Looking for some short stories full of philosophy or truth

1. Broken Arrow

If you don’t believe in your own will, you will never become a general.

In the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, a father and his son went off to fight. The father has become a general, and the son is just a pawn. Another blast of horns sounded and war drums thundered. My father solemnly held up a quiver with an arrow in it. The father solemnly said to his son: "This is a treasured arrow. It has infinite power when you carry it with you, but you must never pull it out."

It was an extremely exquisite quiver made of thick cowhide. Inlaid with a faintly glowing copper rim, look at the exposed arrow tail. You can tell at a glance that it is made from the finest peacock feathers. The son beamed with joy and greedily speculated on the appearance of the arrow shaft and arrow. The sound of arrows seemed to be whizzing past his ears, and the enemy's commander jumped off his horse and died.

Sure enough, the man with the treasured arrows The son is heroic and invincible. When Ming Jin's horn sounded to withdraw his troops, his son could no longer hold back the pride of victory and completely abandoned his father's instructions. The strong desire drove him to pull out his treasured arrow with a single call, trying to see what happened. Suddenly he was stunned.

A broken arrow, a broken arrow in the quiver.

I have been fighting with broken arrows! The son was so frightened that he broke out in a cold sweat, as if the house had suddenly lost its pillars and his will suddenly collapsed.

The result is self-evident, his son died tragically in the rebellion.

Brushing away the misty smoke, my father picked up the broken arrow and spat heavily: "If you don't believe in your own will, you will never be a general."

Win the victory How stupid it is to pin one's defeat on a precious arrow, and how dangerous it is when a person hands over the core and handle of his life to others! For example, place your hopes on your children; place your happiness on your husband; place your livelihood security on your work unit...

Warm reminder: You are the arrow. If you want it to be tough, If you want it to be sharp, if you want it to pierce through the poplars with hundreds of steps, and hit the target with hundreds of shots, if you want it to be sharpened, the only one who can save it is yourself.

2. The value of life

Don’t let yesterday’s frustration eclipse tomorrow’s dreams!

At a discussion, a famous speaker did not say a single opening statement, but held up a 20-dollar bill in his hand.

Facing the 200 people in the conference room, he asked: "Who wants these 20 dollars?" One hand was raised. He continued: "I plan to give these 20 dollars to one of you, but before that, please allow me to do one thing." He crumpled the banknotes into a ball, and then asked: "Who wants it? "There are still hands raised.

He then said: "So, what will happen if I do this?" He threw the money to the ground, stepped on another foot, and crushed it with his foot. Then he picked up the banknotes, which had become dirty and wrinkled.

“Who wants it now?” Some people still raised their hands.

Friends, you have learned a very meaningful lesson. No matter what I do with that bill, you still want it because it hasn't lost value, it's still worth $20. On the road of life, we will be knocked down, bullied or even crushed to pieces countless times by our decisions or the adversity we encounter. We feel as if we are worthless. But no matter what happens, or what will happen, you will never lose value in the eyes of God. In His eyes, dirty or clean, neatly or disheveled, you are still priceless. "

Warm reminder: The value of life does not depend on what we do or the people we associate with, but on who we are! We are unique - never forget this! < /p>

3. It looks so beautiful when you hold your head high

Even though it is a black cow, the milk is still white.

Jenny is a little girl who always keeps her head down. Girl, she always felt that she was not pretty enough. One day, she went to the jewelry store and bought a green bow. The shopkeeper kept praising her that she looked pretty with the bow. Although Jenny didn't believe it, she was very happy and couldn't help but raise her head and get excited. Let everyone see, she didn’t care when she bumped into someone when she went out.

Jenny walked into the classroom and ran into her teacher, “Jenny, you look so beautiful when you hold your head high! "The teacher patted her shoulder lovingly and said.

That day, she received many compliments. She thought it must be because of the bow, but when she looked in the mirror, there was no bow at all. , it must have been lost when someone came out of the jewelry store.

Confidence is a kind of beauty, but many people lose a lot of happiness because they care too much about appearance.

Warm reminder: Whether you are poor or rich, whether you are beautiful or ordinary, as long as you hold your head high, happiness will make you cute - the kind of cuteness that everyone likes.

4. Draw a leaf for life

As long as you believe in it, miracles will always happen. Although hope is slim, it will last forever.

