I liked playing in the sea, I could feel the taste of the sea, just like the taste of the salty coffee. Now every time I have the salty coffee, I always think of my childhood, think of my hometown, I miss my hometown so much, I miss my parents who are still living there." While saying that tears filled his eyes. She was deeply touched. That's his true feeling, from the bottom of his heart. A man who can tell out his homesickness, he must be a man who loves home, cares about home, has responsibility of home... Then she also started to speak, spoke about her faraway hometown, her childhood, her family. > > That was a really nice talk, also a beautiful beginning of their story. They continued to date. She found that actually he was a man who meets all her demands; he had tolerance, was kind hearted, warm, careful. He was such a good person but she almost missed him! Thanks to his salty coffee! Then the story was just like every beautiful love story, the princess married to the prince, and then they were living the happy life... And, every time she made coffee for him, she put some salt in the coffee, as she knew that's the way he liked it. > > After 40 years, he passed away, left her a letter which said, "My dearest, please forgive me, forgive my whole life's lie. This was the only lie I said to you---the salty coffee. Remember the first time we dated? I was so nervous at that time, actually I wanted some sugar, but I said salt. It was hard for me to change so I just went ahead. I never thought that could be the start of our communication! I tried to tell you the truth many times in my life, but I was too afraid to do that, as I have promised not to lie to you for anything... Now I'm dying, I afraid of nothing so I tell you the truth, I don't like the salty coffee, what a strange bad taste... But I have had the salty coffee for my whole life! Since I knew you, I never feel sorry for anything I do for you. Having you with me is my biggest happiness for my whole life. If I can live for the second time, still want to know you and have you for my whole life, even though I have to drink the salty coffee again." > > Her tears made the letter totally wet. Someday, someone asked her, "What's the taste of salty coffee?" She replied, "It's sweet." > > Pass this to everyone because love is not to forget but to forgive, not to see but understand, not to hear but to listen, not to let go but HOLD ON!!!! ### Last person you think of at night URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/last-person-think-night/ Last updated: 2023-11-29T21:30:54.000Z “It all comes down to the last person you think of at night. That’s where your Heart is.” ### Don’t be afraid to start over URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/new-chance-rebuild/ Last updated: 2023-11-27T21:30:19.000Z "Don’t be afraid to start over. It’s a new chance to rebuild what you want." > I waited a life time to start over - never be afraid to open your heart and sole to find love and happiness with someone that you truly love and that truly loves you. \~ Anita Maria Harsha > > © Wisdom Quotes & Stories ### Anything is Possible if you only Believe URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/believe-listen-heart-trust-instincts/ Last updated: 2023-11-25T21:30:04.000Z "Always Believe in you, Listen to your Heart. Trust your Instincts, know you can see your own Strength, Dream it, Dare it, do what you are afraid of, keep the Faith, Follow your Vision & remember anything is possible if you only Believe." ### I have just the present moment. I must treat it as my last URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/have-present-moment-treat-last/ Last updated: 2023-11-23T21:30:40.000Z > "I cannot predict the future. I cannot change the past. I have just the present moment. I must treat it as my last." ### Each day brings a miracle of its own URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/each-day-brings-miracle/ Last updated: 2023-11-21T21:30:40.000Z > "You can become blind by seeing each day as a similar one. Each day is a different one, each day brings a miracle of its own. It's just a matter of paying attention to this miracle." \~ Paulo Coelho" ### Best Revenge is Moving on and Getting over it URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/moving-on-getting-over/ Last updated: 2023-11-19T21:30:25.000Z "The best revenge is just moving on and getting over it. Don't give someone the satisfaction of watching you suffer." > Dare to rise above and discover your true self, so that watchers around you can learn lessons of getting victor tag despite of stormy adversities. As valid truth says "You are divinely gifted with infinite intelligence, hidden treasures and one definite purpose backed by ability to accomplish it despite of countless setbacks". \~ Dhiraj Raj > > © Wisdom Quotes & Stories ### I Watched my boyfriend die URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/watched-boyfriend-die/ Last updated: 2023-11-17T21:30:17.000Z > **When the unthinkable happens, how do you deal?** > > This is a true story of Selena, 16, who opens up about her love and loss . > > On March 3, I dropped by the school gym to wish my boyfriend, Wes, good luck - it was the last basketball game in his undefeated season. "I love you," he said as we hugged. "I love you, too," I said, giving him a kiss. It would be the last time we'd say those words. > > When I first met Wes at a party at the end of eighth grade, we instantly bonded over sports - he played football and basketball; I played softball - and we kept in touch all summer. The day after school started in the fall, Wes and I were walking in the hallway when he blurted out, "I was wondering if you'd be my girlfriend." He was so shy, he couldn't even look at me! And I was so happy that it took me a full minute to say yes. > > Wes and I were more than a couple - we were best friends. We would talk about our future, but we knew it was likely we'd end up at different colleges, so we were just enjoying every minute together. > > The night of the big game, Wes was on fire, scoring point after point until we were tied in overtime. Then with just seconds left on the clock, Wes shot - and scored! We won! The whole school rushed the court to celebrate. I was just a few feet away when our eyes met and he smiled at me. I was so proud! Then suddenly Wes's feet slid out from under him and he collapsed onto his back. I froze. Something has very wrong. "He's dehydrated," someone said, as the coaches pushed through the crowds to cover him with ice packs. I saw his dad standing over him yelling, "Breathe, Wes, breathe!" He's not breathing?!? I thought. I fell to my knees and started screaming his name. I felt numb with panic as they carried Wes in a stretcher to an ambulance. I raced behind it to the hospital. > > The waiting room in the hospital was packed and quiet except for the sound of hushed crying. After an hour and 15 minutes, a pastor came in and told us that the doctors had done everything they could - Wes was dead. I started crying so hard, my whole body hurt. I felt like I was going to throw up. I wanted to get away from everybody, out of that room, but I knew I had to say goodbye. > > When I saw Wes, he was so pale that I could see his veins. His eyes were open slightly, and I kept staring at them, as if at any minute they might open all the way and everything would be okay. I held his hand and said, "I love you." But I wanted to say so much more. I could write a novel about everything he meant to me: the small compliments he gave me every single day, the way he always noticed when I changed my hair, the way he looked at me in a crowd like we were sharing a secret. How was I supposed to get through this, I wondered, when Wes was the person who helped me through everything? > > Later the doctors told us that Wes went into cardiac arrest because of an enlarged heart, a rare condition with no real warning signs. It's only been a few weeks since he passed, and everything still reminds me of him - our song on the radio, the restaurant we went to for our anniversary, the turtle necklace he brought me from Hawaii. But all I can do is be grateful for the time we had. I realize that if you love someone, you should just try to be happy with them all the time. Make good memories instead of the bad ones - because no matter what happens, those are the ones you'll want to look back on. ### I will love you forever and always... URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/love-you-forever-always/ Last updated: 2023-11-15T21:30:09.000Z > I will hold you up when you can't stand, I will wipe away your tears when you cry, and I will fight for you when you give up and I will love you forever and always... ### I'm here because I'd rather be with you than anywhere else URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/marriage-richard-bach/ Last updated: 2023-11-13T21:30:14.000Z > "I'm here not because I am supposed to be here, or because I'm trapped here, but because I'd rather be with you than anywhere else in the world." \~ Richard Bach ### Be Willing To Learn Throughout The Life URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/learn-throughout-life/ Last updated: 2023-11-11T21:30:14.000Z > Life offers many opportunities to learn illustrated by this story of one truck driver who was doing his usual load delivery at a mental hospital, by parking his vehicle beside an open drain. He discovered a flat tyre when he was about to return from the mental hospital.He jacked up the truck and removed the flat tyre to fix the spare tyre. When he was about to fix the spare tyre, he accidentally dropped all the 4 bolts in the open drain. He was at sea and didn't know what to do now. > > Just then, one mental patient happened to walk past him and asked the driver what was the problem ? . The driver informed the whole episode to him and gave a helpless look. The patient just laughed at the truck driver and said you just cannot even fix such a simple problem? "No wonder you are destined to remain a truck driver for life". > > The truck driver was astonished to hear a simple solution from a mental guy. "Here is what you can do" said the mental guy... "take one bolt from each of the remaining 3 tyres / wheels and fix it on to this tyre. Then drive down to the nearest workshop and replace the missing ones. Isn't it simple my friend". > > The truck driver was so impressed with this quick fix answer and asked the patient "How come you are so smart and intelligent and you are here at the mental hospital?" The patient replied "Hello friend! I stay here because I am crazy but not stupid". > > No wonder, there are some people, who behave like the Truck Driver, thinking that others are just stupid. So, guys, though you all are learned and wise, but, just watch out your life. There could be some guys in our professional / personal lives , who could give us lot of quick fixes and brush our wisdom. ### Rivers know this: there is no hurry URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/river-knows-some-day/ Last updated: 2023-11-09T21:30:56.000Z “Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there some day." \~ A.A. Milne > Life and success are miraculous progressive journey where your every passionate commitment drives you towards your dreamed destination.In fact overnight success is not possible, so once you take massive passionate action in the light of persistence, patience, self belief and strong faith then you can get crowned with victor tag. Just dare to dream huge and dare to pay huge price for its accomplishment then you can attract success sooner or later. \~ Dhiraj Raj > > © Wisdom Quotes & Stories ### You can have anything you want if you are willing to give up the belief that you can’t have it URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/you-can-have-anything-you-want/ Last updated: 2023-11-07T21:30:17.000Z “You can have anything you want if you are willing to give up the belief that you can’t have it.” – Robert Anthony ### Never blame anyone in your life URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/never-blame-anyone-life/ Last updated: 2023-11-05T21:30:37.000Z "Never blame anyone in your life. Good people give you Happiness. Bad people give you experience. Worst people give you a lesson & best people give you memories." > **You are a special and unique person. Release any negative or fearful self-images. Forgive yourself, knowing that you did the best you knew how at the time. Release all self-pity and blame. Notice when you have negative thoughts about yourself and replace them with positive ones. Let them flow out of