{"id": 0, "story": "An ox came down to a reedy pool to drink. As he splashed heavily into the water, he crushed a young frog into the mud. The old frog soon missed the little one and asked his brothers and sisters what had become of him. \"A great big monster,\" Said one of them, \"Stepped on little brother with one of his huge feet!\"\"Big, was he!\" Said the old frog, puffing herself up. \"Was he as big as this?\"\"Oh, much bigger!\" They cried. The frog puffed up still more. \"He could not have been bigger than this,\" She said. But the little frogs all declared that the monster was much, much bigger and the old frog kept puffing herself out more and more until, all at once, she burst.", "moral1": "When you quarrel someone else gains. ", "moral2": "Do not attempt the impossible. ", "moral3": "Think before you act. ", "moral4": "Generosity and humility are part of the true meaning of christmas. ", "moral5": "The man who speaks for both sides is not to be trusted by either.", "laebl": 2}
{"id": 1, "story": "A giant oak stood near a brook in which grew some slender reeds. When the wind blew, the great oak stood proudly upright with its hundred arms uplifted to the sky. But the reeds bowed low in the wind and sang a sad and mournful song. \"You have reason to complain,\" Said the oak. \"The slightest breeze that ruffles the surface of the water makes you bow your heads, while I, the mighty oak, stand upright and firm before the howling tempest.\"\"Do not worry about us,\" Replied the reeds. \"The winds do not harm us. we bow before them and so we do not break. you, in all your pride and strength, have so far resisted their blows. but the end is coming.\"As the reeds spoke a great hurricane rushed out of the north. The oak stood proudly and fought against the storm, while the yielding reeds bowed low. The wind redoubled in fury, and all at once the great tree fell, torn up by the roots, and lay among the pitying reeds.", "moral1": "In union there is strength and in division we fall. ", "moral2": "Helping others is not a bad thing at all. But sometimes, while we are helping others, we forget our own problems and needs. One must remember that sometimes sharing is better than giving away. You can do a lot more by being in a strong position instead of bringing yourself into a weaker situation. ", "moral3": "Better to yield when it is folly to resist, than to resist stubbornly and be destroyed. ", "moral4": "Wise person learn from anyone and everyone and as soon as he understand his mistake, he corrects them and move forward. ", "moral5": "Every time you victimized someone, you were victimizing yourself. Every act of kindness you have done was done to yourself. Every emotions experienced by any human will be experienced by you. .", "laebl": 3}
{"id": 2, "story": "In a spell of dry weather, when the birds could find very little to drink, a thirsty crow found a pitcher with a little water in it. But the pitcher was high and had a narrow neck, and no matter how he tried, the crow could not reach the water. The poor thing felt as if he must die of thirst. Then an idea came to him. Picking up some small pebbles, he dropped them into the pitcher one by one. With each pebble the water rose a little higher until at last it was near enough so he could drink.", "moral1": "We are all valuable in ourselves; much more so than we sometimes believe. ", "moral2": "Life is short. Always ask, never assume. ", "moral3": "A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving. ", "moral4": "Do your work now. ", "moral5": "In a pinch a good use of our wits may help us out.", "laebl": 5}
{"id": 3, "story": "A young mouse in search of adventure was running along the bank of a pond where lived a frog. When the frog saw the mouse, he swam to the bank and croaked:\"Won't you pay me a visit? I can promise you a good time if you do.\"The mouse did not need much coaxing, for he was very anxious to see the world and everything in it. But though he could swim a little, he did not dare risk going into the pond without some help. The frog had a plan. He tied the mouse's leg to his own with a tough reed. Then into the pond he jumped, dragging his foolish companion with him. The mouse soon had enough of it and wanted to return to shore; but the treacherous frog had other plans. He pulled the mouse down under the water and drowned him. But before he could untie the reed that bound him to the dead mouse, a hawk came sailing over the pond. Seeing the body of the mouse floating on the water, the hawk swooped down, seized the mouse and carried it off, with the frog dangling from its leg. Thus at one swoop he had caught both meat and fish for his dinner.", "moral1": "It's always good to have a second language. ", "moral2": "Do not attempt the impossible. ", "moral3": "Those who seek to harm others often come to harm themselves through their own deceit. ", "moral4": "A story to help children discover the joys of reading, and the torrent of experience and imagination it releases. ", "moral5": "We should try to understand others pain and help them, not make fun of them.", "laebl": 3}
{"id": 4, "story": "A certain wolf could not get enough to eat because of the watchfulness of the shepherds. But one night he found a sheep skin that had been cast aside and forgotten. The next day, dressed in the skin, the wolf strolled into the pasture with the sheep. Soon a little lamb was following him about and was quickly led away to slaughter. That evening the wolf entered the fold with the flock. But it happened that the shepherd took a fancy for mutton broth that very evening, and, picking up a knife, went to the fold. There the first he laid hands on and killed was the wolf.", "moral1": "A way to overcome fear of darkness in children, through imagination and creativity. ", "moral2": "Look before you leap. ", "moral3": "Pride goes before fall. ", "moral4": "Never judge anyone by their outlook. ", "moral5": "The evil doer often comes to harm through his own deceit.", "laebl": 5}
{"id": 5, "story": "A poor fisherman, who lived on the fish he caught, had bad luck one day and caught nothing but a very small fry. The fisherman was about to put it in his basket when the little fish said:\"Please spare me, mr. fisherman! I am so small it is not worth while to carry me home. when I am bigger, I shall make you a much better meal.\"But the fisherman quickly put the fish into his basket. \"How foolish I should be,\" He said, \"To throw you back. however small you may be, you are better than nothing at all.\"", "moral1": "Don't fool other. Otherwise you will be fooled. ", "moral2": "Competition is not about comparing ourselves with others but to learn about ourselves. ", "moral3": "Our opinions are not in our own power, they are formed and governed much by circumstances that are often as inexplicable as they are irresistible. ", "moral4": "A small gain is worth more than a large promise. ", "moral5": "When we give in to anger, we end up doing damage to the things or people closest to us who we should really take care of.", "laebl": 4}
{"id": 6, "story": "There was once a little kid whose growing horns made him think he was a grown-up billy goat and able to take care of himself. So one evening when the flock started home from the pasture and his mother called, the kid paid no heed and kept right on nibbling the tender grass. A little later when he lifted his head, the flock was gone. He was all alone. The sun was sinking. Long shadows came creeping over the ground. A chilly little wind came creeping with them making scary noises in the grass. The kid shivered as he thought of the terrible wolf. Then he started wildly over the field, bleating for his mother. But not half-way, near a clump of trees, there was the wolf! The kid knew there was little hope for him. \"Please, mr. wolf,\" He said trembling, \"I know you are going to eat me. but first please pipe me a tune, for I want to dance and be merry as long as I can.\"The wolf liked the idea of a little music before eating, so he struck up a merry tune and the kid leaped and frisked gaily. Meanwhile, the flock was moving slowly homeward. In the still evening air the wolf's piping carried far. The shepherd dogs pricked up their ears. They recognized the song the wolf sings before a feast, and in a moment they were racing back to the pasture. The wolf's song ended suddenly, and as he ran, with the dogs at his heels, he called himself a fool for turning piper to please a kid, when he should have stuck to his butcher's trade.", "moral1": "Do not let anything turn you from your purpose. ", "moral2": "Cheating is not going to win you anything but no fun. ", "moral3": "Nobody see that hard work and patience. Everyone see only success but they don't see that one have to sacrifice life in preparation and to achieve that success. Success seeks experience and struggle. ", "moral4": "We should focus our energy on positive and with in not time we would be able to do things we couldn't think of doing before. ", "moral5": "There is a famous saying don't give them fish but teach them how to catch the fish.", "laebl": 1}
{"id": 7, "story": "A pair of oxen were drawing a heavily loaded wagon along a miry country road. They had to use all their strength to pull the wagon, but they did not complain. The wheels of the wagon were of a different sort. Though the task they had to do was very light compared with that of the oxen, they creaked and groaned at every turn. The poor oxen, pulling with all their might to draw the wagon through the deep mud, had their ears filled with the loud complaining of the wheels. And this, you may well know, made their work so much the harder to endure. \"Silence!\" The oxen cried at last, out of patience. \"What have you wheels to complain about so loudly? we are drawing all the weight, not you, and we are keeping still about it besides.\"", "moral1": "We must give ourselves great goals in life, because with effort and perseverance we can achieve even more than we had hoped to. ", "moral2": "Everyone is more or less master of his own fate. ", "moral3": "Nobody is perfectly happy. We learned that their are difficulties in everyone life. Happy is one who is contented with whatever they have. ", "moral4": "Similarly, path we give to our life is in our own hands. By our choices and efforts we can decide what to make of our life. . ", "moral5": "They complain most who suffer least.", "laebl": 5}
{"id": 8, "story": "A shepherd boy tended his master's sheep near a dark forest not far from the village. Soon he found life in the pasture very dull. All he could do to amuse himself was to talk to his dog or play on his shepherd's pipe. One day as he sat watching the sheep and the quiet forest, and thinking what he would do should he see a wolf, he thought of a plan to amuse himself. His master had told him to call for help should a wolf attack the flock, and the villagers would drive it away. So now, though he had not seen anything that even looked like a wolf, he ran toward the village shouting at the top of his voice, \"Wolf! wolf!\"As he expected, the villagers who heard the cry dropped their work and ran in great excitement to the pasture. But when they got there they found the boy doubled up with laughter at the trick he had played on them. A few days later the shepherd boy again shouted, \"Wolf! wolf!\" Again the villagers ran to help him, only to be laughed at again. Then one evening as the sun was setting behind the forest and the shadows were creeping out over the pasture, a wolf really did spring from the underbrush and fall upon the sheep. In terror the boy ran toward the village shouting \"Wolf! wolf!\" But though the villagers heard the cry, they did not run to help him as they had before. \"He cannot fool us again,\" They said. The wolf killed a great many of the boy's sheep and then slipped away into the forest.", "moral1": "Avoiding responsibility ends in overburden. ", "moral2": "Liars are not believed even when they speak the truth. ", "moral3": "Every moment is a fresh beginning. ", "moral4": "Clumsy jesting is no joke. ", "moral5": "If you work together in a team you can achieve much more than you could have done on your own.", "laebl": 2}
{"id": 9, "story": "One bright day in late autumn a family of ants were bustling about in the warm sunshine, drying out the grain they had stored up during the summer, when a starving grasshopper, his fiddle under his arm, came up and humbly begged for a bite to eat. \"What!\" Cried the ants in surprise, \"Haven't you stored anything away for the winter? what in the world were you doing all last summer?\"\"I didn't have time to store up any food,\" Whined the grasshopper; \"I was so busy making music that before I knew it the summer was gone.\"The ants shrugged their shoulders in disgust. \"Making music, were you?\" They cried. \"Very well; now dance!\" And they turned their backs on the grasshopper and went on with their work.", "moral1": "For our life to be of value, I think we must develop basic good human qualities - warmth, kindness, compassion. Then our life becomes meaningful and more peaceful - happier. ", "moral2": "We are all valuable in ourselves; much more so than we sometimes believe. ", "moral3": "A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving. ", "moral4": "There's a time for work and a time for play. ", "moral5": "Always give affection and care to our dear ones. Always respect other's feelings.", "laebl": 4}
{"id": 10, "story": "A sacred image was being carried to the temple. It was mounted on an ass adorned with garlands and gorgeous trappings, and a grand procession of priests and pages followed it through the streets. As the ass walked along, the people bowed their heads reverently or fell on their knees, and the ass thought the honor was being paid to himself. With his head full of this foolish idea, he became so puffed up with pride and vanity that he halted and started to bray loudly. But in the midst of his song, his driver guessed what the ass had got into his head, and began to beat him unmercifully with a stick. \"Go along with you, you stupid ass,\" He cried. \"The honor is not meant for you but for the image you are carrying.\"", "moral1": "The wise do not let themselves be tricked a second time. ", "moral2": "If we gather up strength and face difficulties then we end up at better place, because we never know what future has in store for us. ", "moral3": "Do not try to take the credit to yourself that is due to others. ", "moral4": "Do your work now. ", "moral5": "Familiarity breeds contempt.", "laebl": 3}
{"id": 11, "story": "Just as a great bear rushed to seize a stray kid, a lion leaped from another direction upon the same prey. The two fought furiously for the prize until they had received so many wounds that both sank down unable to continue the battle. Just then a fox dashed up, and seizing the kid, made off with it as fast as he could go, while the lion and the bear looked on in helpless rage. \"How much better it would have been,\" They said, \"To have shared in a friendly spirit.\"", "moral1": "Those who have all the toil do not always get the profit. ", "moral2": "Our own perspective is also very important in judging someone. ", "moral3": "When power had no conscience and greed has no limit and killing has no end. ", "moral4": "They complain most who suffer least. ", "moral5": "This is what we call 'self appraisal'.   every time if we don't get ahead of others, we blame others for it.   we should look to our self and compare, find own weaknesses and work hard to throw away weaknesses.   always work hard, honest and with full dedication.   it will always pay up.", "laebl": 1}
{"id": 12, "story": "A stray lamb stood drinking early one morning on the bank of a woodland stream. That very same morning a hungry wolf came by farther up the stream, hunting for something to eat. He soon got his eyes on the lamb. As a rule mr. Wolf snapped up such delicious morsels without making any bones about it, but this lamb looked so very helpless and innocent that the wolf felt he ought to have some kind of an excuse for taking its life. \"How dare you paddle around in my stream and stir up all the mud!\" He shouted fiercely. \"You deserve to be punished severely for your rashness!\"\"But, your highness,\" Replied the trembling lamb, \"Do not be angry! I cannot possibly muddy the water you are drinking up there. remember, you are upstream and I am downstream.\"\"You do muddy it!\" Retorted the wolf savagely. \"And besides, I have heard that you told lies about me last year!\"\"How could I have done so?\" Pleaded the lamb. \"I wasn't born until this year.\"\"If it wasn't you, it was your brother!\"\"I have no brothers.\"\"Well, then,\" Snarled the wolf, \"It was someone in your family anyway. but no matter who it was, I do not intend to be talked out of my breakfast.\"And without more words the wolf seized the poor lamb and carried her off to the forest.", "moral1": "What is most truly valuable is often underrated. ", "moral2": "Do not anticipate trouble or worry about what may never happen. ", "moral3": "One story is good, till another is told. ", "moral4": "We should help others and others will help us. ", "moral5": "The tyrant can always find an excuse for his tyranny. The unjust will not listen to the reasoning of the innocent.", "laebl": 5}
{"id": 13, "story": "A dog had learned to carry his master's dinner to him every day. He was very faithful to his duty, though the smell of the good things in the basket tempted him. The dogs in the neighborhood noticed him carrying the basket and soon discovered what was in it. They made several attempts to steal it from him. But he always guarded it faithfully. Then one day all the dogs in the neighborhood got together and met him on his way with the basket. The dog tried to run away from them. But at last he stopped to argue. That was his mistake. They soon made him feel so ridiculous that he dropped the basket and seized a large piece of roast meat intended for his master's dinner. \"Very well,\" He said, \"You divide the rest.\"", "moral1": "One should never take any action in haste. ", "moral2": "It is not just knowledge or talent which get us respect but it is our virtue, moral and good behavior towards others that get us honor and respect. ", "moral3": "Greed can never be satisfied. Be happy with what you have and live life to fullest. Happiness is not in things around us but in company of people we live with. ", "moral4": "Allow your awareness to shine light onto all your limiting beliefs and find who you truly are. ", "moral5": "Do not stop to argue with temptation.", "laebl": 5}
{"id": 14, "story": "A jackdaw chanced to fly over the garden of the king's palace. There he saw with much wonder and envy a flock of royal peacocks in all the glory of their splendid plumage. Now the black jackdaw was not a very handsome bird, nor very refined in manner. Yet he imagined that all he needed to make himself fit for the society of the peacocks was a dress like theirs. So he picked up some castoff feathers of the peacocks and stuck them among his own black plumes. Dressed in his borrowed finery he strutted loftily among the birds of his own kind. Then he flew down into the garden among the peacocks. But they soon saw who he was. Angry at the cheat, they flew at him, plucking away the borrowed feathers and also some of his own. The poor jackdaw returned sadly to his former companions. There another unpleasant surprise awaited him. They had not forgotten his superior airs toward them, and, to punish him, they drove him away with a rain of pecks and jeers.", "moral1": "A magical story to help overcome fear of thunder storms. ", "moral2": "We all should learn to be happy with what we have. Yes, we all desire more or better than we already have, but do not waste a chance of enjoying what you already have. There are those who may not have what you have, and there will be some who have lots more than you have. Do not always compare, be happy and lead a healthy life. ", "moral3": "Helping others is not a bad thing at all. But sometimes, while we are helping others, we forget our own problems and needs. One must remember that sometimes sharing is better than giving away. You can do a lot more by being in a strong position instead of bringing yourself into a weaker situation. ", "moral4": "Borrowed feathers do not make fine birds. ", "moral5": "When we meet real tragedy in life, we can react in two ways - either by losing hope and falling into self-destructive habits or by using the challenge to find our inner strength.", "laebl": 4}
{"id": 15, "story": "A hungry wolf spied a goat browsing at the top of a steep cliff where he could not possibly get at her. \"That is a very dangerous place for you,\" He called out, pretending to be very anxious about the goat's safety. \"What if you should fall! please listen to me and come down! here you can get all you want of the finest, tenderest grass in the country.\"The goat looked over the edge of the cliff. \"How very, very anxious you are about me,\" She said, \"And how generous you are with your grass! but I know you! it's your own appetite you are thinking of, not mine!\"", "moral1": "An invitation prompted by selfishness is not to be accepted. ", "moral2": "Encouragement wins over criticism. ", "moral3": "The gods help them that help themselves. ", "moral4": "The best way to encourage honesty is to create an environment of honesty and generosity, since he who wants nothing for himself is farthest from falling into greed and envy. ", "moral5": "We should act intelligently.", "laebl": 1}
{"id": 16, "story": "One day as an ass was walking in the pasture, he found some grasshoppers chirping merrily in a grassy corner of the field. He listened with a great deal of admiration to the song of the grasshoppers. It was such a joyful song that his pleasure-loving heart was filled with a wish to sing as they did. \"What is it?\" He asked very respectfully, \"That has given you such beautiful voices? is there any special food you eat, or is it some divine nectar that makes you sing so wonderfully?\"\"Yes,\" Said the grasshoppers, who were very fond of a joke; \"It is the dew we drink! try some and see.\"So thereafter the ass would eat nothing and drink nothing but dew. Naturally, the poor foolish ass soon died.", "moral1": "Be content with your lot. ", "moral2": "Slow and steady wins the race. ", "moral3": "The laws of nature are unchangeable. ", "moral4": "We should live our life doing good because god is always watching us and will always be there for us in our difficult times. ", "moral5": "Don't fool other. Otherwise you will be fooled.", "laebl": 3}
{"id": 17, "story": "Two bulls were fighting furiously in a field, at one side of which was a marsh. An old frog living in the marsh, trembled as he watched the fierce battle. \"What are you afraid of?\" Asked a young frog. \"Do you not see,\" Replied the old frog, \"That the bull who is beaten, will be driven away from the good forage up there to the reeds of this marsh, and we shall all be trampled into the mud?\"It turned out as the frog had said. The beaten bull was driven to the marsh, where his great hoofs crushed the frogs to death.", "moral1": "Everyone is more or less master of his own fate. ", "moral2": "Gentleness and kind persuasion win where force and bluster fail. ", "moral3": "Competition is not about comparing ourselves with others but to learn about ourselves. ", "moral4": "If you do not give 100 percent in a relationship, you will always kept doubting if the other person has given his hundred percent. This is applicable for any relationship like love, employee or employer, friendship, family, countries. ", "moral5": "When the great fall out, the weak must suffer for it. .", "laebl": 5}
{"id": 18, "story": "A little hungry mouse found his way one day into a basket of corn. He had to squeeze himself a good deal to get through the narrow opening between the strips of the basket. But the corn was tempting and the mouse was determined to get in. When at last he had succeeded, he gorged himself to bursting. Indeed he he became about three times as big around the middle as he was when he went in. At last he felt satisfied and dragged himself to the opening to get out again. But the best he could do was to get his head out. So there he sat groaning and moaning, both from the discomfort inside him and his anxiety to escape from the basket. Just then a weasel came by. He understood the situation quickly. \"My friend,\" He said, \"I know what you've been doing. you've been stuffing. that's what you get. you will have to stay there till you feel just like you did when you went in. good night, and good enough for you.\"And that was all the sympathy the poor mouse got.", "moral1": "Look before you leap. ", "moral2": "Similarly, path we give to our life is in our own hands. By our choices and efforts we can decide what to make of our life. . ", "moral3": "Greediness leads to misfortune. ", "moral4": "A bad boy discovers what good effects kind people have in the world. ", "moral5": "Little friends may prove great friends.", "laebl": 3}
{"id": 19, "story": "A poor woodman was cutting down a tree near the edge of a deep pool in the forest. It was late in the day and the woodman was tired. He had been working since sunrise and his strokes were not so sure as they had been early that morning. Thus it happened that the axe slipped and flew out of his hands into the pool. The woodman was in despair. The axe was all he possessed with which to make a living, and he had not money enough to buy a new one. As he stood wringing his hands and weeping, the god mercury suddenly appeared and asked what the trouble was. The woodman told what had happened, and straightway the kind mercury dived into the pool. When he came up again he held a wonderful golden axe. \"Is this your axe?\" Mercury asked the woodman. \"No,\" Answered the honest woodman, \"That is not my axe.\"Mercury laid the golden axe on the bank and sprang back into the pool. This time he brought up an axe of silver, but the woodman declared again that his axe was just an ordinary one with a wooden handle. Mercury dived down for the third time, and when he came up again he had the very axe that had been lost. The poor woodman was very glad that his axe had been found and could not thank the kind god enough. Mercury was greatly pleased with the woodman's honesty. \"I admire your honesty,\" He said, \"And as a reward you may have all three axes, the gold and the silver as well as your own.\"The happy woodman returned to his home with his treasures, and soon the story of his good fortune was known to everybody in the village. Now there were several woodmen in the village who believed that they could easily win the same good fortune. They hurried out into the woods, one here, one there, and hiding their axes in the bushes, pretended they had lost them. Then they wept and wailed and called on mercury to help them. And indeed, mercury did appear, first to this one, then to that. To each one he showed an axe of gold, and each one eagerly claimed it to be the one he had lost. But mercury did not give them the golden axe. Oh no! Instead he gave them each a hard whack over the head with it and sent them home. And when they returned next day to look for their own axes, they were nowhere to be found.", "moral1": "Never judge anyone because you never know how their life is and what they're going through. ", "moral2": "One should not act selfish and know that if you do wrong with someone then other might do wrong with you.. So be careful about how you act with others. . ", "moral3": "Another definition of a hero is someone who is concerned about other people's well-being and will go out of his or her way to help them - even if there is no chance of a reward. That person who helps others simply because it should or must be done and because it is the right thing to do, is indeed without a doubt, a real superhero. ", "moral4": "Success means doing something sincerely and wholeheartedly. ", "moral5": "Honesty is the best policy.", "laebl": 5}
{"id": 20, "story": "A crab one day grew disgusted with the sands in which he lived. He decided to take a stroll to the meadow not far inland. There he would find better fare than briny water and sand mites. So off he crawled to the meadow. But there a hungry fox spied him, and in a twinkling, ate him up, both shell and claw.", "moral1": "Satanic words are not to be believed. ", "moral2": "Be content with your lot. ", "moral3": "Watching television is often a waste of time, and brings no benefit. ", "moral4": "If you love someone, tell them, don't let your heart be broken by words left unspoken. ", "moral5": "All of god's creations have a good purpose. We should never belittle god's blessings.", "laebl": 2}
{"id": 21, "story": "A miser had buried his gold in a secret place in his garden. Every day he went to the spot, dug up the treasure and counted it piece by piece to make sure it was all there. He made so many trips that a thief, who had been observing him, guessed what it was the miser had hidden, and one night quietly dug up the treasure and made off with it. When the miser discovered his loss, he was overcome with grief and despair. He groaned and cried and tore his hair. A passerby heard his cries and asked what had happened. \"My gold! o my gold!\" Cried the miser, wildly, \"Someone has robbed me!\"\"Your gold! there in that hole? why did you put it there? why did you not keep it in the house where you could easily get it when you had to buy things?\"\"Buy!\" Screamed the miser angrily. \"Why, I never touched the gold. I couldn't think of spending any of it.\"The stranger picked up a large stone and threw it into the hole. \"If that is the case,\" He said, \"Cover up that stone. it is worth just as much to you as the treasure you lost!\"", "moral1": "Material happiness is just like that polluted river, because it a mere reflection of true happiness that lies in spiritual world. ", "moral2": "Those who achieve notoriety often mistake it for fame. ", "moral3": "A possession is worth no more than the use we make of it. ", "moral4": "One bad turn deserves another. ", "moral5": "It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds.", "laebl": 3}
{"id": 22, "story": "There was once a wolf who got very little to eat because the dogs of the village were so wide awake and watchful. He was really nothing but skin and bones, and it made him very downhearted to think of it. One night this wolf happened to fall in with a fine fat house dog who had wandered a little too far from home. The wolf would gladly have eaten him then and there, but the house dog looked strong enough to leave his marks should he try it. So the wolf spoke very humbly to the dog, complimenting him on his fine appearance. \"You can be as well-fed as I am if you want to,\" Replied the dog. \"Leave the woods; there you live miserably. why, you have to fight hard for every bite you get. follow my example and you will get along beautifully.\"\"What must I do?\" Asked the wolf. \"Hardly anything,\" Answered the house dog. \"Chase people who carry canes, bark at beggars, and fawn on the people of the house. in return you will get tidbits of every kind, chicken bones, choice bits of meat, sugar, cake, and much more beside, not to speak of kind words and caresses.\"The wolf had such a beautiful vision of his coming happiness that he almost wept. But just then he noticed that the hair on the dog's neck was worn and the skin was chafed. \"What is that on your neck?\"\"Nothing at all,\" Replied the dog. \"What! nothing!\"\"Oh, just a trifle!\"\"But please tell me.\"\"Perhaps you see the mark of the collar to which my chain is fastened.\"\"What! a chain!\" Cried the wolf. \"Don't you go wherever you please?\"\"Not always! but what's the difference?\" Replied the dog. \"All the difference in the world! I don't care a rap for your feasts and I wouldn't take all the tender young lambs in the world at that price.\" And away ran the wolf to the woods.", "moral1": "They who act without sufficient thought, will often fall into unsuspected danger. ", "moral2": "When the great fall out, the weak must suffer for it. . ", "moral3": "There is nothing worth so much as liberty. ", "moral4": "Don't give up too easily. Keep trying until you reach the goal. ", "moral5": "No one you love is ever truly lost.", "laebl": 3}
{"id": 23, "story": "A lion had grown very old. His teeth were worn away. His limbs could no longer bear him, and the king of beasts was very pitiful indeed as he lay gasping on the ground, about to die. Where now his strength and his former graceful beauty? Now a boar spied him, and rushing at him, gored him with his yellow tusk. A bull trampled him with his heavy hoofs. Even a contemptible ass let fly his heels and brayed his insults in the face of the lion.", "moral1": "One story is good, till another is told. ", "moral2": "Human generation changes after 25 years but it will take us 200 yrs to understand what's wrong with education system. Today's generation scrap or change older traditions without realizing and understanding deeper value and meaning of those traditions. Change is good but first we should try to understand why we need to make change. ", "moral3": "It is cowardly to attack the defenseless, though he be an enemy. ", "moral4": "Hew not too high lest the chip fall in your eye. ", "moral5": "In serving the wicked, expect no reward, and be thankful if you escape injury for your pains.", "laebl": 3}
{"id": 24, "story": "One moonlight evening as master fox was taking his usual stroll in the woods, he saw a number of pheasants perched quite out of his reach on a limb of a tall old tree. The sly fox soon found a bright patch of moonlight, where the pheasants could see him clearly; there he raised himself up on his hind legs, and began a wild dance. First he whirled 'round and 'round like a top, then he hopped up and down, cutting all sorts of strange capers. The pheasants stared giddily. They hardly dared blink for fear of losing him out of their sight a single instant. Now the fox made as if to climb a tree, now he fell over and lay still, playing dead, and the next instant he was hopping on all fours, his back in the air, and his bushy tail shaking so that it seemed to throw out silver sparks in the moonlight. By this time the poor birds' heads were in a whirl. And when the fox began his performance all over again, so dazed did they become, that they lost their hold on the limb, and fell down one by one to the fox.", "moral1": "As the professor explained, life is a bag of good and bad things, we all have positives and negatives along the way.  but we must always concentrate greater on the positives for a healthy and happy life.  life goes on no matter what so do not waste your time thinking about the negatives. ", "moral2": "As you sow, so you reap. ", "moral3": "Each day is a gift. We should learn to live happy. Happiness comes from inner self and we are one who decides to be happy or not. ", "moral4": "Don't be greedy. ", "moral5": "Too much attention to danger may cause us to fall victims to it.", "laebl": 5}
{"id": 25, "story": "A lark made her nest in a field of young wheat. As the days passed, the wheat stalks grew tall and the young birds, too, grew in strength. Then one day, when the ripe golden grain waved in the breeze, the farmer and his son came into the field. \"This wheat is now ready for reaping,\" Said the farmer. \"We must call in our neighbors and friends to help us harvest it.\"The young larks in their nest close by were much frightened, for they knew they would be in great danger if they did not leave the nest before the reapers came. When the mother lark returned with food for them, they told her what they had heard. \"Do not be frightened, children,\" Said the mother lark. \"If the farmer said he would call in his neighbors and friends to help him do his work, this -wheat will not be reaped for a while yet.\"A few days later, the wheat was so ripe, that when the wind shook the stalks, a hail of wheat grains came rustling down on the young larks' heads. \"If this wheat is not harvested at once,\" Said the farmer, \"We shall lose half the crop. we cannot wait any longer for help from our friends. tomorrow we must set to work, ourselves.\"When the young larks told their mother what they had heard that day, she said:\"Then we must be off at once. when a man decides to do his own work and not depend on any one else, then you may be sure there will be no more delay.\"There was much fluttering and trying out of wings that afternoon, and at sunrise next day, when the farmer and his son cut down the grain, they found an empty nest.", "moral1": "There is no necessity to add evil to evil. ", "moral2": "Honesty is the best policy. ", "moral3": "Self-help is the best help. ", "moral4": "When the great fall out, the weak must suffer for it. . ", "moral5": "A little thing in hand is worth more than a great thing in prospect2.", "laebl": 3}
{"id": 26, "story": "There was once a cat who was so watchful, that a mouse hardly dared show the tip of his whiskers for fear of being eaten alive. That cat seemed to be everywhere at once with his claws all ready for a pounce. At last the mice kept so closely to their dens, that the cat saw he would have to use his wits well to catch one. So one day he climbed up on a shelf and hung from it, head downward, as if he were dead, holding himself up by clinging to some ropes with one paw. When the mice peeped out and saw him in that position, they thought he had been hung up there in punishment for some misdeed. Very timidly at first they stuck out their heads and sniffed about carefully. But as nothing stirred, all trooped joyfully out to celebrate the death of the cat. Just then the cat let go his hold, and before the mice recovered from their surprise, he had made an end of three or four. Now the mice kept more strictly at home than ever. But the cat, who was still hungry for mice, knew more tricks than one. Rolling himself in flour until he was covered completely, he lay down in the flour bin, with one eye open for the mice. Sure enough, the mice soon began to come out. To the cat it was almost as if he already had a plump young mouse under his claws, when an old rat, who had had much experience with cats and traps, and had even lost a part of his tail to pay for it, sat up at a safe distance from a hole in the wall where he lived. \"Take care!\" He cried. \"That may be a heap of meal, but it looks to me very much like the cat. whatever it is, it is wisest to keep at a safe distance.\"", "moral1": "The wise do not let themselves be tricked a second time. ", "moral2": "Don't trick others or the same thing will happen to you. ", "moral3": "We should act intelligently. ", "moral4": "Never underestimate anyone and never become overconfident on your talent and powers. A big blow on the right place on you can bring you down. ", "moral5": "Don't respond to what people say in anger. Inner calmness and peace are ways to live contented life.", "laebl": 1}
{"id": 27, "story": "The north wind and the sun had a quarrel about which of them was the stronger. While they were disputing with much heat and bluster, a traveler passed along the road wrapped in a cloak. \"Let us agree,\" Said the sun, \"That he is the stronger who can strip that traveler of his cloak.\"\"Very well,\" Growled the north wind, and at once sent a cold, howling blast against the traveler. With the first gust of wind the ends of the cloak whipped about the traveler's body. But he immediately wrapped it closely around him, and the harder the wind blew, the tighter he held it to him. The north wind tore angrily at the cloak, but all his efforts were in vain. Then the sun began to shine. At first his beams were gentle, and in the pleasant warmth after the bitter cold of the north wind, the traveler unfastened his cloak and let it hang loosely from his shoulders. The sun's rays grew warmer and warmer. The man took off his cap and mopped his brow. At last he became so heated that he pulled off his cloak, and, to escape the blazing sunshine, threw himself down in the welcome shade of a tree by the roadside.", "moral1": "To enter by reason means to realize the essence through instruction and to believe that all living things share the same true nature, which isn't apparent because it is shrouded by sensation and delusion. ", "moral2": "With your dedication and determination to learn something you can do anything you want.. ! ! ", "moral3": "It's our choice to keep positive attitude towards life. Circumstances are just parts of what makes us joyful. Pursuit of happiness is an inward journey. If we continue to bit our lips and just before we begin to complain we should shoot that seemingly harmless negative thought as it germinates, we will find there is much rejoice about. ", "moral4": "Do not attempt the impossible. ", "moral5": "Gentleness and kind persuasion win where force and bluster fail.", "laebl": 5}
{"id": 28, "story": "A pack of wolves lurked near the sheep pasture. But the dogs kept them all at a respectful distance, and the sheep grazed in perfect safety. But now the wolves thought of a plan to trick the sheep. \"Why is there always this hostility between us?\" They said. \"If it were not for those dogs who are always stirring up trouble, I am sure we should get along beautifully. send them away and you will see what good friends we shall become.\"The sheep were easily fooled. They persuaded the dogs to go away, and that very evening the wolves had the grandest feast of their lives.", "moral1": "Sometimes struggles are exactly what we need, its god way to make us stronger. ", "moral2": "Similarly, path we give to our life is in our own hands. By our choices and efforts we can decide what to make of our life. . ", "moral3": "No matter who, when or how.. Just continue to help. No matter how small it is because you never know when one is in need of us or when god holds a pleasant surprise for us to be helpful and important to someone. ", "moral4": "Look before you leap.  do not just blindly walk in to anything without thinking. ", "moral5": "Do not give up friends for foes.", "laebl": 5}
{"id": 29, "story": "One summer day mr. Frog hopped onto a rock. Mr. Rattle popped out of his rock home. Mr. Frog said, \"You scared me. that's mean.\" Mr. Rattle said, \"I don't care.\" Then mr. Rattle went back in his home and went to bed. Mr. Frog hid behind the rock. The next morning mr. Rattle came out. Mr. Frog popped out and scared mr. Rattle. Now that is the golden rule in action!", "moral1": "Never judge anyone by their outlook. ", "moral2": "Where there is hope, there is life. It fills us with fresh courage and makes us strong again. ", "moral3": "Treat others the way you want to be treated. ", "moral4": "A story to help children discover the joys of reading, and the torrent of experience and imagination it releases. ", "moral5": "Do not try to take the credit to yourself that is due to others.", "laebl": 3}
{"id": 30, "story": "There once was a grumpy wolf. He was always grumpy and nobody knew why until one day the wolf was crying. His friends fox and coyote both said, \"What's wrong?\" He said, \"I'm always sad and everyone is saying that I'm mean and that's not it. I'll tell you the truth. I miss mrs. wolf. she's gone. that's why I always seem grumpy. really I would love to have friends keep me company.\"", "moral1": "Once should never try to cheat others. ", "moral2": "Honestly is the best policy. ", "moral3": "We often accumulate money to acquire things to make us feel better, but sharing time and money with others brings us more happiness. ", "moral4": "The best way to encourage honesty is to create an environment of honesty and generosity, since he who wants nothing for himself is farthest from falling into greed and envy. ", "moral5": "First, god has send us in this world to live life best way we can and now, it's in our hand how well we build our life and live our life. Second, when ever we accept any work, we should do it with honesty and give our best to it.", "laebl": 2}
{"id": 31, "story": "Once upon a time there was a rabbit who lived with a pig. One day the pig looked for the food. But a tiger had taken it. The rabbit then tricked the tiger into looking down the hill where there was an elephant. The tiger was greedy and tried to eat that elephant. The tiger was so greedy that when he went near the elephant, the elephant ate him.", "moral1": "Self-help is the best help. ", "moral2": "Earning more money can be profitable but true profit lies in doing good deeds and helping others. ", "moral3": "One should not act selfish and know that if you do wrong with someone then other might do wrong with you.. So be careful about how you act with others. . ", "moral4": "Don't be greedy. ", "moral5": "Don't respond to what people say in anger. Inner calmness and peace are ways to live contented life.", "laebl": 4}
