At the end of World War II, there were ruins all over the land of Germany.
Popenoe, an American sociologist, took an entourage of several people to see the field. They looked at many German residents living in basements. And then, Poppernoe asked a question to his entourage:
"Do you see that a people like this can still be revitalized?"
"Hard to say." An entourage member replied casually.
"They certainly can!" Popenoe gave a very firm correction.
"Why?" The entourage asked in disbelief.
Popenoe looked at them and asked again, "What did you see on each house's table when you got there?"
The entourage said in unison, "A bottle of flowers."
"That's right! Any people, in such a difficult situation has not forgotten the love of beauty, then it will certainly be able to rebuild their homes on the ruins!"
There are no desperate situations in the world, only people who are desperate about them. How admirable and uplifting is the person who can still pursue the flower of hope in the midst of despair.
Simple Inspirational Stories 2Richard Pike was the most decorated race car driver in the history of the sport. When he returned from his first race, he excitedly told his mother, "There were 35 cars entered and I ran second."
"You lost!" The mother replied nonchalantly.
"But," Richard Pike's eyes widened, "it was my first race and there were so many cars."
"Son," said his mother fondly, "remember, you don't have to run behind anyone!"
For the next 20 years, Richard Parker dominated the racing world. Many of his records remain unbroken to this day. Asked about his success, he said that he never forgot his mother's teachings, and that it was she who helped him discover the hope that he might still be first when he was gloating about second place.
First place is a dream come true, and it is unlikely that all people in the world will strive to be first, but imagine Richard Parker, if he didn't even dare to think about being first, if he wasn't confident in himself, if he didn't have the inspiration of his mother's love, could he have dominated the world of motorsports for 20 years?
Remember, you don't have to run behind anyone!
Simple Inspirational Stories 3More than 500 years ago, an Arabian shepherd named Koldi inadvertently found that a goat was unusually excited, jumping around to his heart's content. He felt very strange, determined to find out why, so they began to pay attention to observe.
Through a series of days of careful observation, he found that the unusual goat especially love to eat a tree on the hillside of the red berries, once eaten, excited. He had the courage to explore the heart, ate some red berries on that tree, and in a short while, he experienced that feeling of exhilaration, and could not help but dance with joy.
From then on, every time Koldi went to the hillside to graze, he had to taste the red berries. Once, he was eating red berries, coincidentally a passing European missionary saw. Koldi told him the truth, and the missionary immediately picked some red berries. When he returned to his home, he washed the red berries several times and boiled them in water to produce a coffee color. He patiently tasted them, and the initial sensation of bitterness was followed by a feeling of refreshment and a sense of vitality in his body. From then on, he would boil a pot of red berry drink every day to nourish himself. After the missionary's zealous propaganda, the surrounding masses also made the same, and together they shared the exhilaration of drinking it.
After the wonderful use of coffee was initially verified, the missionaries made a presentation to the European merchants, which immediately attracted their great attention. They transplanted the coffee tree to the native land, popularized it on a large scale, and guided people to consume it.
Later, the missionary mentioned the discovery of coffee many times in his sermon, and said the following touching words: "The key to a person's ability to make a discovery does not lie in the size of his own eyes, but in whether he is good at observing with his own eyes. The careful observation of tiny things is the companion to success in art, science, career and life."
Simple Inspirational Stories 4When my hand reached into the pocket of my underwear, my whole body immediately went limp on the ground, working for three years to save the hard-earned money has disappeared ...
I wandered in the night on the square in front of the station, looking at the crowd of people who were busy rushing to go home to celebrate the Chinese New Year, and my heart was full of despair. I think of death at that moment, since I can not take the car home for the New Year, then sleep on the rail.
When I was walking on the road of death, a man on the phone in the IC phone booth by the square attracted me. The man was wearing an indistinguishable color, many parts of the exposed cotton army coat, feet put a very small tattered luggage roll, it seems that this person mixed still can not catch up with me. Although my pockets are empty, but the clothes are still bright. The man's side face, head down, in the cold wind is gleefully speaking into the microphone to say something, occasionally also waved his hand to do some uncontrollable joyful action. An hour has passed, he is still not hungry to put down the phone, I can not help but some enviously thought of the phone his gray-haired mother, leaning on the door to look at his wife, lively and lovely son, can not help but to cry the feeling, but also to share his happiness impulse to raise his feet to his side to go over.