your body and be replaced with the love that’s within you. Honor your deepest truth with your words, actions, and behavior. Stop and smell the flowers. Walk barefoot in the grass. Feel the sun on your face. You are loved and you are lovable…just as you are right now. \~ Creig Crippen** > > GOD WANTS US TO NOT BLAME OTHERS TO WHAT WE DO.OUR SELF IS WHO WE BLAME.YES GOOD PEOPLE GIVES YOU HAPPINESS ONLY IF GODS THERE THAT'S WHERE HAPPINESS COMES IN.OH YES BAD PEOPLE CAN TEACH YOU AND AWFUL LOTS HOW TO STAY OUT OF TROUBLE. DON'T DO AS THEY DO BUT WHAT GOD WANTS YOU TO DO OH YES THE GOOD MEMORIES THE PEOPLE OF GOD GIVES YOU GOOD MEMORIES. OF SERVING GOD TOGETHER . WHEN THEIR GONE THE MEMORIES WILL ALWAYS BE WITH YOU. \~ Peggy Rich > > The best to do it to have peace of mind. Pray more for forgiveness and be still. Let God lead you the way. Less talk less mistake. No talk, no mistake. \~ Nita Carilla > > © Wisdom Quotes & Stories ### My life may not be perfect but I am blessed URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/better-days-perfect-blessed/ Last updated: 2023-11-03T21:30:46.000Z > "I’ve seen better days, but I’ve also seen worse. I don’t have everything that I want, but I do have all I need. I woke up with some aches and pains, but I woke up. My life may not be perfect but I am blessed." ### You don't have a soul. You are a soul. URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/you-are-soul-lewis/ Last updated: 2023-10-29T21:30:06.000Z "You don't have a soul. You are a soul. You have a body." \~ C.S. Lewis ### God makes you the answer to someone else’s prayer URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/be-happy-when-god-answers-your-prayers/ Last updated: 2023-10-27T21:30:46.000Z > "Be happy when God answers your prayers, but be more Thankful when God makes you the answer to someone else’s prayer." ### Strong women wear their pain like stilettos URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/strong-women-wear-pain-like-stilettos/ Last updated: 2023-10-25T21:30:43.000Z > "Strong women wear their pain like stilettos. No matter how much it hurts, all you see is the beauty of it." \~ Harriet Morgan ### Don't sacrifice your self respect for relationship URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/be-alone-with-dignity/ Last updated: 2023-10-23T21:30:44.000Z "I would rather be alone with dignity than in a relationship that requires me to sacrifice my self respect." > All of the answers lie within you. Find peace within yourself, respect yourself, smile with yourself, care for yourself, and love yourself. Peace and love come from within, do not seek them without. \~ Creig Crippen > > © Wisdom Quotes & Stories ### Everything happens for a reason, for experience or a lesson URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/everything-happens-reason/ Last updated: 2023-10-21T21:30:56.000Z > "Everything happens for a reason, for experience or a lesson. Nothing is ever wasted because the soul is always gaining insight." \~ Leon Brown ### Real Touching Story About a Soldier URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/real-touching-story-soldier/ Last updated: 2023-10-19T21:30:09.000Z > This is a real touching story about a soldier who was finally coming home after having fought in Vietnam. He called his parents from Delhi . > > "Mom and Dad, I'm coming home, but I've got a favor to ask. I have a friend I'd like to bring with me." "Sure," they replied, "we'd love to meet him." "There's something you should know," the son continued. "He was hurt pretty badly in the fighting. He stepped on a land mine and lost an arm and a leg. He has nowhere else to go, and I want him to live with us. ! "I'm sorry to hear that, son. Maybe we can help him find somewhere to live." "No, Mom and Dad, I want him to live with us." "Son," said the father, "you don't know what you're asking. Someone with such a handicap would be a terrible burden on us. We have our own lives to live, and we can't let something like this interfere with our lives. I think you should just come home and forget about this guy. He'll find a way to live on his own." > > At that point, the son hung up the phone. The parents heard nothing more from him. A few days later, however, they received a call from the Delhi police. Their son had died after falling from a building! they were told. The police believed it was suicide. The grief-stricken parents flew to Delhi and were taken to the city morgue to identify the body of their son. They recognized him, but to their horror they also discovered something they didn't know, their son had only one arm and one leg. He didn't want to be burden on his parents. > > The parents in this story are like many of us. We find it easy to love those who are good-looking or fun to have around, but we don't like people who inconvenience us or make us feel uncomfortable. We would rather stay away from people who aren't as healthy, beautiful or smart as we are. Thankfully, there's someone who won't treat us that way. Someone who loves us with an unconditional love that welcomes us into the forever family, regardless of how messed up we are. > > Tonight, before you tuck yourself in for the night, ask for the strength you need to accept people as they are, and to help us all be more understanding of those who are different from us!!! ### If you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/dont-deserve-me/ Last updated: 2023-10-17T21:30:41.000Z > “I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.” \~ Marilyn Monroe ### Worrying stops you from Enjoying the Good URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/worrying-wont-stop-bad-happening/ Last updated: 2023-10-15T21:30:23.000Z "Worrying won't Stop the Bad stuff from happening, it just stops you from Enjoying the Good." ### Showing your Emotions is a sign of Strength URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/big-heart-emotion-sign-strength/ Last updated: 2023-10-13T21:30:15.000Z > "Never apologize for being Sensitive or Emotional. Let this be a sign that you have a big Heart and aren’t afraid to let other see it: Showing your Emotions is a sign of Strength." ### Eighty Years of Man’s Life Explained URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/eighty-years-life-explained/ Last updated: 2023-10-11T21:30:21.000Z > On the first day, God created the dog and said: ‘Sit all day by the door and bark at anyone who comes in or walks past. For this, I will give you a life span of twenty years.’ The dog said: ‘That’s a long time to be barking. How about only ten years and I’ll give you back the other ten?’ So God agreed. > > On the second day, God created the monkey and said: ‘Entertain people, do tricks, and make them laugh. For this, I’ll give you a twenty-year life span.’ The monkey said: ‘Monkey tricks for twenty years? That’s a pretty long time to perform. How about I give you back ten like the Dog did?’ And God agreed. > > On the third day, God created the cow and said: ‘You must go into the field with the farmer all day long , have calves and give milk to support the farmer’s family. For this, I will give you a life span of sixty years.’ The cow said: ‘That’s kind of a tough life to live for sixty years. How about twenty and I’ll give back the other forty?’ And God agreed again. > > On the fourth day, God created man and said: ‘Eat, sleep, play, marry and enjoy your life. For this, I’ll give you twenty years.’ But man said: ‘Only twenty years? Could you possibly give me my twenty, the forty the cow gave back, the ten the monkey gave back, and the ten the dog gave back; that makes eighty, okay?’ ‘Okay,’ said God, ‘You got it.’ > > So that is why for our first twenty years we eat, sleep, play and enjoy ourselves. For the next forty years we slave in the sun to support our family living cow's life . For the next ten years we do monkey tricks to entertain the grandchildren. And for the last ten years we sit on the front porch and bark at everyone. > > Now you know why We live the life the way We live. ### Life goes on URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/three-words-it-goes-on/ Last updated: 2023-10-09T21:30:35.000Z > “In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.” \~ Robert Frost ### Suspended Coffee URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/suspended-coffee/ Last updated: 2023-10-07T21:30:56.000Z > We entered a little coffee house with a friend of mine and gave our order. While we were approaching our table two people came in and went to the counter - > > 'Five coffees, please. Two of them for us and three suspended' > > They paid for their order, took the two and left . I asked my friend: > > 'What are those 'suspended' coffees ?' > > 'Wait for it and you will see' > > More people entered. Two girls asked for one coffee each, paid and left . The next order was for seven coffees and it was made by three lawyers - three for them and four 'suspended'. While I still wondered what was the deal with those 'suspended' coffees I enjoyed the sunny weather and the beautiful view towards the square in front of the café. > > Suddenly a man dressed in shabby clothes who looked like a beggar came in through the door and kindly asked, 'Do you have a suspended coffee ?' > > It's simple - people paid in advance for a coffee meant for someone who could not afford a warm beverage. > > The tradition with the suspended coffees started in Naples, but it has spread all over the world and in some places you can order not only a suspended coffee, but also a sandwich or a whole meal." ### You and God URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/you-and-god/ Last updated: 2023-10-05T21:30:48.000Z > God: Sure > > Me: Why did You let so much stuff happen to me today? > > God: What do u mean? > > Me: Well, I woke up late > > God: Yes > > Me: My car took forever to start > > God: Okay > > Me: at lunch they made my sandwich wrong & I had to wait > > God: Huummm > > Me: On the way home, my phone went DEAD, just as I picked up a call > > God: All right > > Me: And on top of it all off, when I got home \~I just want to soak my feet in my new foot massager & relax. BUT it wouldn't work!!! Nothing went right today! Why did You do that? > > God: Let me see, the death angel was at your bed this morning & I had to send one of My Angels to battle him for your life. I let you sleep through that. > > Me (humbled): OH > > GOD: I didn't let your car start because there was a drunk driver on your route that would have hit you if you were on the road. > > Me: (ashamed) > > God: The first person who made your sandwich today was sick & I didn't want you to catch what they have, I knew you couldn't afford to miss work. > > Me (embarrassed):Okay > > God: Your phone went dead because the person that was calling was going to give false witness about what you said on that call, I didn't even let you talk to them so you would be covered. > > Me (softly): I see God > > God: Oh and that foot massager, it had a shortage that was going to throw out all of the power in your house tonight. I didn't think you wanted to be in the dark. > > Me: I'm Sorry God > > God: Don't be sorry, just learn to Trust Me.... in All things , the Good & the bad. > > Me: I will trust You. > > God: And don't doubt that My plan for your day is Always Better than your plan. > > Me: I won't God. And let me just tell you God, Thank You for Everything today. > > God: You're welcome child. It was just another day being your God and I Love looking after My Children... ### Those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/mind-matter/ Last updated: 2023-10-03T21:30:36.000Z > “Those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.” \~ Bernard M. Baruch ### Sands of forgiveness URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/sands-of-forgiveness/ Last updated: 2023-10-01T21:30:49.000Z > This is a story of two friends walking through the desert. They had an argument, and one friend slapped the other one in the face. The one who got slapped was hurt, but without saying anything, wrote in the sand: > > TODAY MY BEST FRIEND SLAPPED ME IN THE FACE. > > They kept on walking until they found an oasis, where they decided to take a bath. The one who had been slapped got stuck in the mire and started drowning, but the friend saved him. After he recovered from the near drowning, he wrote on a stone: > > TODAY MY BEST FRIEND SAVED MY LIFE. > > The friend who had slapped and saved his best friend asked him, > > “After I hurt you, you wrote in the sand and now, you write on a stone, why?” The other friend replied “When someone hurts us we should write it down in sand where winds of forgiveness can erase it forever. But, when someone does something good for us, we must engrave it in stone where no wind can ever erase it.” > > LEARN TO WRITE YOUR HURTS IN THE SAND AND TO CARVE YOUR BENEFITS IN STONE. > > They say it takes a minute to find a special person, an hour to appreciate them, a day to love them, but then an entire life to forget them. > > MORAL: > > ***Do not value the THINGS you have in your life , but value WHO you have in your life!*** ### Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/believe-yourself-faith-ability-happy/ Last updated: 2023-10-01T21:30:25.000Z “Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.” \~ Norman Vincent Peale > If your miracle creating mind subconscious is well programmed regarding your dream goals smartly and wisely then it will makes you a living magnet and finally you can land in the life filled with abundance, prosperity, happiness and peace. You cant achieve anything in life if you lack strong self belief, as you yourself is best architect of your destiny and nobody else gonna eat for you, dream for you, believe for you, breathe for you as well as act for you. So if you believe in yourself from within that you can achieve your dream goal then nobody else gonna stop you as you will be simply unstoppable in the arm of universe who loves you and wants you to live quality life with purpose. If you doubt on yourself then the universe will doubt on you as believing is sending an spiritual email to the universe for your dream manifestations. The miracle creating truth of Universe says, "Believing is receiving in the light of passionate commitment, persistence, patience and faith on God." \~ Dhiraj Raj > > © Wisdom Quotes & Stories ### We can do small things with great love URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/great-things-love/ Last updated: 2023-09-29T21:30:45.000Z > “Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love.” \~ Mother Teresa ### Tips for a Beautiful Life! URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/tips-for-a-beautiful-life/ Last updated: 2023-09-27T21:30:36.000Z > This story contains some “tips” that may bring you a beautiful life. Read them, live by them more fully, and I promise you will experience a beautiful life! > > Take a 10-30 minute walk every day and while you walk, smile. > > Sit in silence for at least 10 minutes each day. > > When you wake up in the morning complete the following statement, “My purpose is to … today.” > > Live with the 3 E’s: Energy, Enthusiasm, Empathy, and the 3 F’s: Faith, Family, Friends. > > Spend more time with people over the age of 70 and under the age of 6. > > Dream more while you are awake. > > Try to make at least three people smile each day. > > Realize that life is a school and you are here to learn, pass all your tests. Problems are simply part of the curriculum that appear and fade away like algebra class but the lessons you learn will last a lifetime. > > Smile and laugh more. It will keep the energy vampires away. > > Life isn’t fair, but it’s still good. > > Life is too short to waste time hating anyone. > > Don’t take yourself so seriously. No one else does. > > You don’t have to win every argument. Agree to disagreements. > > Make peace with your past, so it won’t mess up the present. > > Don’t compare your life with others’. You have no idea what their journey is all about. > > Burn the candles, use the nice sheets. Don’t save it for a special occasion. Today is special. > > No one is in charge of your happiness except you. > > Forgive everyone for everything. > > What other people think of you is none of your business. > > Time heals almost everything. Give time, time. > > However good or bad a situation is, it will change. > > Your job won’t take care of you when you are sick. Your friends will stay in touch. > > Get rid of anything that isn’t useful, beautiful, or joyful. > > The best is yet to come… Believe. > > No matter how you feel, get up, dress up, and show up. > > Do the right thing! > > Call your family often. > > Each night before you go to bed complete the following statements: “I am thankful for…” – “Today I accomplished…” > > Remember that you are too blessed to be stressed. > > Enjoy the ride. Remember that this is not Disney World and you certainly don’t want a fast pass. Make the most of it and enjoy the ride. ### Improving Self Confidence URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/improving-self-confidence/ Last updated: 2023-09-25T21:30:34.000Z > Are you the type of person who easily get influenced by negative advices? Follow this short self confidence lesson… > > When Henry Ward Beecher was a young boy in school, he learned a lesson in self confidence which he never forgot. > > He was called upon to recite in front of the class. He had hardly begun when the teacher interrupted with an emphatic, “No!” He started over and again the teacher thundered, “No!” Humiliated, Henry sat down. > > The next boy rose to recite and had just begun when the teacher shouted, “No!” This student, however, kept on with the recitation until he completed it. As he sat down, the teacher replied, “Very good!” > > Henry was irritated. ”I recited just as he did,” he complained to the teacher. > > But the instructor replied, “It is not enough to know your lesson, you must be sure. When you allowed me to stop you, it meant that you were uncertain. If the world says, ‘No!’ it is your business to say, ‘Yes!’ and prove it. > > The world will say, ‘No!’ in a thousand ways. > > ‘No! You can’t do that.’ > > ‘No! You are wrong.’ > > ‘No! You are too old.’ > > ‘No! You are too young.’ > > ‘No! You are too weak.’ > > ‘No! It will never work.’ > > ‘No! You don’t have the education.’ > > ‘No! You don’t have the background.’ > > ‘No! You don’t have the money.’ > > ‘No! It can’t be done.’ > > And each ‘No!’ you hear has the potential to erode your confidence bit by bit until you quit all together. > > Though the world says, ‘No!’ to you today, you should be determined to say, ‘Yes!’ and prove it! ” > > \~ Steve Goodier ### Never Hate Jealous People URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/never-hate-jealous-people/ Last updated: 2023-09-23T21:30:41.000Z "Never hate jealous people. They are jealous because they think you are better than them." \~ Paulo Coelho > Yes you cant remove darkness with negative energy so always radiate your positive energy to remove darkness. Never react to people who are negative and toxic with their attitude, always respond being responsible and positive then you can win over any stormy circumstances and negative toxic people around you for best positive outcomes. As universe is neutral to your thought, decision and action, if you deliver negative vibes to the universe then you will attract negative circumstances and people and if you radiate positive vibes then you can attract positive circumstances and people. \~ Dhiraj Raj > > © Wisdom Quotes & Stories ### The Best Feeling in the World URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/presence-absence-mean-something/ Last updated: 2023-09-21T21:30:44.000Z > "**One of the best feelings in the world is knowing that your presence and absence both mean something to someone."** ### Find someone that loves you as much as you love them URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/find-someone-worth-heart/ Last updated: 2023-09-19T21:30:00.000Z "Find someone worth your tears, worth your laughter, worth your heart and that loves you as much as you love them." ### If it's meant to be, it will be URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/no-matter-impossible-unattainable-unimaginable/ Last updated: 2023-09-17T21:30:39.000Z "No matter how Impossible, Unattainable, or Unimaginable something may seem. If it's meant to be, it will be." > God is able to do EXCEEDINGLY ABUNDANTLY above all we ask or think. According to the power that in us. \~ Matt.9:29 > > According to your faith, so be it unto you. \~ Psa.37:4 > > Delight yourself in the Lord and He will give you the desires of your heart. My people perish due to lack of knowledge! Without a VISION, My people perish. \~ Prov. 29:18 > > See things through positive thinking and all the possibilities that are meant to be will be accepting with whole hearty without any doubts or regrets. \~ Noor Saad > > © Wisdom Quotes & Stories ### Every day is New beginning URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/decide-today-going-to-be-good-day/ Last updated: 2023-09-15T21:30:46.000Z "Every day is New beginning. Treat it that way. Stay away from what might have been and move on. Don’t let Negative words or Actions of others affect your smile. Decide that today is going to be Good day." > **Spring has its abundance of flowers** **Autumn has its falling leaves** > **Summer has its cooling breeze** > **Winter has its soft carpet of snow** > **If you do not keep anything in your mind** > **For you, every day is a good day \~ Every Day Is A Good Day - Zen poem** > > Today is another day. Yesterday was a bit mess for me so I will let this day a much better time for me. I accepted everything and whatever left in me am sure those were the people that mean a lot for me and vice versa. \~ Mitch Escalderon > > © Wisdom Quotes & Stories ### A Healthy Relationship inspires you URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/healthy-relationship-inspires-better/ Last updated: 2023-09-13T21:30:51.000Z \~ "A Healthy Relationship never drags you down. It Inspires you to be Better." > We all love when we're in a healthy relationship and we know when we are because we look forward to seeing each other,we can say anything to the other without the fear of being shamed or criticized and most of all we can be our own person and be encouraged to be as such without worrying if he/she will be like me anymore. \~ Rich Cooper > > © Wisdom Quotes & Stories ### Tongue is strong enough to break a heart URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/tongue-strong-enough-break-heart/ Last updated: 2023-09-11T21:30:53.000Z "The tongue has no bones, but is strong enough to break a heart. So be careful with your words." ### If you don't appreciate the person , someone else will URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/dont-be-made-when-someone/ Last updated: 2023-09-09T21:30:56.000Z > "Don't be mad when someone else starts to appreciate the person you took for granted. What you won't do, someone else will." ### Character is what we do when no one is looking URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/our-character-is-what-we-do-when-we-think-no-one-is-looking-unknown/ Last updated: 2023-09-07T21:30:57.000Z > Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking. ### Mother's Sacrifice for her child URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/mothers-sacrifice-for-her-child/ Last updated: 2023-09-05T21:30:58.000Z > This is a true story of Mother’s Sacrifice during the Japan Earthquake. > > After the Earthquake had subsided, when the rescuers reached the ruins of a young woman’s house, they saw her dead body through the cracks. But her pose was somehow strange that she knelt on her knees like a person was worshiping; her body was leaning forward, and her two hands were supporting by an object. The collapsed house had crashed her back and her head. > > **With so many difficulties, the leader of the rescuer team put his hand through a narrow gap on the wall to reach the woman’s body. He was hoping that this woman could be still alive. However, the cold and stiff body told him that she had passed away for sure.