{"id": 32, "story": "Once upon a time there were two friends, one an ant and one a lion. They were best friends. One day the lion was sleeping in the forest when a hunter came by and captured the lion. The hunter said, \"I will eat you for lunch!\" The lion panicked. The ant heard the lion and came to rescue his best friend. Ant ran around and finally found the lion. He bit the the hunter's leg and made him drop the lion's net. The lion was free. Then the lion scared off the hunter. The lion thanked the ant and said, \"I will never let anything bad happen to you ant.\" Then another day some time later, the ant fell into a river. The lion came to help and said, \"Ant are you ok?\" The ant thanked the lion and thy lived happily ever after.", "moral1": "To understand and learn wisdom we need to find and change our inner self not just the outer self. ", "moral2": "We can look at every situation as an opportunity to realize and overcome our defects. This is possible only due to the strength of chanting the god's name. ", "moral3": "Look before you leap. ", "moral4": "We should help others and others will help us. ", "moral5": "This is designed for you, who, when you have threatened great things, produce nothing.", "laebl": 4}
{"id": 33, "story": "One day there was a cat and a mouse. Both were friends and they shared a lot of things together. Then, sometime later, they were angry with each other because there was a lot of food left over. The cat said they would have a swimming competition and whoever who won would got the foods. Mouse said, \"Ok! the lion will chose the pool for the swimming competition.\" Then it was race day. The cat and the mouse chose their swimming suits and they were on the starting line. The lion said, \"1.2.3.go…..\" Both went. The cat said to himself, \"I can sleep on the rope because the mouse is very slow.\" The mouse went passed the cat and won the race. The cat woke up and quickly swam, but the mouse had already won.", "moral1": "Over confidence never lets you win the race. ", "moral2": "Union gives strength. ", "moral3": "Don't underestimate a weaker opponent. ", "moral4": "They who act without sufficient thought, will often fall into unsuspected danger. ", "moral5": "Don't respond to what people say in anger. Inner calmness and peace are ways to live contented life.", "laebl": 3}
{"id": 34, "story": "Long ago, a shark wanted to be friends with small fish. But small fish didn't want to be friend with shark. One day a human went fishing and caught the small fish. The shark went to help the small fish. After the shark saved the small fish, it said, \"You are a good shark.\" The shark and small fish became friends. And they lived happily forever.", "moral1": "Material happiness is just like that polluted river, because it a mere reflection of true happiness that lies in spiritual world. ", "moral2": "Do good things and then you will have many friends. ", "moral3": "Never trouble anyone. ", "moral4": "The dangers of others are generally of advantage to the wary. ", "moral5": "Regretting the past won't solve anything. What is required is to change one's situation and seek the necessary help to do so.", "laebl": 2}
{"id": 35, "story": "Fido was walking along the edge of the bay. When he looked into the water he saw a dolphin named crystal. Crystal the dolphin asked fido if he would like to race. \"Are you a fast swimmer?\" Asked fido. \"No, fido. I am a very slow swimmer.\" So fido replied, \"Yes, I will race you.\" As soon as fido jumped into the bay, crystal swam away leaving fido behind.", "moral1": "Instead of jumping into senseless action, we should stand back and apply thought to the best course to take. ", "moral2": "Never ever say you are the best. ", "moral3": "Be nice and help others. ", "moral4": "Always tell the truth. ", "moral5": "Wise person learn from anyone and everyone and as soon as he understand his mistake, he corrects them and move forward.", "laebl": 4}
{"id": 36, "story": "There once was a family of frogs who lived in a pond. A family of elephants came to swim in the pond. The elephants were splashing water at the frogs. In return the frogs hit the elephants on the trunks. The frogs said, \"Oh, please stop throwing water at us and we will stop hitting your trunks.\" The daddy frog said, \"Let's play together in the pond.\" The elephants thought it was a good idea. And then they played happily together.", "moral1": "What ever we have done in past but still we can change our life and people views towards us. So never give up. Anytime is good to start good work. ", "moral2": "Everything has its good and bad side. We are happiest when we look for the good in all things. ", "moral3": "We all should learn to be happy with what we have. Yes, we all desire more or better than we already have, but do not waste a chance of enjoying what you already have. There are those who may not have what you have, and there will be some who have lots more than you have. Do not always compare, be happy and lead a healthy life. ", "moral4": "Try to be kind to everyone. ", "moral5": "There is always a way.", "laebl": 4}
{"id": 37, "story": "Once upon a time there lived a bull who always troubled everyone. One day he was fighting with another bull. He got so angry that he hit the other bull on it's face. The other one did the same thing to him. Then he realized his mistake and never troubled anyone again.", "moral1": "They who act without sufficient thought, will often fall into unsuspected danger. ", "moral2": "Be grateful for who you are. ", "moral3": "Men often applaud an imitation and hiss the real thing. ", "moral4": "We should not be quick to judge other person. In relationships we should try to talk and clear things. We should not let our anger control us because not everything we see or hear is true. ! ", "moral5": "Never trouble anyone.", "laebl": 5}
{"id": 38, "story": "Once there was a big great white shark whose name was joey. He use to challenge everyone in the school park or anywhere. One day there came along a bull shark. Joey challenged him. He said, \"Who ever is the fastest is the boss.\" But the bull shark said, \"I don't want to be a boss.\" Joey said ok. They had a very big race and everyone watched them as they raced all the way. The bull shark won and everyone cheered a lot.", "moral1": "Never ever say you are the best. ", "moral2": "Always be good with others and share good with others. When we share our goodness with others it makes world a better place to live in. ", "moral3": "We should not be quick to judge other person. In relationships we should try to talk and clear things. We should not let our anger control us because not everything we see or hear is true. ! ", "moral4": "Human generation changes after 25 years but it will take us 200 yrs to understand what's wrong with education system. Today's generation scrap or change older traditions without realizing and understanding deeper value and meaning of those traditions. Change is good but first we should try to understand why we need to make change. ", "moral5": "It is always better to mind our own business.", "laebl": 1}
{"id": 39, "story": "A week ago, in a bee hive, honey and jack were talking like friends. \"Jack! go get some more honey. your comb is just about empty!\" Demanded the queen bee. Jack was tired. He fell asleep and when he woke up he remembered he had to get more honey. Honey was out getting more honey. Jack buzzed over quietly to her hive and sucked up two cells. He filled up his to make it look like it was full. When honey came back she said to herself, \"I am sure I had more than this.\" She went around asking others until she came to jack. \"Jack did you steal some of my honey?\" Honey spoke sweetly. \"No, I would never steal honey,\" Jack said with a slight grin. \"I know you did because I never saw you on your favorite flower,\" Honey chuckled. \"Fine, oh fine. you caught me! I took your honey because I didn't get any sleep last night and all I want to do is sleep,\" Jack sobbed. \"It's okay. I just wish you had told me!\" \"I promise tomorrow I will get you more honey!\" \"Great, I guess it's settled!\" Honey smiled in a friendly way. They are best friends now.", "moral1": "It is cowardly to attack the defenseless, though he be an enemy. ", "moral2": "Thus do men often perish while meditating the destruction others. ", "moral3": "We should live our life doing good because god is always watching us and will always be there for us in our difficult times. ", "moral4": "Honesty is the best policy. ", "moral5": "They who act without sufficient thought, will often fall into unsuspected danger.", "laebl": 4}
{"id": 40, "story": "One day baby bear was walking and feeling great about himself. He wanted to climb a tree. Meanwhile, chipmunk was storing nuts for the winter. All of a sudden baby bear got stuck in the tree. \"Help help,\" Cried baby bear. Chipmunk heard him and came running to the rescue. Chipmunk asked, \"Do you need help?\" Baby bear said, \"Yes, I do but how are small you going to get me out of this tree?\" Suddenly chipmunk got an idea and ran to get his friends to help him get a ladder. They put it beside the tree and baby bear climbed down the ladder. Baby bear said, \"Thank you,\" And they want on their way. Baby bear went back to walking in the flower fields and chipmunk went back to storing nuts for the winter. A few months later, amidst the winter, baby bear had no food. He had to ask chipmunk for food or he would starve.", "moral1": "Fear of the dark is not fear of anything real, and can only prevent you from discovering interesting things. ", "moral2": "Money you spend on friends is returned or reciprocated in some form. Money spent on charity gets converted into blessings from god which will be your eternal property. Money spent on pleasures is just frittered away. ", "moral3": "No one is too small to help. ", "moral4": "We all should learn to be happy with what we have. Yes, we all desire more or better than we already have, but do not waste a chance of enjoying what you already have. There are those who may not have what you have, and there will be some who have lots more than you have. Do not always compare, be happy and lead a healthy life. ", "moral5": "Sometimes we need to understand that it could be our views that are not letting us see clearly. We should not judge person without clearing our thoughts and understanding all about situation.", "laebl": 3}
{"id": 41, "story": "The fox, the rhino, and the hippo were best friends. On a summer sizzling sunday they went to the market where they grow all sorts of good food. Fox got so hungry that when rhino and hippo were not looking, he snatched some grapes and ran away! He said to himself, \"He he he! they will never know I took the grapes!\" As he was running, the two best friends caught him running away with the grapes. It made them so sad to see their friend stealing that they told manager wolf. Manager wolf called 911 and said, \"Fox has stolen the last of my grapes! I am so mad, please help me!!\" The cops rushed over to the market where they met manager wolf and they caught fox with the grapes. They put hand cuffs on him and put him in the back of their car. Rhino and hippo looked at fox in the car with disgust. When fox came out of jail, they were never his friend again because rhino and hippo were ashamed of fox's behavior.", "moral1": "Stealing makes people sad and mad. ", "moral2": "Good or bad fortune does not make one a better or worse person, and we all have a responsibility to help the less fortunate. ", "moral3": "Trying to cover up mistakes with lies only worsens the final consequences. ", "moral4": "When pain, misery or anger happen, it is time to look within you, not around you. ", "moral5": "Injuries may be forgiven, but not forgotten.", "laebl": 1}
{"id": 42, "story": "\"Hello, lion,\" Said cat. \"How are you this morning?\" \"What's it to you!\" Lion growled. Lion was in a very bad mood because he woke up on the wrong side of the bed. Cat said, \"Well you don't have to be snotty about it! just because I'm better than you does not mean you have to be a brat about it!\" \"Well, I could best you at anything! and that's a fact jack!\" Said lion. \"Ya, right corny de' lion! give me any request you want and I shall fulfill it!\" \"Well, I do have this bone in my throat that has been bugging me for ages! will you get it out for me?\" Lion spoke with a mysterious glint in his eyes. \"Sure!\" Cat said without thinking even once. Cat then climbed into lion's throat and looked and looked but couldn't find the bone. Then, with one silent bite, lion swallowed jack the cat whole!", "moral1": "Self-help is the best help. ", "moral2": "The man who speaks for both sides is not to be trusted by either. ", "moral3": "Don't let your cats play with lions. ", "moral4": "Never ever say you are the best. ", "moral5": "Thus she who had been protected by the bounty of nature, being an unequal match for the two, perished by an unhappy fate.", "laebl": 3}
{"id": 43, "story": "Long ago in the corral, calm indian ocean, on the beautiful, compact andman island, lived the notorious aardvark. The boastful, but dull, stingray and ordinary, but helpful, chinkara. \"Hello, aardvark. I can breath on land for hours!\" Boasted stingray. \"Then do it!\" Cackled aardvark. So stingray, being as dumb as a peacock, was also being as brave as a lion and then flapped out of the water. \"Help, help,\" Cried stingray. Chinkara heard it on the other side of the island so he galloped over to him. \"Thank you for saving my life,\" Stingray said to chinkara. The lion and the lizard natalie, 8, north carolina the moral of my fable is:  never steal. My fable is: once there was a lizard who admired the great lion king. He was jealous of the lion's gold, jewels, and most of all, his control over all the animals of the jungle. One day, the lion went on a vacation to the mountains. The lizard snuck into the lion's elegant den. He tried to steal the lion's most valuable ruby. But the guards found him and he went to prison. He never stole again.", "moral1": "Honestly is the best policy. ", "moral2": "Don't boast that you can do something when you can't. ", "moral3": "Just take care of my eyes dear. ", "moral4": "Humbleness is basic thing. If you are humble then you will learn much even without wise man. You can learn from trees, springs, wind. If you are humble enough then whole existence becomes teacher to you. ", "moral5": "It is cowardly to attack the defenseless, though he be an enemy.", "laebl": 2}
{"id": 44, "story": "A long time ago in the lush, green forest of oakwood, there lived a deer herd. The herd was very large with twenty deer in it. One of the deer was called lucy. Lucy was very annoying and she never listened. She only had one friend, susan. Susan was very patient and, unlike lucy, susan was a very good listener. Susan and lucy always met at a stream to play. Lucy changed the rules a lot and never listened to susan. Susan did not like how lucy never listened but she stayed her friend because she knew that lucy had no other friends. Billybob joe was the deer who told everyone where food or danger was. Lucy never listened to billybob joe. For example, whenever billybob joe came to tell everyone that he had found food, he always lead them to it. However, lucy never went because she didn't listen and she didn't hear billybob joe. Furthermore when susan told lucy to come lucy didn't listen and she got in trouble. Because of all this lucy's parents knew that one day their child would not listen to something important. When lucy's parents tried to teach lucy to listen she did not pay attention to them. One day lucy and susan met by the stream and they had just started to play when billybob joe came galloping to the herd yelling, \"The wolves are coming, the wolves are coming!\" The herd began to run. Susan told lucy to come and run away from the wolves, but lucy didn't listen. Susan had to run away, leaving lucy behind. Lucy played a little more until she heard a branch snap. Lucy then saw a wolf in a bush not too far away from her. She then spotted many more wolves all around her. Just as lucy began to run a wolf jumped out of his hiding place, just barely missing her. Lucy ran as fast as she could with the wolf pack hot on her trail. Lucy barely escaped them by jumping over a huge ditch a mile deep. The wolves knew that going around or through the ditch would take way too long so they left. Lucy then went to find her herd. When she found them susan and lucy's parents ran to her glad to see that she was ok. Lucy now knew that it's important to listen. From then on she was more kind and she stopped being annoying and began to listen. Lucy now had more friends and she was more enjoyable to be with.", "moral1": "Always keep your eyes open and stay alert before walking in any situation. ", "moral2": "Gentleness and kind persuasion win where force and bluster fail. ", "moral3": "Listening can keep you safe. ", "moral4": "Your job doesn't always define you, but being a good human being does. ", "moral5": "Too much attention to danger may cause us to fall victims to it.", "laebl": 3}
{"id": 45, "story": "One day, giraffe was eating some leaves from the trees. Suddenly, a crowd of zebras went rushing past, but one of them wasn't watching where he was going and bashed into giraffe. Smack! Zebra said sorry and continued on in a flash. Later on that day, giraffe heard a noise he saw zebra. \"What is the matter,\" Giraffe asked. \"I have lost my family,\" Zebra answered sadly. Giraffe looked up high above the trees and saw some zebras looking for something. Then he realized that it had it be zebra that they are looking for. Giraffe took him through the trees. When his family saw him, they raced to see him. They went back home together and lived happily ever after.", "moral1": "Watch were your going and be friendly to others. ", "moral2": "When we chose to fight, we can see that in no time, that big trouble start resembling a small problem and we can remove it from our life and move forward. ", "moral3": "Instead of jumping into senseless action, we should stand back and apply thought to the best course to take. ", "moral4": "Changing and improving the world is a task that must begin with our own personal change and improvement. ", "moral5": "We should focus our energy on positive and with in not time we would be able to do things we couldn't think of doing before.", "laebl": 1}
{"id": 46, "story": "Once, there lived a very lazy elf. He would give up immediately once anything that he was doing seemed too hard. Many of his friends didn't like him because he was as lazy as a pig. He would never share or give to his friends. One day, a wicked witch came to the village and caught several little elves. But her favorite elf was this lazy elf. She wanted to keep this lazy elf. The other elfs used teamwork to find a way to escapes from the witch. Their plan worked and they took the lazy elf with them when they all escaped. When they all returned to their village, the lazy elf realized that hard work and cooperating can be rewarding. He never, ever dared to be lazy again. And was much more cooperative with the other elves.", "moral1": "Outside show is a poor substitute for inner worth. ", "moral2": "Where there is hope, there is life. It fills us with fresh courage and makes us strong again. ", "moral3": "It is no good to be a dog in a manger. ", "moral4": "Yield3 to all and you will soon have nothing to yield. ", "moral5": "Never be lazy.", "laebl": 5}
{"id": 47, "story": "Once upon a time there was a rich wolf king who lived in a huge, brick castle. There also lived a poor peasant fox who lived in a small village. \"Oh no! wolves are invading our village again,\" Said the villagers. \"What is going on guys? oh no, wolves! I will take care of this. I can't believe they are taking my wife and children away!\" Said fox. Four days later, fox decided to prepare for battle. \"I need justice. I also need to fix my village,\" Thought fox. Meanwhile, wolf was waiting. He knew fox was preparing, but he was just too busy eating his juicy apples and fruits. He was so busy eating in fact, that he didn't think he needed to prepare at all. Wolf looked out his window and what greeted his eye was a huge army! He started to panic! He should have known. He should have prepared. Wolf's army was then defeated. He was forced to leave his castle. Fox won the battle and saved his wife and children.", "moral1": "This is what we call 'self appraisal'.   every time if we don't get ahead of others, we blame others for it.   we should look to our self and compare, find own weaknesses and work hard to throw away weaknesses.   always work hard, honest and with full dedication.   it will always pay up. ", "moral2": "Familiarity breeds contempt. ", "moral3": "A way to overcome fear of darkness in children, through imagination and creativity. ", "moral4": "It is best to do today's work today. Don't wait till later. ", "moral5": "Greed can never be satisfied. Be happy with what you have and live life to fullest. Happiness is not in things around us but in company of people we live with.", "laebl": 4}
{"id": 48, "story": "Once upon a time there lived a kind fox and a selfish monkey. Fox was red and medium-sized. Monkey was a crazy, brown spider monkey. Fox is kind and shows how kind by always puts others first. One day, monkey spied a juicy banana tree. The problem was that the banana tree didn't belong to him. The tree belonged to fox's neighbor. Subsequently, monkey decided to cut down the tree and plant it in his own yard. Monkey went to jail! Fox watched all of this happen and learned the lesson that he doesn't want to get into trouble like the monkey. Sometimes, when fox wants plums from others, he remembers what happened to monkey. Because he has learned a good lesson, he buys his own.", "moral1": "Once should never try to cheat others. ", "moral2": "Don't fool other. Otherwise you will be fooled. ", "moral3": "A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving. ", "moral4": "To stay out of trouble, don't make the same mistakes others make. ", "moral5": "In overcoming adversity can lie the seeds of our success.", "laebl": 4}
{"id": 49, "story": "One day the mean bear was being a bully to everybody in the city. A monkey was sitting on a branch in the jungle looking down at the city. He said, \"Why is that bear being a bully to everybody?\" A few days later the bear wanted to visit the jungle. It was very sunny there. He said, \"I will see lots of animals.\" He saw a monkey on a branch. He wanted to surprise the monkey so he ran on the dry ground to the monkey and accidentally pushed him off the branch. The bear said, \"I am so sorry.\" The monkey said, \"It's ok. I was just looking at the city.\" \"Oh,\" The bear said. \"Hey, you are that bear that was bullying everybody in the city\" Asked the monkey. \"You wanted to push me off. why are you a bully?\" The monkey asked. \"I don't know,\" Replied the mean bear. \"You don't have to be a bully,\" Said the monkey. The bear replied thoughtfully, \"Ok. and, thank you. I will be nicer.\"", "moral1": "Always keep your eyes open and stay alert before walking in any situation. ", "moral2": "Don't be a bully. ", "moral3": "Listening can keep you safe. ", "moral4": "That's why wise saints always say - don't be afraid of god, be afraid of your actions because your action will find you tomorrow if not today. ", "moral5": "We should focus our energy on positive and with in not time we would be able to do things we couldn't think of doing before.", "laebl": 2}
{"id": 50, "story": "One monday morning there was a new student at eagle eye elementary school. Her name was callie the cat. In her eyes, there was a little snowflake. When everyone saw her, they were scared. You see, back in the old days, everyone thought that pets with a little snowflake in their eyes were evil and would freeze them. Callie was lonely and wanted a friend. She wished that she wasn't born with the snowflake in her eye. One day a girl named lilly the lion came up to callie and said hi. Everyone gasped and said, \"No, you will be frozen!\" Lilly asked if callie would like to be her friend and callie said yes! From that day on, lilly and callie became best friends and no one was scared of callie.", "moral1": "Refusing to help someone is like refusing work of god. If you see someone in need of help and you can help that person according to your capability as no help is small for person who needs it. ", "moral2": "Ah, people often grudge3 others what they cannot enjoy themselves. ", "moral3": "Trying to cover up mistakes with lies only worsens the final consequences. ", "moral4": "Avoiding responsibility ends in overburden. ", "moral5": "Don't judge a book by its cover.", "laebl": 5}
{"id": 51, "story": "Once there was a fox named foxy. She was laying on a pillow when she saw a gray mouse. She got up and started to chase it. The mouse barely got away by running into her mouse hole. But the next day foxy was waiting for the mouse. So when the mouse came, foxy scraped the mouse's leg with her claws. The next day she could not go out. The mouse called out and said, \"You are very mean to kill so many good animals.\" Foxy was very ashamed and reformed her ways.", "moral1": "This simple but deep meaning statement of monk, now awakened wisdom of woodcutter and he understood that any search of wealth is incomplete without god because one's mind cannot be satisfied until he gain wealth of god name. ", "moral2": "Leadership is earned via actions that demonstrate courage, fairness, and commitment. ", "moral3": "In overcoming adversity can lie the seeds of our success. ", "moral4": "Be nice and help others. ", "moral5": "Your job doesn't always define you, but being a good human being does.", "laebl": 4}
{"id": 52, "story": "Once upon a time there was a beautiful peacock and a drab chicken that lived in the kind and humble prince's garden. The peacock teased the chicken saying, \"I am bright and beautiful. you are ugly with no color but brown and white\". Alas the peacock was right he was bright and beautiful and the chicken drab and brown. Then, one day a fox came creeping slowly into the prince's garden he saw the peacock but not the chicken because it was drab he could not see it as well. He pounced and nearly got the peacock but just scratched it. He was about to try again when the prince came to check on a sick bird. He saw the fox and chased it away. Never again did the peacock tease the chicken, for he realized that the things that make you you have reasons that can work to your advantage. The thanksgiving turkeycaden h. , 12, u. S. A.", "moral1": "All things require a minimum of order, although that doesn't prevent the order from being applied with imagination. ", "moral2": "Borrowed feathers do not make fine birds. ", "moral3": "Everything has its good and bad side. We are happiest when we look for the good in all things. ", "moral4": "Clumsy jesting is no joke. ", "moral5": "Be humble.", "laebl": 5}
{"id": 53, "story": "Once upon a time there was an extremely greedy squirrel and a very poor, sneaky fox. They both lived in the forest. The squirrel lived in the tallest tree in the forest. It smelled of pine needles, flowers and nuts. The fox lived in a cold, dark, den. It smelled like mud, rotten meat and bone meal. The floor was very hard unlike the squirrel's soft carpet. One day, the squirrel bought a ton of food. He got meat, bread, butter, potatoes, gravy, and cranberry sauce. He had a huge party and invited everyone but the fox. Everything was delicious and everyone was full. That night the fox went to squirrel's house and stole all the leftover food. The next day squirrel woke up and noticed his food was gone. He got so mad his face turned red! Then he noticed the fox prints and went to his house. When the fox opened the door, the squirrel saw the food and jumped on the fox. Then he saw three fox pups crying for they were very hungry. He got off of the fox, gave him some money for a new house, and after that they had the biggest party ever.", "moral1": "When we meet real tragedy in life, we can react in two ways - either by losing hope and falling into self-destructive habits or by using the challenge to find our inner strength. ", "moral2": "It is always better to mind our own business. ", "moral3": "You should think about things before acting impulsively, in order to avoid unforeseen and painful consequences. ", "moral4": "The wise do not let themselves be tricked a second time. ", "moral5": "Give people a second chance.", "laebl": 5}
{"id": 54, "story": "Once upon a time there was a fluffy bird. He liked to do his chores later. Bear was kind and nice. Bear asked bird, \"Do you want to go to the awesome park?\" Bear asked if bird had cleaned his room. Bird said, \"Why should I bother?\" Bird asked his mom and dad. They said, \"No, you didn't clean your room.\" Bird was unhappy. Bird learned his lesson to do his work now; do not do it later. The next day bear asked if bird could go to the fun mall. Bird could go. He cleaned his room. He had a great time. Bear and bird were best friends. Bird never forgot to clean his room ever again.", "moral1": "Gentleness and kind persuasion win where force and bluster fail. ", "moral2": "There is always someone worse off than yourself. ", "moral3": "Use serves to overcome dread4. ", "moral4": "Do your work now. ", "moral5": "Honesty is rewarded and greediness is punished!", "laebl": 4}
{"id": 55, "story": "One day speedy the sloth saw eileen the bear running. So speedy decided to try it. When speedy started to go, his long sharp claws sunk into the dirt and he fell forward. Eileen saw speedy fall and laughed. \"That's not funny said speedy\". \"But it is,\" Said eileen. \"But it's not. it's not funny when someone gets hurt.\" \"Then what is it\"? Asked eileen  \"It's sad,\" Said speedy. \"Ok…ok I am sorry,\" Said eileen. \"Now I know I can't run and you can,\" Said speedy, \"So I am grateful for who I am!\"", "moral1": "Every time you victimized someone, you were victimizing yourself. Every act of kindness you have done was done to yourself. Every emotions experienced by any human will be experienced by you. . ", "moral2": "Evil companions bring more hurt than profit. ", "moral3": "Look before you leap. ", "moral4": "To enter by reason means to realize the essence through instruction and to believe that all living things share the same true nature, which isn't apparent because it is shrouded by sensation and delusion. ", "moral5": "Be grateful for who you are.", "laebl": 5}
{"id": 56, "story": "The fire-breathing dragon roared, spitting fire everywhere. A small armadillo scurried away with its tail on fire. The dragon, having vanquished it's enemy, curled up inside its wings. \"At last.\" It murmured. A drop of fire dripped from its red eyes. \"I am alone. all alone…\" It stood up and roared. Mouse awoke with a start. Another poor animal defeated by the dragon. He thought when he heard the familiar roar of victory. When will this stop? Then, he got an idea. All of the other animals who have entered have been big and strong. What they need is a small, fast spy to get in and out and bring them information! The next day, mouse talked to the king of animalville. \"Sir, I believe that I can do it.\" The king stared at him with his bald eagle eyes. \"You?\" \"I'll gather information. and then we can plan an attack. since I'm so small, I can get in for long enough to find out what its weaknesses are, and it won't even see me.\" Bald eagle looked up. \"That might work. but if it sees you, you're literally burnt toast!\" Mouse looked at the cave. He glanced back at the town behind him. This might be the only time I ever see it again. He tried to swallow the large lump in his throat and plunged in. For hours, he saw nothing but darkness. Then, an orangey glow began to fill the tunnel. Soon, mouse burst into a large chamber filled with piles of… tissues? Mouse was perplexed. I thought dragons horded gold, not kleenexes. He looked around. Where is the dragon, anyways? Then, he heard a sound almost like… crying? Something was seriously off here. He climbed up one of the kleenex mounds and gazed upon the mountains of tissues. He saw the gigantic red dragon huddled amongst them, blowing her nose. Tears of flame were streaming down her face. \"Why?\" She sobbed. \"Why won't anybody be my friend?\" She blew her nose again and tossed the ashes into another pile. \"Everybody who comes in here tries to hurt me. why?\"Mouse decided to go down there. He slid down the pile of kleenexes. \"I don't want to hurt you!\" He said. The dragon's eyes widened. \"Who's there?\" She roared. \"P-please don't come closer!\" She squinted. Mouse stood right in front of her. When she saw him, she jumped. \"Please don't hurt me!\" She cried. Then she realized what she was looking at. \"Hey, you can't hurt me. you're too small!\" Mouse waved. \"Hi there! I'm mouse! nice to meet you.\"\"I think I know why nobody is your friend.\" Mouse said. \"Really?\" Dragon's eyes filled with hope. \"Why?\" She lifted him up to her level with her claw. \"Woah!\" Cried mouse. \"This is fun!\" He brushed off his fur and looked dragon straight in the eye. \"Nobody is your friend because you attack them.\" He said. Dragon looked puzzled. \"But they attack me.\" She said. \"Only because they are afraid of you. I now know that you only fry us because you're afraid of us.\" He made hand gestures as he talked. \"Let me tell you about the golden rule.\" He said. \"What's the golden rule?\" Dragon said. An expression of understanding passed over dragon's face. \"So, if I want people to like me, I have to stop breathing fire at them.\"Then one solitary tear of fire dripped from her eye. \"But it's too late. everyone is so afraid of me that they won't give me another chance. I'm going to be friendless forever!\" She started bawling her eyes out. Mouse tapped his finger on his chin and then snapped them. \"I wouldn't be so sure about that!\" Bald eagle relaxed, feet kicked up in a comfy recliner in his three-tree castle, watching the crowds gather to see if mouse would make it out. I sure hope mouse makes it! He thought. He took a sip of coffee and walked into the kitchen. As he microwaved some wonderfully delicious salmon casserole, he heard pounding on his tree. He walked over. His assistant, golden eagle, stood there, eyes wide. \"Sir, you have got to see this!\" Bald eagle ran out onto the balcony. The fire dragon was flying towards his tree-castle! It landed next to his tree. And mouse stood on its back! \"How's this for a battle plan?\" Mouse yelled. \"Yes!\" Bald eagle cried. \"Good job, my friend!\"The fire dragon and the citizens lived happily ever after.", "moral1": "When doing things together the important thing is to make sure things turn out for the best, rather than worry about how much each individual has contributed. ", "moral2": "When pain, misery or anger happen, it is time to look within you, not around you. ", "moral3": "Treat others how you would like to be treated. ", "moral4": "Strife feeds on conflict. ", "moral5": "Similar is with our life.. It's our choice.", "laebl": 3}
{"id": 57, "story": "When the house is empty, the chase begins. Fuzzball liked napping on the counter. Squeakers liked to sneak around the house looking for cheese. Squeakers smelled something like cheese coming from the kitchen. He thought it was his lucky day. But then he saw fuzzball. Squeakers sneaked around quietly, stole the cheese, and was about to run away when suddenly fuzzball woke up and chased him all around the house. Squeakers almost made it to his hole when fuzzball caught him. Fuzzball said, \"You are naughty little squeakers. the next time you steal the cheese, you won't get away!\" Fuzzball took the cheese back to the counter. The owner returned. Squeakers stayed in his hole the rest of the night. When the morning came, squeakers smelled cheese again, but knew that fuzzball would be guarding it. Squeakers thought to himself, \"That naughty cat will be mean to me again. maybe I should try asking for the cheese instead of taking it.\"After the owner left the house, squeakers ran to the kitchen, jumped on the counter, and woke fuzzball. \"Can I have some cheese, please?\" Asked squeakers. Fuzzball answers rudely, \"No, you can't have any cheese!\" Squeakers responded, \"Would you like for me to never come out for a chase? would you like to be treated so poorly? treat others the way you want to be treated fuzzball.\"Fuzzball responded, \"Sorry for being mean to you squeakers. would you like to share the cheese?\" Fuzzball and squeakers became friends. Fuzzball often shared his cheese and squeakers gave him good chases.", "moral1": "The laws of nature are unchangeable. ", "moral2": "You can change people's lives by bringing them a little joy and good health. ", "moral3": "Treat others the way you would like to be treated. ", "moral4": "Once should never try to cheat others. ", "moral5": "Earning more money can be profitable but true profit lies in doing good deeds and helping others.", "laebl": 3}
{"id": 58, "story": "Once there was a fast bunny named bub and a jumpy jaguar named bob. The jaguar had soft fur and the bunny had scruffy fur. One day they met while walking and hopping in the woods. \"Hi, I'm fast\", said the bunny. \"I like to eat carrots. what do you like to eat?\" The jaguar answered, \"I like to eat other animals, but not my friends. I also like to jump.\"They became good friends, so they decided to go snowboarding together. They kept falling and saying mean things to each other. After a while, a wise old stink bug came by. \"You guys should try encouraging each other!\", he exclaimed. So they spoke encouraging words, and they managed to learn how to snowboard. They had lots of fun together.", "moral1": "Encouragement wins over criticism. ", "moral2": "Unity is strength! ", "moral3": "A way to overcome fear of darkness in children, through imagination and creativity. ", "moral4": "Watching television is often a waste of time, and brings no benefit. ", "moral5": "Nobody is perfectly happy. We learned that their are difficulties in everyone life. Happy is one who is contented with whatever they have.", "laebl": 1}
{"id": 59, "story": "In the forest, there was a vampire bat and an owl. They were having a conflict about who was faster. \"I am faster!!\" Boasted owl. \"It doesn't matter,\" Vampire bat said. \"Let's have a two-day race tomorrow morning and I will prove it!\" Said owl. \"Ok,\" Said vampire bat. The next day, they went to the starting line. \"Ready, set, go!\" Yelled owl. Off they went. Owl was faster than vampire bat. \"Try to catch up slowpoke!!\" Yelled owl. Two days later, owl was hungry, so he went to the fruit tree to eat when vampire bat past him. She was very far ahead. The owl was trying to catch up, but he broke his wing. Vampire bat won! !", "moral1": "Thus she who had been protected by the bounty of nature, being an unequal match for the two, perished by an unhappy fate. ", "moral2": "Slow and steady wins the race. ", "moral3": "Freedom is the most valuable gift. Without it, nothing we do has meaning. ", "moral4": "The tyrant can always find an excuse for his tyranny. The unjust will not listen to the reasoning of the innocent. ", "moral5": "Those who achieve notoriety often mistake it for fame.", "laebl": 2}
{"id": 60, "story": "The cat and the lion were playing a game of leaping cats in a hot forest. Near where they were playing, there was a big river and there were logs and sticks in it. The cat said, \"I will jump first.\" The lion said, \"I guess that makes me second.\" The cat leaped first but when it was the lion's turn, he was too excited to play and was not looking at the river ahead and went in the water.", "moral1": "When we give in to anger, we end up doing damage to the things or people closest to us who we should really take care of. ", "moral2": "What ever we have done in past but still we can change our life and people views towards us. So never give up. Anytime is good to start good work. ", "moral3": "Look before you leap. ", "moral4": "Train up a child in the way he should go; and when he is old he will not depart therefrom. ", "moral5": "It's our choice to keep positive attitude towards life. Circumstances are just parts of what makes us joyful. Pursuit of happiness is an inward journey. If we continue to bit our lips and just before we begin to complain we should shoot that seemingly harmless negative thought as it germinates, we will find there is much rejoice about.", "laebl": 3}
{"id": 61, "story": "A tiger and a leopard were in the open savanna challenging each other to a race. They begin to race, when tiger takes an unfamiliar short cut and unexpectedly falls into a hole. All the while, the leopard gets closer to the finish line. Tiger is never to be seen again, leaving leopard the winner of the race.", "moral1": "Men always remember a woman who caused them concern and uneasiness. ", "moral2": "Never trust a friend who deserts you at a pinch. ", "moral3": "We fight over small things and these become big with time. Instead of making conflicts big we should look for solutions. Sometimes we just need a new outlook and understand what's more important. ", "moral4": "Cheating is not going to win you anything but no fun. ", "moral5": "This is designed for you, who, when you have threatened great things, produce nothing.", "laebl": 4}
{"id": 62, "story": "In the middle of nowhere that had wifi, the fox tried to trick the owl into going into his trap to cook the owl. Owl's friend dog tricked the fox and saved the owl. Then, the owl and the dog played roblox and watched youtube in peace, while the fox paced around angrily.", "moral1": "When we chose to fight, we can see that in no time, that big trouble start resembling a small problem and we can remove it from our life and move forward. ", "moral2": "Treat others the way you would like to be treated. ", "moral3": "Don't be greedy. ", "moral4": "Don't trick others or the same thing will happen to you. ", "moral5": "Never try to copy other as it never lasts long and one can't find happiness that way, therefore, always be true to yourself.", "laebl": 4}
{"id": 63, "story": "Can a bully be a friend? Find out in the story of mathew, the rhino and wyatt, the panda. Once upon a time there was a panda named wyatt and a rhino named matthew. Wyatt lived in the jungle and matthew lived in the sahara. Wyatt liked visiting new schools, teaching bullies why they should not hurt others. Mathew, the rhino was the hardest one to teach. Wyatt was all excited to come to the sahara school. What he didn't know was that there was a new bully who even made fun of the other bullies and immediately started making fun of wyatt. Wyatt was so annoyed that he wanted to yell at matthew. Then his friends encouraged him not to. They said, \"Have faith. don't fail now. these kids need to see that what you're teaching them is possible! and if you give up, they'll turn back to their old ways.\"Finally, wyatt went over and said, \"Matthew, I noticed that you always stand, play and eat by yourself and I wondered if you wanted to play with me? I'd like to be your friend.\" For the first time ever matthew found out what it was like to be a friend. From that day forward, matthew started to be a friend too. He realized that he should do unto others what he wanted to them to do to him.", "moral1": "It's always good to have a second language. ", "moral2": "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. ", "moral3": "If there is a will there is a way. ", "moral4": "Outside show is a poor substitute for inner worth. ", "moral5": "One should not be carried away by what others say. Don't be fooled by those who wants to take advantage of you.", "laebl": 2}