My footsteps startled the man who was on the phone, and he hung up in a hurry and turned his face in horror. I immediately saw a pale, thin, bearded and a few places with blood crusted face, the eyes dodge a little frightened to look at me. Later, when he saw that I did not mean any harm, he showed his teeth, shook his frozen lips, and said into the phone, "Don't worry, I'm fine!" After that, he hung up the phone, picked up the luggage roll on the floor, and walked away with a cheeky grin. It turned out that I had met someone who was living on the streets and homeless. And who was he calling? I curiously approached the phone booth to take a look, my tears brushed down ----
It turned out that there is no IC card inserted into the phone, he even talked to himself for more than an hour in the freezing cold!
Ten years have passed, I have a successful career, family happiness. But I know that everything I have now, including the life I am continuing, is given by that homeless man, yet he does not know.
Simple Inspirational Stories 5This is a true story from Africa, where six miners were mining coal in a very deep mine. Suddenly, the mine collapsed, the exit was blocked, and the miners were suddenly cut off from the outside world. Such accidents are not uncommon in the region, and with experience they realized that the biggest problem they faced was the lack of oxygen, and that the air down the shaft would allow them to survive for up to three and a half hours.
Only one of the six had a watch. So it was agreed that the person wearing the watch would be briefed every half hour. When the first half-hour passed, the miner with the watch said gently, "It's been half an hour." But in his heart he was unusually nervous and anxious, because it was informing everyone that the death line was approaching. At this point he had a sudden flash of inspiration and decided not to let everyone die a painful death. When the second half hour arrived, he made no sound, and after another quarter of an hour, he struck up and said, "An hour has passed." Actually 75 minutes had passed. Another hour passed before the miner with the watch announced for the third time the so-called "half-hour". His companions thought that only 90 minutes had passed, but only he knew that 135 minutes had passed.
Four and a half hours after the accident, the rescuers finally came in, and to their amazement, five of the six were still alive, and only one suffocated - the miner who wore the watch.
This is the power of belief. Because the survivors were fuzzy, there was no way to know when that sacrificial victim stopped chiming, but he gave his companions hope for survival, and he himself failed to persevere because he knew the truth.
Simple Inspirational Stories 6Rice, the U.S. National Security Advisor, was 10 years old when his family visited the capital, but because of his identity as a black man, he could not enter the White House. Little Rice was humiliated, staring at the White House for a long time, and then turned back to his father and told him, "Someday, I'll be in that house!" Sure enough, 25 years later, graduated from a prestigious university, has become an expert on Russia, Rice, strutting into the White House as the chief adviser on Russian affairs, and then rose to the national security adviser, became a world-renowned diplomat. The White House has a rule that discriminates against blacks, and it has long since disappeared.
NBA superstar O'Neal, when he was a high school student, his . idol was Spurs center David Robinson. After a ball game, O'Neal, who had been waiting for hours, saw his idol come out and went up to Robinson on a whim, asking him to sign. But Luo did not even look at him squarely, and walked away. O'Neal was so angry that he slammed the signing book on the ground and yelled, "What's so great about you, I'll definitely surpass you in the future!" Five years later, there is a super center on the NBA court, he is the "shark" O'Neal, on the court to see who destroyed who, invincible, especially see Robinson, more ruthless, every time the Luo hit a helmet.
People are not under pressure to be light, not inspired not angry. In this sense, we should really be "thankful" for the humiliation.
Simple Inspirational Stories7An obstacle is a new known condition, and any obstacle, if you want it to be, can be an opportunity to go beyond yourself.
One day, the lion, known as the king of the forest, came to the god of the sky: "I am very grateful to you for giving me such a majestic and powerful body, such a powerful and incomparable strength, so that I have enough ability to rule this whole forest."
Hearing this, the God of Heaven smiled and asked, "But that is not why you have come to me today! It seems as if you are troubled over something!"
The lion roared softly and said, "The God of Heaven really knows me! I have indeed come today to ask for something. For as good as my powers are, I am always awakened by the sound of the rooster's crow every day. God! Pray to You, give me one more power so that I will no longer be awakened by the sound of the rooster's crow!"
The God of Heaven laughed, "Go to the elephant and it will give you a satisfactory answer."
The lion hurried to the lake to look for the elephant, and before he could see the elephant, he heard the thumping sound of the elephant stamping its feet.
The lion speeds up and runs towards the elephant, but sees that the elephant is stamping its feet in anger.
The lion asks the elephant, "Why are you so angry?"
