How High Can You Jump? Flea1) trainers have observed a strange habit of fleas while training them.Fleas are trained by putting them in a cardboard box with a top on it.The fleas will jump up and hit the top of the cardboard box over and over and over...
A Terrific Class The first day of school began on a bright note for a teacher who was glancing over the class roll．After each students name was a number，such as 138，140，154 and so on．Look at these IQs ，she thought to herself．Theyve give...
Never Give Up Never give up， Never lose hope． Always have faith， It allows you to cope． Trying times will pass， As they always do． Just have patience， Your dreams will come true． So put on a smile， Youll live through your pain． Kn...
A Mother's Letter to the World Dear World： My son starts school today．Its going to be strange and new to him for a while．And I wish you would sort of1) treat him gently． You see，up to now，hes been king of the roost．Hes been boss of the...
Wealth Success and Love A woman saw three old men sitting in her front yard. She said, I dont think I know you, but you must be hungry. Please come in and have something to eat. We do not go into a house together. they replied. Why is that？she want...
Save money for college by my own I will never forget one day in my first year in high school. I was sitting on the stairs descending1) into the basement, putting my head in my hands and crying out in despair to my parents that I would never be able t...
My Wagon Instead of an established home, my parents gave me something better：a gypsy wagon, so that I could make my home wherever I might be. My father built with boards of art, music, adventure, and deviation from the norms of society. My mother u...
What I have lived for Three passions,simple but overwhelmingly1) strong,have governed my life:the longing for love,the search for knowledge,and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.These passions,like great winds,have blown me hither and thit...
Important Things Life Teaches Us:Pickup in the Rain One night,at 11:30PM,an older African America woman was standing on the side of an Alabama highway trying to endure a lashing rainstorm.Her car had broken down and she desperately needed a ride.Soak...
A Child' s Angel Once upon a time there was a child ready to be born．So one day he asked God，They tell me you are sending me to earth tomorrow but how am I going to live there，being so small and helpless？ Among the many angels，I chose one f...
Prayer for My Mother Dear God， Now that I am no longer young，I have friends whose mothers have passed away．I have heard these sons and daughters say they never fully appreciated their mothers until it was too late to tell them． I am blessed w...
Santa Claus: The True Story I remember my first Christmas party with Grandma．I was just a kid．I remember tearing1) across town on my bike to visit her on the day my big sister dropped the bomb：There is no Santa Claus，she jeered． Even dummie...
Lucky to Be Alive Maria，a gentle，soft－spoken woman o f seventy，had always managed to view the world with a child's sense of wonderment．She greeted the dawn of each new day with the brightness of the sun itself and found joy in the smallest...
Room For The Future At the age of forty－five，my usually well－ordered life became fraught with changes． After twenty－two years of working for a major financial institution，a downsizing initiative and a major bank merger resulted in the eli...
Think of What You Have Instead of What You Want In over a dozen years as a stress consultant1)，one of the most pervasive2) and destructive3) mental tendencies4) I've seen is that of focusing on what we want instead of what we have．It doesn't seem...
