Motivation for Your Week April 19, 2010

WOW 4U Motivation for Your Week April 19, 2010

Inspirational Words of Wisdom

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QUOTE of the WEEK:

"When you are kind to others,

it not only changes you,

it changes the world."

Harold Kushner

 

You may also enjoy our quote of the day

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STORY FOR YOUR WEEK

A Little Bit of Kindness

By Catherine Pulsifer

 

There are times in our life when we don't take action because we feel the action is too little, that it wouldn't make a difference. However, sometimes the smallest gesture can make a huge impact on someone's life. There are many different ways we can show kindness to others, and it doesn't have to be in a big way.

 

The simplest of things may make the difference. A smile, a door being held open, a handwritten note, a kind word, the list can go on and on. 

 

I was recently reading some of Aesop's fables and came across the story of The Lion and The Mouse. While this story has been around for a long time, it still has wisdom in its words. Below is the story:

 

One day a Lion was asleep when a little Mouse began running up and down his back; this soon wakened the Lion, who placed his huge paw upon him, and opened his big jaws to swallow him.

 

"Please don't," cried the little Mouse: "forgive me this time, I shall never forget it: who knows but what I may be able to do you a turn some of these days?"

 

The Lion was so tickled at the idea of the Mouse being able to help him that he lifted up his paw and let him go.

 

Some time after the Lion was caught in a trap, he pulled with all his might, but the ropes were too strong. Just then the little Mouse happened to pass by, and seeing the sad plight, in which the Lion was, went up to him, and with his sharp little teeth gnawed away the ropes, setting the Lion free.

 

"You once laughed at me," said the mouse. You thought I was too little to do you a good turn. But see, you owe your life to a poor little mouse."

 

While you may think the story is far fetched, the point I found in reading the story is not the size of the action that is important, but the difference that a small action made.

 

 

YOUR MONTHLY MOTIVATIONAL QUOTE CALENDAR

April  2010 Printable Monthly Calendar with Inspirational Quotes

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QUOTES for YOUR WEEK:

Remember there's no such thing as a small act of kindness.

Every act creates a ripple with no logical end.

Scott Adams

 

We will not be remembered by our words, but by our kind deeds.

Author Unknown

 

Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things,

in which smiles, and kindnesses, and small obligations,

given habitually, are what win and preserve the heart and secure comfort.

Humphrey Davy

 

Sometimes when we are generous in small, barely detectable ways

it can change someone else's life forever.

Margaret Cho

 

It was only a sunny smile,

And little it cost in the giving.

But like morning light,

it scattered the night,

and made the day worth living.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

 

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Have a great week,

Catherine Pulsifer

Inspirational Words of Wisdom

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wowmotivation@gmail.com

 

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