Inspiring Story:Most Beautiful Heart

One day a young man was standing in the middle 

of the town proclaiming that he had the most 

beautiful heart in the whole valley.

A large crowd gathered and they all admired 

his heart for it was perfect.

There was not a mark or a flaw in it. Yes, 

they all agreed it truly was the most beautiful heart 

they had ever seen. The young man was very proud 

and boasted more loudly about his beautiful heart.

Suddenly, an old man appeared at the front of the crowd 

and said, "Why your heart is not nearly as beautiful 

as mine."The crowd and the young man looked at the old 

man's heart. It was beating strongly ... but full of scars. 

It had places where pieces had been removed and 

other pieces put in ... but they didn't fit quite right and 

there were several jagged edges.

In fact, in some places there were deep gouges 

where whole pieces were missing. The people starred ... 

how could he say his heart is more beautiful, 

they thought?

The young man looked at the old man's heart and 

saw its state and laughed. "You must be joking," he said. 

"Compare your heart with mine ... mine is perfect and 

yours is a mess of scars and tears."

"Yes," said the old man, "Yours is perfect looking ... 

but I would never trade with you. You see, every scar 

represents a person to whom I have given my love.. 

I tear out a piece of my heart and give it to them. 

and often they give me a piece of their heart

which fits into the empty place in my heart ... 

but because the pieces aren't exact, I have some 

rough edges, which I cherish, 

because they remind me of the love we shared.

Sometimes I have given pieces of my heart away ... 

and the other person hasn't returned a piece of 

his heart to me. These are the empty gouges ... 

giving love is taking a chance. Although these gouges 

are painful, they stay open, reminding me 

of the love I have for these people too ... 

and I hope someday they may return and 

fill the space I have waiting. So now 

do you see what true beauty is?"

The young man stood silently with tears running 

down his cheeks. He walked up to the old man, 

reached into his perfect young and 

beautiful heart, and ripped a piece out. 

He offered it to the old man with trembling hands.

The old man took his offering, placed it in his heart 

and then took a piece from his old scarred heart 

and placed it in the wound in the young man's heart.

It fit .... but not perfectly, as there were some 

jagged edges. The young man looked at his heart, 

not perfect anymore but more beautiful than ever, 

since love from the old man's heart flowed into his.

They embraced and walked away side by side.

Inspiring Story:Lessons on life

There was a man who had four sons. He wanted his sons 
to learn not to judge things too quickly. So he sent them 
each on a quest, in turn, to go and look at a pear tree 
that was a great distance away. The first son went in the winter, 
the second in the spring, the third in summer, and 
the youngest son in the fall.

When they had all gone and come back, he called them 
together to describe what they had seen. The first son 
said that the tree was ugly, bent, and twisted. 
The second son said no it was covered with green buds 
and full of promise. The third son disagreed; he said
 it was laden with blossoms that smelled so sweet 
and looked so beautiful, it was the most graceful thing 
he had ever seen. The last son disagreed with all of them; 
he said it was ripe and drooping with fruit, full of life 
and fulfillment.


The man then explained to his sons that they were all right, 
because they had each seen but only one season in 
the tree's life. He told them that you cannot judge a tree, 
or a person, by only one season, and that the essence of 
who they are and the pleasure, joy, and love that come 
from that life can only be measured at the end, 
when all the seasons are up.


If you give up when it's winter, you will miss the promise 
of your spring, the beauty of your summer, fulfillment of 
your fall. 

Inspiring Story:

Don't let the pain of one season destroy the joy 
of all the rest. Don't judge life by one difficult season. 
Persevere through the difficult patches and better times 
are sure to come some time or later.

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You are priceless to those who love you

A well-known speaker started off his seminar by 

holding up a dollar twenty ($20) bill, in the room

of two hundred (200) people. Speaker asked, 

"Who would like this dollar twenty ($20) bill?" 

Hands started going up.

Speaker said, "I am going to give this dollar twenty 

($20) bill to one of you but first, let me do this." 

He proceeded to crumple up the dollar twenty ($20) bill. 

He asked, "Who still wants it?" Still hands were up in 

the air.

"Well, what if I do this?" He dropped it on the ground 

and started to grind it into the floor with his shoe. 

He picked it up, now crumpled and dirty and asked, 

"Who still wants it?" Still hands went up into the air.

My friends, we have all learned a very valuable lesson. 

No matter what was done to the money, it was still 

wanted because it did not decrease in value. 

It was still worth dollar twenty ($20).

Many times in our lives, we are dropped, crumpled 

and ground into the dirt by the decisions we make 

and the circumstances that come our way. 

We may feel as though we are worthless and useless.

But no matter what has happened or will happen, 

you will never lose your value: dirty or clean, crumpled

or finely creased, you are still priceless to those 

who love you.

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