{"id": 64, "story": "A man came upon an apricot tree, whose grounds were surrounded by its own fruit, yet whose branches were still full of apricots. This man filled his bags with all the apricots from the ground saying to himself, this is more than I need, but what could be the harm in that? A second man came upon the apricot tree and saw that it was full of fruit. He climbed the tree and filled his bags with all the low hanging fruit. This second man then told himself, \"This is more than I need, but what could be the harm in that?\"A third man came upon the apricot tree and saw that it only had fruit upon its high branches. In order to get the apricots safely, he chopped down the tree and filled his bag with the last of the fruit. This third man then told himself, \"This is more than I need, but what could be the harm in that?\"", "moral1": "Do not take more than you need because it will lead to others not being able to have what they need. ", "moral2": "Borrowed feathers do not make fine birds. ", "moral3": "With your dedication and determination to learn something you can do anything you want.. ! ! ", "moral4": "Success means doing something sincerely and wholeheartedly. ", "moral5": "Tidiness is a helpful virtue to achieve things that must be used on a daily basis.", "laebl": 1}
{"id": 65, "story": "An eagle had made her nest at the top of an oak; a cat who had found a hole in the middle, had kittened there; a sow, a dweller in the woods, had laid her offspring at the bottom. Then thus does the cat with deceit and wicked malice, destroy the community so formed by accident. She mounts up to the nest of the bird: \"Destruction,\" Says she, \"Is preparing for you, perhaps, too, for wretched me; for as you see, the sow, digging up the earth every day, is insidiously trying to overthrow the oak, that she may easily seize our progeny on the ground.\" Having thus spread terror, and bewildered the eagle's senses, the cat creeps down to the lair of the bristly sow: \"In great danger,\" Says she, \"Are your offspring; for as soon as you go out to forage with your young litter, the eagle is ready to snatch away from you your little pigs.\" Having filled this place likewise with alarm, she cunningly hides herself in her safe hole. Thence she wanders forth on tiptoe by night, and having filled herself and her offspring with food, she looks out all day long, pretending alarm. Fearing the downfall, the eagle sits still in the branches; to avoid the attack of the spoiler, the sow stirs not abroad. Why make a long story? 385 they perished through hunger, with their young ones, and afforded the cat and her kittens an ample repast.", "moral1": "Look before you leap.  do not just blindly walk in to anything without thinking. ", "moral2": "You can change people's lives by bringing them a little joy and good health. ", "moral3": "Fruits and vegetables are a key part of a diet and can prevent many health problems. ", "moral4": "It matters little if those who are inferior to us in merit  should be like us in outside appearances. ", "moral5": "Silly credulity may take this as a proof how much evil a double-tongued man may often contrive.", "laebl": 5}
{"id": 66, "story": "No one is sufficiently armed against the powerful; but if a wicked adviser joins them, nothing can withstand such a combination of violence and unscrupulousness. An eagle carried a tortoise aloft, who had hidden her body in her horny abode, and in her concealment could not, while thus sheltered, be injured in any way. A crow came through the air, and flying near, exclaimed: \"You really have carried off a rich prize in your talons; but if I don't instruct you what you must do, in vain will you tire yourself with the heavy weight.\" A share being promised her, she persuades the eagle to dash the hard shell from the lofty stars upon a rock, that, it being broken to pieces, she may easily feed upon the meat. Induced by her words, the eagle attends to her suggestion, and at the same time gives a large share of the banquet to her instructress.", "moral1": "Better one safe way than a hundred on which you cannot reckon. ", "moral2": "Your reputation is the most important thing you will ever have. Not clothes, nor money, not the big cars you may drive. If your reputation is good, you can achieve anything you want in the world. ", "moral3": "When we meet real tragedy in life, we can react in two ways - either by losing hope and falling into self-destructive habits or by using the challenge to find our inner strength. ", "moral4": "Plodding wins the race. ", "moral5": "Thus she who had been protected by the bounty of nature, being an unequal match for the two, perished by an unhappy fate.", "laebl": 5}
{"id": 67, "story": "The she-goats having obtained of jupiter the favour of a 419 beard, the he-goats, full of concern, began to be indignant that the females rivalled them in their dignity. \"Suffer them,\" Said the god, \"To enjoy their empty honours, and to use the badge that belongs to your rank, so long as they are not sharers in your courage.\"", "moral1": "This fable teaches you to bear that those who are inferior to you in merit should be like you in outside appearances. ", "moral2": "Never trust a friend who deserts you at a pinch. ", "moral3": "It's always good to have a second language. ", "moral4": "Material happiness is just like that polluted river, because it a mere reflection of true happiness that lies in spiritual world. ", "moral5": "Avoiding work leads to more work.", "laebl": 1}
{"id": 68, "story": "A mountain was in labour, sending forth dreadful groans, 424 and there was in the districts the highest expectation. After all, it brought forth a mouse.", "moral1": "No one you love is ever truly lost. ", "moral2": "They who, while making great promises, refuse small favours, show that they are very tenacious of giving. ", "moral3": "This is designed for you, who, when you have threatened great things, produce nothing. ", "moral4": "Always be good with others and share good with others. When we share our goodness with others it makes world a better place to live in. ", "moral5": "When we meet real tragedy in life, we can react in two ways - either by losing hope and falling into self-destructive habits or by using the challenge to find our inner strength.", "laebl": 3}
{"id": 69, "story": "A slave, when running away from a master of severe disposition, met aesop, to whom he was known as a neighbour: \"Why are you in such a hurry?\" Said aesop. \"I'll tell you candidly, father,\" Said the other, \"For you are worthy to be called by that name, as our sorrows are safely entrusted to you. stripes are in superabundance; victuals fail: every now and then I am sent to the farm as a slave to the rustics there: if he dines at home I am kept standing by him all night, or if he is invited out, I remain until daylight in the street. I have fairly earned my liberty; but with grey hairs I am still a slave. if I were conscious to myself of any fault, I should bear this patiently: I never have had a bellyful, and, unhappy that I am, I have to put up with a severe master besides. for these reasons, and for others which it would take too long to recount, I have determined to go wherever my feet may carry me.\" \"Listen then,\" Said aesop; \"When you have committed no fault, you suffer these inconveniences as you say: what if you had offended? what do you suppose you would then have had to suffer?\"By such advice he was prevented from running away.", "moral1": "No one should be blamed for his infirmities. ", "moral2": "The gods help them that help themselves. ", "moral3": "There is no necessity to add evil to evil. ", "moral4": "Look before you leap. ", "moral5": "Silly credulity may take this as a proof how much evil a double-tongued man may often contrive.", "laebl": 3}
{"id": 70, "story": "A mouse, in order that he might pass over a river with greater ease, sought the aid of a frog. She tied the fore leg of the mouse to her hinder thigh. Hardly had they swum to the middle of the river, when the frog dived suddenly, trying to reach the bottom, that she might perfidiously deprive the mouse of life. While he struggled with all his might not to sink, a kite that was flying near at hand, beheld the prey, and seizing the floundering mouse in his talons, at the same time bore off the frog that was fastened to him.", "moral1": "Do not harm someone even if he harms you. Be good to all. ", "moral2": "As such no activity of life should be seen as a distraction for living a spiritual life. Every activity of life can be done with mindfulness or with a detached attitude but this is true for highly evolved soul. For most people who are still on the path, they should not let distractions them divert from spiritual path and focus intensely in our spiritual practice so that they become more centered inside. ", "moral3": "The best way to encourage honesty is to create an environment of honesty and generosity, since he who wants nothing for himself is farthest from falling into greed and envy. ", "moral4": "Thus do men often perish while meditating the destruction others. ", "moral5": "Success means doing something sincerely and wholeheartedly.", "laebl": 4}
{"id": 71, "story": "The birds were at war with the beasts, and the conquerors were defeated in their turn; but the bat, fearing the doubtful issue of the strife, always betook himself to those whom he saw victorious. When they had returned to their former state of peace, the fraud was apparent to both sides; convicted therefore of a crime so disgraceful, and flying from the light, he thenceforth hid himself in deep darkness, always flying alone by night.", "moral1": "Whoever offers himself for sale to both sides, will live a life of disgrace, hateful to them both. ", "moral2": "To understand and learn wisdom we need to find and change our inner self not just the outer self. ", "moral3": "Wise person learn from anyone and everyone and as soon as he understand his mistake, he corrects them and move forward. ", "moral4": "Organisation and following rules, allows collaboration to achieve great things. ", "moral5": "One should not act selfish and know that if you do wrong with someone then other might do wrong with you.. So be careful about how you act with others. .", "laebl": 1}
{"id": 72, "story": "While a hawk was sitting in a nightingale's nest, on the watch for a hare, he found there some young ones. The mother, alarmed at the danger of her offspring, flew up, and suppliantly entreated him to spare her young ones. \"I will do what you wish,\" He replied, \"If you will sing me a tuneful song with a clear voice.\" On this, much as her heart failed her, still, through fear, she obeyed, and being compelled, full of grief she sang. The hawk, who had seized the prey, then said: \"You have not sung your best;\" And, seizing one of the young ones with his claws, began to devour it. A fowler approaches from another direction, and stealthily extending his reed, touches the perfidious creature with bird-lime, and drags him to the ground.", "moral1": "As the professor explained, life is a bag of good and bad things, we all have positives and negatives along the way.  but we must always concentrate greater on the positives for a healthy and happy life.  life goes on no matter what so do not waste your time thinking about the negatives. ", "moral2": "Whoever lays crafty stratagems for others, ought to beware that he himself be not entrapped by cunning. ", "moral3": "If we seek for something and don't get it, we should not lose hope.. We don't know what destiny had in store for us.. Never lose hope and keep trying. ", "moral4": "One should never take any action in haste. ", "moral5": "Clumsy jesting is no joke.", "laebl": 2}
{"id": 73, "story": "An ass asked a horse for a little barley. \"With all my heart,\" Said he, \"If I had more than I wanted, I would give you plenty, in accordance with my dignified position; but bye-and-bye, as soon as I shall have come to my manger in the evening, I will give you a sackful of wheat.\" The ass replied: \"If you now deny me on a trifling occasion, what am I to suppose you will do on one of greater importance?\"", "moral1": "You have to be careful about getting addicted to computers. They can divorce us from everyday life and the natural world. ", "moral2": "Sometimes we need to understand that it could be our views that are not letting us see clearly. We should not judge person without clearing our thoughts and understanding all about situation. ", "moral3": "They who, while making great promises, refuse small favours, show that they are very tenacious of giving. ", "moral4": "The doors of the world are opened to people who can read. ", "moral5": "One should never speak hastily. Always think before you speak.", "laebl": 3}
{"id": 74, "story": "Worn with years, a lion pretended illness. Many beasts came for the purpose of visiting the sick king, whom at once he devoured. But a wary fox stood at a distance before the den, saluting the king. On the lion asking her why she did not come in: \"Because,\" Said she, \"I see many foot-marks of those who have gone in, but none of those who came out.\"", "moral1": "The dangers of others are generally of advantage to the wary. ", "moral2": "The advice of wise people should be taken seriously. ", "moral3": "Union gives strength. ", "moral4": "Avoiding responsibility ends in overburden. ", "moral5": "They who, while making great promises, refuse small favours, show that they are very tenacious of giving.", "laebl": 1}
{"id": 75, "story": "A wolf had been gorging1 on an animal he had killed, whensuddenly a small bone in the meat stuck in his throat and he couldnot swallow it. He soon felt terrible pain in his throat, and ranup and down groaning2 and groaning and seeking for something torelieve the pain. He tried to induce every one he met to removethe bone. \"I would give anything,\" Said he, \"If you would take itout.\" At last the crane agreed to try, and told the wolf to lieon his side and open his jaws3 as wide as he could. Then the craneput its long neck down the wolf's throat, and with its beakloosened the bone, till at last it got it out. \"Will you kindly4 give me the reward you promised?\" Said thecrane. The wolf grinned and showed his teeth and said: \"Be content.you have put your head inside a wolf's mouth and taken it outagain in safety; that ought to be reward enough for you.\"", "moral1": "Do your work now. ", "moral2": "We should not be quick to judge other person. In relationships we should try to talk and clear things. We should not let our anger control us because not everything we see or hear is true. ! ", "moral3": "Gratitude5 and greed go not together. ", "moral4": "One should not be carried away by what others say. Don't be fooled by those who wants to take advantage of you. ", "moral5": "We should understand and have respect for other's person life style. We shouldn't we embarrassed of our elder's ways to do work.", "laebl": 3}
{"id": 76, "story": "A wolf who had a bone stuck in his throat hired a crane, for alarge sum, to put her head into his mouth and draw out the bone. When the crane had extracted the bone and demanded the promisedpayment, the wolf, grinning and grinding his teeth, exclaimed:\"Why, you have surely already had a sufficient recompense, inhaving been permitted to draw out your head in safety from themouth and jaws1 of a wolf.\"", "moral1": "Once should never try to cheat others. ", "moral2": "Refusing to help someone is like refusing work of god. If you see someone in need of help and you can help that person according to your capability as no help is small for person who needs it. ", "moral3": "In serving the wicked, expect no reward, and be thankful if you escape injury for your pains. ", "moral4": "If we gather up strength and face difficulties then we end up at better place, because we never know what future has in store for us. ", "moral5": "Think before you act.", "laebl": 3}
{"id": 77, "story": "\"Well, little one,\" Said a tree to a reed that was growing atits foot, \"Why do you not plant your feet deeply in the ground,and raise your head boldly in the air as I do?\" \"I am contented1 with my lot,\" Said the reed. \"I may not be sogrand, but I think I am safer.\" \"Safe!\" Sneered2 the tree. \"Who shall pluck me up by the rootsor bow my head to the ground?\" But it soon had to repent3 of itsboasting, for a hurricane arose which tore it up from its roots,and cast it a useless log on the ground, while the little reed,bending to the force of the wind, soon stood upright again whenthe storm had passed over.", "moral1": "If you work together in a team you can achieve much more than you could have done on your own. ", "moral2": "Obscurity often brings safety. ", "moral3": "It is no good to be a dog in a manger. ", "moral4": "Teamwork and coordination allow us to achieve more than we could individually, no matter how capable we are. ", "moral5": "Nobody truly knows which employee actually deserves the merit of success, or who's actually contributing the nesessary support to kae things happen.", "laebl": 2}
{"id": 78, "story": "A traveler wearied from a long journey lay down, overcome withfatigue, on the very brink1 of a deep well. Just as he was aboutto fall into the water, dame2 fortune, it is said, appeared to himand waking him from his slumber3 thus addressed him: \"Good sir,pray wake up: for if you fall into the well, the blame will bethrown on me, and I shall get an ill name among mortals; for ifind that men are sure to impute4 their calamities5 to me, howevermuch by their own folly6 they have really brought them onthemselves.\"", "moral1": "Everyone is more or less master of his own fate. ", "moral2": "No matter what we do, we always have a part of ourselves that is quietly watching and that knows right from wrong and can guide us if we listen. ", "moral3": "There's a time for work and a time for play. ", "moral4": "Tidiness is a helpful virtue to achieve things that must be used on a daily basis. ", "moral5": "Never judge a person by how he speaks.", "laebl": 1}
{"id": 79, "story": "There was once a young shepherd boy who tended his sheep atthe foot of a mountain near a dark forest. It was rather lonelyfor him all day, so he thought upon a plan by which he could get alittle company and some excitement. He rushed down towards thevillage calling out \"Wolf, wolf,\" And the villagers came out tomeet him, and some of them stopped with him for a considerabletime. This pleased the boy so much that a few days afterwards hetried the same trick, and again the villagers came to his help. But shortly after this a wolf actually did come out from theforest, and began to worry the sheep, and the boy of course criedout \"Wolf, wolf,\" Still louder than before. But this time thevillagers, who had been fooled twice before, thought the boy wasagain deceiving them, and nobody stirred to come to his help. Sothe wolf made a good meal off the boy's flock1, and when the boycomplained, the wise man of the village said:", "moral1": "A liar2 will not be believed, even when he speaks the truth. ", "moral2": "Evil companions bring more hurt than profit. ", "moral3": "The dangers of others are generally of advantage to the wary. ", "moral4": "Similarly, path we give to our life is in our own hands. By our choices and efforts we can decide what to make of our life. . ", "moral5": "Give people a second chance.", "laebl": 1}
{"id": 80, "story": "The she-goats having obtained a beard by request to jupiter, the he-goats were sorely displeased1 and made complaint that the females equaled them in dignity. \"Allow them,\" Said jupiter, \"To enjoy an empty honor and to assume the badge of your nobler sex, so long as they are not your equals in strength or courage.\"", "moral1": "Everyone is more or less master of his own fate. ", "moral2": "Our parents love us and they never stop caring about us even if we don't care enough about them because they love us unconditionally and we never realize that till we have them. ", "moral3": "It matters little if those who are inferior to us in merit  should be like us in outside appearances. ", "moral4": "Fear of the dark is not fear of anything real, and can only prevent you from discovering interesting things. ", "moral5": "Divinity lies within us all. We just need to look inside ourselves.", "laebl": 3}
{"id": 81, "story": "You must know that sometimes old women like a glass of wine. One of this sort once found a wine-jar lying in the road, andeagerly went up to it hoping to find it full. But when she tookit up she found that all the wine had been drunk out of it. Stillshe took a long sniff1 at the mouth of the jar. \"Ah,\" She cried,", "moral1": "When the great fall out, the weak must suffer for it. . ", "moral2": "Those who have all the toil do not always get the profit. ", "moral3": "What memories cling 'round the instruments of our pleasure. ", "moral4": "Treat others the way you want to be treated. ", "moral5": "When ever we take action against another person we should ask our self if we are doing right thing. What if same thing to be happen to us would we still feel same?? If we deceive another its like deceiving ourselves because with time dishonesty can become a habit.", "laebl": 3}
{"id": 82, "story": "An old labourer, bent1 double with age and toil2, was gatheringsticks in a forest. At last he grew so tired and hopeless that hethrew down the bundle of sticks, and cried out: \"I cannot bearthis life any longer. ah, I wish death would only come and takeme!\" As he spoke3, death, a grisly skeleton, appeared and said tohim: \"What wouldst thou, mortal? I heard thee call me.\" \"Please, sir,\" Replied the woodcutter, \"Would you kindly4 helpme to lift this faggot of sticks on to my shoulder?\"", "moral1": "Each day is a gift. We should learn to live happy. Happiness comes from inner self and we are one who decides to be happy or not. ", "moral2": "Earning more money can be profitable but true profit lies in doing good deeds and helping others. ", "moral3": "We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified. ", "moral4": "Excess shyness can render some abilities and virtues ineffective. ", "moral5": "Look before you leap.", "laebl": 3}
{"id": 83, "story": "A man and a lion traveled together through the forest. They soonbegan to boast of their respective superiority to each other instrength and prowess. As they were disputing, they passed astatue carved in stone, which represented \"A lion strangled by aman.\" The traveler pointed1 to it and said: \"See there! how strongwe are, and how we prevail over even the king of beasts.\" Thelion replied: \"This statue was made by one of you men. if welions knew how to erect2 statues, you would see the man placedunder the paw of the lion.\"", "moral1": "Treat others how you would like to be treated. ", "moral2": "One story is good, till another is told. ", "moral3": "Order what you can consume, money is yours but resources belong to society. There are many others in world who are facing shortage of resources. Have no reason to waste resource. ", "moral4": "The best kindness is to give our time and sincere best wishes to people, regardless of whether they can give us anything in return. ", "moral5": "If you spend your whole life trying to answer foolish questions, all your answers will be foolish too.", "laebl": 2}
{"id": 84, "story": "In the old days, when men were allowed to have many wives, amiddle-aged man had one wife that was old and one that was young;each loved him very much, and desired to see him like herself. Now the man's hair was turning grey, which the young wife did notlike, as it made him look too old for her husband. So every nightshe used to comb his hair and pick out the white ones. But theelder wife saw her husband growing grey with great pleasure, forshe did not like to be mistaken for his mother. So every morningshe used to arrange1 his hair and pick out as many of the blackones as she could. The consequence was the man soon found himselfentirely bald2.", "moral1": "Don't be greedy. ", "moral2": "To stay out of trouble, don't make the same mistakes others make. ", "moral3": "Similar is with our life.. It's our choice.   ", "moral4": "Every moment is a fresh beginning. ", "moral5": "Yield3 to all and you will soon have nothing to yield.", "laebl": 5}
{"id": 85, "story": "Once when a lion was asleep a little mouse began running upand down upon him; this soon wakened the lion, who placed his hugepaw upon him, and opened his big jaws1 to swallow him. \"Pardon, oking,\" Cried the little mouse: \"Forgive me this time, I shallnever forget it: who knows but what I may be able to do you a turnsome of these days?\" The lion was so tickled2 at the idea of themouse being able to help him, that he lifted up his paw and lethim go. Some time after the lion was caught in a trap, and thehunters who desired to carry him alive to the king, tied him to atree while they went in search of a waggon3 to carry him on. Justthen the little mouse happened to pass by, and seeing the sadplight in which the lion was, went up to him and soon gnawed4 awaythe ropes that bound the king of the beasts. \"Was I not right?\"Said the little mouse.", "moral1": "What memories cling 'round the instruments of our pleasure. ", "moral2": "If we're forever thinking about the past we can miss the fact that the future can always be better than what went before. ", "moral3": "Little friends may prove great friends. ", "moral4": "Strife feeds on conflict. ", "moral5": "Never trouble anyone.", "laebl": 3}
{"id": 86, "story": "A lark1 had made her nest in the early spring on the young greenwheat. The brood had almost grown to their full strength andattained the use of their wings and the full plumage of theirfeathers, when the owner of the field, looking over his ripecrop, said, \"The time has come when I must ask all my neighborsto help me with my harvest.\" One of the young larks2 heard hisspeech and related it to his mother, inquiring of her to whatplace they should move for safety. \"There is no occasion to moveyet, my son,\" She replied; \"The man who only sends to his friendsto help him with his harvest is not really in earnest.\" The ownerof the field came again a few days later and saw the wheatshedding the grain from excess of ripeness. He said, \"I willcome myself tomorrow with my laborers3, and with as many reapersas I can hire, and will get in the harvest.\" The lark on hearingthese words said to her brood, \"It is time now to be off, mylittle ones, for the man is in earnest this time; he no longertrusts his friends, but will reap the field himself.\"", "moral1": "No matter who, when or how.. Just continue to help. No matter how small it is because you never know when one is in need of us or when god holds a pleasant surprise for us to be helpful and important to someone. ", "moral2": "We should always try to improve, not giving in to the kind of fear shown in people who have never attempted what they want to do in life. Specially designed for those thinking of starting something new. ", "moral3": "Self-help is the best help. ", "moral4": "Better to yield when it is folly to resist, than to resist stubbornly and be destroyed. ", "moral5": "Watch were your going and be friendly to others.", "laebl": 3}
{"id": 87, "story": "A carter was driving a wagon1 along a country lane, when thewheels sank down deep into a rut. The rustic2 driver, stupefiedand aghast, stood looking at the wagon, and did nothing but utterloud cries to hercules to come and help him. Hercules, it issaid, appeared and thus addressed him: \"Put your shoulders to thewheels, my man. goad3 on your bullocks, and never more pray to mefor help, until you have done your best to help yourself, ordepend upon it you will henceforth pray in vain.\"", "moral1": "Success means doing something sincerely and wholeheartedly. ", "moral2": "Self-help is the best help. ", "moral3": "The wise do not let themselves be tricked a second time. ", "moral4": "With patience, love and care you can won anyone's heart. ", "moral5": "When we meet real tragedy in life, we can react in two ways - either by losing hope and falling into self-destructive habits or by using the challenge to find our inner strength.", "laebl": 2}
{"id": 88, "story": "Hercules, once journeying along a narrow roadway, came across astrange-looking animal that reared its head and threatened him. Nothing daunted1, the hero gave him a few lusty blows with his club,and thought to have gone on his way. The monster, however, much to theastonishment of hercules, was now three times as big as it was before,and of a still more threatening aspect. He thereupon redoubled hisblows and laid about him fast and furiously; but the harder andquicker the strokes of the club, the bigger and more frightful2 grewthe monster, and now completely filled up the road. Pallas thenappeared upon the scene. \"Stop, hercules,\" Said she. \"Cease yourblows. the monster's name is strife3. let it alone, and it will soonbecome as little as it was at first.\"", "moral1": "We shouldn't value people by their appearance, but rather for their true personality. ", "moral2": "Material happiness is just like that polluted river, because it a mere reflection of true happiness that lies in spiritual world. ", "moral3": "Sometimes we need to understand that nature of person can not change and should act sensible. ", "moral4": "Strife feeds on conflict. ", "moral5": "This is what we call 'self appraisal'.   every time if we don't get ahead of others, we blame others for it.   we should look to our self and compare, find own weaknesses and work hard to throw away weaknesses.   always work hard, honest and with full dedication.   it will always pay up.", "laebl": 4}
{"id": 89, "story": "Two frogs lived together in a marsh1. But one hot summer the marshdried up, and they left it to look for another place to live in: forfrogs like damp places if they can get them. By and by they came toa deep well, and one of them looked down into it, and said to theother, \"This looks a nice cool place. let us jump in and settle here.\"But the other, who had a wiser head on his shoulders, replied, \"Not sofast, my friend. supposing this well dried up like the marsh, howshould we get out again?\"", "moral1": "Look before you leap. ", "moral2": "Teamwork can defeat the opponent. ", "moral3": "Greediness leads to misfortune. ", "moral4": "Don't trick others or the same thing will happen to you. ", "moral5": "Every time you victimized someone, you were victimizing yourself. Every act of kindness you have done was done to yourself. Every emotions experienced by any human will be experienced by you. .", "laebl": 1}
{"id": 90, "story": "At one time the fox and the stork1 were on visiting terms andseemed very good friends. So the fox invited the stork to dinner,and for a joke put nothing before her but some soup in a veryshallow dish. This the fox could easily lap up, but the storkcould only wet the end of her long bill in it, and left the mealas hungry as when she began. \"I am sorry,\" Said the fox, \"Thesoup is not to your liking2.\" \"Pray do not apologise,\" Said the stork. \"I hope you willreturn this visit, and come and dine with me soon.\" So a day wasappointed when the fox should visit the stork; but when they wereseated at table all that was for their dinner was contained in avery long-necked jar with a narrow mouth, in which the fox couldnot insert his snout, so all he could manage to do was to lick theoutside of the jar. \"I will not apologise for the dinner,\" Said the stork:", "moral1": "A magical story to help overcome fear of thunder storms. ", "moral2": "Intelligence is nothing but finding a common ground to solve an issue. Every problem has a solution. ", "moral3": "Injuries may be forgiven, but not forgotten. ", "moral4": "If you do not give 100 percent in a relationship, you will always kept doubting if the other person has given his hundred percent. This is applicable for any relationship like love, employee or employer, friendship, family, countries. ", "moral5": "One bad turn deserves another.", "laebl": 5}
{"id": 91, "story": "A number of flies were attracted to a jar of honey which had beenoverturned in a housekeeper's room, and placing their feet in it,ate greedily. Their feet, however, became so smeared1 with thehoney that they could not use their wings, nor releasethemselves, and were suffocated2. Just as they were expiring,they exclaimed, \"O foolish creatures that we are, for the sake ofa little pleasure we have destroyed ourselves.\"", "moral1": "It is very important to like the people you work with, otherwise life and your job is gonna be quite miserable. ", "moral2": "Fear of the dark is not fear of anything real, and can only prevent you from discovering interesting things. ", "moral3": "As the professor explained, life is a bag of good and bad things, we all have positives and negatives along the way.  but we must always concentrate greater on the positives for a healthy and happy life.  life goes on no matter what so do not waste your time thinking about the negatives. ", "moral4": "Pleasure bought with pains, hurts. ", "moral5": "To stay out of trouble, don't make the same mistakes others make.", "laebl": 4}
{"id": 92, "story": "It happened that a fisher, after fishing all day, caught onlya little fish. \"Pray, let me go, master,\" Said the fish. \"I ammuch too small for your eating just now. if you put me back intothe river I shall soon grow, then you can make a fine meal offme.\" \"Nay1, nay, my little fish,\" Said the fisher, \"I have you now.I may not catch you hereafter.\"", "moral1": "No matter how big or strong someone is, there's always someone bigger who can do just as they do. ", "moral2": "Look before you leap. ", "moral3": "A little thing in hand is worth more than a great thing in prospect2. ", "moral4": "It's dangerous to play with matches and other similarly hazardous objects. ", "moral5": "When we chose to fight, we can see that in no time, that big trouble start resembling a small problem and we can remove it from our life and move forward.", "laebl": 3}
{"id": 93, "story": "A dog looking out for its afternoon nap jumped into the mangerof an ox and lay there cosily1 upon the straw. But soon the ox,returning from its afternoon work, came up to the manger andwanted to eat some of the straw. The dog in a rage, beingawakened from its slumber2, stood up and barked at the ox, andwhenever it came near attempted to bite it. At last the ox had togive up the hope of getting at the straw, and went away muttering:", "moral1": "If you allow men to use you for your own purposes, they will use you for theirs. ", "moral2": "He was thanking god saying, I have been waiting for such a man. How long have I waited. Finally you heard my prayers. Now he has come and I am free of all this nonsense. Thank you. ! ", "moral3": "Ah, people often grudge3 others what they cannot enjoy themselves. ", "moral4": "Everything has its good and bad side. We are happiest when we look for the good in all things. ", "moral5": "Material happiness is just like that polluted river, because it a mere reflection of true happiness that lies in spiritual world.", "laebl": 3}
{"id": 94, "story": "A dog, used to eating eggs, saw an oyster1 and, opening his mouthto its widest extent, swallowed it down with the utmost relish,supposing it to be an egg. Soon afterwards suffering great painin his stomach, he said, \"I deserve all this torment2, for myfolly in thinking that everything round must be an egg.\"", "moral1": "Be kind and respectful to everyone, as you never know when will you need help from others. ", "moral2": "What memories cling 'round the instruments of our pleasure. ", "moral3": "They who act without sufficient thought, will often fall into unsuspected danger. ", "moral4": "Sometimes we need to understand that nature of person can not change and should act sensible. ", "moral5": "When we chose to fight, we can see that in no time, that big trouble start resembling a small problem and we can remove it from our life and move forward.", "laebl": 3}
{"id": 95, "story": "The gods were once disputing whether it was possible for aliving being to change its nature. Jupiter1 said \"Yes,\" But venussaid \"No.\" So, to try the question, jupiter turned a cat into amaiden, and gave her to a young man for a wife. The wedding wasduly performed and the young couple sat down to the wedding-feast. \"See,\" Said jupiter, to venus, \"How becomingly she behaves. whocould tell that yesterday she was but a cat? surely her nature ischanged?\" \"Wait a minute,\" Replied venus, and let loose a mouse into theroom. No sooner did the bride see this than she jumped up fromher seat and tried to pounce2 upon the mouse. \"Ah, you see,\" Saidvenus,", "moral1": "Never let words of discouragement pull you down. Don't let others tell you: you cannot roll in the hay. Always believe yourself. ", "moral2": "Think before you act. ", "moral3": "Nature will out. ", "moral4": "It is unwise to trust cunning people who surround powerful or wealthy ones, for their own benefit. ", "moral5": "Whoever offers himself for sale to both sides, will live a life of disgrace, hateful to them both.", "laebl": 3}
{"id": 96, "story": "When man first saw the camel, he was so frightened at his vastsize that he ran away. After a time, perceiving the meekness1 andgentleness of the beast's temper, he summoned courage enough toapproach him. Soon afterwards, observing that he was an animalaltogether deficient2 in spirit, he assumed such boldness as toput a bridle3 in his mouth, and to let a child drive him.", "moral1": "There is always a way. ", "moral2": "Use serves to overcome dread4. ", "moral3": "I would rather be a little nobody, then to be an evil somebody. ", "moral4": "We should understand and have respect for other's person life style. We shouldn't we embarrassed of our elder's ways to do work. ", "moral5": "No matter who, when or how.. Just continue to help. No matter how small it is because you never know when one is in need of us or when god holds a pleasant surprise for us to be helpful and important to someone.", "laebl": 2}
{"id": 97, "story": "A birdcatcher was about to sit down to a dinner of herbs when afriend unexpectedly came in. The bird-trap was quite empty, ashe had caught nothing, and he had to kill a pied partridge, whichhe had tamed for a decoy. The bird entreated1 earnestly for hislife: \"What would you do without me when next you spread yournets? who would chirp2 you to sleep, or call for you the covey ofanswering birds?' the birdcatcher spared his life, and determinedto pick out a fine young cock just attaining3 to his comb. butthe cock expostulated in piteous tones from his perch: \"If youkill me, who will announce to you the appearance of the dawn? Who will wake you to your daily tasks or tell you when it is timeto visit the bird-trap in the morning? ' he replied, \"What you sayis true. you are a capital bird at telling the time of day. butmy friend and I must have our dinners.\"", "moral1": "When ever we take action against another person we should ask our self if we are doing right thing. What if same thing to be happen to us would we still feel same?? If we deceive another its like deceiving ourselves because with time dishonesty can become a habit. ", "moral2": "Necessity knows no law. ", "moral3": "Our life is small and we need to understand that no one can live forever. So if we want to live life  than we should try to accept death as we accept life. ", "moral4": "Liars are not believed even when they speak the truth. ", "moral5": "Regretting the past won't solve anything. What is required is to change one's situation and seek the necessary help to do so.", "laebl": 2}
{"id": 98, "story": "Long ago, the mice had a general council to consider whatmeasures they could take to outwit their common enemy, the cat. Some said this, and some said that; but at last a young mouse gotup and said he had a proposal to make, which he thought would meetthe case. \"You will all agree,\" Said he, \"That our chief dangerconsists in the sly and treacherous1 manner in which the enemyapproaches us. now, if we could receive some signal of herapproach, we could easily escape from her. I venture, therefore,to propose that a small bell be procured2, and attached by a ribbonround the neck of the cat. by this means we should always knowwhen she was about, and could easily retire while she was in theneighbourhood.\" This proposal met with general applause, until an old mousegot up and said: \"That is all very well, but who is to bell thecat?\" The mice looked at one another and nobody spoke3. Then theold mouse said:", "moral1": "That's what I have been telling you: drop it. Now sit down. Be just human, here nobody is emperor, nobody is beggar. Here everybody is himself. Just be yourself. ", "moral2": "Watching television is often a waste of time, and brings no benefit. ", "moral3": "What goes around comes around.   you do good, you will get good in return.   always be helpful. ", "moral4": "It is easy to propose impossible remedies. ", "moral5": "Those who achieve notoriety often mistake it for fame.", "laebl": 4}
{"id": 99, "story": "A shepherd, watching his ass1 feeding in a meadow, was alarmed allof a sudden by the cries of the enemy. He appealed to the ass tofly with him, lest they should both be captured, but the animallazily replied, \"Why should I, pray? do you think it likely theconqueror will place on me two sets of panniers?' \"No,\" Rejoinedthe shepherd. \"Then,\" Said the ass, \"As long as I carry thepanniers, what matters it to me whom I serve? '", "moral1": "Each day is a gift. We should learn to live happy. Happiness comes from inner self and we are one who decides to be happy or not. ", "moral2": "They who act without sufficient thought, will often fall into unsuspected danger. ", "moral3": "In a change of government the poor change nothing  beyond the name of their master. ", "moral4": "Teaching very young children about different sizes and shapes. ", "moral5": "Be content with your lot.", "laebl": 3}
{"id": 100, "story": "A farmer one day came to the stables to see to his beasts ofburden: among them was his favourite ass1, that was always well fedand often carried his master. With the farmer came his lapdog,who danced about and licked his hand and frisked about as happy ascould be. The farmer felt in his pocket, gave the lapdog somedainty food, and sat down while he gave his orders to hisservants. The lapdog jumped into his master's lap, and lay thereblinking while the farmer stroked his ears. The ass, seeing this,broke loose from his halter and commenced prancing2 about inimitation of the lapdog. The farmer could not hold his sides withlaughter, so the ass went up to him, and putting his feet upon thefarmer's shoulder attempted to climb into his lap. The farmer'sservants rushed up with sticks and pitchforks and soon taught theass that", "moral1": "Clumsy jesting is no joke. ", "moral2": "Whoever lays crafty stratagems for others, ought to beware that he himself be not entrapped by cunning. ", "moral3": "With patience, love and care you can won anyone's heart. ", "moral4": "The best kindness is to give our time and sincere best wishes to people, regardless of whether they can give us anything in return. ", "moral5": "Little friends may prove great friends.", "laebl": 1}
{"id": 101, "story": "Long ago, the mice had a general council to consider what measures they could take to outwit their common enemy, the cat. Some said this, and some said that; but at last a young mouse got up and said he had a proposal to make, which he thought would meet the case. The mice looked at one another and nobody spoke. Then the old mouse said:", "moral1": "Teamwork and coordination allow us to achieve more than we could individually, no matter how capable we are. ", "moral2": "Fury or force cuts no ice where gentleness does the job. ", "moral3": "It is easy to propose impossible remedies. ", "moral4": "If we gather up strength and face difficulties then we end up at better place, because we never know what future has in store for us. ", "moral5": "A little thing in hand is worth more than a great thing in prospect2.", "laebl": 3}
{"id": 102, "story": "A waggoner was once driving a heavy load along a very muddy way. At last he came to a part of the road where the wheels sank half-way into the mire, and the more the horses pulled, the deeper sank the wheels. So the waggoner threw down his whip, and knelt down and prayed to hercules the strong. \"O hercules, help me in this my hour of distress,\" Quoth he. But hercules appeared to him, and said:\"Tut, man, don't sprawl there. get up and put your shoulder to the wheel.\"", "moral1": "It is easy to propose impossible remedies. ", "moral2": "To stay out of trouble, don't make the same mistakes others make. ", "moral3": "Don't underestimate a weaker opponent. ", "moral4": "We can look at every situation as an opportunity to realize and overcome our defects. This is possible only due to the strength of chanting the god's name. ", "moral5": "The gods help them that help themselves.", "laebl": 5}
