Inspirational Stories / Motivational Stories

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Dear Lost Friend

By Irenical Mind on August 24, 2016 / 0 views

I envisioned this to be like a poem, so it should be read in a "poetic" and artistic sense, rather than a realistic one... Dear Lost Friend, I was just writing to you to inform you that I do not want to write to you, but at the same time I do. I want to inform you that I am thinking about your friendship with me everyday still. I have not fully gone over that cycle. I know that...

A Rose

By Charmaine on August 22, 2016 / 2,136 views

A man I once met told me his wife was terminally ill. I bought a rose and was on my way to give it to someone else when I bumped into the man and his wife. I suddenly felt compelled to hand her the rose. She hugged me crying but happy and said that when she had prayed that morning, that she had asked God if he heard her prayer to send her a rose as a sign. I knew I was being used as an instrument... I'm...

Life's Biggest Lessons During Hard Days

By Sonia Kaur on August 22, 2016 / 0 views

Everybody has to face bad days in their life. Some face ailments, some face fears, some face poverty, some face helplessness etc etc. No one can escape from it. It is a rule of life. Two things always combines together like joy and sadness, laugh and cry, health and illness, profit and loss, morning and night, confidence and inferiority complex, victory and failure likewise good days and bad...

The Way You Feel

By Joseph J. Mazzella on August 19, 2016 / 0 views

When I was eleven years old my family moved to a new home on the top of a mountain. It was a lovely, little house, but it only had well water that was heavy in iron and the only source of heat was a wood stove in the kitchen. My Dad had become disabled with a back injury so it was up to me and my brother to chop and carry in the wood for the stove and to carry home five gallon containers of drinking water from...

Not A Person To Help, But A Person To Love

By Darrin N Tory Hand on August 18, 2016 / 0 views

Today on the streets of DOWNTOWN OKC, I passed a man simply asking for change as he held out an empty shoe polish canister. I had none, so I passed him and went on my way. On my return trip to the office, I found him and this woman sitting together. She did not give him change, she did not drop off a hot meal.....she sat down, cut her chicken wrap in half, and shared it with him. She did not leave, she sat and...

Saving Banamungu

By Saving Banamungu on August 18, 2016 / 0 views

When I heard that Kimmy, my lecturer friend from my days at Holistic counseling College was looking for volunteers to accompany her on a mission of mercy trip to Rwanda, I rang her and put my name forward the first chance I got. Having always had a hankering to visit Africa, I saw this as an ideal opportunity to do so and assist in some good works at the same time. Kimmy had been to Rwanda twice before....

This Is The REAL Secret To Success

By Parallaxbrew on August 16, 2016 / 1,930 views

Learn to front-load your pain. That's it. If you procrastinate, you're putting off more than your work. You're putting off the pain. Right? But doesn't it always catch up to you? What you have to do is front-load all those yucky crappy feelings. Go ahead and feel it now so you don't have to feel it later. And guess what? If you put it off, it gets...

What Is Difficulty?

By C M Reddy on August 16, 2016 / 3,094 views

"Getting hurt or feeling difficulty is not something caused by external reasons, it is sheer internal contemplation of the things we perceive in the daily life" The normal observation of our surroundings be it weather changes or words and actions of other people generate the response or reaction in us. Some people feel difficulty to go out in the rain, on the contrary some of us love the...

To Love Life

By Joseph J. Mazzella on August 15, 2016 / 1,861 views

During the last four years of her life my Mom fought a valiant but losing battle against cancer. During that time she lost her health, her hair, and 40 pounds. She was in and out of the hospital more times than I could count. In the end as her life's energy ebbed away we all gathered at her bedside and said goodbye. She was only 55 years old. For a long while after her death I was depressed and...

Mala - The Tale Of A Knot

By Kimsy Nistika Rutah on August 12, 2016 / 0 views

"Dupatta- The tale of a knot" is a story of such an inspiring woman whose life is a see-saw of happiness and sorrows. Born in the north-west of Mauritius carved by the flora and fauna of the mother-earth was that little girl who first saw the world in the years 1970s. Born in a poor family with meagre money but lots of happiness was that chubbly bubbly little girl who was given the name of Mala....

A Past Voice Will Not Control My Life

By K.R. on August 12, 2016 / 0 views

I tried to go to college once when my daughter was 2. I was told by my ex 'I couldn't do it' and 'I would be neglecting my daughter.' So I gave up. Now my daughter is 5 and I went to the college to do my assessment testing. The whole way there I kept hearing his voice in my head telling me those things again. I got to the parking lot and found out they only take cash for the parking permit....

If You Want To Change The World...

By An Unknown Monk Circa 1100 A.D. on August 11, 2016 / 2,287 views

When I was a young man, I wanted to change the world. I found it was difficult to change the world, so I tried to change my nation. When I found I couldn't change the nation, I began to focus on my town. I couldn't change the town and as an older man, I tried to change my family. Now, as an old man, I realize the only thing I can change is myself, and suddenly I realize...

Peace Is A Choice

By Sean Whalen on August 08, 2016 / 1,755 views

This is my ex wife and her husband. Our 3 kids and their 2 kids. Tonight they invited me over for dinner. 5 years ago she and I had to have a police escort just to pick up and drop off our kids. We only communicated through lawyers. I wanted to punch her boyfriend (now her husband). Tonight we broke bread, laughed, played with the kids and had a...

The Race Of My Life

By Rick Canada on August 08, 2016 / 0 views

My quest started many years ago, 1968 to be exact. You see, I was in grade school running the 600 yard run for the Presidents Council on Physical Fitness test and not being a gifted athlete, you can imagine my surprise and my schoolmates surprise when I was first across the finish line. That started a life of distance running that would lead me from Florida, to New York, to Los Angeles and most places in...

Why 'Black Lives Matter' Is A Win-Win For Everybody

By Carolyn K. Erwin on August 08, 2016 / 0 views

The colonial history, the legacy of enslavement, racial subordination and segregation, racial terrorism, and racial inequality in the US remains a serious challenge as there has been no real commitment to reparations and to truth and reconciliation for people of African descent.—Statement by the United Nations on Racism in the U.S. Recently, I had a conversation with a Jewish man in which I...

More To Do

By Joseph J. Mazzella on August 08, 2016 / 0 views

It was a hot and humid day in July. I was driving to the local grocery store because the heat had made my bananas go from yellow to brown overnight. My air conditioner in my car was on high, but it still wasn’t cooling me down. Suddenly, the car in front of me signaled that it was pulling off. I pressed on the brakes and slowed down. Out of the corner of my eye I saw several teenagers standing in the...

You Must Not Quit

By Sunny Skyz on August 06, 2016 / 0 views

When things go wrong, as they sometimes will, When the road you're trudging seems all uphill, When the funds are low and the debts are high, And you want to smile, but you have to sigh, When care is pressing you down a bit- Rest if you must, but don't you quit. Life is queer with its twists and turns, As every one of us...