My Good Time Stories

Inspirational, Motivational, and Heartwarming Stories

Tag: Inspiring

  • A simple friend, when visiting, acts like a guest. A real friend opens your refrigerator and helps himself.   A simple friend has never seen you cry. A real friend has shoulders soggy from your tears.   A simple friend doesn’t know your parents’ first names. A real friend has their phone numbers in his…

  • Your life is precious. Your life is valuable. Your life is priceless. Your life has worth. There are times in everyone’s life that we tend to question the value of our lives. Sometimes it is a result of the kind of people that we spend our time with during our working day or our free…

  • The world is filled with people who, no matter what you do, no matter what you try, will simply not like you. But the world is also filled with those individuals who will love and care for you deeply. These people, the ones who love you: THEY are your people.   Don’t waste your finite…

  • Have you ever felt like you were not good enough and that your life was filled with poor self-confidence and self-doubt? If so, then I have just the prayer for you…the “Knots Prayer.” It is my hope that this small little prayer can help strengthen and encourage you to stay strong in your everyday life.…

  • Life can be tough at times and it during these periods of hardship that we may wonder to ourselves, “Why is this happening to me?”, “Why am I suffering with this obstacle?”, “How can I get out of this negative situation?” The struggles in our life aren’t always pretty, but many times they can help…

  • Bill Gates gave a speech at a High School a little while ago and shared with the audience eleven things they did not and will not learn in school. He talked about how feel-good, politically correct teachings created a generation of kids with no concept of reality and how this concept has set them up for failure in…

  • Someday, when my child is old enough to appreciate what motivates and parent and makes them do what they do, I’ll tell them… I loved you enough to bug you about where you were going, who you were with, and what time would you be home. I loved you enough to worry and nag you…

  • It was once said that, “Judging a person doesn’t define who they are…it defines who you are.” Unfortunately, we all fall into the category of judging other people at some point in our lives. We have also been affected at various times by the ways that other people have judged us. We all need to…

  • In a classroom full of students, a professor asks: Let’s suppose that you had $86,400 and someone stole $10 from you, would you throw away the remaining $86,390 that you still have and try and get your $10 back? Or would you just let it go? All of the students said that they would let…

  • There are times throughout our lives when we get so discouraged or frustrated that we really want to give up? Have you ever felt like that? Most people think that if you give something up, it makes them feel like a loser or insignificant…but that is not always the case. An alcoholic can give up…

  • Leadership can come in a variety of forms. Some people lead by example, some good, some bad. Some individuals lead others from the front while others lead from behind. Some people think that their popularity from their peers is a type of leadership. There are leaders that lead their group with a laissez-faire type of…

  • If you read the front page story of the San Francisco Chronicle on Thursday, December 15, 2005, you would have read about a female humpback whale who had become entangled in a spider web of crab traps and lines. The fifty-foot whale was weighted down by hundreds of pounds of traps that caused her to…