Short Stories Of Inspiration & Motivation

By Chris Blenning

In today’s world, we all need the occasional motivational boost and positive reminders of what we can achieve.

‘Short Stories of Inspiration & Motivation’ includes collections of worldwide anecdotes across topics such as Positivity, Kindness, Success, Love, Attitude and more...

With an ultimate goal of happiness to the reader, the addition of humorous entries enables us all to ‘smile while we grow’.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Chris Blenning
• Release date: Jun 4, 2021
• ISBN: 9781005329662

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Chapter 4

Humour / Poetry

Chapter 1

Kindness / Love

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Everybody Has a Story in Life

A 24- year old young man was looking out from the train window and shouted…

Dad, look…. the trees are going behind!

The Dad smiled and a young couple nearby looked at the 24-year old’s childish behaviour with pity. Suddenly, he exclaimed again…

Dad, look…. the clouds are running with us!

The couple couldn’t resist and said to the old man…

Why don’t you take your son to see a good doctor?.

The old man smiled and said… I did and we are just coming home from the hospital, my son was blind from birth, he just got his eyes today!

Moral of the story: Every single person on the planet has a story. Don’t judge people before you truly know them. The truth might surprise you.

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A Dish of Ice Cream

In the days when an ice cream sundae cost much less, a 10-year old boy entered a hotel coffee shop and sat at a table. A waitress put a glass of water in front of him.

How much is an ice cream sundae? he asked.

50 cents, replied the waitress.

The little boy pulled his hand out of his pocket and studied a number of coins in it.

How much is a dish of plain ice cream? he inquired. Some people were now waiting for a table and the waitress was a bit impatient.

35 cents she replied brusquely.

The little boy again counted the coins. I’ll have the plain ice cream He said.

The waitress brought the ice cream, put the bill on the table and walked away. The boy finished the ice cream, paid the cashier and departed.

When the waitress came back, she began wiping down the table and then swallowed hard at what she saw.

There, placed neatly beside the empty dish, was 15 cents – her tip.

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A Pound of Butter

There was a farmer who regularly sold a pound of butter to a baker. One day the baker decided to weigh the butter to see if he was getting the right amount, which he wasn’t. Angry about this, he took the farmer to court.

The judge asked the farmer if he was using any measure to weight the butter. The farmer replied, Honor, I am primitive. I don’t have a proper measure, but I do have a scale.

The judge asked, Then how do you weigh the butter?

The farmer replied;

Your Honor, long before the baker started buying butter from me, I have been buying a pound loaf of bread from him Every day when the baker brings me the bread, I put it on the scale and give him the same weight in butter. If anyone is to be blamed, it is the baker.

Moral of the story: In life, you get what you give. Don’t try and cheat others.

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The Boy and The Nails

A long time ago there was a boy. He was smart, talented and handsome. However, he was very selfish and his temper was so difficult, that nobody wanted to be friends with him. Often he got angry and said various hurtful things to people around him.

The boy‘s parents very concerned about his bad temper. They considered what they could do and one day the father had an idea. He called his son and gave him a hammer and a bag of nails. The father said: Every time you get angry, take a nail and drive into that old fence as hard as you can.

The fence was very tough and the hammer was heavy, nevertheless the boy was so furious that during the very first day he has driven 37 nails.

Day after day, week after week, the number of nails was gradually decreasing. After some time, the boy started to understand that holding his temper is easier that driving nails into the fence.

One day the boy didn’t need the hammer and nails anymore, as he had learned to hold his temper perfectly. So he came to his father and told about his achievement.

Now, every time when you hold your temper all day long, pull out one nail.

Much time had passed and at last the boy could be proud of himself as all the nails were gone. When he came to his father and told him about this, his father offered to come and take a careful look at the fence.

You did a good job, my son, but pay your attention to the holes that have been left from the nails. The fence will never be the same. The same happens when you say hurtful things to people. Your words leave scars in their hearts like those holes in the fence. Remember, we need to treat everyone with love and respect, because it doesn’t matter that you say you are sorry, the scars will not disappear.

Moral of the story: Control your anger, and don’t say things to people in the heat of the moment, that you may later regret. Some things in life, you are unable to take back.

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Puppies for Sale

A shop owner placed a sign above his door that said: Puppies for Sale.

Signs like this always have a way

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