** > **He and the rest of the team left this house and were going to search the next collapsed building. For some reasons, the team leader was driven by a compelling force to go back to the ruin house of the dead woman. Again, he knelt down and used his had through the narrow cracks to search the little space under the dead body. Suddenly, he screamed with excitement,” A child! There is a child! “** > > The whole team worked together; carefully they removed the piles of ruined objects around the dead woman. There was a 3 months old little boy wrapped in a flowery blanket under his mother’s dead body. Obviously, the woman had made an ultimate sacrifice for saving her son. When her house was falling, she used her body to make a cover to protect her son. The little boy was still sleeping peacefully when the team leader picked him up. > > The medical doctor came quickly to exam the little boy. After he opened the blanket, he saw a cell phone inside the blanket. There was a text message on the screen. It said,” If you can survive, you must remember that I love you.” This cell phone was passing around from one hand to another. Every body that read the message wept. ” If you can survive, you must remember that I love you.” Such is the mother’s love for her child!! ### The Wooden Bowl URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/wooden-bowl/ Last updated: 2023-09-03T21:30:50.000Z > A touching story on Family, Love, Parents & Relationships > > A frail old man went to live with his son, daughter-in-law, and a four-year old grandson. The old man’s hands trembled, his eyesight was blurred, and his step faltered. > > The family ate together nightly at the dinner table. But the elderly grandfather’s shaky hands and failing sight made eating rather difficult. Peas rolled off his spoon onto the floor. When he grasped the glass often milk spilled on the tablecloth. > > The son and daughter-in-law became irritated with the mess. “We must do something about grandfather,” said the son. I've had enough of his spilled milk, noisy eating, and food on the floor. So the husband and wife set a small table in the corner. There, grandfather ate alone while the rest of the family enjoyed dinner at the dinner table. Since grandfather had broken a dish or two, his food was served in a wooden bowl. Sometimes when the family glanced in grandfather’s direction, he had a tear in his eye as he ate alone. > > Still, the only words the couple had for him were sharp admonitions when he dropped a fork or spilled food. The four-year-old watched it all in silence. > > One evening before supper, the father noticed his son playing with wood scraps on the floor. He asked the child sweetly, “What are you making?” Just as sweetly, the boy responded, “Oh, I am making the bowl for you and mama to eat.” The four-year-old smiled and went back to work. > > The words so struck the parents that they were speechless. Then tears started to stream down their cheeks. Though no word was spoken, both knew what must be done. That evening the husband took grandfather’s hand and gently led him back to the family table. For the remainder of his days he ate every meal with the family. And for some reason, neither husband nor wife seemed to care any longer when a fork was dropped, milk spilled, or the tablecloth soiled. > > Children are remarkably perceptive. Their eyes ever observe, their ears ever listen, and their minds ever process the messages they absorb. If they see us patiently provide a happy home atmosphere for family members, they will imitate that attitude for the rest of their lives. The wise parent realizes that every day that building blocks are being laid for the child’s future.Let us all be wise builders and role models. > > Take care of yourself, and those you love, today, and everyday!, especially your parents, as they are the most precious gifts. ### HEART TOUCHING STORY URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/heart-touching-story/ Last updated: 2023-09-01T21:30:41.000Z > A very poor man lived with his wife. > > One day, his wife, who had very long hair asked him to buy her a comb for her hair to grow well and to be well-groomed. > > The man felt very sorry and said no. He explained that he did not even have enough money to fix the strap of his watch he had just broken. > > She did not insist on her request. > > The man went to work and passed by a watch shop, sold his damaged watch at a low price and went to buy a comb for his wife. > > He came home in the evening with the comb in his hand ready to give to his wife. > > He was surprised when he saw his wife with a very short hair cut. > > She had sold her hair and was holding a new watch band. > > Tears flowed simultaneously from their eyes, not for the futility of their actions, but for the reciprocity of their love. > > MORAL: To love is nothing, to be loved is something but to love and to be loved by the one you love,that is EVERYTHING. Never take love for granted. ### Some people can be mean and treat you poorly URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/dont-take-it-personally/ Last updated: 2023-08-29T21:30:14.000Z "Some people can be mean and treat you poorly. Don't take it personally. It says nothing about you but a lot about them." > WHEN YOU ARE CUSSED AT AND OTHER WORDS ARE SAID ITS ONLY BECAUSE THE PERSON HIMSELF IS UNHAPPY AND THEY DON'T WANT TO BLAME THEMSELVES. \~ Peggy Rich > > In this world there are people who hate ..as well as there are people who LOVE also. So be happy with your loved ones. \~ Santhosh Rao > > © Wisdom Quotes & Stories ### Relationship enhances and doesn't complicate URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/relationship-right-enhance-your-life/ Last updated: 2023-08-27T21:30:21.000Z "You will know when a Relationship is right for you. It will Enhance your life, not Complicate your life." ### You begin to Heal URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/you-will-begin-to-heal/ Last updated: 2023-08-25T21:30:58.000Z "You will begin to heal when you let go of past hurts, Forgive those who have wronged you and learn to forgive yourself for your mistakes." > It's really complex to live quality life holding pain and hurts gifted by past experiences. In fact past hurt and pain has no physical reality except your own deep rooted illusionary belief which can be healed slowly and gradually by yourself through positive self affirmations, forgiving yourself as well as to people and increasing your conscious level of awareness. So live your life with miracle creating attitudes like giving, forgiving, loving and grateful attitude so that you can heal your past hurts, pains and unexpected knocks bombarded by life and people. As valid truth says, "Giving, forgiving and loving attitude can make you like sparkling rainbow which has ability to pierce the darkest cloud to show its presence." \~ Dhiraj Raj > > © Wisdom Quotes & Stories ### 10 WAYS TO BE HAPPY URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/ten-ways-to-be-happy/ Last updated: 2023-08-23T21:30:32.000Z > 1) Accept the things you can't change. If you can and want to change them, do it. > > 2) Let go of the people who are holding you down. If you considered them, you already know who these people are. > > 3) Blast your favorite upbeat song and sing at the top of your lungs, dancing as you go. > > 4) Go for a run. A nice, long run. Run until you feel good; at the very least, you will be tired enough that the feelings will seem less major. > > 5) Call someone you love. Just hearing their voice can make your day better. > > 6) Smile at a stranger. It will make both of you smile. > > 7) Send an anonymous compliment. > > 8) Write down everything you don't like about yourself. Rip it up. Burn it. > > 9) Watch your favorite movie. > > 10) Trust Yourself ### Big difference between being angry and being hurt URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/angry-hurt-big-difference/ Last updated: 2023-08-21T21:30:15.000Z "Sometimes I’m not Angry, I’m Hurt and there’s a Big difference." > Both Anger and Hurt are two sides of the same coin. Hurt most often causes a deep seated anger. Whether You choose to express it or not is an entirely different matter and Anger, is usually caused when somebody's interests , or emotions are hurt. It does not just happen. Ultimately, inner Peace by Forgiving and Forgetting is the only way to Happiness. \~ Barnali Chakravarty > > Anger is a secondary emotion. You always feel something else before you feel angry. In this case, it is "hurt". \~ Sheri Lucas Manley > > People who get the angriest usually are the ones who have a harder time forgiving others. People who hurt just can't understand why they are being treated so badly? \~ Deborah Jones > > © Wisdom Quotes & Stories ### Money can't buy manners, morals and Integrity URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/money-manners-morals-integrity/ Last updated: 2023-08-19T21:30:15.000Z "There are some things that Money just cannot buy. Like Manners, morals and Integrity." > Connect with your essence, your soul, and your divine energy. Live with passion and integrity. Discover your true self, be kind to yourself, and embrace your enlightened, connected path. Discovering yourself opens the doors to limitless possibilities. Build a relationship with the true you, release the desires of your ego, and let your soul guide you to make healthy, loving choices. \~ Creig Crippen > > Money often guarantees that people don't have any of these traits. \~ Pam Nielsen > > Money can buy you a beautiful well-fashioned costlier bed...can it buy you a peaceful sleep? \~ Jayanta Bhowmick > > It's easier to learn how to make money but harder to learn to be a good person. You can inherit money but you can't integrity and good manners. > > © Wisdom Quotes & Stories ### Surround yourself with what brings out the best in you URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/let-go-stuffs-bringing-you-down/ Last updated: 2023-08-17T21:30:11.000Z "If you feel like your ship is sinking, it might be a good time to throw out the stuff that is been weighting it down. Let go of what is bringing you down, and surround yourself with what brings out the best in you." ### The Right things start Happening after wrong people leave URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/wrong-people-leave-life/ Last updated: 2023-08-15T21:30:05.000Z > "When the Wrong people leave your Life, the Right things start Happening." ### Always keep your head up URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/always-keep-your-head-up/ Last updated: 2023-08-13T21:30:01.000Z "Always keep your head up, because if it’s down you won’t be able to see the blessings that have been placed in your life." ### God's Grace enables me URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/gods-grace-janet-mullaly/ Last updated: 2023-08-11T21:30:38.000Z > **I know it is the Spirit who is at work within me,** > **Cause i can''t do these things by myself.** > **I have tied and I've tried** > **But its always the same on my own** > **Everything is a mess** > **I give praise to my Lord** > **I give praise to my King** > **I give glory and honour to God** > **For it is Him and not me** > **This i clearly do see** > **Its His Grace** > **That enables me.** > > \~ Janet Mullaly ### To You and Only You URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/you-only-alberta-luclano/ Last updated: 2023-08-09T21:30:14.000Z > **To live and love with you and be one forever.** > **To be near you so I can reach out and touch you.** > **To make love with you, laugh with you,** > **cry with you, talk with you.** > **To hold you close every night,** > **waking up to you each morning.** > **To share my secrets with you** > **and be honest with you.** > **To understand and respect you** > **accepting you for you.** > **To find shelter in you when I am afraid** > **and hold you close when i need warmth.** > **To be with you through all the seasons** > **walking with you in the sunshine** > **and cuddling with you in the cold.** > **To care for you when you are ill** > **and be joyful when you are happy.** > **To grow old with you and be with you** > **until the end of time.** > **With you and only you,** > **I would do all these things.** > **To you and only you...** > **all my love.