Friday, July 30, 2010

Importance of Inspiring Stories

Inspiring stories can have life-defining impact on us. It is not an unusual sight to see someone’s life changing for better after coming across good and inspiring stories. Motivational stories can be inspired from real life events or they can just be a figment of our imagination. Not just children, even adults like to hear good stories. Positive thinking has a calming effect on human minds.

If we talk about effects of inspiring short stories on children, many psychologists recommend parents to tell motivational tales to their kids. It helps in broadening the thought process of the kids. It also helps in shaping mind of young ones. Inspiring stories can create beliefs and values in the minds of the children. They learn to appreciate value of terms like honesty, integrity, hard work and bravery etc.

There is no dearth of motivational stories in English or Hindi. Tales from Panchatantra, Jataka akbar birbal, and other fables are perfect examples of good tales. In English, one can go for stories like The boy who cried wolf, Aesops’ fables, The ugly duckling, Red riding hood, and The hare and the tortoise etc. Tales from Panchatantra have animals and birds as central characters and each of the fable tells a moral lesson.

One can find numerous inspirational short story collections that would make for substance reading for the young minds. Most of these tales are simple and easy to understand. They send a sound and clear message to the readers. Inspirational stories create aspiration. Good, inspirational stories are also available in form of audio and video books.

Wednesday, May 5, 2010

famous stories

Stories have a life of their own. Humans always had a fascination for popular stories. Since the birth of civilization to modern day life of complexity, we have loved reading and listening to famous stories. As said before, stories have a life of their own and that’s why some of these stories have been passed from generation to generation. There is an element of unexplainable charm and mystery about the stories. They have an impact on our lives in different ways. It’s not just children who are eternally fascinated with colourful stories. Even adults and mature people like to relish some evergreen stories. If on one hand, they are a reminder of our rich culture, at the same time they also manage to guide us, entertain us and motivate us.

Some of the most famous stories in the history have themes ranging from family, mythology, culture, fables, ghost, treasure hunting and mystery. There is no dearth of good stories that you can always relish at any stage of your life. It’s a sheer sensory delight to read wonderful stories again and again. Each one of us has different story taste. Some like to feast upon legends and fables whereas some others go for anecdote and mythological characters. But no matter what is your individual taste and preference as far as stories are concerned, you will always find plenty of narrations on your favourite theme.

Stories like King Alfred, Solomon, Robin Hood etc have been in circulation since centuries. They still manage to enthral us. If you like reading famous love stories then, you must have read Romeo and Juliet, Paris and Helena, Cleopatra and Mark Anthony, Tristan and Isolde etc. These wonderful love stories have remained the guiding force for lovers of all eras.

Roman and Greek culture offer us wonderful myths and fables. An avid story reader must have read sagas of Zeus, Atlas, Hermes, Neptune, Titans etc. Stories of Alexander, Napoleon, and Julius Caesar etc have inspired millions of people all across the world. In modern day context, celebrated figures like Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Lincoln etc make up for great stories. Inspirational stories have a charm of their own. They can work wonders. We all feel a certain kind of invisible connection with famous stories. They take us to a different planet and help us in fostering connection with eras gone by.

stories can inspire

Good stories can inspire us and make us much much better human beings.
Will post best stories from the web.