Category: Inspirational

“It’s always too early to quit.” ~ Norman Vincent Peale Quitting is the easy way out, but it doesn’t produce anything of value, and ends up leading to a habit of quitting that can haunt you for a lifetime. The good news is that you don’t have to accept quitting, and you can pick up…

Do you constantly judge everything around you? Are you finding it hard to relax? Is your perfectionism affecting your happiness? If yes, read on….. Being a perfectionist is just plain tiring.  You live life constantly judging everything around you by your standards.  When things don’t measure up to being good enough in your eyes, you start…

t could just be me growing older and grumpier, adhering to tradition by falling out of touch with the world around me, but it seems like people don’t have the same amount of respect for the military that they did in my youth. I don’t mean to tarnish everyone with the same brush – there…

Kindness is probably humanity’s greatest ever trait. To be kind is to be human. And even in this fast-paced world where people don’t have the time to care for each other, being kind is not only an asset- but also a virtue. For, we may never know what our kindness could result in. In some…

These powerful before-and-after photos reveal just how beautiful aging can be. Czech photographer Jan Langer‘s portrait series “Faces of Century” shows them in a different light: as human beings aged by years of experience, but at their deepest level, unchanged by the passing of time. In the series, Langer juxtaposes his portraits with another portrait of the subject…

The solution the vet came up with to stop Splodge’s escape artistry is just perfect, too. Generally speaking, if someone has a dog that they’re trying to keep in the yard, they’ll build a fence. The larger the dog, the larger the fence needed, but since dogs can’t climb and aren’t particularly adept jumpers, dog fences don’t…

“We opened the door and gave Arnold his flow-by oxygen in the doorway. His mate immediately calmed down and began to groom him through the door.” As if a Canada goose named Arnold isn’t endearing enough, his partner who came looking for him when he was injured is warming hearts and having us root for…

One morning as an old woman was going to fetch her water, she noticed a little tree growing by the side of the path. That poor little tree! It was more like a twig standing upright in the ground, with a few skinny branches and a handful of withered leaves. The Old Woman and the…

Maria was very upset. An old lady that she did not know kept banging at her door all day and night and would not leave. She was very stubborn and would come more than 10 times a day, asking to get inside the house. Maria was scared of her, so, at first, she tried to…

When Michael Todd started his freshman year at MLK prep school in Memphis, Tennessee two years ago, he only had one outfit to wear to school. High school kids can be incredibly cruel and Michael was mocked for three weeks for wearing the same clothes every day. “I really don’t have clothes at home,” he told…