** > > \~Alberta Luciano ### Whatever you give to life, it gives you back URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/whatever-give-comeback-to-you/ Last updated: 2023-08-07T21:30:00.000Z "Whatever you give to life, it gives you back. Do not hate anybody. The hatred which comes out from you will someday comeback to you. Love others. And Love will comeback to you." > You are filled with the light of love, peace, and happiness. Where peace dwells, fear cannot. Offer your love, passion, talent, and joy to the world. Discover, embrace, and share your uniqueness. Your love and light can make a profound difference in the world. \~ Creig Crippen > > © Wisdom Quotes & Stories ### Do not be afraid to face difficulties.They will push you forward URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/dont-afraid-face-difficulties/ Last updated: 2026-08-06T08:15:23.000Z "An arrow goes forward only after pulling in to backward. Bullet goes forward only after pressing the trigger backward. Every human being will get happy only after facing the difficulties in their life path. So do not afraid to face your difficulties. They will push you forward." > Life and success are progressive never ending miraculous journey which is solid foundation for learning, growing and shining as being purposed by Lord. So accept every circumstances either positive or negative circumstances in the highway of your life and success being positive, responsible and keep your wildest dream alive till you get crowned with victor tag. Just rely and act upon life shifting theme which is “Life may bombards with countless obstacles as Lord has grand plan to launch you at mountainous height of abundance, success, happiness and peace”. Never ever give up in the highway of life and just light the fire of self belief and strong faith of Lord then you can manifest your dream desires sooner or later. As valid truth says "Once you suffer the pain for accomplishing your dream purpose then life will give you life time pleasure". \~ Dhiraj Raj > > © Wisdom Quotes & Stories ### What is Love? URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/what-is-love/ Last updated: 2023-08-03T21:30:37.000Z > "If you put her before yourself know you'd die if anything happened to her if you know you would do anything in the world for her and you can be without her but still know you are with her then its Love." ### The Five Boons Of Life URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/boons-life/ Last updated: 2023-08-01T21:30:26.000Z > In the morning of life came a good fairy with her basket, and said: "Here are gifts. Take one, leave the others. And be wary, chose wisely; oh, choose wisely! for only one of them is valuable." > > The gifts were five: Fame, Love, Riches, Pleasure, Death. > > The youth said, eagerly: "There is no need to consider"; and he chose Pleasure. > > He went out into the world and sought out the pleasures that youth delights in. But each in its turn was short-lived and disappointing, vain and empty; and each, departing, mocked him. In the end he said: "These years I have been wasted. If I could but choose again, I would choose wisely. > > The fairy appeared, and said: "Four of the gifts remain. Choose once more; and oh, remember-time is flying, and only one of them is precious." > > The man considered long, then chose Love; and did not mark the tears that rose in the fairy's eyes. > > After many, many years the man sat by a coffin, in an empty home. And he communed with himself, saying: "One by one they have gone away and left me; and now she lies here, the dearest and the last. Desolation after desolation has swept over me; for each hour of happiness the treacherous trader, Love, as sold me I have paid a thousand hours of grief. Out of my heart of hearts I curse him." > > "Choose again." It was the fairy speaking. > > "The years have taught you wisdom -- surely it must be so. Three gifts remain. Only one of them has any worth -- remember it, and choose warily." > > The man reflected long, then chose Fame; and the fairy, sighing, went her way. > > Years went by and she came again, and stood behind the man where he sat solitary in the fading day, thinking. And she knew his thought: > > "My name filled the world, and its praises were on every tongue, and it seemed well with me for a little while. How short lived it was ! Then came envy; then hate; then persecution. Then derision, which was the beginning of the end. And last of all came pity, which is the funeral of fame. Oh, what bitterness and misery !" > > "Chose yet again." It was the fairy's voice. > > "Two gifts remain. And do not despair. In the beginning there was but one that was precious, and it is still here." > > "Wealth -- which is power! How blind I was!" said the man. "Now, at last, life will be worth the living. I will spend, squander, dazzle. These mockers and despisers will crawl in the dirt before me, and I will feed my hungry heart with their envy. I will have all luxuries, all joys, all enchantments of the spirit, all contentments of the body that man holds dear. I will buy, buy, buy! respect, esteem, worship . I have lost much time, and chosen badly previously , but let that pass; I was ignorant then, and now I have taken the best." > > Three short years went by, and a day came when the man sat shivering and he was hollow-eyed, and clothed in rags. > > "Curse all the world's gifts. I miscalled, every one. They are not gifts, but merely lendings. Pleasure, Love, Fame, Riches: they are but temporary disguises for lasting realities -- Pain, Grief, Shame, Poverty. The fairy said true; in all her store there was but one gift which was precious, only one that was not valueless. Bring the last gift ! I am weary, I would rest." > > The fairy came, bringing again four of the gifts, but Death was missing. She said: "I gave it to a mother's pet, a little child. It was ignorant, but trusted me, asking me to choose for it. You did not ask me to choose." > > "Oh, miserable me! What is left for me?" Said fairy "You have chosen to live out the insulting old age." ### Balance of Holding on and Letting go URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/holding-on-letting-go/ Last updated: 2023-07-29T21:30:27.000Z > "Life is a balance of holding on and letting go." ### What each gesture means ? URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/what-each-gestures-means/ Last updated: 2023-07-27T21:30:31.000Z > Holding Hands: We definitely like each other. > > Holding you tight pressed against each other: I want you. > > Looking into each other’s Eyes: I like you, for who you are. > > Playing with Hair: Let’s fool around. > > Arms around the Waist: I like you too much to let go. > > Laughing while Kissing: I am completely comfortable with you. ### What Does Family Mean To You? URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/what-does-family-mean-you/ Last updated: 2023-07-25T21:30:14.000Z > I ran into a stranger as he passed by, "Oh excuse me please," was my reply. He said, "Please excuse me too; I wasn't watching for you." We were very polite. We went on our way saying good-bye. > > But see the contrast at home . Have you wondered how We treat our loved ones, young and old ? Later that day, cooking the evening meal, my son stood beside me very still. As I turned, I nearly knocked him down. "Move out of the way," I said with a frown. He walked away, his little heart broken. I didn't realize how harshly I'd spoken. > > While I lay awake in bed, God's still small voice came to me and said, "While dealing with a stranger, you have all the courtesy , but for the children you love, you seem to abuse. Go and look on the kitchen floor, you'll find some flowers there by the door. Those are the flowers he brought for you. He picked them himself: pink, yellow and blue. He stood very quietly not to spoil the surprise, and you never saw the tears that filled his little eyes." > > By this time, I felt very small, and now my tears began to fall. I quietly went and knelt by his bed, "Wake up, little one, wake up," I said. "Are these the flowers you picked for me?" He smiled, "I found them , out by the tree. I picked them because they're pretty like you. I knew you'd like them, especially the blue." I said, "Son, I'm very sorry for the way I treated you today; I shouldn't have yelled at you that way." He said, "Oh, Mom, that's okay. I love you anyway." I said, "Son, I love you too, and I do like the flowers, especially the blue one." > > Are you aware that if we leave this world tomorrow, the company that we are working for will forget you in a matter of days by replacing you , but the family we left behind will feel the loss for the rest of their lives. And come to think of it,we pour ourselves more into work than to our own family , really an unwise investment . don't you think ? > > So what is behind the story? Do you know what the word FAMILY means? FAMILY = (F)ATHER (A)ND (M)OTHER, (I) (L)OVE (Y)OU! > > A young 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 he thought he saw something. As his car passed, no children appeared. Instead, a brick smashed into the Jag's side door! He slammed on the brakes and spun the Jag back to the spot from where the brick had been thrown. He jumped out of the car, grabbed the kid standing there and pushed him up against a parked car shouting, Just what the heck are you doing?!" That's a new car and that brick you threw is going to cost a lot of money. Why did you do it?" > > "Please, mister, please. I'm sorry, I didn't know what else to do," pleaded the youngster. "I threw the brick because no one else would stop..." Tears were dripping down the boy's chin as he pointed around the parked car. "It's my brother," he said. "He rolled off the curb and fell out of his wheelchair and I can't lift him up." Sobbing, the boy asked the executive, "Would you please help me get him back into his wheelchair? He's hurt and he's too heavy for me." Moved beyond words, the driver lifted the young man back into the wheelchair and took out his handkerchief and wiped the scrapes and cuts, checking to see that everything was going to be okay. "Thank you and may God bless you," the grateful child said to him. The man then watched the little boy push his brother down the sidewalk toward their home. It was a long walk back to his jaguar....a long, slow walk. He never did repair the side door. He kept the dent to remind him not to go through life so fast that someone has to throw a brick at you to get your attention. > > Lessons from the Story : > > ***"God whispers in your soul and speaks to your heart. Sometimes when you don't have time to listen, He has to throw a brick at you. It's your choice: Listen to the whisper - or wait for the brick."*** ### Each Day is a Gift URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/each-day-gift/ Last updated: 2023-07-23T21:30:56.000Z > The 92-year-old, petite, well-poised and proud lady, who is fully dressed each morning by eight o’clock, with her hair fashionably coifed and makeup perfectly applied, even though she is legally blind, moved to a nursing home today. Her husband of 70 years recently passed away, making the move necessary. > > After many hours of waiting patiently in the lobby of the nursing home, she smiled sweetly when told her room was ready. As she maneuvered her walker to the elevator, I provided a visual description of her tiny room, including the eyelet sheets that had been hung on her window. “I love it,” she stated with the enthusiasm of an eight-year-old having just been presented with a new puppy. > > “Mrs. Jones, you haven’t seen the room …. just wait.” > > “That doesn’t have anything to do with it,” she replied. “Happiness is something you decide on ahead of time. Whether I like my room or not doesn’t depend on how the furniture is arranged, it’s how I arrange my mind. I already decided to love it. It’s a decision I make every morning when I wake up. I have a choice; I can spend the day in bed recounting the difficulty I have with the parts of my body that no longer work, or get out of bed and be thankful for the ones that do. Each day is a gift, and as long as my eyes open I’ll focus on the new day and all the happy memories I’ve stored away, just for this time in my life.” > > She went on to explain, “Old age is like a bank account, you withdraw from what you’ve put in. So, my advice to you would be to deposit a lot of happiness in the bank account of memories Thank you for your part in filling my Memory bank. I am still depositing.” > > And with a smile, she said: “Remember the five simple rules to be happy: > > **1\. Free your heart from hatred.** > **2\. Free your mind from worries.** > **3\. Live simply.** > **4\. Give more.** > **5\. Expect less.”