{"id": 103, "story": "At a country fair there was a buffoon who made all the people laugh by imitating the cries of various animals. He finished off by squeaking so like a pig that the spectators thought that he had a porker concealed about him. But a countryman who stood by said:\"Call that a pig's squeak! nothing like it. you give me till tomorrow and I will show you what it's like.\" The audience laughed, but next day, sure enough, the countryman appeared on the stage, and putting his head down squealed so hideously that the spectators hissed and threw stones at him to make him stop. \"You fools!\" He cried, \"See what you have been hissing,\" And held up a little pig whose ear he had been pinching to make him utter the squeals.", "moral1": "Avoiding responsibility ends in overburden. ", "moral2": "Leadership is earned via actions that demonstrate courage, fairness, and commitment. ", "moral3": "Men often applaud an imitation and hiss the real thing. ", "moral4": "We shouldn't value people by their appearance, but rather for their true personality. ", "moral5": "Plodding wins the race.", "laebl": 3}
{"id": 104, "story": "An old man on the point of death summoned his sons around him to give them some parting advice. He ordered his servants to bring in a faggot of sticks, and said to his eldest son: \"Break it.\" The son strained and strained, but with all his efforts was unable to break the bundle. The other sons also tried, but none of them was successful. \"Untie the faggots,\" Said the father, \"And each of you take a stick.\" When they had done so, he called out to them: \"Now, break,\" And each stick was easily broken. \"You see my meaning,\" Said their father.", "moral1": "An invitation prompted by selfishness is not to be accepted. ", "moral2": "Union gives strength. ", "moral3": "Never be lazy. ", "moral4": "Try to be kind to everyone. ", "moral5": "Thus she who had been protected by the bounty of nature, being an unequal match for the two, perished by an unhappy fate.", "laebl": 2}
{"id": 105, "story": "A quarrel had arisen between the horse and the stag, so the horse came to a hunter to ask his help to take revenge on the stag. The hunter agreed, but said: \"If you desire to conquer the stag, you must permit me to place this piece of iron between your jaws, so that I may guide you with these reins, and allow this saddle to be placed upon your back so that I may keep steady upon you as we follow after the enemy.\"The horse agreed to the conditions, and the hunter soon saddled and bridled him. Then with the aid of the hunter the horse soon overcame the stag, and said to the hunter: \"Now, get off, and remove those things from my mouth and back.\"\"Not so fast, friend,\" Said the hunter. \"I have now got you under bit and spur, and prefer to keep you as you are at present.\"", "moral1": "Don't underestimate a weaker opponent. ", "moral2": "Any excuse will serve a wicked person. ", "moral3": "If you adopt a creative and fun strategy, you can make learning even the most boring subject enjoyable. ", "moral4": "If you allow men to use you for your own purposes, they will use you for theirs. ", "moral5": "The advice of wise people should be taken seriously.", "laebl": 4}
{"id": 106, "story": "A jay venturing into a yard where peacocks used to walk, found there a number of feathers which had fallen from the peacocks when they were moulting. He tied them all to his tail and strutted down towards the peacocks. When he came near them they soon discovered the cheat, and striding up to him pecked at him and plucked away his borrowed plumes. So the jay could do no better than go back to the other jays, who had watched his behaviour from a distance; but they were equally annoyed with him, and told him:", "moral1": "We should always think positive of others and ignore their deficiencies. We should learn to focus on the good things instead of trying to hide weaknesses. If we think and approach positively even in a negative situation, then we will be able to solve our problems more efficiently. ", "moral2": "It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds. ", "moral3": "Greed can never be satisfied. Be happy with what you have and live life to fullest. Happiness is not in things around us but in company of people we live with. ", "moral4": "Human generation changes after 25 years but it will take us 200 yrs to understand what's wrong with education system. Today's generation scrap or change older traditions without realizing and understanding deeper value and meaning of those traditions. Change is good but first we should try to understand why we need to make change. ", "moral5": "Never judge anyone by their outlook.", "laebl": 2}
{"id": 107, "story": "A man had lost his way in a wood one bitter winter's night. As he was roaming about, a satyr came up to him, and finding that he had lost his way, promised to give him a lodging for the night, and guide him out of the forest in the morning. As he went along to the satyr's cell, the man raised both his hands to his mouth and kept on blowing at them. \"What do you do that for?\" Said the satyr. \"My hands are numb with the cold,\" Said the man, \"And my breath warms them.\"After this they arrived at the satyr's home, and soon the satyr put a smoking dish of porridge before him. But when the man raised his spoon to his mouth he began blowing upon it. \"And what do you do that for?\" Said the satyr. \"The porridge is too hot, and my breath will cool it.\"\"Out you go,\" Said the satyr. \"I will have nought to do with a man who can blow hot and cold with the same breath.\"", "moral1": "Treat others the way you want to be treated. ", "moral2": "Avoiding responsibility ends in overburden. ", "moral3": "The man who speaks for both sides is not to be trusted by either. ", "moral4": "Nobody see that hard work and patience. Everyone see only success but they don't see that one have to sacrifice life in preparation and to achieve that success. Success seeks experience and struggle. ", "moral5": "No one is too small to help.", "laebl": 3}
{"id": 108, "story": "A countryman's son by accident trod upon a serpent's tail, which turned and bit him so that he died. The father in a rage got his axe, and pursuing the serpent, cut off part of its tail. So the serpent in revenge began stinging several of the farmer's cattle and caused him severe loss. Well, the farmer thought it best to make it up with the serpent, and brought food and honey to the mouth of its lair, and said to it: \"Let's forget and forgive; perhaps you were right to punish my son, and take vengeance on my cattle, but surely I was right in trying to revenge him; now that we are both satisfied why should not we be friends again?\"\"No, no,\" Said the serpent; \"Take away your gifts; you can never forget the death of your son, nor I the loss of my tail.\"", "moral1": "Injuries may be forgiven, but not forgotten. ", "moral2": "When we want to learn spiritually we need to understand that to find ultimate truth we need to have vision of our own to achieve it. ", "moral3": "Each day is a gift. We should learn to live happy. Happiness comes from inner self and we are one who decides to be happy or not. ", "moral4": "Just take care of my eyes dear. ", "moral5": "If we seek for something and don't get it, we should not lose hope.. We don't know what destiny had in store for us.. Never lose hope and keep trying.", "laebl": 1}
{"id": 109, "story": "A hound, who in the days of his youth and strength had never yielded to any beast of the forest, encountered in his old age a boar in the chase. He seized him boldly by the ear, but could not retain his hold because of the decay of his teeth, so that the boar escaped. His master, quickly coming up, was very much disappointed, and fiercely abused the dog. The hound looked up and said: \"It was not my fault, master; my spirit was as good as ever, but I could not help mine infirmities. I rather deserve to be praised for what I have been, than to be blamed for what I am.\"", "moral1": "Greediness leads to misfortune. ", "moral2": "Impatience can ruin even the best laid plans. ", "moral3": "An invitation prompted by selfishness is not to be accepted. ", "moral4": "Borrowed feathers do not make fine birds. ", "moral5": "No one should be blamed for his infirmities.", "laebl": 5}
{"id": 110, "story": "An old labourer, bent double with age and toil, was gathering sticks in a forest. At last he grew so tired and hopeless that he threw down the bundle of sticks, and cried out: \"I cannot bear this life any longer. ah, I wish death would only come and take me!\"As he spoke, death, a grisly skeleton, appeared and said to him: \"What wouldst thou, mortal? I heard thee call me.\"\"Please, sir,\" Replied the woodcutter,", "moral1": "One bad turn deserves another. ", "moral2": "This simple but deep meaning statement of monk, now awakened wisdom of woodcutter and he understood that any search of wealth is incomplete without god because one's mind cannot be satisfied until he gain wealth of god name. ", "moral3": "We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified. ", "moral4": "Sometimes we need to understand that nature of person can not change and should act sensible. ", "moral5": "He was thanking god saying, I have been waiting for such a man. How long have I waited. Finally you heard my prayers. Now he has come and I am free of all this nonsense. Thank you. !", "laebl": 3}
{"id": 111, "story": "When first the fox saw the lion he was terribly frightened, and ran away and hid himself in the wood. Next time however he came near the king of beasts he stopped at a safe distance and watched him pass by. The third time they came near one another the fox went straight up to the lion and passed the time of day with him, asking him how his family were,and when he should have the pleasure of seeing him again; then turning his tail, he parted from the lion without much ceremony.", "moral1": "If we do not like our work and do not try to get happiness out of it, we are a menace to our profession as well as to ourselves. ", "moral2": "Generosity starts with yourself. Before demanding from others, we should be the first to give without expecting anything in return. ", "moral3": "Familiarity breeds contempt. ", "moral4": "Avoiding responsibility ends in overburden. ", "moral5": "It is always better to tell the truth.", "laebl": 3}
{"id": 112, "story": "A fox had by some means got into the store-room of a theatre. Suddenly he observed a face glaring down on him and began to be very frightened;but looking more closely he found it was only a mask such as actors use to put over their face. \"Ah,\" Said the fox, \"You look very fine; it is a pity you have not got any brains.\"", "moral1": "Be kind and respectful to everyone, as you never know when will you need help from others. ", "moral2": "Avoiding work leads to more work. ", "moral3": "You can change people's lives by bringing them a little joy and good health. ", "moral4": "Outside show is a poor substitute for inner worth. ", "moral5": "If a person doesn't understand what difficulty loved one have faced to provide them comfort then they will never value it.", "laebl": 4}
{"id": 113, "story": "The hares were so persecuted by the other beasts, they did not know where to go. As soon as they saw a single animal approach them, off they used to run. One day they saw a troop of wild horses stampeding about, and in quite a panic all the hares scuttled off to a lake hard by, determined to drown themselves rather than live in such a continual state of fear. But just as they got near the bank of the lake, a troop of frogs, frightened in their turn by the approach of the hares scuttled off, and jumped into the water. \"Truly,\" Said one of the hares, \"Things are not so bad as they seem.\"", "moral1": "Fruits and vegetables are a key part of a diet and can prevent many health problems. ", "moral2": "Liars are not believed even when they speak the truth. ", "moral3": "Everyone of us have our own weakness but if we willing to accept it instead of opposing then we can make advantage out of our own weakness. ", "moral4": "There is always someone worse off than yourself. ", "moral5": "The dangers of others are generally of advantage to the wary.", "laebl": 4}
{"id": 114, "story": "A hare was very popular with the other beasts who all claimed to be her friends. But one day she heard the hounds approaching and hoped to escape them by the aid of her many friends. So, she went to the horse, and asked him to carry her away from the hounds on his back. But he declined, stating that he had important work to do for his master. \"He felt sure,\" He said, \"That all her other friends would come to her assistance.\" She then applied to the bull, and hoped that he would repel the hounds with his horns. The bull replied: \"I am very sorry, but I have an appointment with a lady; but I feel sure that our friend the goat will do what you want.\" The goat, however, feared that his back might do her some harm if he took her upon it. The ram, he felt sure, was the proper friend to apply to. So she went to the ram and told him the case. The ram replied: \"Another time, my dear friend. I do not like to interfere on the present occasion, as hounds have been known to eat sheep as well as hares.\" The hare then applied, as a last hope, to the calf, who regretted that he was unable to help her, as he did not like to take the responsibility upon himself, as so many older persons than himself had declined the task. By this time the hounds were quite near, and the hare took to her heels and luckily escaped.", "moral1": "When we give in to anger, we end up doing damage to the things or people closest to us who we should really take care of. ", "moral2": "Another definition of a hero is someone who is concerned about other people's well-being and will go out of his or her way to help them - even if there is no chance of a reward. That person who helps others simply because it should or must be done and because it is the right thing to do, is indeed without a doubt, a real superhero. ", "moral3": "For our life to be of value, I think we must develop basic good human qualities - warmth, kindness, compassion. Then our life becomes meaningful and more peaceful - happier. ", "moral4": "He that has many friends, has no friends. ", "moral5": "Those who seek to harm others often come to harm themselves through their own deceit.", "laebl": 4}
{"id": 115, "story": "A sick stag lay down in a quiet corner of his pasture-ground. His companions came in great numbers to inquire after his health, and each one helped himself to a share of the food which had been placed for his use; so that he died, not from his sickness, but from the failure of the means of living.", "moral1": "Evil companions bring more hurt than profit. ", "moral2": "Don't judge a book by its cover. ", "moral3": "We should always try to improve, not giving in to the kind of fear shown in people who have never attempted what they want to do in life. Specially designed for those thinking of starting something new. ", "moral4": "Any knowledge teacher gives to student has value in life of a student as he goes on with life.   think from kindergarten till highest level of study you have completed, see what you will be left with if there were no teachers in your life.   parents give us life, love and help in going right direction, but teachers show us how to live life, shows us path and makes us self dependable so that we can pick the right path.   always respect your teachers, do not value them any lesser than your parents.   when student succeeds in studies and life, its student who always gets praised by people, not the one who gave student a knowledge to success.    teacher's happiness is in student's success, and student should not forget to at least thank politely to the one who made you capable of following journey of life.   and if you had learned what your teacher taught you with dedication and respect to towards teacher, journey of life always gets comfortable. ", "moral5": "Often we misunderstand the signs. God has given everyone a strength and ability to do their part. Always learn to see the things in a positive way and see yourself in a strong position to help the ones who need. Don't go for the easy choice. Make a right choice.", "laebl": 1}
{"id": 116, "story": "A stag saw his shadow reflected in the water, and greatly admired the size of his horns, but felt angry with himself for having such weak feet. While he was thus contemplating himself, a lion appeared at the pool. The stag betook himself to flight, and kept himself with ease at a safe distance from the lion, until he entered a wood and became entangled with his horns. The lion quickly came up with him and caught him. When too late he thus reproached himself:\"Woe is me! how have I deceived myself! these feet which would have saved me I despised, and I gloried in these antlers which have proved my destruction.\"", "moral1": "They who, while making great promises, refuse small favours, show that they are very tenacious of giving. ", "moral2": "What is most truly valuable is often underrated. ", "moral3": "Nobody see that hard work and patience. Everyone see only success but they don't see that one have to sacrifice life in preparation and to achieve that success. Success seeks experience and struggle. ", "moral4": "It's our choice to keep positive attitude towards life. Circumstances are just parts of what makes us joyful. Pursuit of happiness is an inward journey. If we continue to bit our lips and just before we begin to complain we should shoot that seemingly harmless negative thought as it germinates, we will find there is much rejoice about. ", "moral5": "An invitation prompted by selfishness is not to be accepted.", "laebl": 2}
{"id": 117, "story": "Two fellows were travelling together through a wood, when a bear rushed out upon them. One of the travellers happened to be in front, and he seized hold of the branch of a tree, and hid himself among the leaves. The other, seeing no help for it, threw himself flat down upon the ground, with his face in the dust. The bear, coming up to him, put his muzzle close to his ear, and sniffed and sniffed. But at last with a growl he shook his head and slouched off, for bears will not touch dead meat. Then the fellow in the tree came down to his comrade, and, laughing, said", "moral1": "We should live our life doing good because god is always watching us and will always be there for us in our difficult times. ", "moral2": "This shows how life works, while one worry about hell and heaven based on our deeds, we should concentrate more on how we are living and behaving.  do good, good will come. Do wrong, wrong will come. ", "moral3": "Never trust a friend who deserts you at a pinch. ", "moral4": "Cheating is not going to win you anything but no fun. ", "moral5": "It is always better to mind our own business.", "laebl": 3}
{"id": 118, "story": "Two frogs dwelt in the same pool. The pool being dried up under the summer's heat, they left it and set out together for another home. As they went along they chanced to pass a deep well, amply supplied with water, on seeing which, one of the frogs said to the other:\"Let us descend and make our abode in this well.\"The other replied with greater caution:", "moral1": "Do nothing without a regard to the consequences. ", "moral2": "All things require a minimum of order, although that doesn't prevent the order from being applied with imagination. ", "moral3": "An invitation prompted by selfishness is not to be accepted. ", "moral4": "In union there is strength and in division we fall. ", "moral5": "Nature will out.", "laebl": 1}
{"id": 119, "story": "A young man had been caught in a daring act of theft and had been condemned to be executed for it. He expressed his desire to see his mother, and to speak with her before he was led to execution, and of course this was granted. When his mother came to him he said: \"I want to whisper to you,\" And when she brought her ear near him, he nearly bit it off. All the bystanders were horrified, and asked him what he could mean by such brutal and inhuman conduct. \"It is to punish her,\" He said. \"When I was young I began with stealing little things, and brought them home to mother.\" instead of rebuking and punishing me, she laughed and said: it will not be noticed. it is because of her that I am here to-day.", "moral1": "Your reputation is the most important thing you will ever have. Not clothes, nor money, not the big cars you may drive. If your reputation is good, you can achieve anything you want in the world. ", "moral2": "It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds. ", "moral3": "It is not just knowledge or talent which get us respect but it is our virtue, moral and good behavior towards others that get us honor and respect. ", "moral4": "Train up a child in the way he should go; and when he is old he will not depart therefrom. ", "moral5": "The laws of nature are unchangeable.", "laebl": 4}
{"id": 120, "story": "The hare was once boasting of his speed before the other animals. \"I have never yet been beaten,\" Said he, \"When I put forth my full speed. I challenge any one here to race with me.\"The tortoise said quietly, \"I accept your challenge.\"\"That is a good joke,\" Said the hare; \"I could dance round you all the way.\"\"Keep your boasting till you've beaten,\" Answered the tortoise. \"Shall we race?\"So a course was fixed and a start was made. The hare darted almost out of sight at once, but soon stopped and, to show his contempt for the tortoise, lay down to have a nap. The tortoise plodded on and plodded on, and when the hare awoke from his nap, he saw the tortoise just near the winning-post and could not run up in time to save the race.", "moral1": "The best kindness is to give our time and sincere best wishes to people, regardless of whether they can give us anything in return. ", "moral2": "We shouldn't value people by their appearance, but rather for their true personality. ", "moral3": "The dangers of others are generally of advantage to the wary. ", "moral4": "It is very important to like the people you work with, otherwise life and your job is gonna be quite miserable. ", "moral5": "Plodding wins the race.", "laebl": 5}
{"id": 121, "story": "There lived an old tiger in a forest. He could not hunt animals as he used to do when he was young. It was becoming difficult to get prey. The tiger thought, \"I have lost my strength and speed of my youth. unless I find some trick, I will starve to death\". After long thoughts, the tiger struck upon a plan. He began to keep on saying \"I am very old. I have turned into a vegetarian. I have become a sanyasi. I will not hunt animals\" And so on. Soon these words spread in the jungle. Innocent animals came to pay respect to the tiger thinking that the tiger had turned into a saint. The tiger pounced on animals when they came to his cave. These words fell in the ears of a fox. The fox began to think, \"Can a tiger become a saint?\" He was eager to find the truth. Stealthily, the fox approached the tiger's cave. He minutely and carefully examined the foot prints of animals. He found all foot prints going towards the cave but not returning from the cave. He told all animals in the forest. \"The tiger is a cheat. don't go to the cave\". The tiger had to starve to death.", "moral1": "Generosity and humility are part of the true meaning of christmas. ", "moral2": "Satanic words are not to be believed. ", "moral3": "Encouragement wins over criticism. ", "moral4": "You are never be too old to learn something new. If anyone put all his effort and persist on things he wants to learn then one day he will definitely succeed. ", "moral5": "A burning desire is starting point to all accomplishment. Just like a small fire can not give much heat, weak desire can not produce great results.", "laebl": 2}
{"id": 122, "story": "Once a cat was caught in a hunter's net. A mouse used to live in a nearby hole. The mouse seeing the cat in the net started playing around the cat. Soon a mongoose came there. He wanted to kill the mouse. As he lifted his head, he saw an owl sitting on a tree trying to catch him. The mongoose went very near the cat's net to save himself. The mouse thought \"When the hunter takes away the cat, the mongoose will not spare me and the owl is there to enjoy both of us.\" The mouse went to the cat and said, \"I can cut the net if you promise to save my life from the mongoose and the owl.\" The cat agreed. The mouse started cutting the net slowly and freed the cat only when the hunter was just near the cat. The cat took to heels and so ran the mongoose too. The owl was very much disappointed to see even the mouse running away to safety. A few days later, the cat being hungry, went to the hole of the mouse and requested him to come out for a game. The mouse replied, \"I sought friendship and saved you to save my life.\" Now you can go home.", "moral1": "That's why wise saints always say - don't be afraid of god, be afraid of your actions because your action will find you tomorrow if not today. ", "moral2": "In this world, there is no one person who is useless. It is just that they have not positioned themselves firmly in right place. ", "moral3": "Don't nurture friendship with selfish people. ", "moral4": "Humbleness is basic thing. If you are humble then you will learn much even without wise man. You can learn from trees, springs, wind. If you are humble enough then whole existence becomes teacher to you. ", "moral5": "This shows how life works, while one worry about hell and heaven based on our deeds, we should concentrate more on how we are living and behaving.  do good, good will come. Do wrong, wrong will come.", "laebl": 3}
{"id": 123, "story": "The cows used to eat hay from the manger. One day a herd of cows came to the manger to eat hay. They saw a dog lying on the hay in the manger. One of the cows pleaded, \"Please, will you get up! we are hungry. we have to eat our hay\". The dog did not take heed of it. Once again another cow pleaded, \"Please, let us have our hay\". The dog snarled and the cow stepped back. A wise cow ran up to the bull and told him the matter. The bull came and requested, \"Get out, please! let them have their food\". There was no reply. The bull became angry. He bellowed loudly and stamped his legs. The dog got frightened and ran for his life.", "moral1": "It is no good to be a dog in a manger. ", "moral2": "An invitation prompted by selfishness is not to be accepted. ", "moral3": "Every time you victimized someone, you were victimizing yourself. Every act of kindness you have done was done to yourself. Every emotions experienced by any human will be experienced by you. . ", "moral4": "Our own perspective is also very important in judging someone. ", "moral5": "Watch were your going and be friendly to others.", "laebl": 1}
{"id": 124, "story": "There lived a dog and a donkey in a house of a rich man. The dog guarded his house and the donkey carried loads for him. It was a hot afternoon. The dog was sleeping under the shady veranda. There was some noise outside. The dog just lifted up his head and went back to sleep. The donkey asked, \"Why don't you bark. it could be thieves\". The dog replied, \"Mind your own business\". But the donkey would not listen. He wanted to save his master from thieves. He started to bray. The master who was sound asleep got wild with the donkey and came running out with a stick and gave hard beatings to the donkey.", "moral1": "It is always better to mind our own business. ", "moral2": "Familiarity breeds contempt. ", "moral3": "Life is short. Always ask, never assume. ", "moral4": "One should never take any action in haste. ", "moral5": " don't judge anything too quickly or reach a conclusion.  always spare a time to understand things better.", "laebl": 1}
{"id": 125, "story": "There was a large flock of sheep grazing on a lawn. A wolf stealthily stole a lamb. The lamb tried hard to get away but it could not. As the wolf was about to kill the lamb, an idea struck in the lamb's mind. The lamb pleaded, \"Oh wolf! I know that I am going to die now. will you be kind enough to fulfil my last wish?\" The wolf asked, \"What is your last wish?\" The lamb replied, \"I am fond of music. before I die, I wish to hear you play the flute.\" The wolf agreed and played the flute. When the wolf stopped the lamb said, \"Oh! what beautiful music! will you play a bit louder, please? you play far better than my shepherd\". The wolf was pleased by the flattery and started to play louder. In the mean time, the shepherd and the dogs who were in search of the missing lamb heard the sound. They came running and caught hold of the wolf. The lamb happily trotted away to his flock.", "moral1": "Don't be a bully. ", "moral2": "Here is our list of interesting facts about christmas. ", "moral3": "We should focus our energy on positive and with in not time we would be able to do things we couldn't think of doing before. ", "moral4": "Stealing makes people sad and mad. ", "moral5": "If there is a will there is a way.", "laebl": 5}
{"id": 126, "story": "Once a crow stole a vadai from a vendor. It wanted to eat it. So it flew away to a tree nearby. It was about to eat it. Then a hungry fox passing by saw it. He decided to have the vadai. \"Oh! my dear crow,\" He said to the crow, \"How beautiful you are! your feathers are really shiny. surely your voice must also very sweet. please sing a song for me.\" The foolish crow opened its mouth to sing. The vadai fell down. At once the clever fox picked it up and ran away with it.", "moral1": "Look before you leap. ", "moral2": "Sometimes we need to understand that nature of person can not change and should act sensible. ", "moral3": "Don't fool other. Otherwise you will be fooled. ", "moral4": "Everybody likes happy, smiling people. ", "moral5": "Evil companions bring more hurt than profit.", "laebl": 3}
{"id": 127, "story": "A brave warrior had a horse and an ox. He used the horse for travelling and the ox was used for pulling load for the warrior. War had broken. The warrior was to go to a far off place. The horse said to the ox, \"Hey ox! I am to carry the master to a far off place\". The ox replied, \"How unlucky you are! I am lucky. I need not pull loads. I have no work to do\". But, it so happened that before the warrior could set off, the war had come to an end and the enemy had surrended. Now, the warrior had plenty of work to do locally. The ox was overburdened now.", "moral1": "Teamwork and coordination allow us to achieve more than we could individually, no matter how capable we are. ", "moral2": "Avoiding responsibility ends in overburden. ", "moral3": "It is cowardly to attack the defenseless, though he be an enemy. ", "moral4": "No matter who, when or how.. Just continue to help. No matter how small it is because you never know when one is in need of us or when god holds a pleasant surprise for us to be helpful and important to someone. ", "moral5": "If you do not give 100 percent in a relationship, you will always kept doubting if the other person has given his hundred percent. This is applicable for any relationship like love, employee or employer, friendship, family, countries.", "laebl": 2}
{"id": 128, "story": "Once there lived a king cobra in a small hole. When he was small he ate little creatures. As he grew up he began to eat eggs, lizards, frogs and rabbits. And when he grew up further he started to eat even other smaller snakes. His pride grew with him. All small animals began to fear the king cobra. This boosted up his pride. He began to think \"Now I am the most powerful creature. I am the king of the forest. all animals fear me. let me move from this small hole to a bigger place\". He searched for a place to suit his size and status. Finally he came across a big tree. He selected the tree for his house. He saw an ant hill near the tree. He thought \"Why should there be an ugly ant hill near my royal house?\" He hissed aloud \"I am king cobra, the king of the forest. I order the ants to vacate immediately\". There was no reply. He got wild and struck at the ant hill. What a surprise! In a minute thousands of ants swarmed up the king cobra biting him everywhere. The king cobra could not bear the pain. He ran away.", "moral1": "With patience, love and care you can won anyone's heart. ", "moral2": "Any excuse will serve a wicked person. ", "moral3": "Sometimes we need to understand that nature of person can not change and should act sensible. ", "moral4": "Pride goes before fall. ", "moral5": "What ever we have done in past but still we can change our life and people views towards us. So never give up. Anytime is good to start good work.", "laebl": 4}
{"id": 129, "story": "There was a salt vendor in a village. He used to buy salt from a nearby town. He had a donkey to carry this salt load. There were many streams to be crossed to reach the town. One day, the vendor was returning after his purchase. The donkey was loaded with salt bags. While they were crossing a stream, accidentally the donkey slipped and fell into the stream. A lot of salt got dissolved in the water. When the donkey got up the load became very light. From that day, whenever the vendor returned from town after salt purchase, the donkey began to tumble half-way across one stream or the other. The vendor became suspicious. Once the vendor purchased bales of cotton and loaded his donkey with bales of cotton. The donkey felt the load to be unusually light. He thought \"Today, I am going to tumble and this load is going to become much lighter\". On their way home, as usual, the donkey tumbled and fell into a stream. But alas! When the donkey tried to get up, the load pulled the donkey down. The cotton had absorbed water and become heavier. The vendor gave hard beatings to make the donkey get up and walk. From then on, the donkey never tumbled while crossing streams.", "moral1": "Too much attention to danger may cause us to fall victims to it. ", "moral2": "It is best to do today's work today. Don't wait till later. ", "moral3": "It's dangerous to play with matches and other similarly hazardous objects. ", "moral4": "We should not be quick to judge other person. In relationships we should try to talk and clear things. We should not let our anger control us because not everything we see or hear is true. ! ", "moral5": "Avoiding work leads to more work.", "laebl": 5}
{"id": 130, "story": "When god first created the world, there was no desert. The whole world was filled with fertile lands full of beautiful gardens. God created man in order to maintain the world. He said to man, \"Every time you commit a sin, there will be a peck of sand falling on the ground\". Man thought, \"What harm will a peck of sand do? let me live as I please\". He started committing wicked sins and pecks of sand started falling on the ground. Still man continued sinning. And the effect is that to-day there are many deserts a around us.", "moral1": "The best kindness is to give our time and sincere best wishes to people, regardless of whether they can give us anything in return. ", "moral2": "The advice of wise people should be taken seriously. ", "moral3": "As you sow, so you reap. ", "moral4": "Divinity lies within us all. We just need to look inside ourselves. ", "moral5": "Do not attempt the impossible.", "laebl": 3}
{"id": 131, "story": "Vijay and raju were friends. On a holiday they went into a forest. They were enjoying the beauty of nature. Suddenly they saw a bear coming at them. They were frightened. Raju who knew climbing trees ran up to a tree and climbed up quickly. He did not think of vijay. Vijay did not know tree climbing. Vijay thought for a second. He had heard animals do not prefer dead bodies. He fell to the ground and held his breath. The bear sniffed him and thought he was dead. So, he went away. Raju asked vijay,\" What did the bear whisper into your ears?\" Vijay replied, \"The bear asked me to keep away from friends like you\" And went on his way.", "moral1": "A friend in need is a friend indeed. ", "moral2": "The dangers of others are generally of advantage to the wary. ", "moral3": "It is very important to like the people you work with, otherwise life and your job is gonna be quite miserable. ", "moral4": "Always give affection and care to our dear ones. Always respect other's feelings. ", "moral5": "We should live our life doing good because god is always watching us and will always be there for us in our difficult times.", "laebl": 1}
{"id": 132, "story": "A boy and a girl were playing together. The boy had a collection of marbles. The girl has some sweets with her. The boy told the girl that he would give her all his marbles in exchange for the sweets with her. The girl agreed. The boy kept the most beautiful and the biggest marbles with him and gave her the remaining marbles. The girl gave him all her sweets as she promised. That night the girl slept peacefully. But the boy could not sleep as he kept wondering if the girl has hidden some sweets from him the way he had hidden the best marbles from her.", "moral1": "It is unwise to trust cunning people who surround powerful or wealthy ones, for their own benefit. ", "moral2": "You should think about things before acting impulsively, in order to avoid unforeseen and painful consequences. ", "moral3": "If you do not give 100 percent in a relationship, you will always kept doubting if the other person has given his hundred percent. This is applicable for any relationship like love, employee or employer, friendship, family, countries. ", "moral4": "No one is too small to help. ", "moral5": "Teaching very young children about different sizes and shapes.", "laebl": 3}
{"id": 133, "story": "A little girl had a doll she loved so much that she would treat it with great care and infinite delicacy, despite the fact that her friends would laugh at her for being so careful. As time passed, the girl grew up, moved houses, became an adult, married, had children, and finally became an adorable little old woman with many grandchildren. One day, she returned to her original town, and finding her old house abandoned, she went in. Among hundreds of old things and souvenirs, the now-old little girl found her doll. It was as well looked after as it always had been. She took it home with her to give to her granddaughter, and her granddaughter loved it. Each time the old woman saw the little girl playing with it, tears of joy would roll down her cheeks, and she was so glad that she had looked after the doll so well, so that now she could enjoy it as much as she had when she was a girl, seeing it now in the hands of her granddaughter", "moral1": "Your job doesn't always define you, but being a good human being does. ", "moral2": "Obscurity often brings safety. ", "moral3": "Things can be enjoyed so much more when we treat them with care. ", "moral4": "All things require a minimum of order, although that doesn't prevent the order from being applied with imagination. ", "moral5": "We shouldn't value people by their appearance, but rather for their true personality.", "laebl": 3}
{"id": 134, "story": "Albert was mad about computers and video games. He could spend hours and hours in front of the screen, and even though his parents found it hard to believe, he really enjoyed every minute of it. He hardly left his seat. When people encouraged him to get involved with normal life, he would respond:    -\"This is my doorway to the world, there is much more here than you realise.\"Among all his games there was one he especially liked. In it he would move a character around, collecting turtles on an infinity of levels and screens. He was a real expert at it. Maybe there was no one else in the world who had collected as many turtles as he had, but, nevertheless, albert still wanted more and more and more…one day, when he got home from school, everything had changed. As usual, as soon as he arrived, he ran to his room to switch the computer on. But this time he heard some strange noises, like breaking glass. Suddenly the screen broke, and from inside came dozens, then hundreds, then thousands of little turtles. And they filled every square inch of his bedroom. Albert was stunned. He couldn't believe what was happening. But after pinching himself, he shut down and started the computer up many times, and called to his parents to see if he was dreaming this. As it happens, he had to accept that on that day something very strange was happening. On entering, his parents put their heads in their hands. Seeing that the turtles were staying in albert's room, they decided to make them his responsibility. Looking after thousands of turtles, day after day, was no easy task. Over the following days albert set himself to learning all he could about turtles. He studied their diet, their habits, and he began to think up ways to feed them. He also tried to trick them into leaving his room, but it never worked. Gradually, he got used to living among turtles, and actually began to enjoy it. He liked playing with them, showing them tricks, and calling them by their names. This despite the fact that feeding them and cleaning up after them hardly left him with any free time. And everyone, including his parents, his friends, and his teachers, enjoyed hearing albert's stories and his growing knowledge about nature. Finally, the day arrived when albert forgot about his beloved computer. He now much preferred living with his turtles, learning about them and watching the way they interacted. He went out into the countryside to see how they lived there. He felt happy that they were part of his world. That same day, just as quickly as they had arrived, the turtles disappeared. On finding out, his parents worried that he would return to his video games, and go back to being grumpy, but that didn't happen. Albert didn't shed a tear. Nor did he waste a second looking for the turtles amongst the cables and chips of his computer. Instead, he emptied his savings from his piggybank and shot straight down to the pet shop. He returned with a turtle, and some other animal he wanted to look after and learn about. And even today albert is still learning and discovering new things about animals and nature. Now he also uses the computer to do that. However, any time someone asks him about it he points at his pets and says, -\"They are definitely my doorway to the world, there's a lot more to them than you'd realise.\"", "moral1": "It matters little if those who are inferior to us in merit  should be like us in outside appearances. ", "moral2": "Be humble. ", "moral3": "Don't be a bully. ", "moral4": "No one should be blamed for his infirmities. ", "moral5": "You have to be careful about getting addicted to computers. They can divorce us from everyday life and the natural world.", "laebl": 5}
{"id": 135, "story": "\"How could anyone sneezes in front of a magic book! oh no! the letters have been blown off!\" Growled mama troll. \"Just as we were so close to finding the spell that would make us look nice…\", sighed papa troll. \"How have the letters fallen?\" Asked trollita, \"Can you still read the book? does it make sense?\"\"Hmm, let me see…even worse! it's useless, it's turned into a cookbook…ugh! what a disaster!\" Grunted papa troll, throwing the book out of the window. It was only natural for them to be angry. The troll family had lived a great adventure to find that magic book. It was their only hope of stopping scaring everyone with their horrible looks. A book of magic is very delicate and papa troll was such a brute …the book was ruined so they all had to accept the way they looked and carry on with their lives. As they didn't have any other books, little trollita decided to keep it and make some of the recipes. \"Ugh! we don't like this food. from now on you will eat whatever you make from that book by yourself.\" Shouted mama and papa troll. Some time later, a brave knight in shining armour passed by. He saw trollita with her parents and shouted, \"Fear not, princess, for I will help you escape from these horrible trolls!\"However, it was the knight who could not escape from a good whack. He was still on the ground when trollita saw a reflection in his armour. Given that all the mirrors in her house had been broken for a long time, she felt a little curious. She moved closer to see her own reflection and couldn't believe her eyes: she looked like a normal girl! She looked again and again, it had to be her. How had she turned into this? The confusion did not last long and they soon discovered that none of them were trolls. They ate so little fruit and vegetables that they had been unable to see properly, and their cuts never healed fully, nor did anything… that's why they looked so bad! And, of course, as soon as trollita started eating the recipes from the healthy cookbook, she looked lovely! \"We would have preferred to use the magic to stop looking like trolls but eating your recipes won't be that difficult,\" Said trollita's parents. Needless to say, it did not prove difficult and they soon got used to the food and actually enjoyed it too. And when they had learnt all the recipes from the book, they went in search of a child that hated healthy food and gave it to them to stop them looking like a troll too. Translated by niamh williams, manchester metropolitan university", "moral1": "Be content with your lot. ", "moral2": "Excess shyness can render some abilities and virtues ineffective. ", "moral3": "One should not be carried away by what others say. Don't be fooled by those who wants to take advantage of you. ", "moral4": "There is always a way. ", "moral5": "Fruits and vegetables are a key part of a diet and can prevent many health problems.", "laebl": 5}