American writer O. Henry in his novel ". There is a story in "The Last Leaf": In the ward, a dying patient saw a tree outside the window falling one by one in the autumn wind. The patient looked at the fallen leaves in front of him, and his body also followed. It's getting worse day by day. She said: "When all the leaves fall off, I will die."

"After an old painter learned about it, he used a colored pen to draw a leaf with green veins and hung it on a branch.

The last leaf never fell. Just because of this piece of green in his life, the patient miraculously recovered.

Warm reminder: Life can be without many things, but hope is an important value in human life. Where there is hope, life will continue. !

5. Flying Spider

Faith is an indomitable force. When you firmly believe that you can succeed, you will succeed.

One day, I discovered that a black spider had built a large web between the two eaves in the backyard. Could it be that spiders could fly? Otherwise, there was more than a foot wide from one eaves to the other. How did a thread pull through? Later, I found that the spider took many detours - starting from an eaves, tying knots, and crawling down the wall, step by step, carefully raising its tail to prevent the silk from getting stuck. Go to the sand or other objects on the ground, walk across the open space, and then climb up to the eaves on the opposite side. When the height is almost the same, tighten the silk.

Warm reminder: Spiders can't. It can fly, but it can tie its net in mid-air. It is a diligent, sensitive, silent and tenacious insect. Its net is made exquisitely and regularly, and it is opened in the shape of a trigram, as if it has received divine help. I couldn't help but think of those taciturn people and some hidden wise men. So, I remembered that the spider can't fly, but it still hangs its web in the air.

6 , The shadow is a paper dragon

In life, there are often countless blows from the outside, but the final decision on how these blows will affect you is in your hands

My grandfather made me a long dragon out of paper. The space in the belly of the long dragon could only accommodate a few locusts. They all died inside and no one was spared! Grandfather said: "The locusts are too restless, and they can't do anything except struggle." I thought about biting the dragon with my mouth, but I didn't know that I could climb out from the other side by moving forward. Therefore, even though it has a claw-like mouth shell and jagged thighs, it is of no avail. ”

When my grandfather put several green worms of the same size in through the faucet and then closed the faucet, a miracle happened: in just a few minutes, the little green worms crawled out of the dragon’s tail one by one.

Warm reminder: Destiny has always been hidden in our thoughts. Many people cannot get out of the big or small shadows at different stages of life, not because their natural personal conditions are much worse than others, but because. They have no thought to bite through the shadow paper dragon, and they have no patience to slowly find a direction and move forward step by step until a new cave appears in front of them.

7. Success is not what you imagine. It’s not that we don’t dare to do things, it’s that they are difficult because we don’t dare to do them.

In 1965, a Korean student came to Cambridge University to study. Majoring in psychology. While having afternoon tea, he often went to the school cafe or teahouse to listen to some successful people chatting. These successful people included Nobel Prize winners, academic authorities in certain fields, and people who created economic miracles. , these people are humorous and easy-going, and they regard their success as very natural and logical. Over time, he found that when he was in China, he was deceived by some successful people in order to make people who were starting a business give up. , generally exaggerate the hardships of starting a business, that is to say, they are using their successful experiences to scare those who have not yet achieved success.

As a student in the Department of Psychology, he believes that it is necessary to learn more about South Korea. He studied the mentality of successful people. In 1970, he submitted "Success is Not as Difficult as You Think" as his graduation thesis to Professor Will Braden, the founder of modern economic psychology. Surprised, he thought this was a new discovery. Although this phenomenon is common in the East and even around the world, no one has boldly proposed and studied it before. Surprised, he wrote to his Cambridge alumnus - -Park Chung-hee, who was sitting in the top position in South Korean politics at the time, said in the letter, "I can't say how helpful this book is to you, but I'm sure it is more helpful than any of your decrees. can produce vibrations. ”

Later, this book really accompanied South Korea’s economic take-off. This book inspired many people because they told people from a new perspective that success is related to “working one’s muscles and bones and starving one’s body.” ", "The lights are on at three o'clock and the chicken is on the fifth o'clock", and "The head hangs from the beam, and the cone thorns the buttocks" are not necessarily connected. As long as you are interested in a certain career, you will succeed if you persist for a long time, because the time and wisdom God has given you are enough for you. After completing one thing successfully, this young man also became successful and became the president of Panye Automobile Company in South Korea.