** ### A Cranky Old Man URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/cranky-old-man/ Last updated: 2023-07-21T21:30:26.000Z When an old man died in the geriatric ward of a nursing home in an Australian country town, it was believed that he had nothing left of any value. Later, when the nurses were going through his meagre possessions, They found this poem. Its quality and content so impressed the staff that copies were made and distributed to every nurse in the hospital. One nurse took her copy to Melbourne .. The old man's sole bequest to posterity has since appeared in the Christmas editions of magazines around the country and appearing in mags for Mental Health. A slide presentation has also been made based on his simple, but eloquent, poem. And this old man, with nothing left to give to the world, is now the author of this 'anonymous' poem winging across the Internet. Cranky Old Man..... What do you see nurses? . . .. . .What do you see? What are you thinking .. . when you're looking at me? A cranky old man, . . . . . .not very wise, Uncertain of habit .. . . . . . . .. with faraway eyes? Who dribbles his food .. . ... . . and makes no reply. When you say in a loud voice . .'I do wish you'd try!' Who seems not to notice . . .the things that you do. And forever is losing . . . . . .. . . A sock or shoe? Who, resisting or not . . . ... lets you do as you will, With bathing and feeding . . . .The long day to fill? Is that what you're thinking?. .Is that what you see? Then open your eyes, nurse .you're not looking at me. I'll tell you who I am . . . . .. As I sit here so still, As I do at your bidding, .. . . . as I eat at your will. I'm a small child of Ten . .with a father and mother, Brothers and sisters .. . . .. . who love one another A young boy of Sixteen . . . .. with wings on his feet Dreaming that soon now . . .. . . a lover he'll meet. A groom soon at Twenty . . . ..my heart gives a leap. Remembering, the vows .. .. .that I promised to keep. At Twenty-Five, now . . . . .I have young of my own. Who need me to guide . . . And a secure happy home. A man of Thirty . .. . . . . My young now grown fast, Bound to each other . . .. With ties that should last. At Forty, my young sons .. .have grown and are gone, But my woman is beside me . . to see I don't mourn. At Fifty, once more, .. ...Babies play 'round my knee, Again, we know children . . . . My loved one and me. Dark days are upon me . . . . My wife is now dead. I look at the future ... . . . . I shudder with dread. For my young are all rearing .. . . young of their own. And I think of the years . . . And the love that I've known. I'm now an old man . . . . . . .. and nature is cruel. It's jest to make old age . . . . . . . look like a fool. The body, it crumbles .. .. . grace and vigour, depart. There is now a stone . . . where I once had a heart. But inside this old carcass . A young man still dwells, And now and again . . . . . my battered heart swells I remember the joys . . . . .. . I remember the pain. And I'm loving and living . . . . . . . life over again. I think of the years, all too few . . .. gone too fast. And accept the stark fact . . . that nothing can last. So open your eyes, people .. . . . .. . . open and see. Not a cranky old man . Look closer . . . . see .. .. . .. .... . ME!! **Remember this poem when you next meet an older person who you might brush aside without looking at the young soul within ... . . .** **we will all, one day, be there, too!** ***PLEASE SHARE THIS POEM,*** ***The best and most beautiful things of this world can't be seen or touched.*** ***They must be felt by the heart.*** ### Chinese Girl Has Basketball for a Body URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/chinese-girl-basketball-body/ Last updated: 2023-07-19T21:30:32.000Z > This is the story of little girl who had to use a basketball as her prosthetic body : > > Miss Qian Hongyan who was forced to use half a basketball as her prosthetic body has inspired millions with her ambition to compete as a swimmer in the 2012 Paralympics in London. In 2000 she was tragically injured in a car accident when she was only 3 years old. Considering severe injury , the doctors were forced to amputate her legs. Her family, living in Zhuangxia, China, was unable to afford modern prosthetics and instead used half a basketball to get around on. Once on the ball she uses two wooden props to help her move around. She struggled but practiced hard to live her life with a basketball as an underprop, 'walking' between school and home by herself. > > Her story is widely reported and drew the attention of the Ministry of Public Security and China Rehabilitation Research Center. > > Qian now has a pair of proper prosthetic legs, but still says she likes to use the basketball from time to time as it is easier for her to get in and out of the pool. > > ***The morale of the story is that if there is a will , you can find a way.*** ### Lesson from the son URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/father-learns-lesson/ Last updated: 2023-07-17T21:30:04.000Z > Velan was a carpenter in a village. His mother had died long back. His aged father, Kuppan, lived with him. He could not even walk well due to weakness since Velan did not give him enough food. Velan was a drunkard also. After taking drinks, he abused his father badly. > > Velan had a 10 year old sun Muthu. He loved his grandfather and had great respect for him. He did not like his father’s attitude and character and cruel treatment given to his grandfather. > > One day Kuppan was eating his food out of earthen plate that his son had given to him. The earthen plate along with food fell down and broke into pieces. Velan was very angry with his father and used very harsh words to abuse his father. The old man felt sorry for his mistake but Velan’s words wounded him very deeply. > > Velan’s son, Muthu, saw all this but was afraid to speak against his father. He was really sad about his grandfather but was not powerful enough to support of his grandfather. > > The next day Muthu took some of his father’s carpentry tools and a piece of wood. He worked with the tools to make a wooden plate. His father saw him working. > > “What are you making, Muthu?” he asked. “I am making a wooden plate!” replied Muthu. “A wooden plate ! What for?” asked his father. “I am making it for you, father. When you grow old, like my grandfather, you will need a plate for food. A plate made from earth mat will break very easily. Then I may scold you severely. So, I want to give you a wooden plate which will not break very easily and you will be spared the scolding .” Velan was shocked to hear this. He realized terrible mistake he was making. His father had looked after Velan very well. Now, he was old and he was failing in his duties. He apologized to his father and became a totally different person. From that day, Velan treated his father with great respect. He gave up drinking too. His son taught him a life lesson. > > You should honor your parents at all times. It is your noble duty. It brings you their blessings and good wishes. ### A Letter to a 'Silent' brother URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/letter-silent-brother/ Last updated: 2023-07-15T21:30:15.000Z > Dear Patrick, > > I was then an only child who had everything I could ever want in life . But even a pretty, spoiled and rich kid could get lonely once in a while so when Mom told me that she was pregnant, I was ecstatic. I imagined how wonderful you would be and how we'd always be together and how much you would look like me. So, when you were born, I looked at your tiny hands and feet and marveled at how beautiful you were. > > We took you home and I showed you proudly to my friends. They would touch you and sometimes pinch you, but you never reacted. When you were five months old, some things began to bother Mom. You seemed so unmoving and numb, and your cry sounded odd --- almost like a kitten's. So we brought you to many doctors. > > The thirteenth doctor who looked at you quietly said you have the "cry du chat" (pronounced Kree-do-sha) syndrome, "cry of the cat" in French. When I asked what that meant, he looked at me with pity and softly said, "Your brother will never walk nor talk." The doctor told us that it is a condition that afflicts one in 50,000 babies, rendering victims severely retarded. Mom was shocked and I was furious. I thought it was unfair. > > When we went home, Mom took you in her arms and cried. I looked at you and realized that word will get around that you're not normal. So to hold on to my popularity, I did the unthinkable ... I disowned you. Mom and Dad didn't know but I steeled myself not to love you as you grew. Mom and Dad showered you love and attention and that made me bitter. And as the years passed, that bitterness turned to anger, and then hate. > > Mom never gave up on you. She knew she had to do it for your sake. Everytime she put your toys down, you'd roll instead of crawl. I watched her heart break every time she took away your toys and strapped your tummy with foam so you couldn't roll. You struggle and you're cry in that pitiful way, the cry of the kitten. But she still didn't give up. > > And then one day, you defied what all your doctors said -- you crawled. When mom saw this, she knew you would eventually walk. So when you were still crawling at age four, she'd put you on the grass with only your diapers on knowing that you hate the feel of the grass on your skin. Then she'd leave you there. I would sometimes watch from the windows and smile at your discomfort. You would crawl to the sidewalk and Mom would put you back. Again and again, Mom repeated this on the lawn. Until one day, Mom saw you pull yourself up and toddle off the grass as fast as your little legs could carry you. Laughing and crying, she shouted for Dad and I to come. Dad hugged you crying openly. I watched from my bedroom window this heartbreaking scene. > > Over the years, Mom taught you to speak, read and write. From then on, I would sometime see you walk outside, smell the flowers, marvel at the birds, or just smile at no one. I began to see the beauty of the world through your eyes. It was then that I realized that you were my brother and no matter how much I tried to hate you, I couldn't, because I had grown to love you. > > During the next few days, we again became acquainted with each other. I would buy you toys and give you all the love that a sister could ever give to her brother. And you would reward me by smiling and hugging me. But I guess, you were never really meant for us. On your tenth birthday, you felt severe headaches. The doctor's diagnosis --leukemia. Mom gasped and Dad held her, while I fought hard to keep my tears from falling. At that moment, I loved you all the more. I couldn't even bear to leave your side. Then the doctors told us that your only hope is to have a bone marrow transplant. After a nationwide donor search. We at last found the right match . You were too sick . You underwent chemotherapy and radiation. > > Just a month before you died, you made me draw up a list of things you wanted to do when you got out of the hospital. Two days after the list was completed, you asked the doctors to send you home. There, we ate ice cream and cake, run across the grass, flew kites, went fishing, took pictures of one another and let the balloons fly. I remember the last conversation that we had. You said that if you die, and if I need of help, I could send you a note to heaven by tying it on the string of any balloon and letting it fly. When you said this, I started crying. Then you hugged me. Then again, for the last time, you got sick. > > That last night, you asked for water, a back rub, a cuddle. Finally, you went into seizure with tears streaming down your face. Later, at the hospital, you struggled to talk but the words wouldn't come. I know what you wanted to say. "Hear you," I whispered. And for the last time, I said, "I'll always love and I will never forget you. Don't be afraid. You'll soon be with God in heaven." Then, with my tears flowing freely, I watched the bravest boy I had ever known finally stop breathing. Dad, Mom and I cried until I felt as if there were no more tears left. Patrick was finally gone, leaving us behind. > > From then on, you were my source of inspiration. You showed me how to love life and live to the fullest. With your simplicity and honesty, you showed me a world full of love and caring. And you made me realize that the most important thing in this life is to continue loving without asking why or how and without setting any limit in life. > > Thank you, my little brother, for all these. ### Life Is Like a Cup of Coffee URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/are-you-enjoying-your-coffee/ Last updated: 2023-07-13T21:30:41.000Z > A group of alumni, highly established in their careers, got together to visit their old university professor. Conversation soon turned into complaints about stress in work and life. > > Offering his guests coffee, the professor went to the kitchen and returned with a large pot of coffee and an assortment of cups – porcelain, plastic, glass, crystal, some plain looking, some expensive, some exquisite – telling them to help themselves to the coffee. > > When all the students had a cup of coffee in hand, the professor said: “If you noticed, all the nice looking expensive cups were taken up, leaving behind the plain and cheap ones. While it is normal for you to want only the best for yourselves, that is the source of your problems and stress." Be assured that the cup itself adds no quality to the coffee. In most cases it is just more expensive and in some cases even hides what we drink. What all of you really wanted was coffee, not the cup, but you consciously went for the best cups. And then you began eyeing each other’s cups. > > Now consider this: Life is the coffee; the jobs, money and position in society are the cups. They are just tools to hold and contain Life, and the type of cup we have does not define, nor change the quality of Life we live. Sometimes, by concentrating only on the cup, we fail to enjoy the coffee God has provided us in life.” > > God brews the coffee, not the cups. Enjoy your coffee! > > ***MORAL:*** > ***“The happiest people in life don’t have the best of everything.