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2021-04-17 16:52:21 Angry Snake

A carpenter went home after shutting down his workshop. When he was gone, a poisonous snake entered his workshop. The snake was hungry and hoped to find its supper lurking somewhere within. It slithered from one end to another. Finally it bumped into an axe and got very slightly injured. In angry and revenge, the snake bit the snake with full force. What could a snake’s bite do to the metallic axe? Instead the snake’s mouth started bleeding.

Out of fury and arrogance, the snake tried its best to strangle and kill the metallic axe - The object that was causing it the pain by wrapping itself around the axe. The next day the carpenter opened the workshop. He found the dead snake wrapped around the blades of the axe. Here the snake did not die because of someone’s fault.

But it faced these consequences merely because of its own anger and wrath. Sometimes when angry, we try to cause harm to others. But as time passes by, we realize that we caused more harm to ourselves. It is not necessary that we react to everything. Step back and ask ourselves if the matter is really worth responding to.

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2021-04-12 04:37:05 #animated_stories
This Simple Trick Will Make You Motivated Everyday

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2021-04-09 15:59:05 #Animated_Stories
This One Habit Will REALLY Change Your Life (Motivational Story)

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2021-04-07 17:32:28 #Animated_Stories
How I Overcame My Depression


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The Four Sons

There lived an old man in a village. He had four sons. In spite of all his efforts, the old man could not make his sons earn for their living. In addition, they were always fighting among themselves.

The old man thought of a plan. He called his sons and said, “Look my dear sons, in the barren land we have at the farmyard, there is a hidden treasure. If you should work together, you may find it."

In a wish to find the treasure the four sons worked hard by digging and digging all through the land. They got frustrated and returned to their father.

“There is no treasure in the land. They complained to their father.

“Now that you have softened the land. Why should not you cultivate it?" was the reply of their father to their query.

Off went the sons. Soon the whole barren land was rich crops.

“This is the real treasure my sons" said the now proud father. Hard-work always is fruitful. The quarreling sons then on lived in harmony and became rich soon.

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2021-01-30 07:56:28 Sands of Forgiveness

Two friends were walking through the desert. During some point of the journey 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 away. But when someone does something good for us, we must engrave it in stone where no wind can ever erase it.

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2021-01-14 19:00:05 Sacrificial Service

One stormy night many years ago, an elderly man and his wife entered the lobby of a small hotel in Philadelphia. Trying to get out of the rain, the couple approached the front desk hoping to get some shelter for the night.

“We’d like a room, please," they husband requested.

The clerk, a friendly man with a winning smile, looked at the couple and explained that there were three conventions in town. “All of our rooms are taken’ the clerk said.

“But I can’t send a nice couple like you out in 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 clerk insisted, “Don’t worry about me; PH make out just fine," he told them.

So the couple agreed to spend the night in his room. As he paid his bill the next morning, the elderly man said to the clerk, “You’re an exceptional man. Finding people who are both friendly and helpful is rare these days. You are the kind of manager who should be the boss of the best hotel in the United States. Maybe someday I will build one for you."

Two years passed. The clerk was still managing the hotel in Philly when he received a letter from the old man. It recalled that stormy night and enclosed was a round-trip to New York, asking the young man to pay him a visit. The old man met him in New York and led him to the corner of Fifth Avenue and 34th Street. He then noted to a great new building there, a palace of reddish stone, with turrets and watchtowers thrusting up to the sky.

“That," he said, “is the hotel I’d like you to manage."

That old man’s name was William Waldorf Astor and the magnificent structure was the original Waldorf-Astoria Hotel.

The clerk who became the first manager was George C Boldt.

This young clerk never foresaw how his simple act of self-less service would lead him to become the manager of one of the world’s most glamorous hotels. The way to the top with people is not just through service. It’s through extravagant, sacrificial service.

When someone goes out of their way to help you, it makes all the difference in the world.

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2021-01-02 15:56:08 Perceptive

Two twin boys were raised by an alcoholic father. One grew up to be an alcoholic and when asked what happened, he said “I watched my father."

The other grew up and never drank in his life. When asked what happened, he said “I watched my father."

Two boys, same dad, two different perspectives.

Your perspective in life will determine your destination.

Today is a new day.

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2020-09-29 00:00:07 A Short Story : Bad Temper

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

The first day, the boy had driven 37 nails into the fence. Over the next few weeks, as he learned to control his anger, the number of nails hammered daily gradually dwindled down. He discovered it was easier to hold his temper than to drive those nails into the fence.

Finally the day came when the boy didn't lose his temper at all. He told his father about it and the father suggested that the boy now pull out one nail for each day that he was able to hold his temper. The days passed and the boy was finally able to tell his father that all the nails were gone.

The father took his son by the hand and led him to the fence. He said, "You have done well, my son, but look at the holes in the fence. The fence will never be the same. When you say things in anger, they leave a scar just like this one. You can put a knife in a man and draw it out. It won't matter how many times you say I'm sorry. The wound is still there."

A verbal wound is as bad as a physical one.

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