{"id": 136, "story": "Long, long ago, when the world was so full of magic that even the smallest stone could hold a thousand secrets, there was a palace that was alive. Because it slept all the time, nobody knew its secret. It remained that way until the princess who lived there married a prince who was a brave and strong warrior but had such a bad temper that even the smallest inconvenience would cause him to hurl things around and slam doors and windows. After his last victory, he let the kind and sweet princess leave the palace to travel and negotiate the peace, leaving the prince to live alone for a long time. The prince's boredom caused his bad temper to grow worse and, with the passing days, more and more marks and dents appeared on the walls and floors of the palace, which grew dirty and neglected. One day, when the prince went out, the palace - annoyed at how it was being treated - woke up and moved for the first time in many years. It decided to hide behind a hill but was so big that it didn't take long for the prince to find it again. The palace tried to escape many times but the prince would always find it easily and then unleash his fury, causing more and more damage. One night, having grown tired of the prince's actions, the palace locked all its doors and windows while the prince slept. It ran for days and days, ignoring the damage and destruction the prince was causing while trapped inside. When the palace finally stopped and opened its doors, the prince discovered that they were surrounded by ice and snow, in the midst of the most horrible cold. \"The north pole? how do I get out of here?\" Wondered the prince as he explored his new surroundings. After searching all morning and finding nothing, the prince decided to go back to the palace to warm up. However, when he tried to open the door he found it locked. He banged on the door furiously but all he managed to do was destroy his near-frozen hands. After a while, the door opened slightly and the prince ran towards it, only for it to slam in his face. \"Stupid palace! it seems angry with me!\"The palace was indeed angry with the prince and shook all its windows to let him know. \"So that's the way you want it?\" Shouted the prince. \"Well, get ready, because this is war. and I have never lost a battle.\"In the days that followed, the prince and the palace had the strangest fight imaginable. While the prince tried to get in by breaking the windows, the palace did whatever it could to keep him out. In the middle of that crazy war, the cold began to freeze the prince's feet and crack the palace walls. When he was almost completely frozen solid, the prince - winner of a thousand battles - realised that the only way to win this one would be to make peace. And so the prince began to repair the palace and to control his anger and fury so as not to damage it again. The palace soon realised that it liked the repairs much more than the stupid fighting and that only that brutish prince could do them. Soon enough, the palace opened its doors to allow the prince to shelter from the cold at night, and clean and repair by day. Much to his surprise, the prince discovered that he really enjoyed doing the repairs and in no time the palace looked magnificent once again. So much so, that one night it finally forgave the prince, closed its doors and ran all the way back to its country. They arrived just before the princess, who was delighted with the state of the palace and the improved character of her husband, now barely interested in wars and fighting any more. The lasting peace and the prince's repairs meant the palace could finally resume its silent sleep. The only thing anyone knows about this unique palace is that it was taken down stone by stone and distributed around the world. Some of the stones could well be part of your house today, so don't let your anger and temper cause it any damage…", "moral1": "Freedom is the most valuable gift. Without it, nothing we do has meaning. ", "moral2": "One story is good, till another is told. ", "moral3": "When we give in to anger, we end up doing damage to the things or people closest to us who we should really take care of. ", "moral4": "Do your work now. ", "moral5": "Be nice and help others.", "laebl": 3}
{"id": 137, "story": "There are many legends dealing with the extinction of dragons, but only one of them involves a certain sir emile, a brave knight who finished off the last thousand dragons. Like many others, sir emile spent years studying the cruel and wicked behaviour of the dragons of his time. However, his own particular conclusions were unique and unusual: dragons lived in a constant state of anger, which created the fire that came from their mouths. So, when he decided to finish the dragons off, he swapped the normal weapons and armour of a knight for something rather unusual: a joke and a cart full of ice creams. When the first dragon came to eat him, sir emile shouted his joke at it. It was such a good joke that even the dragon had to laugh. Just as the brave knight had expected, this blew the dragon's fire out. Just as the dragon was laughing, sir emile offered it an ice cream…how refreshed and pleasant the dragon now felt, after years of having had a fiery throat! Taking advantage of the dragon having calmed down for a moment, sir emile offered it a piece of fruit, and to the dragon this tasted heavenly. Dragons didn't normally eat fruit or vegetables, because the fire of their mouths burned such food and left it without any taste. So they preferred to eat cows or people, which, even though left a bit singed, at least tasted of something. However, when the dragon tasted fresh fruit for the first time, it felt so happy and joyful that even its terrible appearance began to change. It had looked so bad because of its awful diet, but after only a few days of this new, healthier, life, the dragon disappeared one night. All that remained of it was a beautiful butterfly with large colourful wings…and so it was, that sir emile, using only some good jokes and a cart full of ice cream and fruit, made the last thousand dragons disappear and take up new life in the form of beautiful butterflies.", "moral1": "Everything has its good and bad side. We are happiest when we look for the good in all things. ", "moral2": "Freedom is the most valuable gift. Without it, nothing we do has meaning. ", "moral3": "Never try to copy other as it never lasts long and one can't find happiness that way, therefore, always be true to yourself. ", "moral4": "That's why wise saints always say - don't be afraid of god, be afraid of your actions because your action will find you tomorrow if not today. ", "moral5": "You can change people's lives by bringing them a little joy and good health.", "laebl": 5}
{"id": 138, "story": "There was once a boy who was so obsessed with watching tv that wherever he went, he would arrive late. He was so keen to return to the telly that he never finished his breakfast or anything. One day, in his post-box, was a mysterious parcel. Inside the parcel were some special spectacles, along with a piece of paper saying, -\"With these you'll be able to see time\". The boy didn't understand. He put the glasses on, looked at his brother and saw an enormous pile of flowers on top of his head. The flowers were falling down to the ground, one by one. And it wasn't just his brother. Whenever he looked at anyone through those glasses, exactly the same was happening. The only difference was that the older the person was, the smaller was the pile of flowers on their head. And according to how that person behaved, the pile gained or lost flowers. The next morning, while having his breakfast, the boy remembered his glasses. Putting them on, he was horrified to see that, coming from his own pile, was a constant stream of flowers going in the direction of the television. Not only that, but the television now had an enormous mouth, and was ferociously gobbling up all the flowers. And everywhere he went he would see wild-looking televisions devouring flowers. Finally, after realising what televisions actually are, the boy decided he would never again allow them to eat up all his time.", "moral1": "We should not be quick to judge other person. In relationships we should try to talk and clear things. We should not let our anger control us because not everything we see or hear is true. ! ", "moral2": "Any excuse will serve a wicked person. ", "moral3": "Watching television is often a waste of time, and brings no benefit. ", "moral4": "Building true peace requires those who feel they have the right to attack to take steps towards forgiveness and reconciliation. ", "moral5": "A liar2 will not be believed, even when he speaks the truth.", "laebl": 3}
{"id": 139, "story": "To get some idea of the size of the molokos you have to see them from afar. If you were to put yourself next to them, they wouldn't even see you, and if the biggest of our fairytale giants were to be at their side, probably the enormous molokos still wouldn't see them. Maybe the best way to know what they're like is to know what their favourite food is. To your average moloko there's nothing more delicious than a huge planet, with its oceans, deserts and mountains. And from all of them, there's no one like the great tuton. As big as a star, he could swallow a medium-sized planet in one gulp. He was also great at finding the tastiest planets, and this had made him the most famous of the molokos. But even greater than his fame as an explorer was his fame for being so selfish, since he never shared even a morsel of his wonderful meals, so the other molokos only just managed to samples some crumbs left from the mountains. For thousands of years - because molokos live a very long time so that they can grow so big -  tuton dined on the best planets. But it so happened that one of those planets, a lovely one of red, blue and yellow, whose crust had the best flavour you could imagine, turned out to have a centre made of the hardest steel in the universe, and the previously indestructible teeth of our famous moloko shattered into a thousand pieces. Nothing like that had ever happened to a moloko, and it turned out to be the worst of eventualities. So many mouth-watering planets within his reach, and he didn't even have a single tooth to make an impression on them. And when he asked for help from the other molokos, they all remembered his old selfishness, and how he had never left them anything but the smallest crumbs of planets whose flavour was of much worse flavour than what tuton had been accustomed to. And the previously colossal and famous planet eater became a beggar, going through all kinds of suffering and calamity. All he knew was crying, asking, begging… and hunger. And he had to spend a long time living like that, until he realised that if he wanted to be given something he would have to be the first to give, even though he was as miserable and poor as he was. And thinking about the little he had to give, he realised that he was still a brilliant discoverer of the tastiest planets. So he talked with some other molokos, and he offered to show them where the best planets hid themselves. What great joy for everyone! They discovered flavours they didn't know even existed. And the molokos, grateful to tuton for sharing with them his great skill, became much more attentive to him, and never again did he lack someone to help crush up some mountains or make him a lovely desert juice.", "moral1": "Generosity starts with yourself. Before demanding from others, we should be the first to give without expecting anything in return. ", "moral2": "When life is at stake, your whole energy become available. You don't live only on superficial level and do your best. ", "moral3": "Don't underestimate a weaker opponent. ", "moral4": "Unity is strength! ", "moral5": "If we always remember that god is everywhere and he can see us even when we try to sin hiding from everyone else.. Then we can stop ourselves from doing wrong.", "laebl": 1}
{"id": 140, "story": "Once upon a time there was a girl who, though of humble origin, was so incredibly beautiful that she was famed throughout the region. Knowing how much the young men of the kingdom liked her, she rejected all her suitors, waiting for the arrival of some handsome prince. Well, it didn't take long for a handsome prince to come by, and as soon as he saw the young girl he fell for her and showered her with compliments and gifts. The wedding was extravagant, and everyone said they made the perfect couple. However, when the shine and excitement of the presents and the parties began to wear off, the young princess found out that her handsome young husband wasn't as wonderful as she had expected. He behaved like a tyrant towards his people, he boasted about his wife as though she was a hunting trophy, and he was selfish and mean. When she came to see that everything about her husband was a false appearance, she didn't hesitate to tell him this to his face, but he answered her back in a similar vein, reminding her that he had only chosen her for her beauty, and that she could have chosen many others rather than himself, if she hadn't let herself be carried away by ambition and her desire to live in a palace. The princess cried for days, seeing the truth in her husband's cruel words. She remembered all the many good and honest young men she'd rejected only so she could become a princess. Wanting to undo her mistake, the princess tried to leave the palace, but the prince wouldn't allow her, since everyone talked about the extraordinary beauty of his wife, and this added to the prince's reputation as an exceptional man. The princess made so many attempts to escape that she ended up locked away, constantly watched by guards. One of those guards felt pity for the princess, and in her captivity he tried to cheer her up and provide some company and conversation for her. As time passed they were becoming good friends. They came to have such confidence in each other that one day the princess asked the guard to allow her to escape. But the soldier, who owed loyalty and obedience to his king did not agree to the princess' plea. Nevertheless, he answered her, saying:   -\"If you so want to flee from here, I know how to do it, but it will call for a great sacrifice on your part.\"She agreed, confirming that she was willing to do anything, and so the soldier continued:   -\"The prince only wants you for your beauty. if you disfigure your face he will send you far away from the palace so no one can see you, and he'll erase any trace of your presence. that's just the despicable, miserable kind of man he is.\"The princess replied, saying:   -\"Disfigure myself? and where will I go to? what will become of me, if my beauty is all I have? who would want to have anything to do with a horribly ugly and useless woman like me?\" -\"I would,\" The soldier answered, confidently. His daily talks with the princess had led him to fall in love with her. -\"To me you are even more beautiful on the inside than on the outside.\"And at that moment the princess realised that she too loved that simple and honest soldier. With tears in her eyes she took the hand of her guard, and with his dagger in both their hands, they made two long, deep cuts in her face…when the prince saw his wife's face everything happened just as the guard had predicted. The prince sent her as far away as he could, and he made up a tragic story about her death which made him even more popular among the people. And so, disfigured and free, the girl with the beautiful face could finally be happy alongside that simple and loyal soldier. He was the only person who, looking at her, would not quickly look away, since in that face he always found the path to his heart.", "moral1": "Fear of the dark is not fear of anything real, and can only prevent you from discovering interesting things. ", "moral2": "Similarly, path we give to our life is in our own hands. By our choices and efforts we can decide what to make of our life. . ", "moral3": "We shouldn't value people by their appearance, but rather for their true personality. ", "moral4": "Satanic words are not to be believed. ", "moral5": "What ever we have done in past but still we can change our life and people views towards us. So never give up. Anytime is good to start good work.", "laebl": 3}
{"id": 141, "story": "Marina was extremely afraid of the dark. When the lights went out, everything and every shadow appeared to her as the most terrible of monsters. Her parents explained to her, everyday and with great patience, that these things were not monsters. Marina understood her parents, but she could not stop feeling an awful fear whenever it was dark. One day her aunt valerie came to visit. Valerie was an incredible woman. She was famous for her courage, and for having gone on many journeys of adventure, some of which had been made into books and movies. Marina wanted to conquer her fear of the dark, so she asked her aunt how she became so brave, and whether she had ever been frightened. \"A great many times, marina,\" Answered her aunt, \"I remember when I was small and I was terribly afraid of the dark. I couldn't stay in the dark for even a moment\". Marina became very excited. How was it possible that someone so courageous could have been afraid of the dark? \"I'll tell you a secret, marina. it was some blind children who taught me how to be brave. they can't see, so if they had never discovered the secret of how not to be afraid of the dark, they would have been forever frightened\". \"It's true!\" Said marina, intrigued, \"Can you tell me that secret?\" \"Of course! the secret is to change your eyes. since blind children can't see, their hands are their eyes. all you have to do to conquer your fear is what they do. shut the eyes of your face and open the eyes of your hands. let's make a deal: tonight, when you go to bed and put out the light, if anything makes you afraid, close your eyes, carefully get out of bed, and try to see what it is that's making you scared. but do it using your hands as eyes… and tomorrow tell me how you're getting on with the fear\". Marina accepted, but she was rather worried. She knew she would need to be brave to close her eyes and go and touch whatever it was that was frightening her; but she was willing to try because she was already too old for this. When her parents took her to bed, she herself put out the light. After a little while, she felt afraid of one of the shadows in the bedroom. Following the advice of aunt valerie, she closed the eyes of her face and opened the eyes of her hands. And, summoning up all her courage, she went over to touch that mysterious shadow…the next morning marina came running into the kitchen, a big smile on her face, and a song on her lips. \"The monster is so soft and smooth!…\" She cried, \"It's my teddy bear!\"", "moral1": "A way to overcome fear of darkness in children, through imagination and creativity. ", "moral2": "When the great fall out, the weak must suffer for it. . ", "moral3": "Don't be greedy. ", "moral4": "If we gather up strength and face difficulties then we end up at better place, because we never know what future has in store for us. ", "moral5": "Don't give up too easily. Keep trying until you reach the goal.", "laebl": 1}
{"id": 142, "story": "At the deepest depths of the great mountain, in a huge labyrinth of tunnels created by the great wizards, there lived - imprisoned - the worst of beasts, a horrible creature who all knew as kraton. He had been put there after terrorising the local population. It was a magic labyrinth with only one entrance and exit which changed its position every day. But it so happened that there arrived in that land a man of wicked heart, nasty to the extreme, and his only wish was to rule over all the king's people. His name was jafa, and he was in such a hurry to fulfil his desire that, on hearing of the kraton, he thought of liberating it to help him with his plans, no matter how dangerous the monster was. So, jafa travelled to the great mountain accompanied by all his slaves. There were many of them, and they were so afraid of their master that they didn't take long to find the entrance to the labyrinth. One of these slaves, a very wise man, found out how to know the location of the exit each day, from outside, once jafa was inside the mountain. -\"Only one thing more, my lord,\" Said the slave after explaining the system, -\"When you're going to exit from the labyrinth, you should wait until it's nighttime. be sure not come out during daylight…\"And not wanting to hear any more, jafa entered the labyrinth. From out of a great darkness, jafa started calling for the monster, explaining to the monster his intentions. Jafa would free him from the labyrinth if, in return, kraton would be at jafa's service, terrorising the people there for at least ten years. The monster shouted his agreement with jafa's plan, since all he wanted to do was escape the labyrinth and wreak his revenge. After several days they found each other amid the blackest darkness, and there they cemented their terrible pact. Following the system recommended by jafa's slave, they soon found the way out. On approaching it, brilliant sunlight played upon the exit. Jafa remembered his slave's words. Filled with impatience, the wicked jafa sat down to wait, but the beast, seeing itself free at last, didn't want to listen to talk of waiting, and forgetting their agreement kraton ran out of the labyrinth. From inside, jafa heard kraton's terrible screams of agony. He was scared, but also needed to go and see what had happened to the beast. And though he still remembered his slave's words, he decided to go out. As soon as it touched jafa's face, the sunlight and the light of a thousand mirrors that the wise slave had placed around the exit to illuminate that spot, entered jafa's eyes. Eyes that, due to the darkness they had been in for days, were defenceless to the light, and duly burned out, leaving the impatient jafa blind for the rest of his days, as had happened to the kraton just moments earlier. And so, both evil beings, blind, clumsy and impatient, could not even see how their plans had come apart, and remained punished for ever in a life of darkness, along with other creatures of the night.", "moral1": "Nobody see that hard work and patience. Everyone see only success but they don't see that one have to sacrifice life in preparation and to achieve that success. Success seeks experience and struggle. ", "moral2": "Self-help is the best help. ", "moral3": "If you love someone, tell them, don't let your heart be broken by words left unspoken. ", "moral4": "Impatience can ruin even the best laid plans. ", "moral5": "Any excuse will serve a wicked person.", "laebl": 4}
{"id": 143, "story": "Valerie was very worried about her daddy. For some time now she had noticed he was going bald. It seemed like every time she looked at him he had less hair than before. One day she rather boldly asked him, \"Daddy, every day you have less hair. why is that?\" Her father smiled and said,\"It's the hair thief. round here there's a little pilferer, and he visits my head during the night when I'm asleep. one by one he pulls out my hairs, as many as he likes. and there's no way to catch him!\"This worried valerie, but she was determined to help her daddy. That very night she stayed awake as long as she could. As soon as she heard the first snuffles of her father's snoring she grabbed a hammer and went straight to her parents' bedroom. She slowly tiptoed in, being careful not to make a sound. She didn't want the hair thief to hear her. When she arrived at her father's side she began watchfully inspecting his head, determined to catch the hair thief as soon as he appeared. Before long, she saw a shadow on her daddy's head and, with every last ounce of her strength, she swung the hammer down. Thwack! Her father let out an enormous yelp and in a single movement leapt out of bed. The lump on his head was already big, and growing. Trembling with shock, he turned the light on, and saw valerie brandishing her hammer in the air. \"I nearly got him, daddy! I thought I hit him, but it looks like he escaped!\" Meanwhile, all the commotion had woken valerie's mother up. Seeing the lump on her husband's head, she burst out laughing. \"Well, that's what happens when you tell silly stories,\" She said, highly amused. So valerie's father had to explain to her that the hair thief didn't exist, and that going bald is something that just happens naturally to most daddies. There he sat, with a huge lump on his head, realising just how important it is not to tell children tall tales. And valerie still worried about her daddy, but she no longer lay in wait for the hair thief. Instead, she bought her daddy a very nice sleeping bonnet.", "moral1": "You have to be careful about getting addicted to computers. They can divorce us from everyday life and the natural world. ", "moral2": "We should explain things to children in an honest manner because children deserve respect. We should resist telling them silly stories for our own amusement. ", "moral3": "One should not act selfish and know that if you do wrong with someone then other might do wrong with you.. So be careful about how you act with others. . ", "moral4": "Strife feeds on conflict. ", "moral5": "Silly credulity may take this as a proof how much evil a double-tongued man may often contrive.", "laebl": 2}
{"id": 144, "story": "A cockerel and a duck were arguing so much over whether mermaids exist or not, that they decided to settle the matter once and for all, by searching the bottom of the sea. They dived down, first seeing colourful fish, then medium-sized fish and large fish. Then they got so deep that they were in complete darkness and couldn't see a thing. This made them terribly scared, so they returned to the surface. The cockerel was terrified and never wanted to return to the depths, but the duck encouraged him to keep trying. To calm the cockerel, this time the duck took a torch. They dived down again to the darkness, and when they started getting scared, they switched the torch on. When the darkness was lit up they saw that they were totally surrounded by mermaids. The mermaids told them that they thought the cockerel and the duck didn't like them. The previous time the mermaids had been just about to invite their visitors to a big party, but the cockerel and the duck had quickly left. The mermaids were very happy to see that they had returned, though. And thanks to their bravery and perseverance, the cockerel and the duck became great friends with the mermaids.", "moral1": "Any excuse will serve a wicked person. ", "moral2": "We should explain things to children in an honest manner because children deserve respect. We should resist telling them silly stories for our own amusement. ", "moral3": "Fear of the dark is not fear of anything real, and can only prevent you from discovering interesting things. ", "moral4": "Pride goes before fall. ", "moral5": "They who act without sufficient thought, will often fall into unsuspected danger.", "laebl": 3}
{"id": 145, "story": "According to an ancient legend, during a very hot period the big snowy mountain lost her covering of snow and, with it, all her cheerfulness. Streams dried up, trees withered and the mountain became covered in grim grey rock. The moon, who was always bright and shining, wanted to help her friend. However, she was very kind but not very clever and the only thing that occurred to her was to make a hole in her lower part and blow through it softly. In this way, a small amount of the magic dust that made her shine would fall on the mountain in the form of light snow. Once opened, nobody could seal the hole again. The moon didn't mind, however. She continued to blow and after several nights lost all her white dust. Without it, the moon looked so empty that she was almost invisible and the nights became completely dark and sad. Upset by this, the mountain wanted to give the snow back to her friend. However, because it was impossible to make it snow upwards, she lit a fire inside herself until she became a volcano. The fire turned the snow into a dense white smoke that rose up as high as the moon, filling her gradually each night until she was once again full and bright. However, when the snow stopped, and with it the smoke, the hole in the moon remained open, and she had no choice but to share her magic again until she was hollow once more. The moon set off on her travels in the hope of finding another mountain who could turn into a volcano, and she came across a town that needed her help desperately. She was too weak to stop her kind heart so she blew on the town, filling it with happiness until she herself stopped shining. It seemed as if the moon would never shine again but, just like the mountain, the grateful town also found a way to make it snow upwards. So did the next one, and the next, and every one after that. And so, every month, the moon generously sprinkles her magic dust across the world until she disappears, knowing that in a few days her friends would find a way to make her shine brightly again. Translated by dominic bentley, manchester metropolitan university", "moral1": "Competition is not about comparing ourselves with others but to learn about ourselves. ", "moral2": "That's why wise saints always say - don't be afraid of god, be afraid of your actions because your action will find you tomorrow if not today. ", "moral3": "Sometimes we miss blessings just because they are not packed as we expected. We should take time to think and should not get angry and act at instant. Its better to think before act than to regret later. ", "moral4": "You can change people's lives by bringing them a little joy and good health. ", "moral5": "True generosity means giving the best in us, not just things we have too much of.", "laebl": 5}
{"id": 146, "story": "Giants and dragons had been enemies for years on end, but they had learned a lot. They were no longer so foolish as to wage wars with terrible battles in which thousands died. Now, every year they held bowling matches instead. A giant against a dragon. Whoever lost would become the winner's slave. If a dragon won, he could use the giant's muscles for all that heavy lifting. If a giant won, he would have free flights and fire for the whole year. That is how they prevented their deaths and yet they hated each other more and more. Every year the winners were so cruel to the losers, in revenge for the times they had lost. There came a time when what mattered most was not winning the bowling match, but rather not losing. Yonk the giant was the best bowler, and the most afraid. He had never lost. Many dragons had been his slaves and they were dying to see him lose so they could get their revenge. This is why yonk was terrified of losing. Especially since last year's match, when he missed his first ever strike and decided that something had to change. The following year he won again. When he arrived home, his slave dragon feared the worst but yonk had a different idea in mind. \"This year you will not be my slave. we will go bowling and I will teach you all of my secrets. but you must promise me one thing: when you win your match next year, you will not be cruel to your giant. do the same as I am doing with you.\"The dragon gladly accepted. Yonk kept his promise and he spent the entire year without flying or warming himself with the dragon's fire breathing. The dragon also kept his promise and both did exactly the same every year afterwards. Yonk's idea became so popular that, within just a few years, many giants and dragons were spending their days bowling together. They forgot about their battles and cruelty and treated each other as play friends rather than enemies. Much later yonk lost his first bowling match but he was no longer afraid of losing because, by putting a stop to the enslavement of dragons, he had ended their hatred and sowed the seeds of an almost impossible peace between giants and dragons. Translated by emily mcpherson, manchester metropolitan university", "moral1": "To enter by reason means to realize the essence through instruction and to believe that all living things share the same true nature, which isn't apparent because it is shrouded by sensation and delusion. ", "moral2": "Competition is not about comparing ourselves with others but to learn about ourselves. ", "moral3": "Do nothing without a regard to the consequences. ", "moral4": "No one is too small to help. ", "moral5": "Building true peace requires those who feel they have the right to attack to take steps towards forgiveness and reconciliation.", "laebl": 5}
{"id": 147, "story": "Gus grumplings was never happy with anything. He had lots of friends, and parents who loved him dearly, but all gus could think about was what he didn't have, or things he did have which he was unhappy with. If someone gave him a car, it would be too big or too slow. If he went to the zoo, he'd come back disappointed because they hadn't let him feed the lions. If he played football with his friends, he would complain, saying there were too many of them for just one ball…what caught gus unaware was chuckles the prankster cloud. One day, chuckles was drifting past, and heard all of gus's complaining. Chuckles wafted over to see. When the cloud was right above gus, he started dropping heavy black rain on him. That was chuckles' favourite trick to play on grumpy little kids. Gus wasn't at all impressed by this new development; it just made him complain even more. He was even angrier after he realised that the cloud was following him. Well, this carried on for almost a week. Gus couldn't get away from the cloud, and he got more and more infuriated. Gus had a little friend, a happy and generous girl called gladys. Gladys was the only one who had been willing to hang around with gus during all those black, rainy days. All the other children had run off to avoid getting soaked and ending up completely black. One day, when gus was at the end of his tether, she said to him: \"Cheer up! what you should realise is that you're the only one of us who has his very own cloud, and even better, its rain is black! we could play some fun games with a cloud like this, don't you reckon?\" As gladys was his only company these days, and he didn't want her to leave as the others had, gus reluctantly agreed. Gladys took him to the swimming pool, and left him there until all the pool water was black. Then she went and got other kids. They came and played in the pool. The water being black meant they could play hide and seek! Grudgingly, gus had to admit it had been a lot of fun, but what was even more fun was playing wet the cat. Gus would find cats and run alongside them. When the cats felt themselves getting wet they would jump about in the craziest way, and run off at top speed, with funny looks on their faces. Before long, all the children in town had gathered around gus, thinking up new games they could play using the cloud. For the first time ever, gus started to see the positive side of things; even things which, at first, had seemed so bad. Chuckles, the prankster cloud, thought that he could now leave; his work had been done. But, before leaving, he gave gus two days of multicoloured rain, with which the children invented the most fun games ever. When chuckles finally left, gus didn't complain. Now he knew to focus on the good in life, and the good thing about chuckles' departure was that no longer was gus soaking wet all day. Now he could go and do dry things, and that's exactly what he did.", "moral1": "Good or bad fortune does not make one a better or worse person, and we all have a responsibility to help the less fortunate. ", "moral2": "Everything has its good and bad side. We are happiest when we look for the good in all things. ", "moral3": "He was thanking god saying, I have been waiting for such a man. How long have I waited. Finally you heard my prayers. Now he has come and I am free of all this nonsense. Thank you. ! ", "moral4": "Always give affection and care to our dear ones. Always respect other's feelings. ", "moral5": "Teamwork can defeat the opponent.", "laebl": 2}
{"id": 148, "story": "Brian bristles was an artistic kind of a boy. He looked at everything as though it were a beautiful painting, and, in the blink of an eye, he could paint anything at all, filling it with magic and colour. One day, brian and his grandfather went to spend a weekend at the palace of the marquis of castling. The marquis was an old friend of brian's grandfather; and was a very famous chess player. When they arrived, brian went into a large room and found a lovely chess set, totally hand carved, and with its own marble table which acted as the board. This chess set caught brian's artistic eye. However, he felt that these pieces were too uniform. Along with the blacks and whites of the board, it amounted to rather a bland set. So, that night, - paint box in hand - he tiptoed from his room to the chess room. There he spent the night painting each piece in the most colourful way. When the pieces were done, he painted a beautiful scene on the marble chessboard. Brian hoped to use his art to really surprise his grandfather and the marquis. However, the next morning, when the marquis discovered that his pieces had been covered in a thousand colours, instead of being pleased, he was very angry. That afternoon he had a very important match to play. However lovely all those colours were, it would be impossible to play chess without being able to know which pieces were which; and even more difficult now that the squares of the board were covered with a painting. Brian's grandfather explained to him that even the loveliest, most colourful things need some sense of order to them. The boy felt very hurt, remembering how many times his paintings had annoyed people…but brian bristles was a true artist, and he wasn't about to give up easily. A little while later he went to his grandfather and the marquis, and asked their permission to rectify what he had done to the chess set. Knowing how ingeniously artistic the boy was, they decided to give him a chance, so brian went off and spent hours alone with his paints. When he was finished, shortly before the match was about to begin, he called for the two men and showed them his work. What a beautiful chess set it now was! Now there were two perfectly recognisable teams; that of night and that of day. On one side, the board and the pieces had been decorated with dozens of stars and moons of all sizes and colours. On the other side the decorations were suns, clouds, and rainbows. It was done so well that the whole set had an unmatchable sense of order and harmony. Brian understood that a little order had been missing, but he had now managed to impose some without giving up any colour. The two grown-ups looked at the paintings and smiled. It was obvious that brian bristles would become a great artist.", "moral1": "We are all valuable in ourselves; much more so than we sometimes believe. ", "moral2": "All things require a minimum of order, although that doesn't prevent the order from being applied with imagination. ", "moral3": "Do your work now. ", "moral4": "Your job doesn't always define you, but being a good human being does. ", "moral5": "What ever we have done in past but still we can change our life and people views towards us. So never give up. Anytime is good to start good work.", "laebl": 2}
{"id": 149, "story": "Perry piccolo was a rich kid who led a very nice, comfortable life, protected from most of the bad stuff in the world. One day, perry went to the movies to see a film he'd been dying to see. The problem was that he arrived a bit late, just as the last ticket was being sold to a very poor looking boy. The boy had been saving for weeks to buy this ticket. Realising there was no ticket left for himself, perry was furious, and started shouting and protesting, demanding that the boy hand his over. \"But why should I give you my ticket? I arrived before you did and I've paid for it\", said the boy. \"Because I'm more important than you! look at me! I'm rich and you are poor. don't you see?\", perry replied. At that moment, a very distinguished looking man came over to perry and offered him a ticket, saying,\"Of course, my boy. you have more of a right than him to see this movie\". Then perry, in the most showy and superior way, walked off from the boy and entered the cinema. When he got inside the auditorium, perry looked around and was pleased to see that the place was filled with other rich children like himself. He made his way to a seat. However, as soon as perry sat down, he vanished and was somehow teleported onto the cinema screen. He realised he had turned into a movie character, playing the central role in many stories. And in all those stories perry started out with a lot of bad luck: a couple of times his parents disappeared, other times his house burned down and he lost all his money. In some stories he had to travel to countries where he didn't understand the language, in others he had to work straight from childhood, to help support all his brothers and sisters. Sometimes he found himself in a situation where everyone treated him like a fool, or like someone who had no feelings…in all these stories, perry had to struggle terribly to survive and overcome his difficulties. He managed this, even though few people would have given him a hope. All the stories had a happy ending, in which a wise, fortunate, rich, and mysterious character would help perry to fulfil his dreams. When all this came to an end, perry found himself back in his seat, feeling pretty shocked. He realised that in real life he had always been fortunate, and had never helped anyone to have a happy ending of their own. He felt terrible, and spent a long time in that seat, crying. Finally, an enormous smile broke over his face, and he left the cinema, almost dancing. He was happy because now he knew what he was going to do with his life. He was going to be that helpful person who comes to the aid of less fortunate people. He would be a maker of happy endings! On his way home, over in the distance he saw the distinguished looking man who had given him the movie ticket. And perry realised that that man was the same one who had appeared at the end of all the stories on the cinema screen. The man who created happy endings.", "moral1": "It is unwise to trust cunning people who surround powerful or wealthy ones, for their own benefit. ", "moral2": "The gods help them that help themselves. ", "moral3": "Teamwork and coordination allow us to achieve more than we could individually, no matter how capable we are. ", "moral4": "Good or bad fortune does not make one a better or worse person, and we all have a responsibility to help the less fortunate. ", "moral5": "We can look at every situation as an opportunity to realize and overcome our defects. This is possible only due to the strength of chanting the god's name.", "laebl": 4}
