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Inspirational Stories
THE ObSTACLE IN OUR PATH
There once was a very wealthy and curious king. This king had a huge boulder placed in the middle of a road. Then he hid nearby to see if anyone would try to remove the gigantic rock from the road.
The first people to pass by were some of the king’s wealthiest mer- chants and courtiers. Rather than moving it, they simply walked around it. A few loudly blamed the King for not maintaining the roads. Not one of them tried to move the boulder.
Finally, a peasant came along. His arms were full of vegetables. When he got near the boulder, rather than simply walk- ing around it as the oth- ers had, the peasant put down his load and tried to move the stone to the side of the road. It took a lot of effort but he finally succeeded.
The peasant gathered up his load and was ready to go on his way when he say a purse lying in the road where the boulder had been. The peasant opened the purse. The purse was stuffed full of gold coins and a note from the king. The king’s note said the purse’s gold
was a reward for mov- ing the boulder from the road.
The king showed the peasant what many of us never understand: every obstacle presents an opportunity to improve our condition.
A VERY SPECIAL
bANk ACCOUNT
Imagine you had a bank account that deposited $86,400 each morning. The account carries over no balance from day to day, allows you to keep no cash bal- ance, and every evening cancels whatever part of the amount you had failed to use during the day. What would you do? Draw out every dol- lar each day!
We all have such a bank. Its name is Time. Every morning, it credits you with 86,400 sec- onds. Every night it writes off, as lost, what-
ever time you have failed to use wisely. It carries over no balance from day to day. It allows no overdraft so you can’t borrow against yourself or use more time than you have. Each day, the account starts fresh. Each night, it destroys an unused time. If you fail to use the day’s deposits, it’s your loss and you can’t appeal to get it back.
There is never any bor- rowing time. You can’t take a loan out on your time or against some- one else’s. The time you have is the time you have and that is that. Time management is yours to decide how you spend the time, just as with money you decide how you spend the money. It is never the case of us not having enough time to do things, but the case of whether we want to do them and where they fall in our priorities.
A Policeman stops a speeding car and tells the woman driver, "When I saw you driving down the road, I thought to myself, 'sixty-five at least.'”
"SIXTY-FIVE!" shrieked the woman.
"Yes, sixty-five."
"I don’t think that is quite fair. I think this hat makes me look older."
A lawyer named Strange passed away. His friend asked the tombstone maker to inscribe on his tombstone, "Here lies Strange, an honest man, and a lawyer."
The inscriber insisted that such an inscription would be confusing, for a passerby would tend to think that three men were buried under the stone.
However, he suggested an alternative. He would inscribe, "Here lies a man who was both hon- est and a lawyer."
That way, whenever any- one walked by the tomb- stone and read it, they would be certain to remark, "That's Strange."
A businessman had a tir- ing day on the road. He checked into a hotel and, because he was con- cerned that the dining room might close soon, left his luggage at the front desk and went immediately to eat.
After a leisurely dinner, he reclaimed his luggage and realized that he had forgotten his room num- ber. He went back to the desk and told the clerk on duty, "My name is Henry Davis, can you please tell me what room I am in?"
"Certainly," said the clerk. "You're in the lobby."
A new hair salon opened up for business right across the street from
the old established hair cutters' place.
They put up a big bold sign which read: "WE GIVE SEVEN DOLLAR HAIR CUTS!"
Not to be outdone, the old Master Barber put up his own sign: "WE FIX SEVEN DOLLAR HAIR CUTS!"
A teacher gave her fifth grade class an assign- ment: Get their parents to tell them a story with a moral at the end of it. The next day, the kids came back and, one by one, began to tell their stories.
There were all the regu- lar types of stuff: Spilled milk and pennies saved. But then the teacher realized, much to her dis- may, that only Janie was left.
"Janie, do you have a story to share?"
"Yes, ma’am. My Daddy told me a story about my Mommy. She was a Marine pilot in Desert Storm, and her plane got hit. She had to bail out over enemy territory, and all she had was a flask of whiskey, a pistol, and a survival knife. She drank the whiskey on the way down so the bottle wouldn’t break, and then her parachute landed her right in the middle of 20 Iraqi troops. She shot 15 of them with the pistol, until she ran out of bul- lets, killed four more with the knife, till the blade broke, and then she killed the last Iraqi with her bare hands."
"Good Heavens," said the horrified teacher. "What did your Daddy tell you was the moral to this horrible story?"
"Don’t mess with Mommy when she’s been drink- ing."
A newly Married Husband saved his Wife's number... on his mobile as... "My Life"..
. After one year of mar- riage he changed the number to "My Wife".. . After 2 years of marriage he changed the number to "Home".. . After 5 years of marriage he changed the number to "Hitler"..!! . After 10 years of mar- riage he changed the number to "WRONG NUMBER "..!!!
After dying in a car crash, three friends find themselves at an orienta- tion to enter heaven. Each one was asked, "When you are in your casket, what would you like to hear your friends and family saying about you?"
Sean says, "I would like tohearthemsayIwasa great doctor and a great family man."
Karl says, "I would like to hear them say I was a wonderful husband and an excellent teacher who made a difference in chil- dren's lives."
Juan says, "I would like to hear them say, 'Look! He's moving!'"
One day a husband says to his wife, “Today is a fine day!” Next day he says it again. “Today is a fine day.” Again next day, he says same thing, “Today is a fine day.”
Finally after a week, the wife asks her husband, “Since last week, you are saying today is a fine day. I am fed up. What’s the matter?”
"Last week when we had an argument, you said, 'I will leave you one fine day.' I was just trying to remind you."
How can you ever be late for anything in London? They have a huge clock right in the middle of the town.
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