STORIES

“When it comes to your own perceptions, be careful,” said Baldwin the Wise.
If the reality you see is the one that benefits you then don’t believe your eyes.

The young man, who continued to read the book throughout this adventure, reached at the end of the book. The day he will read the last page was the day he will also marry the sultan’s daughter. The young man opened the last page to finish the book and he read this last sentence:

“The biggest and most real treasure is to know.”

we are punishing ourselves by not forgetting. We force to carrying heavy loads ourselves in our souls. We think of forgiveness as a gift to the person in front of us, whereas forgiveness, first and foremost, is a favor we do to ourselves.

Bottom line is, successful people wouldn’t let their days to be hold of by other people’s garbage trucks. Life is too short to start a day with regrets, so, “Love people who treats you right. For those who do not, just pray.”
As in another rightful idiom: “One-tenth of your life is about what you have done, and the rest is how you react to what others have done!”

As the hour is part of the day, I am a part of such a whole. Hours are temporary so am I. My job is to do what I can and not take into consideration anything further. For a cruise, I select the ship, the boat and the season. This is my job. If a storm breaks on the way, I never care. This is not my job. I am capable of choosing the captain, the captain is capable of tackling the storm. Wisdom is knowing what is ours and what is not and behave accordingly.

Two lumberjacks cut down trees. The first man woke up early in the morning and started cutting down the trees and skipped to the next one while one was falling to the ground. He never had a rest or give himself a lunch break. He stopped working a few hours after his fellow lumberjack did. […]

A workplace is looking for an employee. They put up an ad in the windows of the office on the ground floor of the building. “Looking for an employee: We are looking for an employee that can write typewriters and use computers and know a language other than their native language.

There lived a fierce lion in a very large forest. All the animals feared him. Instead of living like that, they sought a solution. They thought thoroughly and elected a committee to go to the lion:

One day, a dervish says to his master, “Sir, I do not think I fully comprehend the notion of ‘being a mirror’. Could you please help me on this?”

A king got a relentless disease. All the doctors in his kingdom came to the palace. The doctors in the neighbour countries were called as well. But no remedy was found. The king was getting weaken day by day in front of everyone. In the depths of despair, he wanted all fortune tellers and sorcerers to be brought to the palace as a last resort.