{"id": 150, "story": "John was a very shy child. He felt so embarrassed being with other people that he didn't dare say anything, and he almost always kept quite and still over in a corner, fearing what might happen if he opened his mouth. One day, when some people were visiting, juan felt so ashamed that he hid in a bedroom. Suddenly, a bubble appeared right in front of him, and out of it came a little elf. With exaggerated gestures of pain, the elf covered his large ears with his hands and shouted:   -\"Please! please! stop screaming like that. I can not stand it…\"With that shock the boy forgot his shyness, and asked the elf:   -\"Why are you crying? who is shouting at you?\" -\"What d'you mean who is shouting at me!? \" He replied indignantly, -\"Is there anyone else here?\"The boy looked around. It was true, they were alone. -\"What? but I almost never say anything … I'm always really good,\" He said, trying to excuse himself. -\"Oh, yeah!\" Went on the elf without losing his anger    -\"I really believe that. you were yelling like I haven't heard anyone yell for ages …\" -\"But if I didn't even open my mouth …\" -\"Go on! this really is good! as if to scream like a madman you have to open your mouth!\" -\"Of course,\" Replied john, -\"How can I shout without opening my mouth?\"Then the elf's face changed from anger to surprise. -\"Aaahhh ….\" He said, lowering his voice, -\"You mean you don't know? nobody told you that your eyes, your hands, your feet and your whole body talk all the time? now I understand everything!\"And coming over to john, as if divulging a secret, the elf began to explain that each part of the body speaks its own language - and does so without stopping - and how each gesture we make says one thing or another, whether in a low voice or shouting. In the end the elf gave john a little bottle, dropped some magic droplets into the boy's ears, and told him:   -\"Now you'll see what I'm saying. with this potion you can be like me and hear with your ears what people are saying without a word passing their lips.\"It was an amazing experience for john. For a few days, he could hear how everyone kept up two or three conversations, even when completely silent. And he heard his parents say nice things to him simply by looking at him, and he heard his neighbour's feet complain because the lift was slow in coming, and he heard the butcher's head thank a generous lady for the tip she gave him. But what surprised him most was on his birthday when he met a girl who was also shy. She looked constantly to the ground and didn't dare talk to anyone. His magic ears could hear her loud cries:    -\"I do not want to be here! I do not want to play with anyone! I hate parties!\" And knowing what the girl's eyes and feet were saying wasn't true, he came and told her what they were shouting without her knowing about it, and he wet her ears with a few of the magic drops from his bottle. And that really made them feel ashamed! Together, john and his new friend set out to investigate which gestures and postures to make to ensure their bodies were quieter and more pleasant. And so it was that they discovered that smiling, looking into people's eyes, approaching people and politely saying \"Hi\" And \"Bye\" Meant their bodies stopped yelling, and so they became charming and pleasant children.", "moral1": "To help shy children realise that their body language can say things that cause them more embarrassment than normal behaviour. ", "moral2": "Where there is hope, there is life. It fills us with fresh courage and makes us strong again. ", "moral3": "Here is our list of interesting facts about christmas. ", "moral4": "Familiarity breeds contempt. ", "moral5": "Impatience can ruin even the best laid plans.", "laebl": 1}
{"id": 151, "story": "Once upon a time a king ordered his two sons to build two large aqueducts to supply water to his country estates, which were in a very poor state due to a great drought. The first son took part of his father's riches and part of the army. With them he travelled north where he ordered the people of those lands to work hard on building the aqueduct. He oversaw the work very carefully, paying the villagers fairly, and finishing the project within the predicted two years. Proud of his work, he returned to the palace, only to find the place in the midst of celebrations for the coming crowning of his brother as king. He was told that his brother had taken only one year to build his aqueduct in the south, and that he had managed to do the job with hardly any soldiers or money. This seemed so strange to the first brother that he began to investigate the southern aqueduct. What he found amounted to more than a few irregularities. He returned to the palace, telling his father to avoid this madness of making his brother king\"Why do you say that? is there something I should know?\" Asked the king. \"You know how much I love my brother, but he must have gone crazy. he has dragged our good name through the gutter. he built his aqueduct deviating from the plans. he created so many outlets that barely half the water arrives at the royal estates. he confronted the prime minister in front of the villagers, and he left without paying any of the workers. he even used your soldiers as labourers. and who knows? maybe that's only the start…\"The king, gazing affectionately at his son, replied. \"My son, what you say is true. your brother had the initiative to modify the aqueduct to improve it; the wisdom to propose something which would improve the lives of everyone. and so he convinced the villagers to work quickly and without pay. he had the courage to confront the prime minister to defend justice, and the charisma to set his soldiers to work even more hours than the villagers. his commitment was so great that he himself was the one who worked hardest on the project, forgetting his princely status. you know what, my son? this is why everyone adores your brother, and would do anything he were to ask of them. he is more than their king, he is their leader\". The prince left, deep in thought. He came to recognise that the words of his father indeed pointed to the greatness of his brother. And without hesitation, he ran to his brother, to congratulate him.", "moral1": "Whoever lays crafty stratagems for others, ought to beware that he himself be not entrapped by cunning. ", "moral2": "Nature will out. ", "moral3": "We should focus our energy on positive and with in not time we would be able to do things we couldn't think of doing before. ", "moral4": "Leadership is earned via actions that demonstrate courage, fairness, and commitment. ", "moral5": "That's why wise saints always say - don't be afraid of god, be afraid of your actions because your action will find you tomorrow if not today.", "laebl": 4}
{"id": 152, "story": "Once upon a time, there was a boy who was so badly behaved that the chief fairy of the land came by to punish him. The fairy turned the boy into a monster, in a spell which meant the boy could only escape from being a monster if he managed to seriously frighten someone. At first the boy thought this would be easy, but he soon found that the children in his area were very difficult to scare. A long time passed, and he got more and more fed up; so he decided to look for some easy prey: a boy who was well known as a sucker. To ensure success, he studied this boy for some time, following him wherever he went, and in passing, seeing all the good works he did. His target gave to charity, played with the children in hospital, helped old people…finally, he had fully prepared the best fright ever. A fright that would free him from monsterhood forever, and leave that good, unsuspecting boy, scared stiff. However, when he went to frighten the boy, there came into his mind the images of all the people the boy had helped. The monster decided to leave the boy alone, because he realised that all his good work was without price. And if he did the boy any damage, he would be responsible for him not being able to help more people. At that exact moment the chief fairy appeared, and rewarded the monster's good attitude by turning him back into a boy. And that boy, who had been so badly behaved, became very kind, and a good friend of the boy he had been about to frighten to death.", "moral1": "When we give in to anger, we end up doing damage to the things or people closest to us who we should really take care of. ", "moral2": "A bad boy discovers what good effects kind people have in the world. ", "moral3": "We should not be quick to judge other person. In relationships we should try to talk and clear things. We should not let our anger control us because not everything we see or hear is true. ! ", "moral4": "When we meet real tragedy in life, we can react in two ways - either by losing hope and falling into self-destructive habits or by using the challenge to find our inner strength. ", "moral5": "It is cowardly to attack the defenseless, though he be an enemy.", "laebl": 2}
{"id": 153, "story": "There was once a man so sick of seeing so many bad things in the world, that a he wished that everyone would be good and have a christmas feeling. And it turned out that, magically, his wish was fulfilled. At the street, everybody seemed happy and nobody was able to do evil. Some children threw stones at a dog, but by air, rocks became snow; a confused man crossed the road, and when the driver pulled out half the body through the window to shout something, he said good morning and wished him happy season; a rich woman who was walking wrapped in her fur coat, passed along to a beggar, and when it seemed that she would further protect her purse, she grabbed it and gave it full with all the money and jewelry to the beggar. Our man was plenty of happiness, but things changed when he went to pay at the supermarket. Cared cashier that it was going so poorly for lack of money, and thought to leave a tip just enough to take power after a hot chocolate, but before realizing it, without knowing too well how he had been stopped around the tip money carrying over. And if not what made him thank you very much, let alone liked it when instead of going to the gym climbed on the bus that was going to jail and spent a couple of hours visiting dangerous criminals in prison, and another couple of hours listening to the heavy chat a lonely old woman in the asylum, instead of going to see a beautiful play on christmas, as planned. Upset about anything, not knowing what pushed him to do so, he began to see that everyone had that perfect christmas spirit because they had fulfilled their wish. But like himself, almost nobody was comfortable doing all those things fair and generous. Then he realized the injustice that had been his wish: he had asked that all improve, that the world was made good when he was really far from the case. For years it had been thought good and just, but enough had a couple of days to show that it was all just a little good, just a little generous, just a bit fairer … and worst of all, did not want that to change. Some say that we are all like that man. There are also crazy that they say would be enough to change a man to change the world. And some of my favorites, say that the time has come to change this man just a little good to carry with us everywhere.", "moral1": "We should focus our energy on positive and with in not time we would be able to do things we couldn't think of doing before. ", "moral2": "Self-help is the best help. ", "moral3": "Changing and improving the world is a task that must begin with our own personal change and improvement. ", "moral4": "Each day is a gift. We should learn to live happy. Happiness comes from inner self and we are one who decides to be happy or not. ", "moral5": "You are never be too old to learn something new. If anyone put all his effort and persist on things he wants to learn then one day he will definitely succeed.", "laebl": 3}
{"id": 154, "story": "Once upon a time there was a villain who was so thoroughly evil that he devised a plan to destroy every important thing in the world. His name was millisphore, and, helped by his great machines and inventions, he managed to ruin everything. After that, he created a potion that robbed people of their desire to work. He also managed to infect everyone with such a smelly gas that they preferred to stay at home rather than go out and risk meeting anyone. When things had reached the point where the entire world had been spoilt, millisphore saw that only one more thing stood in his way in his desire for complete domination, and this one thing was the family. Despite all his evil inventions, his potions and his gases, it seemed that families were still sticking together. What bothered him most was that all the families were resisting him, no matter how many people were in each one, where they lived, or how they spent their time. He tried making the houses smaller, but the families just lived closer together in less space. He also destroyed food, but the families just shared what little they had. And so he continued with his wicked deeds against the last thing on the whole planet that still resisted him, but nothing was working. Finally he discovered the secret to the strength of every family: they loved each other, and there was no way to change that. Though he tried to invent something to destroy this love, millisphore never managed it. Sad and annoyed at not having managed to dominate the world, he gave up and let everything return to normality. The evil millisphore ended up so depressed that all he could think of to do was go crying to his parents' house and tell them what had happened. And, despite all the wicked deeds he had done, his parents ran out to embrace him. They forgave him, and encouraged him to be good. And so it is that even the family of the most wicked will love him and forgive him anything! And aren't we fortunate to have a family?", "moral1": "It is best to do today's work today. Don't wait till later. ", "moral2": "Leadership is earned via actions that demonstrate courage, fairness, and commitment. ", "moral3": "The family has such strength because it is united by love, and this is why the family accepts and forgives a thousand times. ", "moral4": "Treat others how you would like to be treated. ", "moral5": "Don't respond to what people say in anger. Inner calmness and peace are ways to live contented life.", "laebl": 3}
{"id": 155, "story": "Johnny the lizard lived between some rocks out in the country. Like all lizards he loved to quietly sunbathe, laid out on some flat stone. He felt so relaxed doing so, that more than once he had fallen asleep, and that's exactly what happened on the day he lost his tail: some kids caught him, and johnny could only escape by losing his tail and running to hide. Shocked and frightened, he listened to how the children laughed at seeing his tail continue moving about, even though it was no longer attached to his body. After a while they threw the tail away. When the children had gone, johnny started looking everywhere for his tail, wanting to reattach it to its rightful place. However, the countryside was very big, and as much as he searched for it, johnny could find no sign of his tail. He left everything else in his life, devoting himself to the search. He forgot about his home, his possessions, his friends. Days and months passed, and johnny kept looking, asking everyone he met whether they had seen his tail. One day, someone he asked surprisedly replied, -\"Why do you need two tails?\" Johnny turned and saw that after so much time spent searching he had grown a new tail. What's more, his new tail looked stronger and better than his old tail. Seeing this, he realised how silly it had been to dedicate so much time to a problem for which there was no solution. Johnny turned back and headed for home. On his way home he found his old tail at the side of the way. It was dry and dusty, and looked really bad. However, johnny, having spent so much time looking for it, was happy to find it, and he picked it up and resumed his journey. Soon he met a frog. The frog, surprised, asked johnny:   -\"Why are you carrying such a horrible old tail when you already have such a lovely tail of your own?\" -\"Because I spent months looking for it,\" Replied johnny. -\"You really spent months looking for something so ugly and dirty?\" Said the frog. -\"Well,\"Johnny explained, -\"Previously it wasn't as ugly as this…\" -\"Hmm, but now it is, wouldn't you agree?… how strange you lizards are!\" Said the frog before jumping off into the distance. The frog was right. Johnny still thought of his tail as though it was the same tail he used to have, but in reality it was now disgusting. Now johnny understood, so he decided to drop his old tail there, leaving with it all his past worries. As he continued his journey all he took with him were thoughts of the future.", "moral1": "Just take care of my eyes dear. ", "moral2": "As you sow, so you reap. ", "moral3": "If we're forever thinking about the past we can miss the fact that the future can always be better than what went before. ", "moral4": "Use serves to overcome dread4. ", "moral5": "It's not necessary to see things as black and white or chose sides. When we don't want to hate. Having peace with ourselves is best way to live.", "laebl": 3}
{"id": 156, "story": "In a land far away, once upon a time there was great poverty: only the rich could manage without great problems. Three of those rich men, and their servants, were traveling on the same road, in a convoy, when they came to a very poor village. Seeing this poverty provoked different reactions in all three rich men. The first couldn't stand to see it, so he took all the gold and jewels from his wagons and shared them out among the villagers. He wished them all the best of luck, and he left. The second rich man, seeing the desperate situation, stopped for a short time, and gave the villagers all his food and drink, since he could see that money would be of little use to them. He made sure that each villager received their fair share and would have enough food to last for some time. Then, he left. The third rich man, on seeing such poverty, speeded up and traveled straight through the village without stopping. The two other rich men saw this from a distance, and commented with each other how the third rich man lacked decency and compassion. It was good that they had been there to help the poor villagers…however, three days later, they met the third rich man who was traveling in the opposite direction. He was still traveling quickly, but his wagons, instead of the gold and valuables they had been carrying, were now full of farming implements, tools, and sacks of seeds and grain. He was heading to the poor village to help them out of poverty. This happened a long, long time ago, but we can see the very same thing happening today too. There are some generous people who give only so that people can see how much they are giving. They don't want to know anything about the people they are giving to. Other generous people really try to help others, but only so that they can feel better about themselves. But there are other generous people: the best kind. To them it doesn't matter what the other kinds of generous people think of them. Nor do they give in a showy way. Instead, they truly worry about how best to improve the lives of those they are helping. They give greatly of something much more valuable than money. They give their time, their vision and their lives. We still have time to change to this third, and best, group!", "moral1": "It is unwise to trust cunning people who surround powerful or wealthy ones, for their own benefit. ", "moral2": "An invitation prompted by selfishness is not to be accepted. ", "moral3": "Outside show is a poor substitute for inner worth. ", "moral4": "That's what I have been telling you: drop it. Now sit down. Be just human, here nobody is emperor, nobody is beggar. Here everybody is himself. Just be yourself. ", "moral5": "The best kindness is to give our time and sincere best wishes to people, regardless of whether they can give us anything in return.", "laebl": 5}
{"id": 157, "story": "In a garden filled with bushes, out from between a load of grass and weeds, there appeared, as if from nowhere, a white rose. It was as white as driven snow, its petals looked like velvet, and the morning dew shone from its leaves like resplendent crystals. The flower couldn't see herself, so she had no idea how pretty she was. And so it was that she spent the few days of her life, until wilting set on, without knowing that all around her were amazed by her and her perfection: her perfume, the softness of her petals, her elegance. She didn't realise that everyone who saw her spoke well of her. The weeds that surrounded her were fascinated by her beauty, and lived in a state of enchantment at her aroma and appearance. One hot, sunny day, a girl was strolling through the garden, thinking about how many lovely things mother nature has given us, when she suddenly saw a white rose in a forgotten part of the garden. The rose was beginning to fade and wilt. -\"It's days since it rained,\" She thought, -\"If the rose stays here till tomorrow it'll be totally withered. I'll take it home and put it in the lovely vase I got as a present.\"And so she did. With all her love she put the wilting white rose in water, inside a lovely colourful glass vase, and placed it by the window. -\"I'll put it here,\" She thought, -\"So the flower can get some sun.\"What the young girl didn't realise was that the reflection from the window meant that, for the first time, the rose got to see herself and what she looked like. -\"Is that me?\" Thought the rose. Little by little her drooping leaves began to rise, once again stretching up towards the sun, and, gradually, the rose recovered her former appearance. When she was totally back to her best she looked at her reflection and saw that she was indeed a beautiful flower. She thought    -\"Wow! till now I hadn't realised who I was, how could I have been so blind?\"The rose came to realise she had spent her days without appreciating her beauty, unable to see herself, unable to know who she really was. If you really want to know who you are, forget everything that's around you, and just look into your heart.", "moral1": "I would rather be a little nobody, then to be an evil somebody. ", "moral2": "We are all valuable in ourselves; much more so than we sometimes believe. ", "moral3": "In a change of government the poor change nothing  beyond the name of their master. ", "moral4": "Pleasure bought with pains, hurts. ", "moral5": "Make new friends but keep the old. The one is sliver, the older gold.", "laebl": 2}
{"id": 158, "story": "Once upon a time, the king's two princes were playing in a forest, and - meeting one at a time -, they came across four dwarves who asked them to be more careful. The first dwarf had a headache and he asked them not to shout. The second dwarf was painting a landscape, and he asked the children to move away because they were blocking out the light. The third dwarf was doing a giant jigsaw puzzle in the middle of the road, and he asked the children not to tread on it. The fourth dwarf was watching a butterfly and he asked them not to frighten it away. The prince who respected others did as the dwarves asked, but the disrespectful prince ignored the dwarves' pleas, and kept bothering them. In the evening, both boys had become separated and lost. They needed to get back to the palace quickly. Each of them separately came across the four dwarves again, and asked for their help. They refused to help the disrespectful prince, but with the respectful prince they did whatever they could to help, and took him along some secret tracks which led right to the palace. The other prince arrived much later, and was punished for it. He now understood that it's much better to respect everyone if you want to have friends.", "moral1": "We should always think positive of others and ignore their deficiencies. We should learn to focus on the good things instead of trying to hide weaknesses. If we think and approach positively even in a negative situation, then we will be able to solve our problems more efficiently. ", "moral2": "Yield3 to all and you will soon have nothing to yield. ", "moral3": "Be kind and respectful to everyone, as you never know when will you need help from others. ", "moral4": "You have to be careful about getting addicted to computers. They can divorce us from everyday life and the natural world. ", "moral5": "Be humble.", "laebl": 3}
{"id": 159, "story": "The day finally arrived. It was time for the great acrobatic balloon competition. Every insect in the garden had been training hard, and now they were preparing to begin their routines. The balloon competitions were always something really special, since they could only happen after the children of the house had had some big party. There was only a short window of opportunity too, before the parents came round to collect up the balloons. Each time, the flying insects were favourites to win, because they could grab the balloon strings and fly off in all directions, creating all sorts of patterns in the air. However, on this occasion there were some rather unusual insects taking part: a group of ants. Of course, no one expected that they'd do anything special. They were so light that no ant had ever bothered to take part, but it was quite impressive to see all the ants all perfectly organised and prepared. So the competition began, and the different insects took their turns, performing beautiful manoeuvres with the balloons. As always, the butterfly and the firefly left everyone amazed with their twist and turns, and their wonderful colours. When it was time for the ants to perform, it seemed like the competition had already been decided. For the first time in living memory, the ants shared just one balloon between them, and one by one they climbed up the balloon string; forming a thin black thread of ants. When all the string was covered, the last ant climbed over his teammates to reach the balloon. Once there, he climbed onto the top of the balloon. This strange spectacle attracted everyone's curiosity, and they were just about to witness the most important moment: the ant opened his jaws as wide as he could… and then he stabbed the balloon with all his might! Pssshhhhhhh! !! The result was tremendous! The balloon began blowing out its air, flying madly about, here and there, doing a thousand pirouettes, while the perfectly synchronised ants, made all kinds of beautiful shapes out of the string. Of course, that acrobatic flight ended with quite a hard landing, but it didn't matter. The originality and teamwork of the ant performance was so impressive that the crowd didn't even have to vote for there to be a winner. From then on, in that garden, everyone understood how much could be achieved by working together. In the years to come, the balloon competitions were full of displays carried out by teams, and they put on some wonderful routines; something those individual insects could never have achieved on their own.", "moral1": "If you work together in a team you can achieve much more than you could have done on your own. ", "moral2": "Do not give up friends for foes. ", "moral3": "When we give in to anger, we end up doing damage to the things or people closest to us who we should really take care of. ", "moral4": "Building true peace requires those who feel they have the right to attack to take steps towards forgiveness and reconciliation. ", "moral5": "It's our choice to keep positive attitude towards life. Circumstances are just parts of what makes us joyful. Pursuit of happiness is an inward journey. If we continue to bit our lips and just before we begin to complain we should shoot that seemingly harmless negative thought as it germinates, we will find there is much rejoice about.", "laebl": 1}
{"id": 160, "story": "Tidyland was a lovely little model world which paula perfect had built with her toys. She was always looking after it, and making sure that everything stayed perfectly in its place. She kept the red people in the red houses, the green children playing on the swings of the green parks, and the parents talking all day in the town square. It was a sweet and perfect little world, and paula dreamed that one day she might be able to spend a day in tidyland. Then, having no idea how, her wish was fulfilled, and she woke up one day in the middle of tidyland, all dressed in pink, and made of little toy blocks. How wonderful! Everything was just as she had known it! It was really lovely. Paula was completely happy, and after she had gotten over her surprise, she ran to see the swings in the green park. However, before she got there, a giant hand swooped down out of the sky and grabbed her. It took her by the arm and moved her back to where she had started from, next to the pink palace. Paula was a bit shocked by this, but she managed to put it out of her mind, because she caught sight of her beloved red houses, and off she went to take a closer look. But again, the big hand came down and put her back by the pink palace. Then a princess came out onto one of the palace balconies and spoke to paula. \"Don't bother. you will never be able to leave the pink zone\". And the princess explained to her how the big hand never let anyone move about in tidyland, and that meant that it was the saddest land in the whole world; no one could do what they wanted or go where they wanted. Paula looked at the faces of all the little people, and she could see that it was true. She realised that the big hand was her own, and that she had always used it to keep everything in tidyland perfectly in order. \"So what's up?\" She asked. \"Don't you all like living in such a lovely, well organised land?\" Said paula. \"If we can't choose what to do or where to go, what's the point?\" They answered her. \"If we could only have one day where we were free to go and see other things… don't you understand?\"And sure, paula soon understood. After a few days without being able to decide anything for herself, nor move away from the pink palace, paula was feeling very down; so much so that she no longer cared about her lovely little land. Then, one morning, she woke again in her normal life. The first thing she did was go over to her model world and move the little people about to different places. Now each time she found one out of place, instead of immediately putting it back, she would wait for a day, so the little person would have time to enjoy all of that beautiful world. Often, at home and at school, they had tried to explain to her what freedom meant, and how important it was. Now there was nothing about freedom paula didn't understand. To know all about it she only had to remember those sad days she had spent down in tidyland.", "moral1": "That's why wise saints always say - don't be afraid of god, be afraid of your actions because your action will find you tomorrow if not today. ", "moral2": "As such no activity of life should be seen as a distraction for living a spiritual life. Every activity of life can be done with mindfulness or with a detached attitude but this is true for highly evolved soul. For most people who are still on the path, they should not let distractions them divert from spiritual path and focus intensely in our spiritual practice so that they become more centered inside. ", "moral3": "The dangers of others are generally of advantage to the wary. ", "moral4": "Freedom is the most valuable gift. Without it, nothing we do has meaning. ", "moral5": "Another definition of a hero is someone who is concerned about other people's well-being and will go out of his or her way to help them - even if there is no chance of a reward. That person who helps others simply because it should or must be done and because it is the right thing to do, is indeed without a doubt, a real superhero.", "laebl": 4}
{"id": 161, "story": "Billy peck was a farm duck whose big dream was to become a tightrope walker. Every day he spent hours out on the rope, practicing, encouraged by his faithful friend, artie quack. Artie was an older duck who, when young, had practiced that very same art. Both of them were a bit flap-footed at it, but they had never let that get in the way of doing all they could to keep training and hopefully improve. One day, a new ram arrived at the farm. Soon after noticing the ducks' tightrope practice, he came over and began praising them. He said they were doing great, and he bet they could cross any precipice on that rope of theirs. This left billy feeling highly encouraged, despite artie commenting that he hadn't noticed any real improvement. A few days later, billy found himself with the ram, looking across a ravine. The gap was so wide that no one could jump it. You could only cross it using a tightrope. Artie tried to talk his friend out of it. He wanted him to realise that he wasn't such a great tightrope walker, and this thing with the ravine would be really dangerous. The ram disagreed, assuring them that billy peck was the best tightrope walker in the whole region, and that artie quack was just jealous of him. Both ducks got angry, and artie refused to help with the tightrope walk. On the ravine, the ram egged billy on, to reach the other side. But as soon as he had stepped out onto the rope billy lost his balance, and fell. Fortunately he landed on a small ledge, but when he asked the ram to help him up, he discovered that he had disappeared. Billy pecks had to spend quite some time there, and even worse, his leg was broken. He realised that his old friend artie had been telling him the truth all along. He saw that it couldn't have been easy for artie to tell him that he wasn't a good tightrope walker, and billy was grateful to have such a good friend who would always tell him the truth… and artie really was a good friend, because, knowing what was about to happen, he had gone straight off to find a group of wild ducks - old friends of his. These wild ducks flew much better than the poor old farm ducks. Artie prepared a rescue operation with the wild ducks. Billy asked artie to forgive him, and artie happily did so. And, while being rescued, and flying high, billy could see that over on the other side of the ravine there was a load of well-hidden and delicious delicacies. Billy realised that that was all the greedy ram had been interested in. He wanted those foods, but couldn't cross the ravine himself, so had tried to use billy to get them. Billy felt foolish, but also fortunate, because helped by his new duck friends they managed to gather all that wonderful food, take it to the farm, and have a big party among real friends.", "moral1": "Where there is hope, there is life. It fills us with fresh courage and makes us strong again. ", "moral2": "True friends always tell us the truth, even if it's something we won't enjoy hearing. Those who give us false praise are not worthy of our trust. ", "moral3": "When we give in to anger, we end up doing damage to the things or people closest to us who we should really take care of. ", "moral4": "Fury or force cuts no ice where gentleness does the job. ", "moral5": "True friend is the one who always supports and stands by you in any situation.", "laebl": 2}
{"id": 162, "story": "Once upon a time there was a terribly untidy prince who always ignored his parents when they asked him to clear up his mess. The neighbouring kingdom's princess - who he was secretly in love with - organised a lavish ball, and invited all the princes from nearby lands. The untidy prince was excited, and prepared himself with great care. However, on the day of the ball, his room was so messy that he couldn't find his invitation. He searched desperately, but it was nowhere to be seen. So he decided to tidy up his whole room. Fortunately he found his invitation on the table. However, when he finally arrived at the ball, he was late and everyone had left. The prince was distraught, and had most definitely learnt his lesson. But not everything was bad luck. The princess had not found a boyfriend at the dance, and a while later she threw another party. This time, because he had everything well organised, the prince didn't lose his invitation. He got to the ball on time, and met the princess, who fell head over heels in love with him.", "moral1": "Look before you leap. ", "moral2": "We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified. ", "moral3": "When power had no conscience and greed has no limit and killing has no end. ", "moral4": "Tidiness is a helpful virtue to achieve things that must be used on a daily basis. ", "moral5": "It is always better to mind our own business.", "laebl": 4}
{"id": 163, "story": "That year, in the local school, there was a new math teacher, as well as some new pupils. One of the new kids was the stupidest child anyone had ever seen. It made no difference how quickly or how slowly they tried explaining numbers to him; he would always end up saying something enormously dumb. Like two plus two was five, seven times three was twenty-seven, or a triangle had thirty corners…before this boy arrived, maths lessons had been the most boring of all. Now they were great fun. Encouraged by the new teacher, the children would listen to the pieces of nonsense spouted by the new kid, and they would have to correct his mistakes. They all wanted to be the first to find his mistakes, and then think up the most original ways to explain them. To do this they used all kinds of stuff: sweets, playing cards, oranges, paper planes…it didn't seem like any of this bothered the new kid. However, little lewis was sure that it was bound to make him feel sad inside. So, one day, he decided to follow the new kid home after school; lewis was sure he would see him crying. On leaving school, the new kid walked a few minutes to a local park, and there he waited for a while, until someone came along to meet him…it was the new teacher! The teacher gave the new kid a hug, and off they went, hand in hand. Following from a distance, lewis could hear they were talking about math. And that stupid new kid knew everything about it, much more than anyone in the class!", "moral1": "We should focus our energy on positive and with in not time we would be able to do things we couldn't think of doing before. ", "moral2": "The advice of wise people should be taken seriously. ", "moral3": "It is unwise to trust cunning people who surround powerful or wealthy ones, for their own benefit. ", "moral4": "If you adopt a creative and fun strategy, you can make learning even the most boring subject enjoyable. ", "moral5": "Freedom is the most valuable gift. Without it, nothing we do has meaning.", "laebl": 4}
{"id": 164, "story": "The block appeared in the middle of the forest one morning. It was a huge block of ice, as tall as a tree, as big as a hundred elephants. What's more, it was so cold that no one dared to go near. But what intrigued the animals most was the wonderful treasure they could see inside it. The treasure looked so splendid that the lion king himself said that whoever could get it out would be made his successor as king. As soon as he said this, all the animals lost their dislike of the cold and leapt at the block, furiously trying to secure the treasure. Well, everyone except for the weasel, who stood for a while looking at the block, watching the other animals creating a huge commotion, piled on top of each other. The elephant was using his trunk as a hammer, and ended up whacking the gorilla. The two later had to go to hospital. The tiger was using his claws like a hammer drill, but they got stuck in the ice, and when he finally managed to pull his paw out the claws broke off. Several gazelles, realising the block was made of cold water, tried to lick the block away. But the extreme cold of the water gave them an upset stomach. The monkeys were determined to destroy the block, and they threw bananas and stones at the rate of machine guns. But they hit so many of the other animals that they had to stop. And so it went on, all the animals trying to break the block using brute force, the whole day long, and without success. At the pace they were going, and seeing how slow the progress was, they realised that it would take them over a week. However, just then someone said:    -\"Look! something's moving inside the block!\" And it was true. It was hard to make out, but something was scampering about in the middle of the block, right next to the treasure…was the treasure alive? Did the treasure have an owner living with it? Nothing like it! It was the weasel, who soon appeared in their midst with some pieces of the treasure. They were all impressed to see how the weasel had gotten to the treasure without breaking the block apart. After congratulating her, they asked her how she'd done it. The weasel told them that before leaping at the problem she had taken some time to think and observe. She concluded that the block was too big to break it up with force, and it would take too long for the sun to melt it. Then it occurred to her that she could get to the middle of the block from underneath, by digging a tunnel. At the end of her tunnel she built a small fire, which quickly melted a hole in the ice above. So, with little effort the weasel got to the treasure! And so it was, that the weasel became the queen of the forest. And she did it by showing everyone that one can achieve more by thinking about problems rather than by immediately jumping into action.", "moral1": "Always keep your eyes open and stay alert before walking in any situation. ", "moral2": "Another definition of a hero is someone who is concerned about other people's well-being and will go out of his or her way to help them - even if there is no chance of a reward. That person who helps others simply because it should or must be done and because it is the right thing to do, is indeed without a doubt, a real superhero. ", "moral3": "Instead of jumping into senseless action, we should stand back and apply thought to the best course to take. ", "moral4": "The man who speaks for both sides is not to be trusted by either. ", "moral5": "Laziness ends up having a bad effect on many aspects of life. It can only be combated with forward-planning and hard work.", "laebl": 3}
{"id": 165, "story": "You know, they reckon ken the wizard and clive the magician had one of the best flea collections in world history. Those fleas were the cleverest, liveliest, strongest fleas of their era, and most useful for all sorts of spells. Ken and clive never went anywhere without at least a thousand fleas on them, always kept safely in one of their bizarre glass bags, so that everyone could appreciate the fleas' special qualities. One time, ken and clive happened upon each other in a forest. Chatting and joking, time passed by quickly and they realised that it was so late that they would have to camp out in the forest that night. While they were sleeping, clive the magician sneezed with such magical violence that thousands of white-hot sparks shot out of his nose. Ken and clive had left their precious fleas on some leaves for the night and, unfortunately, one of the sparks landed on a leaf and the whole lot set alight. As the fire started spreading, the two magicians continued sleeping, and their fleas began to look decidedly nervous. They were all terribly clever and strong, so each one of the fleas thought of their own strategy to escape the fire. However, as they were still inside the bags, and they each jumped in all different directions, this meant that the bags stayed exactly where they were. One of the fleas noticed how they were all leaping in different directions, with no coordination. He realised that they would never escape like that. He stopped jumping, and gathered a group of fleas who he convinced to jump all at once. As they couldn't agree where to jump to, the flea suggested that they all jump first forward and then backward. The group started jumping together, and the rest of the fleas in the sack didn't take long to understand that jumping together would make it easier to escape the fire. So, soon all the fleas were jumping forwards, backwards, forwards, backwards… the fleas in the other bag saw this and imitated it. The two glass bags were now rolling backwards and forwards, towards each other, and with one last effort they collided and both bags shattered into a thousand pieces, setting the fleas free. By the time the fire had woken the magicians, it was already too late. Although they managed to put out the fire, their precious fleas had jumped far off into the night. And nothing more was ever heard of those truly exceptional fleas, although some people say that to this day they still work together to help each other survive the dangers of the wild.", "moral1": "This is what we call 'self appraisal'.   every time if we don't get ahead of others, we blame others for it.   we should look to our self and compare, find own weaknesses and work hard to throw away weaknesses.   always work hard, honest and with full dedication.   it will always pay up. ", "moral2": "Clumsy jesting is no joke. ", "moral3": "Envy is the result of not knowing how to appreciate what we already have. ", "moral4": "Do not give up friends for foes. ", "moral5": "Teamwork and coordination allow us to achieve more than we could individually, no matter how capable we are.", "laebl": 5}