The elephant desperately shakes its big ears and roars, "There's a nasty little mosquito that's always trying to get into my ears, and it's making me itch."
The lion left the elephant, thinking to himself, "It turns out that an elephant of such a huge size will still be afraid of such a skinny little mosquito, so what do I have to complain about? After all, the rooster is only once a day, while the mosquito is always harassing the elephant. When I think of it this way, I am much luckier than he is."
As the lion walked away, he looked back at the elephant, who was still stamping his feet, and thought to himself, "The god of the heavens wanted me to come and see how the elephant was doing, presumably to tell me that anyone can run into trouble, and that he can't help everyone. In that case, I have to rely on myself! Anyway, from now on, whenever the rooster crows, I'll just take it as the rooster is reminding me that it's time to get up, and when I think about it, the sound of the rooster's crowing is still kind of beneficial to me?"
Warm tips: In the life of the road, no matter how well we go, but as long as a little encounter some bad things, will habitually complain that God treats us poorly, and then pray for God to give us more power to help us get through the difficult times. But in reality, God is the fairest of them all, just as it is for lions and elephants, and every predicament has its own positive value
Simple Inspirational Stories 8People with epilepsy aren't fit to play sports. But Patty Wilson's father didn't think so.
When Patty said to him, "Dad, can I go for a long morning run like you do every morning," Patty's father, after a brief hesitation, said to Patty, "Yes, you're welcome to run with Dad."
Patty said, "But I have epilepsy, what if I have a seizure in the middle of the run?"
Patty's father said, "Don't be afraid, I know how to handle it, besides it doesn't happen."
Patty started running in the morning with her father the next day, and luckily, Patty really didn't have a seizure during the exercise.
Patty was happy. Prior to this, her doctor had told her she couldn't go in the water, couldn't play ball, and couldn't participate in any aggressive or physically demanding activities. Now it seems that the doctor's words were not quite right.
A few weeks later, Patty suddenly told her father, "I want to break the world record for women's long-distance running."
The father was shocked to hear this. For a girl with no professional training and epilepsy, this was a pipe dream.
Patty saw her father's doubts and said not now, but in three years, or longer.
Three years later, Patty thought she was ready to take on the world record. She made a plan for herself to run from Orange County, where she lived, to San Francisco, then to Portland, Oregon, and finally to the White House, a distance of about 3,000 kilometers.
She traveled four full months from her home, from the West Coast to the East Coast, and finally to Washington, D.C., where she was summoned by the president. Her first words to the president were, "I want other people to know that people with epilepsy are no different from the general population and can lead normal lives."
Simple Inspirational Story 9There was a man who suffered two tragic accidents in his life.
The first misfortune happened when he was 46 years old. An airplane accident burned over 65% of the skin on his body. In 16 surgeries, his face turned into a colored plate due to skin grafts. His fingers are gone, his legs are exceptionally tiny, and he is so immobile that he is paralyzed in a wheelchair.
Who would have thought that six months later, he himself would be flying an airplane into the blue sky!
Four years later, fate once again brought misfortune upon him when the plane he was flying suddenly fell back to the runway on takeoff, crushing all 12 of his vertebrae and paralyzing him forever from the waist down.
But he didn't take these disasters as a reason for his depression, saying, "I could do 10,000 things before I was paralyzed, and now I can only do 9,000, and I can still focus my attention and eyes on the 9,000 things I can do. I've suffered two major setbacks in my life, so I have to choose not to use them as an excuse to give up on my endeavors." This strong man in life is Mitchell. Because he never gave up trying, he eventually became a millionaire, a public speaker, an entrepreneur, and also gained a place in the political arena.
Simple Inspirational Stories 10At the end of the Second World War, a young Austrian university student was still immersed in the horrors of the war. He sympathized greatly with the orphans who had lost their parents in the war and was eager to do something for those poor children.
So he traveled on foot from village to village, hoping to get a piece of land free of charge to build a home for the orphans. The college student visited who knows how many villages, and finally in a small town in Tyrol, Austria, a kind person gave him a piece of deserted vacant land. The college student then went on a non-stop search for philanthropists and builders willing to donate building materials.
Thanks to his tireless efforts, the world's first SOS Children's Village was built in 1949 in the small town of Imster, where dozens of orphans once again felt the warmth of family. The university student was named Hermann Gmeiner, and he was the founder of SOS Children's Villages International. Today, more than 400 SOS Children's Villages and their affiliates, located in more than 130 countries and regions, raise homeless children and benefit more than 300,000 people.