My seatmate on an evening flight was a woman from Switzerland. As soon as the meal was served, I noticed that she heavily salted and peppered her dessert – a mouth-watering piece of chocolate cake. The flight-attendant, somewhat taken aback, explained that it wasn’t necessary to do this.
“Oh, but it is,” the woman replied, smiling, “It keeps me from eating it.”
The story about the tiny frogs… There once was a bunch of tiny frogs, who arranged a running competition. The goal was to reach the top of a very high tower. A big crowd gathered around the tower to see the race and cheer on the contestants. The race began… Honestly no one in the crowd […]
A man went to a saint and asked, “What’s the value of life?” The saint gave him a stone and said, “Find out the value of this stone, but don’t sell it.” The man took the stone to an orange seller and asked him what its cost would be. The orange seller saw the shiny stone and […]
All of us are searching for happiness, but the idea of what makes us happy differs from person to person. A lifetime of misery can come from chasing the wrong kind of happiness. We often chase things that we think will make us happy, but in turn we make everyone — including (eventually) ourselves — miserable. A person, when he is […]