*** > ***They just make the best of everything.”*** > ***Live simply. Love generously.*** > ***Care deeply. Speak kindly.*** > ***Leave the rest to GOD!*** ### The Penny says, "In God we Trust" URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/penny-says-in-god-we-trust/ Last updated: 2023-07-11T21:30:45.000Z > Several years ago, a friend of mine and her husband were invited to spend the weekend at the husband’s employer’s home. My friend, Arlene, was nervous about the weekend. The boss was very wealthy, with a fine home on the waterway, and cars costing more than her house. > > The first day and evening went well, and Arlene was delighted to have this rare glimpse into how the very wealthy live. The husband’s employer was quite generous as a host, and took them to the finest restaurants. Arlene knew she would never have the opportunity to indulge in this kind of extravagance again, so was enjoying herself immensely. > > As the three of them were about to enter an exclusive restaurant that evening, the boss was walking slightly ahead of Arlene and her husband. He stopped suddenly, looking down on the pavement for a long, silent moment. > > Arlene wondered if she was supposed to pass him. There was nothing on the ground except a single darkened penny that someone had dropped, and a few cigarette butts. Still silent, the man reached down and picked up the penny. > > He held it up and smiled, then put it in his pocket as if he had found a great treasure. How absurd! What need did this man have for a single penny? Why would he even take the time to stop and pick it up? > > Throughout dinner, the entire scene nagged at her. Finally, she could stand it no longer. She causally mentioned that her daughter once had a coin collection, and asked if the penny he had found had been of some value. > > A smile crept across the man’s face as he reached into his pocket for the penny and held it out for her to see. She had seen many pennies before! What was the point of this? > > “Look at it.” He said. “Read what it says.” > > She read the words “United States of America.” > > “No, not that; read further.” > > “One cent?” “No, keep reading.” > > “In God we Trust?” “Yes!” “And?” > > “And if I trust in God, the name of God is holy, even on a coin. Whenever I find a coin I see that inscription. It is written on every single United States coin, but we never seem to notice it! God drops a message right in front of me telling me to trust Him? Who am I to pass it by? When I see a coin, I pray, I stop to see if my trust IS in God at that moment. I pick the coin up as a response to God; that I do trust in Him. For a short time, at least, I cherish it as if it were gold. I think it is God’s way of starting a conversation with me. Lucky for me, God is patient and pennies are plentiful! > > When I was out shopping today, I found a penny on the sidewalk. I stopped and picked it up, and realized that I had been worrying and fretting in my mind about things I cannot change. I read the words, “In God We Trust,” and had to laugh. Yes, God, I get the message. > > It seems that I have been finding an inordinate number of pennies in the last few months, but then, pennies are plentiful! > > And, God is patient… ### Our Apple Tree URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/our-apple-tree/ Last updated: 2023-07-09T21:30:14.000Z > A long time ago, there was a huge apple tree. A little boy loved to come and play around it everyday. He climbed to the treetop, ate the apples, and took a nap under the shadow. > > He loved the tree and the tree loved to play with him. Time went by, the little boy had grown up and he no longer played around the tree every day. > > One day, the boy came back to the tree and he looked sad. “Come and play with me”, the tree asked the boy. “I am no longer a kid, I do not play around trees any more” the boy replied. > > “I want toys. I need money to buy them.”“Sorry, but I do not have money, but you can pick all my apples and sell them. So, you will have money.” The boy was so excited. He grabbed all the apples on the tree and left happily. The boy never came back after he picked the apples. The tree was sad. > > One day, the boy who now turned into a man returned and the tree was excited. “Come and play with me” the tree said.“I do not have time to play. I have to work for my family. We need a house for shelter. Can you help me?” “Sorry, but I do not have any house. But you can chop off my branches to build your house.” So the man cut all the branches of the tree and left happily. The tree was glad to see him happy but the man never came back since then. The tree was again lonely and sad. > > One hot summer day, the man returned and the tree was delighted.“Come and play with me!” the tree said. “I am getting old. I want to go sailing to relax myself. Can you give me a boat?” said the man. “Use my trunk to build your boat. You can sail far away and be happy.” So the man cut the tree trunk to make a boat. He went sailing and never showed up for a long time. > > Finally, the man returned after many years. “Sorry, my boy. But I do not have anything for you any more. No more apples for you”, the tree said. “No problem, I do not have any teeth to bite” the man replied. “No more trunk for you to climb on.” “I am too old for that now” the man said. “I really cannot give you anything, the only thing left is my dying roots,” the tree said with tears. “I do not need much now, just a place to rest. I am tired after all these years,” the man replied. “Good! Old tree roots are the best place to lean on and rest, come sit down with me and rest.” The man sat down and the tree was glad and smiled with tears. > > This is a story of everyone. The tree is like our parents. When we were young, we loved to play with our Mum and Dad. When we grow up, we leave them; only come to them when we need something or when we are in trouble. No matter what, parents will always be there and give everything they could just to make you happy. > > You may think the boy is cruel to the tree, but that is how all of us treat our parents. We take them for granted; we don’t appreciate all they do for us, until it’s too late. > > **Moral:** > **Treat your parents with loving care. For you will know their value, when you see their empty chair. We never know the love of our parents for us; till we have become parents.** ### The Trouble Tree URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/trouble-tree/ Last updated: 2023-07-07T21:30:13.000Z > **The carpenter I hired to help me restore an old farmhouse had just finished a rough first day on the job. A flat tire made him lose an hour of work, his electric saw quit, and now his ancient pickup truck refused to start. While I drove him home, he sat in stony silence.** > > **On arriving, he invited me in to meet his family. As we walked toward the front door, he paused briefly at a small tree, touching the tips of the branches with both hands. When opening the door he underwent an amazing transformation. His tanned face was wreathed in smiles and he hugged his two small children and gave his wife a kiss.** > > **Afterward he walked me to the car. We passed the tree and my curiosity got the better of me. I asked him about what I had seen him do earlier.** > > **“Oh, that’s my trouble tree,” he replied.” I know I can’t help having troubles on the job, but one thing’s for sure, troubles don’t belong in the house with my wife and the children. So I just hang them on the tree every night when I come home. Then in the morning I pick them up again.”** > > He paused. “Funny thing is,” he smiled, “when I come out in the morning to pick ‘em up, there ain’t nearly as many as I remember hanging up the night before.” ### Inner Changes Bring Outer Changes URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/inner-changes-bring-outer/ Last updated: 2023-07-05T21:30:24.000Z > The quality of your life depends to a large extent on the quality of your inner emotional and mental life. If you are lazy, worry too much and afraid to try new things, you stick to the same spot. If you are not afraid to change your thinking, your life will soon change accordingly. Your habitual thoughts, and the content of your subconscious mind determine your behavior and the way you act in the world. > > When you change the way you feel and think, you ultimately change your inner vision, actions and behavior. This causes your outer life to change accordingly. > > **Let's now see a few examples!** > **If you are the worrying type, you are probably afraid of changes, and prefer to stick to the same kind of life you well know. You see other people who attain success, and though you wish you were successful too, you do nothing about it. In your mind you see yourself living exactly as you are living now, and find it hard to imagine different circumstances. It may never occur to you that you can visualize a different reality.** > > In this case your way of thinking limits you. You constantly see in your mind's eye the same daily reality, and consequently your conscious and subconscious minds stay programmed to experience and attract the same kind of reality. > > Suppose you come to understand and realize that your outer reality is shaped to a great extent by your inner world. This realization will cause you to aspire to a better life. You will start to envision the kind of life you want to live. If you keep thinking and visualizing a different and better kind of life, soon these thoughts will sink into your subconscious mind and motivate, inspire and energize you to take action. > > The new thoughts will cause new expectations, and change the way you view the outer world. The inner changes in you will gradually affect your outer life. Your behavior, and the way you act will change. You will have more energy, ambition and inner strength. You will get over your fear of change, and be ready to take action to change and improve your life, in accordance with the changes inside you. ### The Heart of a Teacher URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/heart-of-teacher/ Last updated: 2023-07-03T21:30:37.000Z > A young man, a student was taking a walk with a professor who was known for his kindness. As they went along, they saw lying in the path a pair of old shoes, which they supposed belonged to a poor man who was employed in a field close by, and who had nearly finished his day's work. > > The student turned to the professor, saying: "Let us play the man a trick: we will hide his shoes, and conceal ourselves behind bushes, and wait to see his confusion when he cannot find them." > > "My young friend," answered the professor, "we should never amuse ourselves at the expense of the poor. But you are rich and can give yourself much greater pleasure this way . Put a coin into each shoe, and We watch to see how the discovery affects him." > > The student did so and they both placed themselves behind the bushes close by. The poor man soon finished his work, and came across the field to the path where he had left his coat and shoes. While putting on his coat he slipped his foot into one of his shoes; but feeling something hard, he stooped down to feel what it was, and found the coin. He was absolutely astonished . He gazed upon the coin, turned it round, and looked at it again and again. He then looked around him on all sides but no person was to be seen. He now put the money into his pocket, and proceeded to put on the other shoe; but his surprise was doubled on finding the other coin. His feelings overcame him; he fell upon his knees, looked up to heaven and uttered aloud a fervent thanksgiving thanking some unknown hand which would save his sick wife and his children who were without bread. > > The student stood there deeply affected, and his eyes filled with tears. > > "Now," said the professor, "are you not much better pleased than if you had played your wicked trick?" > > The youth replied, "You have taught me a lesson which I will never forget. I feel now the truth of those words, which I never understood before: > > 'It is more blessed to give than to receive." ### Gift of Love URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/gift-of-love/ Last updated: 2023-07-01T21:30:45.000Z > **This is a real life story .The passengers on the bus watched sympathetically as the attractive young woman with the white cane made her way carefully up the steps. She paid the driver and using her hands to feel the location of the seats, walked down the aisle and found the seat he’d told her was empty. She settled down, placed her briefcase on her lap and rested her cane against her leg.