{"id": 166, "story": "Once, a group of boys decided to play a proper soccer game. Each one of them would bring something used in professional matches. So one would bring the ball, another the whistle, another the goalposts, others the goalkeeper gloves, the corner flags, etc… but before the game started, while they were picking the teams, there was a slight argument. They decided that the boy who had brought the most important object would get to pick the teams. Well, now they couldn't decide which had been the most important object, so they thought it would be best to just start playing, using all the objects, and gradually get rid of what people had brought, to see which things were truly indispensable. The first thing they got rid of was the whistle, because the referee could just shout instead. Then they tossed the goalkeeper gloves; they managed to save the ball just as well without them. Neither did they really notice when they stopped using the corner flags, nor when they replaced the goalposts with a couple of bins. And so they continued, until finally they replaced the football with an old tin, and managed to keep playing…while they were playing with the tin, a man and his son passed by. Seeing the boys playing like that, the man said to his son:   \"Look, son. learn from those kids over there. without even a ball they're managing to play football, even though they're never going to be able to improve playing that way.\" The boys heard him say this, and realised that because of their excessive pride and egotism, what could have been a great match had turned into a shameful display, which they were hardly enjoying at all. That moment, they decided to put their selfish opinions to one side, and they agreed to start playing the match again, from the start, and with all the proper equipment. And it really was a great game. No one thought about who was playing better or worse. Rather, they just concentrated on having fun and improving their game.", "moral1": "A liar2 will not be believed, even when he speaks the truth. ", "moral2": "When doing things together the important thing is to make sure things turn out for the best, rather than worry about how much each individual has contributed. ", "moral3": "Never underestimate anyone and never become overconfident on your talent and powers. A big blow on the right place on you can bring you down. ", "moral4": "Don't boast that you can do something when you can't. ", "moral5": "Men always remember a woman who caused them concern and uneasiness.", "laebl": 2}
{"id": 167, "story": "Once upon a time there was a boy who was just far too naughty. One day, he was playing with a dinosaur egg, and accidentally dropped it down a ravine. When daddy dinosaur came looking for the egg, the boy told him someone had stolen it from him and had ran far off in a certain direction. The dinosaur went off in search of the thief. Meanwhile, at the bottom of the ravine, the dinosaur egg hatched and the baby dinosaur emerged. It had an awful time being stuck down there on its own, and wouldn't stop crying. Days later, when the father finally found it, the baby dinosaur told his father that all the time he had heard the boy's voice. The dinosaur was furious, and went to ask the boy again what happened. Again the boy lied. As a punishment for this, the dinosaur put the boy in his cave and blocked the entrance with a load of rocks. There the boy stayed for several days, until he had learnt his lesson. After that he ended up being a very truthful boy, and inseparable friends with the baby dinosaur.", "moral1": "Trying to cover up mistakes with lies only worsens the final consequences. ", "moral2": "Borrowed feathers do not make fine birds. ", "moral3": "Gentleness and kind persuasion win where force and bluster fail. ", "moral4": "Use serves to overcome dread4. ", "moral5": "Thus she who had been protected by the bounty of nature, being an unequal match for the two, perished by an unhappy fate.", "laebl": 1}
{"id": 168, "story": "Whenever there was a storm, the animals of the enchanted forest ran, frightened, to hide, fearful of the bolts of lightning and the terrifying thunder. However, one day the storm came on so quickly that almost no one had the time to reach their hideout and, just when they were most frightened, some of the animals saw a tiny little light appear from out of the trees, coming from a spot where a bolt of lightning had just hit. The little light was jumping and joyfully and excitedly crying out. All the animals watching ran over to see who this mad being could be, a being would could be happy in the middle of a storm. And so it was that they met the very first of the spark wizards, which were tiny little beings that shone intensely all over, as if they had somehow managed to swallow a star. Flint, as this spark wizard was known, turned out to be very nice and very charming, and when they asked him how he could be so joyful in the middle of such a ferocious storm, he replied with surprise:   -\"But why wouldn't I be happy when I've just escaped after two thousand years?\"He went on to explain how, thousands of years ago, the dark wizard had captured all the spark wizards and imprisoned them inside some big black clouds where he forced them to work as his slaves. It was almost impossible to escape that prison, but now and again, some of those clouds would collide, and with that impact little tufts of cloud would break off, allowing a spark wizard to escape. Each time one escaped it would leap out with such eagerness that its trail of light would illuminate the whole sky, and produce what we know as a lightning bolt. Not long after such an escape, the dark wizard would realise what had happened and would grumble furiously about it and beat the clouds in frustration. His cries were filled with anger, and this is why rolls of thunder boom so strongly around the skies. Excited at flint's story, those animals were never again frightened at the storms and the thunder. Instead, when the sky began to cover with black clouds, all the animals would gather at the big rock, where they could get the best view of the storm. There they would applaud and cheer each time a little spark wizard managed to escape the clutches of the dark wizard. Even better, each time the dark wizard came out with one of his angry grumbles of protest, the animals would answer him with a chorus of boos and jeers.", "moral1": "We should explain things to children in an honest manner because children deserve respect. We should resist telling them silly stories for our own amusement. ", "moral2": "Refusing to help someone is like refusing work of god. If you see someone in need of help and you can help that person according to your capability as no help is small for person who needs it. ", "moral3": "Better one safe way than a hundred on which you cannot reckon. ", "moral4": "When ever we take action against another person we should ask our self if we are doing right thing. What if same thing to be happen to us would we still feel same?? If we deceive another its like deceiving ourselves because with time dishonesty can become a habit. ", "moral5": "A magical story to help overcome fear of thunder storms.", "laebl": 5}
{"id": 169, "story": "There was once a rich and kindly old man who, reaching the end of his days, decided to leave his possessions to some honest and intelligent young man. Speaking of this decision, he told a good friend that he wanted to choose wisely. The friend advised him,\"The next time you sell something, and are giving the customer their change, make sure you give them too much. the customer who returns the extra money to you, you will know that they are honest\". The rich man thanked his friend for the advice, and thinking it a good idea, and easy to carry out, he decided to try it. What he did not know was this. One of those present during the conversation - a neighbour who pretended to be his friend, but was really very envious of the rich old man - hired the services of a wizard. He paid the wizard to cast a spell on the rich old man's coins. The spell would mean that anyone who saw coins touched by the old man, rather than seeing them as coins, would see them as that which the customer wanted most in the world. With this plan, the envious neighbour believed that no customer would return the old man's change, and, having no one to leave his money to, the old man would leave it all to the neighbour's young nephew. Indeed, everything went according to plan for the greedy neighbour, and not a single customer was able to return the enchanted coins. Some saw in these coins the biggest diamond or precious stone, others saw a work of art, some saw a relic, and some saw a miraculous healing potion. When the old man had almost given up trying to find an honest person, the greedy neighbour sent his nephew to the old man's business, taking great care to instruct the boy to return the old man's money. The nephew was determined to do so, but on receiving the enchanted coins he saw in them all the possessions and honours of his own uncle. Believing that what his uncle had told him was a trick, he left with his useless coins and his greed, to no end, since when his uncle learned of this betrayal, he made his nephew banish forever. The rich old man, sick and depressed, decided to call his servants before he died. He gave them some possessions so that they could live freely when he was no longer with them. Among these servants was a youth, who received some portion of this money by mistake. The youth, raised in the house of the wise and just old man, who he loved like a father, saw, in place of the money, a powerful medicine which would cure the old man, since this was truly what he most wanted in the world. On seeing this, the youth offered the money back to the old man, saying \"Take this, sir, it's for you; it will make you feel better.\"And the return of that simple coin indeed acted like the most miraculous of cures. The old man leapt with joy at having finally found an honest person, and it filled him with joy to find that this honest person had always been in his very own house. And so, the young servant went on to manage, with great justice, generosity and honesty, all the old man's possessions and business concerns. And the old man went on to accompany and advise him like a son for many more years.", "moral1": "The man who speaks for both sides is not to be trusted by either. ", "moral2": "The best way to encourage honesty is to create an environment of honesty and generosity, since he who wants nothing for himself is farthest from falling into greed and envy. ", "moral3": "Be nice and help others. ", "moral4": "You can't be a close friend to everybody. There just isn't enough time to be available for everyone, so it's only possible to have a few true friends. The others will by playmates or acquaintances but they won't be close friends. ", "moral5": "We should respect and care for everyone. We should not neglect or ignore them. Everyone is important.", "laebl": 2}
{"id": 170, "story": "There was once a little bird who was very nice, but very, very lazy. Every day, when it was time to get up, they had to shout at him again and again before he would finally struggle out of bed. And when there was some job he had to do, he would keep putting it off until there was hardly enough time left to do it. People kept telling him \"What a lazy bird you are! you can't just keep leaving everything to the last minute\". \"Bah! there's really no problem\", answered the little bird, \"I just take a bit longer to get around to doing things, that's all\". The birds spent all summer flying and playing, and when autumn came and you could start feeling the cold, they began to prepare for the long journey to a warmer land. But our little bird, lazy as ever, kept putting it off, feeling quite sure that there would be plenty of time to prepare for the journey. That was, until one day when he woke up and all the other birds were gone. Just like every other day, several of his friends had tried to wake him, but - half asleep - he told them he would get up later. He had gone back to sleep and only woke up again much later. That day was the day of the great journey. Everyone knew the rules: you had to be ready to leave; there were thousands of birds, and they weren't going to wait around for anyone. So the little bird, who didn't know how to make the journey alone, realised that because of his laziness, he would have to spend the long cold winter all on his own. At the beginning, he spent a lot of time crying, but he had to admit that it was his own fault. He knew he could do things well when he put his mind to it so, putting his laziness aside, he began to prepare for the winter. First, he spent days looking for the place that was best protected from the cold. He found a place between some rocks, and there he made a new nest, well built with branches, stones and leaves. Then, he worked tirelessly to fill the nest with fruits and berries, enough to last the whole winter. Finally, he dug a little pool in the cave, so he would have enough water. When he saw that his new home was perfectly prepared, he began to train himself on how to get by on very little food and water, so that he would be able to endure the worst snowstorms. And, although many would not have believed it, all these preparations meant that the little bird did survive through the winter. Of course, he suffered greatly, and not a day of that winter went by without him regretting having been such a lazy little bird. When the spring finally arrived, and his old friends returned from their voyage, they were all filled with joy and surprise at seeing that the little bird was still alive. They could hardly believe that such a lazy bird had managed to build such a wonderful nest. And when they realised that not even a bit of laziness remained in his little body, and that he had turned into the most hard-working bird of the flock, everyone agreed that he should be put in charge of organising the great journey next year. When that time came, everything was so well done and so well prepared that they even had time left to invent an early morning wake-up song, so that from that day on no little bird, however lazy, would have to spend the winter alone again.", "moral1": "You have to be careful about getting addicted to computers. They can divorce us from everyday life and the natural world. ", "moral2": "We should always try to improve, not giving in to the kind of fear shown in people who have never attempted what they want to do in life. Specially designed for those thinking of starting something new. ", "moral3": "Laziness ends up having a bad effect on many aspects of life. It can only be combated with forward-planning and hard work. ", "moral4": "We shouldn't value people by their appearance, but rather for their true personality. ", "moral5": "Always be good with others and share good with others. When we share our goodness with others it makes world a better place to live in.", "laebl": 3}
{"id": 171, "story": "Claudio was really happy with the way the work had been allocated. Of everything that needed preparing for the birth of jesus, he had been given 'the speaker'. But it wasn't just any speaker: it was the speaker through which the voices of the angels and god himself would be heard on earth from heaven. Claudio was just an ordinary angel but had been very lucky because the bulk of the important tasks had been given to the most impressive and brilliant archangels and to other more senior angels. As everyone already knew, he was more than just a charming angel: he was also a whiz with technology, which is why they thought he would be ideal to create such a complicated device. Claudio had a thousand ideas for the design in his head and he set to work immediately. He hadn't been working long before raphael, one of his favourite archangels, came along. \"Can you please give us a hand with the palace, claudio? we need a door that opens automatically for mary and joseph.\" \"Of course!\" - he said, willingly as ever - \"This can wait.\" It took claudio several days to finish the complicated door, and even more to complete the other jobs that raphael kept asking him to do. But it was all worth it: they built a palace worthy of the greatest king on earth. It was so good that, when no one was looking, the angels came out of heaven to admire it. Claudio was walking back so he could work on his speaker when michael the archangel spotted him from afar. \"Claudio, could you please help us with the finishing touches in wardrobe? when the choir sings we want the clothes of those listening to shine with gold, precious stones and colourful lights and the clothes of mary, joseph and the son of god to sway with the rhythm of the music.\"\"What a fantastic idea, miguel! that will be amazing. I'll be there right away.\"Even though it took several days to finish the costumes, they could not have created anything more beautiful. Angels came from every corner of the universe to marvel at their beauty and congratulate michael warmly. Gabriel also asked claudio to help him with the lights and sound effects for the heavenly choir. Then the cherubs arrived asking for lots of help, as did large numbers of senior angels with jobs so important that claudio had no choice but to assist them. Everything was perfect. The angels were happy and congratulated one another proudly. That same night, the eve of the birth of the baby jesus, they celebrated with a big party. But claudio couldn't go. After so much work, he remembered that he had his own job to do - the speaker- which he had still not started! Alone and in a hurry, claudio worked on his speaker and could hear the background music from the party. He had tears in his eyes as he worked, knowing he wouldn't finish on time. Suddenly god himself appeared by his side. \"Hello my dear claudio. what are you doing here and not at the party?\" The little angel felt ashamed and, holding back the tears, showed him the partly finished speaker. \"I see. I know that you were busy helping others. but is no one coming to help you?\"\"Well, they are celebrating at the big party and they deserve it\", answered claudio. \"They have worked very hard and everything has turned out brilliantly. also, they couldn't help me even if they wanted to: this speaker is very complicated.\"\"Hmmm\" Was the only thing god said as he turned around. He didn't seem very happy. Claudio was terrified. He knew that the only way he would get there in time was if god decided to help him, but he was too embarrassed to ask. As if he had read his mind, god turned to claudio and said: \"Well, do the best you can, but make sure it is really loud.\"Claudio didn't have time. He had just finished putting the pieces together in time and he managed to reach his place by the skin of his teeth, just as gabriel was giving the signal to begin. The choir cleared their voices and for a second everyone was looking at claudio. He closed his eyes, said a prayer and put the speaker on full volume. Boooooom! !! A huge explosion shook heaven as it opened up to send the angels' hymn to earth. The explosion was so great that it was like an earthquake or a hurricane on earth, destroying all the preparations. The palace collapsed completely except for the remains of a few walls. The place felt cold, uncomfortable, dirty and untidy. Even the beautiful clothes of all who were there to witness the birth flew across the air, now nothing more than rags. In a matter of seconds, all that remained intact were the voices of the heavenly choir and a bright flash from the huge speaker which was slowly burning. No one in heaven dared say anything. Claudio was very embarrassed. Everyone was looking at him in pity and disappointment but they too were embarrassed for having left him all alone. Just then jesus was born but instead of the cries of a baby, which was what everyone was expecting, happy laughter filled heaven and earth. It was contagious laughter, letting them know that, although things had turned out poorly, god was happy with the preparations done largely by claudio, who had forgotten about his own problems to help everyone else. And as if they had expected something like this would happen, the three archangels whispered to themselves: \"This is truly god's way: everything has turned out perfect\".", "moral1": "Generosity and humility are part of the true meaning of christmas. ", "moral2": "In a change of government the poor change nothing  beyond the name of their master. ", "moral3": "As such no activity of life should be seen as a distraction for living a spiritual life. Every activity of life can be done with mindfulness or with a detached attitude but this is true for highly evolved soul. For most people who are still on the path, they should not let distractions them divert from spiritual path and focus intensely in our spiritual practice so that they become more centered inside. ", "moral4": "This is what we call 'self appraisal'.   every time if we don't get ahead of others, we blame others for it.   we should look to our self and compare, find own weaknesses and work hard to throw away weaknesses.   always work hard, honest and with full dedication.   it will always pay up. ", "moral5": "It's always good to have a second language.", "laebl": 1}
{"id": 172, "story": "Once upon a time there was a painter who, on one of his journeys, got so lost that he ended up approaching a dragon's lair. As soon as the dragon clapped eyes on the painter he roared ferociously at him for disturbing him in his cave. -\"No one who dares enter this place leaves alive!\"The painter excused himself and tried to explain that he was lost. He assured the dragon that he would leave without bothering him any more, but the dragon was still determined to flatten him. -\"Listen, dragon. you have no reason to kill me, I can even be of help to you.\" -\"What nonsense you speak, dwarf ! how could you possibly help me? you, who are so weak and tiny! do you know how to do anything at all? I'm a bit surprised you even know how to breathe! ha ha haaa!\" -\"Well, I'm a great painter. I can see that your scales have faded a bit, and, certainly, with just a lick of paint I could help you to be much scarier and combine that with a much more modern look…\"The dragon thought for a while, and soon decided to spare the painter's life on the condition that he would become his slave and paint and decorate him to his taste. The painter did as was requested, giving the dragon an incredible appearance. The dragon liked it so much that he often asked the painter to make some new changes and retouch his work. Over time, the dragon began to treat him better, almost like a friend. However, as much as the painter asked him, the dragon wasn't prepared to let him go free, and he took the painter everywhere with him. During one of these journeys the painter and the dragon arrived at a great mountain. They were making their way around it when they realised the mountain was moving… and it began to roar with such a noise that left the dragon half dead with fear. In reality, that mountain was a giant titan who felt so angry and offended at the dragon's presence that he assured the dragon he wouldn't rest until he had flattened him. The dragon, frightened by the titan's size, apologised and tried to explain that he had arrived there by mistake. But the titan was determined to destroy the dragon. -\"But listen, great titan, I'm a dragon and I can be very useful to you,\" Said the dragon. -\"You? little dwarf dragon? help me? you know how to do anything of use? ha ha haaaa!\" -\"I'm a dragon, and I shoot fire from my mouth. I could roast your food and heat your bed before bedtime…\"The titan, just as the dragon had done, accepted the proposal, and made the dragon his slave, treating him as though he was a match or a lighter. One night, when the titan was asleep, the dragon looked sadly and shamefully at the painter. -\"Now that it's happened to me, I've realised what I did to you… forgive me, I shouldn't have abused my strength and my size.\" And breaking the painter's chains, the dragon added:   -\"Run! escape! the titan is asleep and you are so small he can't even see you.\"The painter felt happy at having been set free, but seeing the dragon, for whom he had felt much affection, and who had understood the injustice of his actions, he stayed close by, trying to think of a plan to liberate the dragon. The next morning, when the titan awoke, he found the dragon lying at his side, dead, with his head cut off. The titan roared and roared and roared, furiously, thinking that this had been the work of his cousin, the most evil titan he knew of. The titan quickly moved off to find him so he could break his head into a thousand pieces. When the titan had gone, the painter woke the dragon who was still sleeping quietly in the same spot. On waking, the dragon found the other dragon with its head cut off, which turned out to be nothing but some rocks that the little artist had painted to look like a dead dragon. And, looking at himself, the dragon could see that he was hardly visible, as while he was sleeping the painter had made his scales look like a green meadow. Both fled as fast as they could, and the dragon, grateful for having been saved, promised his friend, the painter, that never again would he use his strength and size to abuse anyone. Instead, he would always use them to help those who most needed it.", "moral1": "No matter what we do, we always have a part of ourselves that is quietly watching and that knows right from wrong and can guide us if we listen. ", "moral2": "No matter how big or strong someone is, there's always someone bigger who can do just as they do. ", "moral3": "This shows how life works, while one worry about hell and heaven based on our deeds, we should concentrate more on how we are living and behaving.  do good, good will come. Do wrong, wrong will come. ", "moral4": "We should respect and care for everyone. We should not neglect or ignore them. Everyone is important. ", "moral5": "They who act without sufficient thought, will often fall into unsuspected danger.", "laebl": 2}
{"id": 173, "story": "Martin was now so old that for his birthday that year his father gave him a book without any pictures in it! Martin's father noticed his disappointment, and told him, \"Son, this isn't just any old book, it's a magic book. but to discover its magic you'll have to read it.\"Well, that was better; martin liked everything to do with magic. He started reading it, even though he wasn't overly enthusiastic. The next morning, his father asked him,\"Have you found the magic key?\"So… there was a key to find! Martin ran off and flicked through the book, but there was no sign of the key. He came back, very annoyed, but his father warned him, \"You won't find it like that. you have to read the book.\" Martin didn't have much patience, and he stopped reading the book, thinking his father was trying to trick him into reading a bit more, just as martin's teacher had suggested to his dad. A little later, his sister, angela, who was just a bit younger than him, asked him for the book so she could try reading it. After several days of trying to read it without great success, she appeared in the lounge, happily screaming,\"I've found it! I've found the key of the magic book!\" And she would not stop talking about all the worlds and places she had visited using that magic key. All the talk ended up convincing martin to resume reading the book. At first it was a pain; there wasn't even one miserable picture in the thing. But, gradually, the story started springing to life, and martin got interested in the adventurous prince's life. Then, suddenly, he was there. The book itself was the key! It was true that whenever he opened it, he felt transported to its valleys and seas, and he lived the adventures of its pirates, princes, and wizards, as though they were himself. And his head and his dreams filled with adventures whenever they got a chance. However, the best thing about that story was that from then on, in every new book, he saw a new key to a thousand worlds and adventures. Martin never stopped travelling and travelling on those letters and words.", "moral1": "When we meet real tragedy in life, we can react in two ways - either by losing hope and falling into self-destructive habits or by using the challenge to find our inner strength. ", "moral2": "Men often applaud an imitation and hiss the real thing. ", "moral3": "Never let words of discouragement pull you down. Don't let others tell you: you cannot roll in the hay. Always believe yourself. ", "moral4": "A story to help children discover the joys of reading, and the torrent of experience and imagination it releases. ", "moral5": "Instead of jumping into senseless action, we should stand back and apply thought to the best course to take.", "laebl": 4}
{"id": 174, "story": "There was once a boy who had two naughty little toy men. One day, one of the little men saw a lovely box of matches in the kitchen, and took them - despite knowing that it wasn't a toy and could be dangerous. The two toy men took advantage of the boy's absent-mindedness, and quickly took a match and hid it in the car in which the boy usually put the men in to play. Later, the boy went to the playground with his car, but when he was there the end of the match stuck out of the car window and scraped against a stone. The match ignited and the car began to burn. Fortunately, the boy's mother was nearby and she managed to quickly put the fire out. However, they couldn't save the part of the car in which the two little men were sitting. They were burnt and partly melted onto the car seat. Now they could never leave that car again. The boy got a real fright, and understood why his mother never let him play with matches and other dangerous things. And there they remained, trapped forever, those two little toy men. And now, whenever they see the boy about to do something dangerous they try to get his attention, to warn him of what happens when we play with fire.", "moral1": "We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified. ", "moral2": "Do not attempt the impossible. ", "moral3": "It's dangerous to play with matches and other similarly hazardous objects. ", "moral4": "It is best to do today's work today. Don't wait till later. ", "moral5": "Never ever say you are the best.", "laebl": 3}
{"id": 175, "story": "Once there was a puppy and a kitten who lived together in their owners' house. They would often go out into the garden to look for snails. When they found some, the puppy and kitten would play with them as though they were balls. One day, they decided to put on a big tennis tournament, so they called all their friends around, and formed teams. However, just when they were about to start, the snails refused to be treated like tennis balls. So everyone went running, looking for some tennis balls for their tournament. One animal brought a stone, but they could see that it didn't roll. Another brought an orange; the orange rolled but it didn't bounce. Someone else brought a frog. There was no doubt that the frog bounced, but unfortunately it didn't roll. Another animal came with a football, but that was too big. Then someone found a smaller ball, but it was black, and no one could see it very well. Finally, they found a small tennis ball. It was round, bouncy, green, and easy to see; and so began the tournament. I can't tell you who won, because after so much time spent searching, the animals had tired themselves out, and everyone who started playing was soon lying asleep on the court!", "moral1": "Teaching very young children about different sizes and shapes. ", "moral2": "We should respect and care for everyone. We should not neglect or ignore them. Everyone is important. ", "moral3": "He that has many friends, has no friends. ", "moral4": "Those who achieve notoriety often mistake it for fame. ", "moral5": "Pride goes before fall.", "laebl": 1}
{"id": 176, "story": "The mokoko tribe lived on the wrong side of the island of two faces. The two sides, separated by a great cliff, were like night and day. The good side was watered by rivers and was filled with trees, flowers, birds and easy and abundant food, while on the wrong side there was hardly any water or plants, and wild beasts crowded together. The mokoko had the misfortune of having always lived there, with no way to cross to the other side. Their life was hard and difficult: they hardly had food and drink for everyone and they lived in permanent terror of the beasts, who would regularly come and eat some tribe member. Legend told that some of their ancestors had been able to cross with just the help of a small pole, but for many years not a single tree had grown that would be strong enough to make such a pole, so few mokoko believed this was possible, and they had become accustomed and resigned to their difficult, resigned life, suffering hunger and dreaming of not ending up as some peckish beast's dinner. But nature had it that, precisely along the edge of the cliff separating the two sides of the island, a skinny but strong tree grew, with which they could build two poles. The feeling of anticipation was enormous and there was no doubt among the tribe as to whom they would choose to use the poles: the great chief and the witch doctor. But when the two of them were given their opportunity to make the jump, they felt so afraid that they didn't dared to: they thought that the pole could break, or it would not be long enough, or that something would go wrong during the jump … and they put so much energy into these thoughts that the resulting fear caused them to give in. And when they saw that this could lead them to being teased and taunted, they decided to invent some old stories and legends about failed jumps to the other side. And they told so many of these tales and they spread so much that there was no mokoko who did not know how reckless and foolish you would have to be to even attempt the jump. And there lay the poles, available to anyone wanting to use them, but abandoned by all, because taking up one of these poles had become, by dint of repetition, the most unbecoming thing a mokoko could do. It was a betrayal of the values of suffering and resistance which so  distinguished the tribe. But into that tribe were born naru and ariki, a pair of young hearts truly wanting a different life and, encouraged by the strength of their love, one day decided to take up the poles. Nobody stopped them, but everyone did try to discourage them, trying to convincing them of the dangers of jumping, using a thousand explanations. -\"And what if what they say is true?\" Wondered the young naru. -\"Don't' worry. why do the talk so much about a leap they've never done? I too am a bit scared, but it doesn't look so difficult,\" Replied ariki, ever determined. -\"But if it goes wrong, it would be a terrible end,\" Continued naru, undecided. -\"Perhaps the jump will go badly, and perhaps not. but staying forever on this side of the island surely won't work out well either. do you know of anyone whose death did not come from being either eaten by the wild beasts or from famine? that too is a terrible end, although it still seems far away to us.\" -\"You're right, ariki. and if we wait much longer we won't have the strength to make the leap … let's do it tomorrow.\"And on the next day, naru and ariki jumped to the good side of the island. When taking up the poles, taking their run up, while feeling their desire, the fear hardly allowed them to breathe. And while flying through the air, helpless and without support, they felt that something surely must have gone wrong and certain death awaited them. But when they landed on the other side of the island and happily hugged each other, they thought the jump really hadn't been so bad after all. And as they ran away to discover their new life, behind them they could hear, like a whispering choir:   -\"It was just luck.\" -\"Well… maybe tomorrow.\" -\"What a terrible jump! had it not been for the pole …\"And naru and ariki understood why so few people took the leap: because on the bad side of the island you only ever heard the resigned voices of people without dreams, people filled with fear and despair, people who would never jump …", "moral1": "We should always try to improve, not giving in to the kind of fear shown in people who have never attempted what they want to do in life. Specially designed for those thinking of starting something new. ", "moral2": "We should understand and have respect for other's person life style. We shouldn't we embarrassed of our elder's ways to do work. ", "moral3": "If we seek for something and don't get it, we should not lose hope.. We don't know what destiny had in store for us.. Never lose hope and keep trying. ", "moral4": "The wise do not let themselves be tricked a second time. ", "moral5": "Teamwork can defeat the opponent.", "laebl": 1}
{"id": 177, "story": "The first time luca heard talk of the island of inventions, he was still very young, but the wonders he heard about sounded so incredible to him that they were forever engraved in his memory. Ever since he was a little boy, he never stopped searching for clues to investigate. Clues which might lead him to that place of wonder. He read hundreds of adventure books, histories, volumes of physics and chemistry; even music. Taking a little from here, a little from there, he arrived at quite a clear idea of what the island of inventions was really like. It was a secret place, where all the great wise men of the world would meet to learn and invent together. Access to the island was totally restricted. To be able to join that select club, you had to have created some great invention for humanity. Only then could you receive the unique and special invitation - which came with instructions on how to get to the island. To be in with a chance, luca spent the years of his youth studying and inventing. Every new idea he got, he made it into an invention, and if there were ever anything he didn't understand, he would seek out someone who could help him. Soon he met other young people, brilliant inventors too, and he told them of the secrets and marvels of the island of inventions. These fellow young inventors would likewise dream of being sent 'the letter', which is how the invitation was referred to. As time passed, the disappointment of not being sent the letter gave rise to even greater collaboration and mutual help between the young inventors. Their interesting individual inventions were put together, creating some incredible contraptions. They met in luca's house, which ended up looking like a huge warehouse for machines and spare parts. Their inventions became known throughout the world, and managed to improve every aspect of life. But even after all that, no invitation came. They did not lose heart. They continued learning and inventing every day, trying to come up with more and better ideas. Fresh young talent was added to their group, as more and more inventors dreamed of getting to the island. One day, a long time later, luca, already very old, was speaking with a brilliant young man who had written to him to try to join the group. Luca told the young man the great secret of the island of inventions, and of how he was sure that some day they would receive an invitation. Surprised, the young inventor interrupted luca:\"What? you mean this isn't really the island of inventions? isn't the letter you sent me the real invitation?\"And, as old as he was, luca looked around him, and realised that his dream had become true in his very own house. He realised that no island could exist which would be better than where he was now. No place of invention would be better than what he and his friends had created. Luca felt happy to know that he had always been on the island, and that his life of invention and study had been a truly happy one.", "moral1": "Self-help is the best help. ", "moral2": "We must give ourselves great goals in life, because with effort and perseverance we can achieve even more than we had hoped to. ", "moral3": "Slow and steady wins the race. ", "moral4": "In union there is strength and in division we fall. ", "moral5": "With your dedication and determination to learn something you can do anything you want.. ! !", "laebl": 2}
{"id": 178, "story": "There was once an elephant who wanted to be a photographer. How his friends would laugh when they heard him talk about it! - \"How silly,\" Said some, \"There aren't any cameras for elephants!\" - \"What a waste of time,\" Others would say, \"There's nothing to photograph here anyway…\"But the elephant kept following his dream, and, piece by piece, he managed to cobble together some old bits of junk and some spare parts, and ended up with a camera of sorts. With this camera, the elephant had to design practically everything himself, from a button he pressed with the end of his trunk, to a lens made to fit an elephant's eye, to a load of wrought iron used to make a frame so the elephant could attach the camera to his head. When it was all finished, he could finally get to taking his first photos. However, the elephant camera was so enormous and strange-looking that it seemed like some huge ridiculous mask. So many people laughed as he went by that the elephant began to think of abandoning his dream… even worse, it was beginning to look like those who had said there was nothing to photograph there had been right…but things worked out differently. The sight of the elephant walking about with the camera on his head was so funny that no one could help but laugh when they saw him. And, using a great deal of good humour, the elephant managed to take some really amusing, incredible pictures of all the animals. In his photos they always looked joyful; even the moody rhino! So the elephant managed to become the official savannah photographer, and animals would come from every direction to have some nice photos taken for their passport to the zoo.", "moral1": "For our life to be of value, I think we must develop basic good human qualities - warmth, kindness, compassion. Then our life becomes meaningful and more peaceful - happier. ", "moral2": "The advice of wise people should be taken seriously. ", "moral3": "In overcoming adversity can lie the seeds of our success. ", "moral4": "No matter what we do, we always have a part of ourselves that is quietly watching and that knows right from wrong and can guide us if we listen. ", "moral5": "Work with honesty and sincerity because laziness will ruin you.", "laebl": 3}
