A child told the mother: “Mum you are very beautiful today.”

The mother replied: “Why?”

The child said: “Because you did not get angry today.”

Lesson:

1) It is easy to possess beauty — just do not get angry. It takes more effort to frown than to smile.

2) Anger is temporary madness.

A man attended an interview for a job. Along the corridor, he picked up a piece of waste paper and threw it into the dustbin. The interviewer passed by and saw it.

This man got the job.

Lesson:

Live with good habits and you will be recognized and duly rewarded.

A boy worked as an apprentice in a bicycle shop. A man sent a bicycle for repair. After repairing the bicycle, this boy cleaned up the bicycle and it looked like a new one. Other apprentices laughed at him for doing unnecessary and unpaid work.

The second day after the owner claimed the bicycle back, this boy was poached and offered a job.

Lesson:

1) Go the extra mile to be successful.

2) Doing more gains more and doing less loses more.

The owner of a farm asked his child to work everyday at the farm.

His friend said to him: “You do not have to make your son work so hard. The crops would grow just as good.”

Owner of the farm replied: “I am not cultivating my crops, but my child.”

Lesson:

1) A simple way to groom a child is to let him experience some hardships.

2) If not cut, jade would not turn into useful ware.

A shop is always brightly lit up.

Someone asked: “What brand of bulb are you using? It is so lasting.”

The shop owner replied: “Whenever our bulbs blow out we replace them immediately.”

Lesson:

1) It is simple to maintain brightness, just change the bulb whenever it blows out.

2) To brighten up everyday life: Endeavor to abandon unwholesome, unhealthy and negative states of mind whenever they manifest and make an effort to encourage wholesome, healthy and positive states to set in.