Thomas Edison Exemplified Reconciliation

Author Ken Sande gives an example of how loving actions can communicate forgiveness:

Loving actions can do much more than change your feelings; they can ...

Stumbling Horse Recovers to Win the Race

It happened in just a blink with a quarter mile to go at the 2005 running of the Preakness. Afleet Alex had battled his way to the front of the pack when ...

Man Passes Driver's License Test After 271 Failures

Seo Sang-moon figured he would eventually be able to pass his driver’s license examination. And indeed, he did—on his 272nd attempt. After clearing ...

Bus Hijacker Is a Successful Failure

A 19-year-old man, desperate to get to Tokyo’s Haneda Airport, hopped a bus and demanded the driver take him there.

Some say the man was drunk, others ...

Captain Refused to Acknowledge He Was Lost

On September 3, 1989, Varig Airlines Flight 254 was at Brazil's Maraba Airport preparing for takeoff. Under normal circumstances the hop to nearby ...

Failures of Religion Push People to Atheism

Paradoxically, what propels people toward atheism is above all a sense of revulsion against the excesses and failures of organized religion.

Pickler Finds Satisfaction in the Process

Rick Field is a 41-year-old bachelor, with degrees from Andover and Yale, who has decided to spend his life making pickles. The career change came after ...

Fire-Walkers Get Burned

At a self-help seminar in Rohrbach, Austria, participants were urged to walk over hot, fiery coals. The purpose of the exercise was to "mobilize ...

Boxer Mike Tyson Squandered Fortune

Minimum amount boxer Mike Tyson earned in the nine years before filing for bankruptcy in August 2003: $300,000,000.

WD-40 Teaches Persistence

The following is an object lesson on persistence:

Text: "Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we ...