Warm reminder: As long as you want to do something in this world, you can do it. If you do this, you can overcome all the difficulties that need to be overcome. It doesn’t require any iron will, let alone any skills or strategies. As long as a person lives a simple and interesting life, he will eventually discover that the Creator has a strong will. Everything in this world happens naturally.

8. Eternal ticket

Life is interesting: if you only accept the best, you will often get the best. /p>

There is a person who often travels on business and often cannot buy the right ticket.

But no matter long or short distance, no matter how crowded the car is, he can always find a seat.

His method is actually very simple, which is to patiently search for them one by one. This method may not sound clever, but it works. Every time, he was ready to go from the first car to the last car, but every time he would find an empty seat without having to go to the end. He said this was because there were not many passengers like him who persevered in finding seats. There were often a few seats left in the carriage where he sat, but the aisles and joints of other carriages were actually overcrowded.

He said that most passengers were easily confused by the superficial appearance of one or two crowded carriages, and did not think carefully about the flow of people up and down through the dozen or so doors of the train during dozens of stops. There are many opportunities to provide seats; even if they think of it, they don't have the patience to look for it. Most people are easily satisfied with the small space in front of them, but some people find it not worthwhile to carry their luggage and squeeze around just for one or two seats. They were also worried that if they couldn't find a seat, they wouldn't even have a good place to stand. Just like some people in life who are content with the status quo and do not want to make progress and are afraid of failure, they can always stay at the starting point without success. Most of these passengers who are unwilling to take the initiative to find seats can only stand where they first landed when they got on the bus. get off.

Warm reminder: Confidence, persistence, vision, and diligence in practice will give you a permanent ticket to the journey of life.

9. The stubborn stones in the heart

What hinders us from discovering and creating are only our psychological obstacles and the stubborn stones in our thoughts.

Once upon a time, there was a large stone in the vegetable garden of a family, about forty centimeters wide and ten centimeters high. People who go to the vegetable garden will accidentally kick that big stone and either fall or get bruised.

The son asked: "Dad, why don't you dig up that nasty stone?"

The father replied: "You mean that stone? Since your grandfather's time, , it has been there until now. It is so big that I don’t know how long it will take to dig. It’s boring to dig rocks. Why not walk carefully and train your reaction ability.”

Passed. A few years later, this big stone was left to the next generation, when the son married a daughter-in-law and became a father.

One day the daughter-in-law said angrily: "Dad, the more I look at that big stone in the vegetable garden, the more I dislike it. I'll ask someone to move it away some other time."

The father replied: "Forget it! That big stone is very heavy. If it could have been moved away, it would have been moved away when I was a child. How could I let it stay until now?"

My daughter-in-law felt very bad about that big stone. The stone made her fall down countless times.

One morning, the daughter-in-law took a hoe and a bucket of water and poured the whole bucket of water around the big stone.

Ten minutes later, the wife used a hoe to loosen the soil around the big stone.

My daughter-in-law had already been mentally prepared. It might take a day to dig. No one expected that the stone would be dug up in a few minutes. Look at the size. The stone was not as big as expected. It was all covered by the huge stone. Appearances are deceiving.

Warm reminder: If you climb a mountain with the intention of going downhill, you will not be able to climb up the mountain. If your world is dull and hopeless, it's because you are dull and hopeless. To change your world, you must first change your own mentality.

10. Pursue selflessness

Don’t think of yourself as a mouse, otherwise you will definitely be eaten by a cat.

In 1858, a wealthy family in Sweden gave birth to a daughter. Soon, however, the child contracted an unexplained paralysis and lost the ability to walk.

Once, the girl and her family took a boat trip. The captain's wife told her children that the captain had a bird of paradise. She was fascinated by the description of the bird and wanted to see it for herself. So the nurse left the child on the deck and went to find the captain. The child couldn't bear to wait, so she asked the waiter on the boat to take her to see the Birds of Paradise immediately. The waiter didn't know that her legs couldn't walk, but just took her to see the beautiful bird. A miracle happened. The child was so eager that he held the waiter's hand and walked slowly away. Since then, the child's illness has been cured. When the girl grew up, she devoted herself selflessly to literary creation, and finally became the first woman to win the Nobel Prize for Literature, that is, Thelma Lagerloff.

Warm reminder: Selflessness is a shortcut to success. Only in this environment can people transcend their own constraints and release the greatest energy.