** > > **It had been a year since Susan, thirty-four years old, became blind. Due to a medical negligence , she had been suddenly thrown into a world of darkness, anger, frustration and self-pity. All she had to cling to was her husband, Mark.** > > **Mark was an Air Force officer who loved Susan with all his heart. When she first lost her sight, he watched her sink into despair and was determined to help his wife gain the strength and confidence to become independent again.** > > **After some time, Susan felt ready to return to her job. She was too frightened to take the bus. Mark volunteered to drive her to work each day even though they worked at opposite ends of the city. At first, this comforted Susan and fulfilled Mark’s need to protect his sightless wife who was so insecure about performing the slightest task.** > > **However, Mark soon realized that Susan will have to take bus again but she was horrified at the idea of taking the bus again. “I'm blind!” She responded bitterly. “How am I supposed to know where I am going? I feel like you’re abandoning me.” Mark’s heart broke to hear these words . He promised Susan that each morning and evening he would ride the bus with her, for as long as it took, until she got the hang of it. For two weeks, Mark, in his military uniform and all, accompanied Susan to and from work each day.** > > **He taught her how to rely on her other senses, specifically her hearing, to determine where she was and how to adapt to her new environment. He helped her befriend the bus drivers who could watch out for her and save her a seat.** > > **Finally, Susan decided that she was ready to try the trip on her own. Monday morning arrived and before she left, she threw her arms around Mark, her temporary bus-riding companion, her husband and her best friend. Her eyes filled with tears of gratitude for his loyalty, his patience and his love. She said goodbye and for the first time, they went their separate ways. Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday… Each day on her own went perfectly and Susan had never felt better. She was doing it! She was going to work all by herself.** > > **On Friday morning, Susan took the bus to work as usual. As she was paying the fare to exit the bus, the driver said, “Boy, I sure do envy you.” Susan wasn't sure if the driver was speaking to her or not. After all, who on earth would ever envy a blind woman who had struggled just to find the courage to live for the past year?** > > **Curious, she asked the driver, “Why do you say that you envy me?” The driver responded, “It must feel good to be taken care of and protected like you are.” Susan had no idea what the driver was talking about and asked again, “What do you mean?” The driver answered, “You know, every morning for the past week, a fine-looking gentleman in a military uniform has been standing across the corner watching you as you get off the bus. He makes sure you cross the street safely and he watches until you enter your office building. Then he blows you a kiss, gives you a little salute and walks away. You are one lucky lady.”** > > **Tears of happiness poured down Susan’s cheeks. Although she couldn't physically see him, she had always felt Mark’s presence. She was lucky, so lucky, for he had given her a gift more powerful than sight, a gift she didn't need to see to believe – the gift of love that can bring light where there is darkness.** ### Love Your Parents URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/love-your-parents/ Last updated: 2023-06-29T21:30:33.000Z > An 80 year old man was sitting on the sofa in his house along with his 45 years old highly educated son. Suddenly a crow perched on their window. > > The Father asked his Son, "What is this?" The Son replied "It is a crow". After a few minutes, the Father asked his Son the 2nd time, "What is this?" The Son said "Father, I have just now told you "It's a crow". After a little while, the old Father again asked his Son the 3rd time, What is this?" Son got irritated and in angry tone he said to his Father with a rebuff. "It's a crow, a crow".A little after, the Father again asked his Son the 4th time, "What is this?" > > This time the Son shouted at his Father, "Why do you keep asking me the same question again and again, although I have told you so many times 'IT IS A CROW'. Have you gone insane ?" > > A little later the Father went to his room and came back with an old tattered diary, which he had maintained since his Son was born. On opening a page, he asked his Son to read that page. The son read the following words . > > "Today my little son aged three was sitting with me on the sofa, when a crow was sitting on the window. My Son asked me 23 times what it was, and I replied to him all 23 times that it was a Crow. I hugged him lovingly each time he asked me the same question again and again for 23 times. I did not at all feel irritated I rather felt affection for my little child". > > While the little child asked him 23 times "What is this", the Father had felt no irritation in replying to the same question and when today the Father asked his Son the same question just 4 times, the Son felt irritated and annoyed. > > So... If your parents attain old age, do not repulse them or look at them as a burden, but speak to them a gracious word, be cool, obedient, humble and kind to them. Be considerate to your parents. Say this aloud, "I want to see my parents happy forever. They have cared for me ever since I was a little child. They have always showered their selfless love on me. Now it is my turn to reciprocate. They crossed all mountains and valleys without seeing the storm and heat to make me a person presentable in the society today". "I will serve my old parents in the BEST way. I will say all good and kind words to my dear parents, no matter how they behave. > > Thanks for spending ur time on reading this story…… Hope U r forwarding this to all ur friends ### Burnt Biscuits URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/burnt-biscuits/ Last updated: 2023-06-27T21:30:25.000Z > When I was a kid, my mom liked to make breakfast food for dinner every now and then. I remember one night in particular when she had made breakfast after a long, hard day at work. On that evening so long ago, my mom placed a plate of eggs, sausage and extremely burned biscuits in front of my dad. I remember waiting to see if anyone noticed! Yet all my dad did was reach for his biscuit, smile at my mom and ask me how my day was at school. I don’t remember what I told him that night, but I do remember watching him smear butter and jelly on that biscuit and eat every bite! > > When I got up from the table that evening, I remember hearing my mom apologize to my dad for burning the biscuits. And I’ll never forget what he said: “Honey, I love burned biscuits.” > > Later that night, I went to kiss Daddy good night and I asked him if he really liked his biscuits burned. He wrapped me in his arms and said, “Your Momma put in a hard day at work today and she’s real tired. And besides – a little burnt biscuit never hurt anyone!” > > Life is full of imperfect things, and imperfect people. I’m not the best at hardly anything, and I forget birthdays and anniversaries just like everyone else. But what I’ve learned over the years is that learning to accept each others faults – and choosing to celebrate each others differences – is one of the most important keys to creating a healthy, growing, and lasting relationship. > > And that’s my prayer for you today. That you will learn to take the good, the bad, and the ugly parts of your life and lay them at the feet of God. Because in the end, He’s the only One who will be able to give you a relationship where a burnt biscuit isn’t a deal-breaker! > > We could extend this to any relationship. In fact, understanding is the base of any relationship, be it a husband-wife or parent-child or friendship! ### Beauty captures your attention while personality captures your heart URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/its-beauty-that-captures-your-attention/ Last updated: 2023-06-25T21:30:28.000Z > "It's beauty that captures your attention; personality which captures your heart." ### One day I decided to Quit... URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/one-day-i-decided-to-quit/ Last updated: 2023-06-23T21:30:04.000Z > **I quit my job, my relationship, my spirituality... I wanted to quit my life.** > > **I went to the woods to have one last talk with God.** > > **"God", I asked,** > > **"Can you give me one good reason not to quit?".** > > **His answer surprised me...** > > **"Look around", He said. "Do you see the fern and the bamboo?"** > > **"Yes", I replied.** > > **"When I planted the fern and the bamboo seeds, I took very good care of them.** > > **I gave them light.I gave them water.The fern quickly grew from the earth.** > > **Its brilliant green covered the floor.Yet nothing came from the bamboo seed. But I did not quit on the bamboo.In the second year the Fern grew more vibrant and plentiful.** > > **And again, nothing came from the bamboo seed. But I did not quit on the bamboo. He said.** > > **"In year three there was still nothing from the bamboo seed.But I would not quit.** > > **In year four, again, there was nothing from the bamboo seed. I would not quit." He said.** > > **"Then in the fifth year a tiny sprout emerged from the earth. Compared to the fern it was seemingly small and insignificant...But just 6 months later the bamboo rose to over 100 feet tall.** > > **It had spent the five years growing roots. Those roots made it strong and gave it what it needed to survive.I would not give any of my creations a challenge it could not handle."** > > **He asked me. "Did you know, my child, that all this time you have been struggling, you have actually been growing roots".** > > **"I would not quit on the bamboo.I will never quit on you."** > > **"Don't compare yourself to others." He said."The bamboo had a different Purpose than the fern.** > > **Yet they both make the forest beautiful.""Your time will come", God said to me.** > > **"You will rise high".** > > **"How high should I rise?" I asked.** > > **"How high will the bamboo rise?" He asked in return.** > > **"As high as it can?" I questioned."Yes." He said, "Give Me glory by rising as high as you can."** > > **I left the forest and brought back this story.I hope these words can help you see that God will never give up on** > > **you.Never, Never, Never, Give up in life.** > > **Don't tell the Lord how big the problem is, tell the problem how Great the Lord is!** ### The Seven Wonders of the World URL: https://www.wisdomquotesandstories.com/seven-wonders-of-world/ Last updated: 2023-06-21T21:30:01.000Z > Junior high school students in Chicago were studying the Seven Wonders of the World. At the end of the lesson, the students were asked to list what they considered to be the Seven Wonders of the World which are the gifts to our world . Though there was some disagreement, the following received the most votes: > > **1\. Egypt’s Great Pyramids** > **2\. The Taj Mahal in India** > **3\. The Grand Canyon in Arizona** > **4\. The Panama Canal** > **5\. The Empire State Building** > **6\. St. Peter’s Basilica** > **7\. China’s Great Wall** > > While gathering the votes, the teacher noted that one student, a quiet girl, hadn’t turned in her paper yet. So she asked the girl if she was having trouble with her list. The quiet girl replied, “Yes, a little. I couldn’t quite make up my mind because there were so many.” The teacher said, “Well, tell us what you have, and maybe we can help.” > > The girl hesitated, then read, “I think the Seven Wonders of the World are: > > 1\. to touch… > > 2\. to taste… > > 3\. to see… > > 4\. to hear… > > 5\. to feel… > > 6\. to laugh… > > 7\. and to love. > > The room was so quiet, you could have heard a pin drop. > > May this story serve as a gentle reminder to all of us that the things we overlook as simple and ordinary are often the most wonderful – and we don’t have to travel anywhere special to experience them. > > Enjoy your gifts! _Includes the latest 500 public posts. Use `/sitemap.xml` for the complete archive of public content._