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Inspirational
Nugget
Then
Do It
Novelist
Sinclair Lewis was supposed to deliver an
hour-long lecture to a group of college students who
planned to be writers. Lewis opened his talk with
a question:
"How
many of you really intend to be writers?"
All hands went up.
"In
that case," said Lewis, "my advice to you is to
go home and write."
With
that, he left.
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Bits & Pieces
BEAUTY
CONTEST
A
successful beauty product company asked the people in a large
city to send pictures along with brief letters about the most
beautiful women they knew. With in a few weeks thousands of
letters were delivered to the company.
One letter in particular caught the attention of the employees
and soon it was handed to the company president. The letter
was written by a young boy who obviously was from a broken
home, living in a run-down neighborhood. With spelling corrections,
an excerpt from his letter read: "A beautiful woman lives
down the street from me. I visit her every day. She makes
me feel like the most important kid in the world. We play
checkers and she listens to my problems. She understands me
and when I leave she always yells out the door that she's
proud of me."
The boy ended his letter saying, "This picture shows
you that she is the most beautiful woman. I hope I have a
wife as pretty as her."
Intrigued by the letter, the president asked to see this woman's
picture. His secretary handed him a photograph of a smiling,
toothless woman, well-advanced in years, sitting in a wheelchair.
Sparse gray hair was pulled back in a bun and wrinkles that
formed deep furrows on her face were somehow diminished by
the twinkle in her eyes.
"We
can't use this woman," explained the president, smiling.
"She would show the world that our products aren't necessary
to be beautiful."
"A
man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he
describes another's." Jean Paul Richter, 1763-1825
(From
More Stories for the Heart, Compiled by Alice Gray, 1997)
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Carla Muir
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Cosmos
of Happiness
