Staff Writer 08:46 am | J.K. Rowling Speaks at Harvard Commencement from Harvard Magazine on Vimeo.   J.K. Rowling, author of the best-selling Harry Potter book series, delivers her Commencement Address, “The Fringe Benefits of Failure, and the Importance of...

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Staff Writer 10:10 am | There is no need to be afraid of death. It is not the end of the physical body that should worry us. Rather, our concern must be to live while we’re alive –...

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Staff Writer 09:18 am | by Deepak Chopra   If you observe nature at work, you will see that least effort is expended. Grass doesn’t try to grow, it just grows. Fish don’t try to swim, they just swim. Flowers...

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Staff Writer 02:01 pm | There was an old, poor fisherman who cast his net four times a day and only four times. One day he went to the shore and cast his net. When he tried to...

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Staff Writer 09:14 am | Look again at that dot. That’s here. That’s home. That’s us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their...

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Staff Writer 01:38 am | Imagine being born without arms. No arms to wrap around someone, no hands to experience touch, or to hold another hand with. Or what about being born without legs? Having no ability to...

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Love Stories

Mirracle by chance »

Mirracle by chanceStaff Writer 12:23 pm | This is a “true story” about how I met my boyfriend on a dating site on the Internet. 15 YEARS AGO: I used to hang out at a country bar...

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Life Stories

The Builder »

The Builder

Staff Writer 02:30 am | An elderly carpenter was ready to retire. He told his employer-contractor of his plans to leave the...

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How The Donkey Came Out of the Well. An Inspiring Story »

How The Donkey Came Out of the Well.  An Inspiring Story

Staff Writer 07:44 am | One day a farmer’s donkey fell into an abandoned well. The animal brayed piteously as the farmer...

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Challenges keep us Live »

Challenges keep us Live

Staff Writer 01:34 pm | The Japanese have always loved fresh fish. But the water close to Japan has not held many...

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The Echo »

The Echo

Staff Writer 09:49 am | A son and his father were walking on the mountains. Suddenly, his son falls, hurts himself and...

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The Fisherman and the Jinni »

Staff Writer 02:01 pm | There was an old, poor fisherman who cast his net four times a day and only four times. One day he went to the shore and cast his net. When he tried to pull it up, he found it to be heavy. When he dove in and pulled up the net, he found a dead...

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THE EAGLE WHO THOUGHT HE WAS A CHICKEN »

Rosemarie Somaiah 07:55 am |   A farmer found a newborn eagle chick that had been blown out of its nest in a storm. He took it to wife and she tucked it quickly under the welcoming wings of Mother Hen. The eagle grew up with the brood of chicks thinking he was a chicken.     A few weeks later a neighbour was...

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THE EAGLE WHO THOUGHT HE WAS A CHICKEN

The Merchant and the Genie »

Lennie Major 09:42 am | One day, a merchant went to a marketplace to purchase goods to trade.  Just when he thought he had examined all the shops and materials he saw one last stall that had escaped his notice.  To his great surprise the stall was empty except for an anxious looking man who was sitting with a genie hovering in...

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The Merchant and the Genie

The fisherman and the investment banker, great life story »

Staff Writer 09:12 pm | A Fisherman and an Investment Banker was at the pier of a small coastal village when a small boat with just one fisherman docked. Inside the small boat were several large yellow fin tuna. The investment banker complimented the fisherman on the quality of his fish and asked how long it took to catch them. The fisherman replied, “Only...

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The fisherman and the investment banker, great life story

The Apple Tree »

Staff Writer 12:45 am | A long time ago, there was a huge apple tree. A little boy loved to come and play around it everyday. He climbed to the treetop, ate the apples, took a nap under the shadow…he loved the tree and the tree loved to play with him. Time went by…the little boy had grown up and...

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The Apple Tree

Proverbs & Quotes

Famous saying about life

Famous saying about life »

Staff Writer 03:06 pm | MARK TWAIN: Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away...

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Famous Quotes from Famous Individuals »

Famous Quotes from Famous Individuals

Staff Writer 02:21 pm | Famous Quote by Francis Bacon Knowledge is power. Famous Quote by William Wordsworth The good die first. Famous Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson Hitch...

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Great Quotes on Life »

Great Quotes on Life

Staff Writer 12:48 pm | Life is one big road with lots of signs. So when you riding through the ruts, don’t complicate your mind. Flee from...

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Thoughtful Proverbs »

Thoughtful Proverbs

Staff Writer 12:21 pm | He who does not seize opportunity today, will be unable to seize tomorrow’s opportunity. A camel can tolerate a heavy...

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Poetries & Spoken Words

Rumi’s Love Poem »

Rumi’s Love Poem

Staff Writer 09:06 pm | Love is best when mixed with anguish. In our town, we won’t call you...

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MAMA Africa »

MAMA Africa

Farah M. Mohamed 07:51 am | Oh Mama Africa, why do you forsake me? Years ago I escaped from the wrath of war, Not blaming you, but still under your...

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Alas! I took a trip to eternity

Alas! I took a trip to eternity »

Abdinasir Haji-Bare 08:58 am | What is existence? And what is this fleeting eternity? And why is every high has to come with a low as if they are bundled, packaged and sold together? Well, if...

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