{"id": 179, "story": "There were once - a long, long, very long time ago; so long ago that not even day and night existed, and upon the earth there lived only strange and magic creatures - two little elves who dreamed of jumping so high that they could manage to capture the clouds. One day, the great sky fairy saw them jumping again and again, in what seemed to be some useless but amusing game. They were trying to capture a few light clouds that were passing by at great speed. Their game so amused the sky fairy that she decided to grant each of the elves a wish. -\"What would you most like in life? only one thing though, I can't give you more,\" She asked of the elf who seemed the most restless. The elf, excited at talking to one of the great fairies, and anxious to receive his wish, answered instantly. -\"To jump! I want to be able to jump right over the mountains! above the clouds and the wind, and beyond the sun!\" -\"Are you sure?\" Said the fairy \"You don't want anything else?\"The little elf, impatient, spoke of the years he had spent dreaming of having such an ability, and he assured the fairy that nothing could make him happier. The fairy, convinced, blew onto the elf and the elf instantly jumped so high that within moments he had soared through the clouds. Then he continued on towards the sun and, finally, they lost sight of him as he made his way to the stars. Then the fairy turned to the other elf. -\"And you? what is it that you most want?\"The second elf, who was a bit quieter than the first elf, went into deep thought. He scratched his chin, pulled at his ears, looked up at the sky, looked at the ground, looked again at the sky, rubbed his eyes, put a hand on his ear, looked again at the ground, put on a sad face, and finally answered:   -\"I want to be able to catch anything, above all so I can break my friend's fall. otherwise he'll die when he comes plummeting back to earth.\"At that moment they began hearing a noise, like a far off little cry, and it was coming closer and closer, becoming louder and louder. Then they could clearly make out the horrified face of the first elf, who was fully expecting to soon experience the biggest crash-landing in history. But then the fairy blew on the second elf, and this elf managed to catch his friend and save his life. With his heart almost beating out of his chest, and his eyes filled with tears, the first elf regretted having been so impulsive, and he warmly embraced his good friend who - having thought a while before choosing his wish - had spent it on the first elf. Grateful for his generosity, the first jumping elf offered to swap the wishes, leaving himself with the useless one of catching elves, and giving his friend the ability to jump above the clouds. However, the second elf, who knew how much his friend had wanted his wish, decided they could share it by taking turns. And so, one would jump while the other caught, and then they would swap; and both would be equally happy. The fairy, moved by the elves' friendship and companionship, presented each one with the most beautiful objects decorating the sky: the sun and the moon. From then on, the elf that was given the sun has jumped happily up every morning, his gift giving light to the world. And after a whole day he falls back to earth, caught by his friend. And then the friend himself leaps up, and the night sky is filled with moonlight.", "moral1": "Don't underestimate yourself. There are bigger fools in this world. ", "moral2": "With patience, love and care you can won anyone's heart. ", "moral3": "We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified. ", "moral4": "You can't be a close friend to everybody. There just isn't enough time to be available for everyone, so it's only possible to have a few true friends. The others will by playmates or acquaintances but they won't be close friends. ", "moral5": "You should think about things before acting impulsively, in order to avoid unforeseen and painful consequences.", "laebl": 5}
{"id": 180, "story": "Once upon a time there was a paper doll that had no face. His whole body was perfectly cut out and painted, except for his face. However, he had a pencil in his hand so could choose whatever face he wanted to have. How lucky! He then spent all day asking everyone he met:\"What's a perfect face like?\"\"One with a big beak\" Answered the birds. \"No. not one with a beak\" Said the trees. \"The perfect face is full of leaves\". \"Forget the beak and the leaves\" Interrupted the flowers. \"If you want a perfect face you fill it with colours\". And so everyone he met - animals, rivers or mountains - told him to draw his face with their features and colours. But when the doll drew a beak, leaves, colours, hair, sand and a thousand other things, it turned out that nobody liked that face. And now he couldn't erase it! Thinking about the wasted opportunity to have a perfect face, the doll cried for days. \"I only wanted a face that everyone would like\" He said. \"And now look, what a disaster\". One day, a small cloud heard his cries and came closer to talk to him:\"Hello doll! I think I can help you. as I'm a cloud and don't have a shape, I can make you any face you like. what do you think about me changing faces until there's one that you like? I'm sure we can fix you a little bit\". The doll loved the idea and the cloud made all kinds of faces for him. But none of them was perfect enough. \"Don't worry\" Said the doll as he was about to leave, \"You've been a great friend\". He gave her a great big hug and the cloud smiled from ear to ear, happy at having helped. Just then the doll said:\"That's it! that's the face I want! it's a perfect face!\"\"Which one?\" Asked the puzzled cloud \"But I haven't done anything…\"\"Yes, yes you have! it's that face you make when I hug you… or when I tickle you! look!\"The cloud finally realised that he was talking about her big smile. And together they took the pencil and drew the paper doll an enormous smile, ten times better than beaks, hair, colours and leaves. And that face was indeed the only one that everyone liked because it had the secret ingredient for perfect faces: a big smile that could never be erased.", "moral1": "Avoiding work leads to more work. ", "moral2": "With patience, love and care you can won anyone's heart. ", "moral3": "When we chose to fight, we can see that in no time, that big trouble start resembling a small problem and we can remove it from our life and move forward. ", "moral4": "Everybody likes happy, smiling people. ", "moral5": "Do nothing without a regard to the consequences.", "laebl": 4}
{"id": 181, "story": "The great wizard was a hunter of lies. He invented magic stones to help find the child who told most of them. The magic stones were beautiful, and with every lie they would grow bigger. The stones moved from person to person until they reached the worst of liars. A little boy, who was a terrible liar, started collecting these magic stones, and when he had a great many of them, he decided to leave on a little boat. When the boy and his boat were out at sea, the wizard appeared and started asking him questions about the stones. Because the boy only ever answered with lies, the stones started growing, and under their weight the boat began to sink. The boy was frightened and started crying. He regretted telling so many lies, and he asked the wizard to forgive him. However, the wizard said that he would only save the boy if he would agree to become his apprentice. The boy agreed, and spent many years as the wizard's assistant. Until one day the wizard retired, and the boy, who had been such a terrible liar, ended up being the new great wizard, hunter of lies.", "moral1": "Our own perspective is also very important in judging someone. ", "moral2": "Human generation changes after 25 years but it will take us 200 yrs to understand what's wrong with education system. Today's generation scrap or change older traditions without realizing and understanding deeper value and meaning of those traditions. Change is good but first we should try to understand why we need to make change. ", "moral3": "Be humble. ", "moral4": "In the beginning lies can seem helpful, but as time goes on they will backfire on you. ", "moral5": "You have to be careful about getting addicted to computers. They can divorce us from everyday life and the natural world.", "laebl": 4}
{"id": 182, "story": "Once upon a time, in a small city, there was an empty storybook. The book looked great, with an impressive cover, but all its pages were blank. Children and grown-ups would pick up the book with anticipation, but finding no stories inside, they would cast the book aside. Not far from there, a lovely inkwell had been full of ink for years. His owner had forgotten about it, and left it away in some corner. The inkwell and the storybook cursed their bad luck, and so they spent their days. Fortune had it that one time when the book was thrown away he ended up next to the inkwell. For days and days the two of them swapped stories about their bad luck, and they could have carried on for years, if an elegant swan feather had not floated down and landed next to them. Having fallen from his swan, the feather felt lonely and abandoned for the first time in his life. He cried and cried, and the book and the inkwell joined in, letting out all their sadness at the years of neglect. However, unlike his companions, the feather soon tired of crying, and he resolved to improve the situation. Drying his tears, and leaving his complaints behind, he clearly saw how the three of them, working together, could achieve a lot more than just suffering. He convinced his friends to write a story. The storybook opened up his best pages, the inkwell didn't spill even a drop, and the feather contributed great ingenuity and beautiful writing. Together they managed to write a lovely story about three friends who helped each other to improve their lives. Then a young teacher passed by, head down and looking sad, wondering how he could keep his pupils' attention. He found the storybook, the inkwell and the feather. The teacher read the book, and found the story charming. He picked up the three artists, and continued on his way to school. When lessons began he told the story to his pupils, and they were all attentive and captivated. Every night from then on, feather, inkwell, and storybook got together and wrote a new story for the young teacher. They felt so happy and proud at having managed to improve their fate, thanks to their hard work and collaboration.", "moral1": "Regretting the past won't solve anything. What is required is to change one's situation and seek the necessary help to do so. ", "moral2": "It matters little if those who are inferior to us in merit  should be like us in outside appearances. ", "moral3": "One should not act selfish and know that if you do wrong with someone then other might do wrong with you.. So be careful about how you act with others. . ", "moral4": "The gods help them that help themselves. ", "moral5": "For our life to be of value, I think we must develop basic good human qualities - warmth, kindness, compassion. Then our life becomes meaningful and more peaceful - happier.", "laebl": 1}
{"id": 183, "story": "Once upon a time there was a wise king who worriedly observed the great importance everyone gave to money. This despite the fact that in his country there were no poor people and everyone lived quite well. -\"Why so much insistence on making money?\" He asked his advisors, -\"How does it really help them?\" -\"It seems they use it to buy bits and pieces which bring them a little happiness,\" Answered the advisors, after much investigation. -\"Happiness is what they're pursuing with their money?\" And after thinking for a moment, the king smiled and added, -\"In that case I have the solution: we'll change the currency.\"And so he went to see the kingdom's wizards and inventors to assign them the task of creating a new device: the smileofax. Before long, everyone in the land had been issued a smileofax containing over a hundred smiles, and in return the people had to hand in all their money. -\"Why use money if what we really want is happiness?\" Said the king, solemnly, on the day of the exchange. -\"From this day forward we will carry our happiness with us everywhere, in our pockets, thanks to the smileofax!\"It was a revolutionary decision. Anyone could pull a smile from the smileofax, put it on their face and be joyful for quite a while. However, several days later, the less thrifty types had used up all their smiles, and they knew of no way they could get any more. The problem spread so much that people started complaining and protesting against the king's decision, demanding that they return to the money system. But the king assured them they wouldn't be going back to money, and they should learn how to acquire smiles just as they had previously acquired money. And so work began on the smile economy. First they tried selling things in exchange for smiles, only to discover that the smiles of others were no good to themselves. Then it was thought that exchanging smileofaxes could sort out the problem, but that didn't work either. Many people gave up working and tried all kinds of crazy stuff. Finally, after many vain attempts, and almost by chance, an old farmer discovered how the smile economy would work. That farmer had had a stupendous harvest which he believed would make him rich, but his harvest came in just when the king had gotten rid of money, so the farmer could do nothing with all his exquisite food. He too had tried using it to acquire smiles, but finally, seeing that this wasn't working, he decided to go from street to street sharing the food with his neighbours. Though it cost him dear to give away his whole harvest, the farmer felt wonderful after having done so. Yet he couldn't have dreamed what was waiting for him when he returned home empty-handed. Discarded on the floor, next to the door, he found his forgotten smileofax, and it was completely full of new, fresh smiles! And so it was that the country discovered the true economy of happiness, having understood that it can't be bought with money, but rather with the good works of each person - the only way to fill up a smileofax. And they put this understanding into such good practice that up to this very day they won't hear anything about money, seeing it as nothing but an obstacle to true happiness.", "moral1": "We often accumulate money to acquire things to make us feel better, but sharing time and money with others brings us more happiness. ", "moral2": "For our life to be of value, I think we must develop basic good human qualities - warmth, kindness, compassion. Then our life becomes meaningful and more peaceful - happier. ", "moral3": "You could have devoted these 20 years serving the destitute the poor. You wasted 20 years to save 5 mins, its not wisdom. ", "moral4": "Life is short. Always ask, never assume. ", "moral5": "Generosity starts with yourself. Before demanding from others, we should be the first to give without expecting anything in return.", "laebl": 1}
{"id": 184, "story": "Once there was a magpie who realised that one of his most prized coins was missing. So he called the best detectives in the forest: the hare and the mouse. The mouse was a bit cleverer and more shrewd than the hare; so, following the clues and using his reasoning powers, soon led him to the great labyrinth of tunnels under the forest. On entering, he saw mr. Mole, but the mouse was very shy, so he said nothing to the mole about why he was there, and he carried on looking for the missing coin. The hare was also a great detective, and, before long, he too arrived at the labyrinth. He was not a bit shy, and the first thing he did was go and ask the mole if he knew were the coin was. The mole was all too pleased to lead the hare to the coin. That coin had been bothering the mole for months, getting in the way of his tunnelling. So the hare took the coin and collected his reward. The mouse, who had been watching all this, learned a lot from it. From then on he would never allow shyness to undo all his good work. This approach soon turned him into the best detective in the forest.", "moral1": "Obscurity often brings safety. ", "moral2": "Things can be enjoyed so much more when we treat them with care. ", "moral3": "Excess shyness can render some abilities and virtues ineffective. ", "moral4": "Never judge a person by how he speaks. ", "moral5": "What goes around comes around. If you do good to others, it will come back to you. So, always do good to others.", "laebl": 3}
{"id": 185, "story": "Everyone knows that the history of our planet changed forever some time after the beijing olympic games. The world's coasts and seas filled up with a very dangerous and polluting species of creature, which looked like a squid, but was called a \"Squidge\". The squidges were everywhere, and impossible to catch. But the worst aspect of it was that they were filling up the seas with oil, tins, paper, and all kinds of rubbish. It was a terrible situation; the whole planet was quickly contaminated, and advanced investigation teams and hunting expeditions were set up to try to deal with this new plague. But no one could even get close to catching a squidge. Finally, the first person to manage it was a boy called caesar tiddler. Caesar lived in a small fishing village, and when he held up his squidge at a press conference, he became the most famous boy in the world. That small fishing village was overrun by scientists and government investigators, who came from all over the planet to study the species. Everything was prepared for a post mortem to be done on the squidge, an operation that would be watched on live television around the world. So imagine the amazement when, on cutting the squidge open, a tiny space ship the size of a shoe was found inside, and inside that space ship were some martians. Now, these martians turned out to be quite charming, amusing, and clever little chaps. Before long, they were busy talking to governments, who were all very angry at the way the martians had been messing up the planet. The governments expected some kind of explanation for the martians having behaved in such an uncivilised fashion…   -\"We came from a planet that was going to be destroyed,\" The martians began to explain. -\"We liked the earth so much that we spent many days spying on how you human beings behave. we thought that would help us to blend in if we came here, and it would help us all get along happily together. that's why, after seeing you dump tins, paper, and oil, we invented some expensive machines to do just that. we hid them inside the disguise of a squid, and we tried to live happily there, in peace. are you all happy? can we stay here? finallllyyyyy?\"The martian squidge-men waited for an answer. But no one uttered a word. Everyone, including the billions watching on tv, were red with embarrassment, remembering the last time they had thrown away a piece of paper, or their car had leaked some oil on the road. And all of us who saw it, we still remember how a few unsuspecting little martians made us realise how little we care for our planet.", "moral1": "This also implies that it is said that when we do good to others, when we help others, when we sympathize with others we are doing those to ourselves and we get all those benefits and all those goodness returns back to us. ", "moral2": "Good or bad fortune does not make one a better or worse person, and we all have a responsibility to help the less fortunate. ", "moral3": "Look before you leap. ", "moral4": "To care for the natural world we need to act responsibly in our everyday actions, no matter how small. ", "moral5": "As you sow, so you reap.", "laebl": 4}
{"id": 186, "story": "This is the incredible tale of a very odd boy. He always wanted what wasn't his: his friends' toys, his cousins' clothes, his parents' books…he ended up being so envious that even the hairs on his head were given to jealousy. One day, it just so happened that a hair on the crown of his head woke up completely green. Now, when the other hairs saw this they became so hugely envious that they too ended up turning green. The next day, a hair near his hairline was stained by something blue. Seeing this, again all the other hairs ended up blue. So, day after day, the boy's hair would completely change colour, driven by the boundless envy his hairs felt. Everyone loved the boy's colourful and ever-changing hair; except the boy himself. He always wanted what other people had, so, of course, he wanted to have hair just like the others had. One day, this angered him so much that he furiously pulled at his hair. One rather thin hair couldn't endure all the pulling, and it let go; falling to the floor with quite a nice smooth flight. Of course, the other hairs saw this, felt envious, and they all let go too. Within a minute the boy was as bald as an egg, and the look of surprise on his face seemed like a bad joke. After many tears and tantrums, the boy understood how all this had happened, and how it had all been a natural consequence of his envy. He decided that, from then on, he would try to enjoy what he had, without becoming obsessed by what others had. Trying to put this into practice he started by making the most of his smooth, shiny, hairless head. He turned it into his own private canvas. From that day on, he took to painting beautiful, colourful scenes on his bald head. People enjoyed these so much that the boy finally developed into one of the world's best - and certainly the world's most original - artists.", "moral1": "Building true peace requires those who feel they have the right to attack to take steps towards forgiveness and reconciliation. ", "moral2": "To stay out of trouble, don't make the same mistakes others make. ", "moral3": "Envy is the result of not knowing how to appreciate what we already have. ", "moral4": "There is always a way if you think with ease. ", "moral5": "It matters little if those who are inferior to us in merit  should be like us in outside appearances.", "laebl": 3}
{"id": 187, "story": "Once upon a time, there was an ant who was fed up with being an ant. She didn't enjoy it at all: the rules seemed overly strict, she was tired of having to wait in really long queues, and she hated having to do just exactly what everyone else was doing - following orders. She wanted to be like the ladybirds and the beetles, and live a free and unworried life. The ant tried hard to make her dream a reality, and then finally, one windy day, she grabbed onto a big leaf that came flying past, and up they both went, higher and higher. When she was so high up that she could no longer make out the insects on the ground, she couldn't believe what came into view. Raised up from out of the surrounding foliage was the magnificent anthill, which was visible from afar. There was no sign of any beetle or ladybird nests; nor anything else made by other insects. There was only the anthill. And the ant realised that it had been precisely those rules, the spirit of self-sacrifice, the obedience and effort of all the ants working together which had enabled them to build something so much greater than any other insect could. And finally, she felt very proud to be an ant.", "moral1": "Do not try to take the credit to yourself that is due to others. ", "moral2": "That's why wise saints always say - don't be afraid of god, be afraid of your actions because your action will find you tomorrow if not today. ", "moral3": "Organisation and following rules, allows collaboration to achieve great things. ", "moral4": "If you spend your whole life trying to answer foolish questions, all your answers will be foolish too. ", "moral5": "Honestly is the best policy.", "laebl": 3}
{"id": 188, "story": "Ms. Pussy was a wicked old cat. She never meant well for anybody. In an adjoining farm, mrs. Rooster had laid eggs. One day while mrs. Rooster was out for a stroll, ms. Pussy smashed all the eggs while chasing the small mouse. When mrs. Rooster returned, she cried her heart out and said, \"My babies. what happened to my babies?\" Mr. Rooster felt mrs. Rooster's pain and advised her to travel to her friend bruno, a labrador, for help. When she visited the neighbour's farm, mrs. Rooster found all her three friends there brownie, little mouse, and mr. Bee. Mrs. Rooster told her friends, \"The wicked ms. pussy smashed all my eggs,\" And she or he asked for his or her help. Seeing mrs. Rooster cry, the three friends decided to show ms. Pussy a lesson. Next morning when ms. Pussy was twiddling with her, mr. Bee buzzed and stung mrs. Pussy in her buttock. Mrs. Pussy cried in pain and got really angry. She ran call at the garden where the small mouse lured her into bruno's den. Bruno awaited ms. Pussy to point out up. He then pounced on her and destroyed her soft fur. Ms. Pussy never looked so miserable before. And thereafter, was always careful of where she put her foot.", "moral1": "When power had no conscience and greed has no limit and killing has no end. ", "moral2": "This shows how life works, while one worry about hell and heaven based on our deeds, we should concentrate more on how we are living and behaving.  do good, good will come. Do wrong, wrong will come. ", "moral3": "Nobody see that hard work and patience. Everyone see only success but they don't see that one have to sacrifice life in preparation and to achieve that success. Success seeks experience and struggle. ", "moral4": "Teamwork can defeat the opponent. ", "moral5": "One should not act selfish and know that if you do wrong with someone then other might do wrong with you.. So be careful about how you act with others. .", "laebl": 4}
{"id": 189, "story": "Anita was a bubbly female child who grew up within the himalayan abode of snow, within the eastern region of nepal. Her parents were sheppards. It was that point of the year when the sky was blue, sun smiled upon the village and therefore the stars in the dark never looked brighter before. Anita found a lot of tourists visit her village. Watching people from everywhere the planet visit her village made anita curious. \"What are these people doing here father?\" Asked anita. Anita's father laughed and said, \"Darling, they have all come to climb those mountains.\" Amazed at their courage, anita said, \"Really father? is it possible to climb to the top?\" \"Of course dear,\" Replied her father. Many people do it. \"Someday, I will be able to climb to the highest of these majestic mountains\" Said anita with a resounding streak of hope, a burning dream brewing in her eyes. But life had other plans for her. Anita lost one among her legs when she was thirteen. Clouds of despair overshadowed her happy world. \"L will never be ready to climb those mountains,\" Cried anita. Her father loved her dearly. He couldn't see his little girl in pain. He too was devastated. But he did not loose heart. One day anita's father built her a peg, a wooden leg, which she could wear and walk. \"Never say 'never'. start climbing the mountains,\" Said the determined father. Anita was beside herself with joy. She wore the wooden limb and walked, and fell. Stood up, and tried to run, and fell again. The entire village laughed at the daddy and daughter's foolishness. But nothing pulled them down. Both the father and daughter were determined to win against all odds. They kept practicing. After five years anita made it to the highest of the mountains. And she made her father very proud of her, along with her country.", "moral1": "Never let words of discouragement pull you down. Don't let others tell you: you cannot roll in the hay. Always believe yourself. ", "moral2": "This shows how life works, while one worry about hell and heaven based on our deeds, we should concentrate more on how we are living and behaving.  do good, good will come. Do wrong, wrong will come. ", "moral3": "We can look at every situation as an opportunity to realize and overcome our defects. This is possible only due to the strength of chanting the god's name. ", "moral4": "Wise person learn from anyone and everyone and as soon as he understand his mistake, he corrects them and move forward. ", "moral5": "Everybody likes happy, smiling people.", "laebl": 1}
{"id": 190, "story": "Jim's father  gifted jim a puppy on his tenth birthday. Jim named the puppy as brownie. Soon , jim and brownie beacme fond of each other. One day, jim went to the river and  caught a big fish. Jim got excited and brownie started barking loudly, encouraging jim. Jim leaned down, fighting the mighty fish , he tried to grab it and he hit his head on the side of the canoe. He fell into the water and was unable to swim. Brownie grabbed jim's shirt and swam to the shore. Jim woke up fealing dizzy and confused on the river bank. Brownie was licking his face and jim smiled. Brownie had just saved his life. Then they both headed towards the home. After a long walk, jim saw his father at home , standing by the shoreline. He was wating for jim and brownie to retrun. Jim ran up to his father and told him about the incident. Jim's father thanked brownie for saving his son. He rubbed brownie's head effectionately. They all smiled and went inside the home", "moral1": "Sometimes people say things out of anger but we should not act in impulse and try to think wisely and give time because a moment of anger could result in lifetime of punishment. ", "moral2": "We should live our life doing good because god is always watching us and will always be there for us in our difficult times. ", "moral3": "In serving the wicked, expect no reward, and be thankful if you escape injury for your pains. ", "moral4": "Never judge anyone because you never know how their life is and what they're going through. ", "moral5": "A best companion will always get you out of difficulties.", "laebl": 5}
{"id": 191, "story": "One day bunny was hopping in the park. Suddenly, dozy, the tortoise came to him and said, \"Hey bunny, you are so slow. your great-great-grandfather lost the race against my great-great grandfather.\" Bunny, the rabbit sadly went home. As he reached home his mother asked, \"Why are you sad?\" Bunny replied, \"Today dozy,the tortoise laughed at me.\" Then he asked his mother, \"Mother, why did great-great-great-grandfather lose the race against the tortoise?\" \"Great-great-great-grandfather was very proud. that's why he lost the race,\" Said mother rabbit. \"But I'll race with dozy, the tortoise and defeat him. I'll show him only speed and swiftness win races.\" Mother rabbit tried to stop her son from doing anything foolish but he did not listen. Bunny went straight to dozy, the tortoise whowas sleeping under a tree. \"Dozy, I challenge you to a race tomorrow. we'll start from here and finish the race at the bridge,\" Announced bunny, the rabbit. The next morning, the race began. Smily , the frog was the umpire. But to everyone's great wonder, once again, dozy, the tortoise was the winner! He has put on loller skates!", "moral1": "Use serves to overcome dread4. ", "moral2": "Over confidence never lets you win the race. ", "moral3": "One story is good, till another is told. ", "moral4": "Your job doesn't always define you, but being a good human being does. ", "moral5": "We should understand that this is eternal law of nature - fruits depends on our actions. Therefore we must be careful about out actions in daily life and do only good.", "laebl": 2}
{"id": 192, "story": "One day, a wolf saw a lamb drinking water from the same source down at some distance. The cunning wolf thought of a plan to fool the lamb and eat him. So he shouted down at the lamb, \"How dare you make the water dirty I am drinking?\" \"You must be mistaken, sir,\" Said the poor lamb gently. \"The water flows from you to me and not from me to you. so, I am not making the water dirty for you.\" The wolf began thinking cunningly of some other talk to make an issue. \"Do you remember calling me with all sorts of abusive words, just a year ago?\" Said the wolf to the lamb. The lamb replied,\"But, sir, I was not born a year ago.\" The wolf said in a loud voice, \"Then your father must have abused me long ago.\" The lamb said,\"I apologise on behalf of my father.\" \"You are arguing with me. let me teach you and your family a good lesson\", saying this, the wolf jumped upon the poor lamb and killed him and ate him.", "moral1": "We fight over small things and these become big with time. Instead of making conflicts big we should look for solutions. Sometimes we just need a new outlook and understand what's more important. ", "moral2": "Be humble. ", "moral3": "It is unwise to trust cunning people who surround powerful or wealthy ones, for their own benefit. ", "moral4": "Life is short. Always ask, never assume. ", "moral5": "Any excuse will serve a wicked person.", "laebl": 5}
{"id": 193, "story": "There lived a young dog that was very mischievous. He used to run up quietly and bite everyone without notice. Due to his biting habit, his master suspended a bell around his neck so that it could tell about his presence. Sometimes he also fastened a chain around his neck which was attached to a heavy clog. This enabled him not to be so quick at biting people's heels. The dog thought that the bell and the clog were part of his beauty. So, he grew proud of his bell and clog. One day, an old dog said to him, \"Whyare you so proud of yourself? that belland clog that you carry are on the contrary, marks of disgrace, a public notice to all men to avoid you as an ill- mannered dog.\"", "moral1": "It is not just knowledge or talent which get us respect but it is our virtue, moral and good behavior towards others that get us honor and respect. ", "moral2": "It is easy to propose impossible remedies. ", "moral3": "Do not attempt the impossible. ", "moral4": "Those who achieve notoriety often mistake it for fame. ", "moral5": "Do not take more than you need because it will lead to others not being able to have what they need.", "laebl": 4}
{"id": 194, "story": "Once  there lived a clever fox. One day, he boasted to a dog of his cleverness for escaping his enemies. \"I have a whole bag of tricks,\" He said, \"Which contains a hundred ways of escaping my enemies.\" The dog did not come in his tricks and said, \"I have only one, but I can generally manage with that.\"Suddenly, they heard the roar of the lions. They heard it carefully and seemed that they were coming towards them. The dog immediately scampered up a tree and hid himself in the branches. The dog said, \"This is my plan. what are you  going to do?\" The fox thought first of one way, then of another, and while he was debating the lions came nearer and nearer. At last the fox in his confusion was caught up by the lions and killed.", "moral1": "Better one safe way than a hundred on which you cannot reckon. ", "moral2": "It is very important to like the people you work with, otherwise life and your job is gonna be quite miserable. ", "moral3": "Regretting the past won't solve anything. What is required is to change one's situation and seek the necessary help to do so. ", "moral4": "Freedom is the most valuable gift. Without it, nothing we do has meaning. ", "moral5": "Success means doing something sincerely and wholeheartedly.", "laebl": 1}
{"id": 195, "story": "Once a king built a pool in his palace for his young children to play in. He ordered his men to put some fish into the pond. By mistake, the men also put in a turtle. One day the princess went into the pool to play, she saw the turtle and got afraid. She ran to the king and said, \"There is a demon in the pool,\" Then the king ordered his men to kill the turtle. But they did not know how to kill the turtle. Then an old man said, \"Why don't we throw him into the water from where the water flows out over the rocks into the river. he would be killed that way.\" When the turtle heard this, he said, \"Oh no! please don't do that to me.\" The men did as the old man suggested and hence, the turtle was led out. The turtle was happy as he swam back home.", "moral1": "Cheating is not going to win you anything but no fun. ", "moral2": "One should not be carried away by what others say. Don't be fooled by those who wants to take advantage of you. ", "moral3": "Make new friends but keep the old. The one is sliver, the older gold. ", "moral4": "We should act intelligently. ", "moral5": "To stay out of trouble, don't make the same mistakes others make.", "laebl": 4}
{"id": 196, "story": "There was a farmer who had a horse and a goat. One day, the horse became ill, so the farmer called the vet. The vet said, \"Well, your horse has a virus. he must take this medicine for three days. I'll come back on the fourth day and if he's not better, vve're going to have to put him down.\" The goat went to the horse and said, \"My friend get up or else they're going to put you to sleepl\" On the second and the third day, the horse was given the medicine. One the fourth day, the vet came and examined the horse. Then he said, \"Unfortunately, we're going to have to put him down tomorrow.\" After they left, the goat approached the horse and said, \"Listen pal, it's now or never! come on! get up!\" All of a sudden, the owner saw the horse running in the field and began shouting, \"My horse is cured. we must have a grand party. let's kill the goat\".", "moral1": "Familiarity breeds contempt. ", "moral2": "Any knowledge teacher gives to student has value in life of a student as he goes on with life.   think from kindergarten till highest level of study you have completed, see what you will be left with if there were no teachers in your life.   parents give us life, love and help in going right direction, but teachers show us how to live life, shows us path and makes us self dependable so that we can pick the right path.   always respect your teachers, do not value them any lesser than your parents.   when student succeeds in studies and life, its student who always gets praised by people, not the one who gave student a knowledge to success.    teacher's happiness is in student's success, and student should not forget to at least thank politely to the one who made you capable of following journey of life.   and if you had learned what your teacher taught you with dedication and respect to towards teacher, journey of life always gets comfortable. ", "moral3": "The wise do not let themselves be tricked a second time. ", "moral4": "Pride goes before fall. ", "moral5": "Nobody truly knows which employee actually deserves the merit of success, or who's actually contributing the nesessary support to kae things happen.", "laebl": 5}
{"id": 197, "story": "A gardener used to go to the market every week in the neighbouring town along with his donkey. He was so cruel that he loaded the donkey with a lot of load that only his head could be seen. The road that led home ran through a wood. The gardener saw some branches which he considered would be useful for him. So, he started placing them on the donkey's back. Then they moved further and he kept a rush of canes on the back of the donkey. The gardener kept on keeping things on the animal's back. The sun had risen further in the sky and it became much warmer. The gardener took off his jacket and placed it on top of the load. Within no time, the donkey fell on the ground as it could not carry such heavy load. The gardener thought, \"I should not have kept so much of load on his back.\"", "moral1": "Money you spend on friends is returned or reciprocated in some form. Money spent on charity gets converted into blessings from god which will be your eternal property. Money spent on pleasures is just frittered away. ", "moral2": "Hew not too high lest the chip fall in your eye. ", "moral3": "The advice of wise people should be taken seriously. ", "moral4": "Honesty is rewarded and greediness is punished! ", "moral5": "Look before you leap.", "laebl": 2}
{"id": 198, "story": "Henry, the young peasant-boy, was guarding the herd of cows in the woods. Each cow had a bell around his neck and the most beautiful cow had the best bell. One day a stranger passed through the woods and looked the herd of cows. He went to henry and asked to give him a bell from one of his cow. Henry agreed and took forty bucks in return. Now the cow did not have the bell. The stranger wanted to steal the cow. Then the cow went off into the woods and the stranger took it by the horns and led it away. Just then henry realised that the cow was missing and he could not trace it. So, he went back home crying and narrated the story to his father. His father said: \"In the same way as that thief has deceived you, so the pleasures of sin try to deceive us all. if we give in just a little it wants everything.\" Henry felt ashamed for having greed for money and promised not to do such a mistake ever again.", "moral1": "Make new friends but keep the old. The one is sliver, the older gold. ", "moral2": "No matter who, when or how.. Just continue to help. No matter how small it is because you never know when one is in need of us or when god holds a pleasant surprise for us to be helpful and important to someone. ", "moral3": "This story here tells us that an individual ego in a family would harm each of the members. Quarreling with our own people affects the whole family badly. So, for staying united, we should avoid having a state of two different minds. ", "moral4": "In this world, there is no one person who is useless. It is just that they have not positioned themselves firmly in right place. ", "moral5": "Every time you victimized someone, you were victimizing yourself. Every act of kindness you have done was done to yourself. Every emotions experienced by any human will be experienced by you. .", "laebl": 1}
{"id": 199, "story": "There was once a miser. He melted all his money into a block of gold and buried it in a pit. Every day he would dig it up and smile to see it. One night the gold-block was stolen. So, the miser was in tears. A friend of  his saw him weeping and said, \" You should bury a stone in the pit and look  at it every day. you never spent money when you had it was it better then a  stone anyway?\"", "moral1": "In a pinch a good use of our wits may help us out. ", "moral2": "It is a cause to be a miser. ", "moral3": "When ever we take action against another person we should ask our self if we are doing right thing. What if same thing to be happen to us would we still feel same?? If we deceive another its like deceiving ourselves because with time dishonesty can become a habit. ", "moral4": "Even if opponent or the work is stronger than your ability, it does not mean that you should give up before trying but instead you should think and try to find a solution to the problem sensibly and patiently. ", "moral5": "Everyone of us have our own weakness but if we willing to accept it instead of opposing then we can make advantage out of our own weakness.", "laebl": 2}
{"id": 200, "story": "Once the wind and the sun came to have a quarrel. Either of them claimed to  be a stronger. At last they agreed to have a trial of strength. \"Here comes a traveller. let us see who can strip him of his clock,\" Said  the sun. The wind agreed and chose to have the first turn. He blew in the hardest  possible way. As a result , the traveller wrapped his cloak even more  tightly around him. Then  it was the turn of the sun. At first he shone very gently. So, the traveller  loosened his cloak from his neck. The sun went on shining brighter and brighter. The traveller felt hot. Before long he took off his cloak and put it in his bag. The wind had to  accept his defeat.", "moral1": "It is cowardly to attack the defenseless, though he be an enemy. ", "moral2": "When we meet real tragedy in life, we can react in two ways - either by losing hope and falling into self-destructive habits or by using the challenge to find our inner strength. ", "moral3": "Treat others the way you would like to be treated. ", "moral4": "Excess shyness can render some abilities and virtues ineffective. ", "moral5": "Fury or force cuts no ice where gentleness does the job.", "laebl": 5}
{"id": 201, "story": "Long ago, there lived a little boy named sammy. He was a good boy. He was good in his studies, obedient to his parents, more intelligent than many other boys in his class and kind to everyone. Grown-ups as well as those junior to sammy loved him very much. But that aroused jealousy in many other boys who longed to be as loved as sammy. Now there was another boy named timmy who studied in the same class as sammy. Unlike sammy, he was not good at studies and always liked to play during school hours. He misbehaved with his parents, bullied his classmates and even ill-treated sammy. He always tried to put sammy down and belittled him before other kids in the class. But no matter what he did, sammy's grades kept getting better and better. Whether in studies or in sports or from his classmates, sammy kept getting accolades from everywhere. On his eighth birthday, sammy got a nice pen as a gift from his parents. He brought it to school so that he could use it to take down the notes of the lectures that the teachers gave in class. This was a very beautiful pen and it could help one write very fast. When timmy saw it, he was very jealous of sammy. He asked sammy,\"Hey, where did you get that? did you buy it?\"\"My parents gave it as a birthday gift to me.\" Replied sammy. Timmy was overwhelmed with anger and jealousy. The bad boy that he was, he rarely got any present from his parents. He decided to steal sammy's pen. During recess, when everyone had gone out from the class, timmy opened sammy's bag and took out his pen. Then he hid it inside his bag and went out to have his tiffin. When sammy came back and could not find his pen, he informed his class teacher about it. There was a hunt for the missing pen and the class teacher ordered the class monitor to search the bag of every children inside the class. The missing pen was soon found out of timmy's bag and the furious teacher asked the errant boy,\"Now timmy, what do you have to say about it?\"Timmy was in tears. He had nothing to say. When sammy saw timmy cry, he took pity on the boy. The kind boy that he was, he had no ill-feeling against his classmate. He requested his class teacher not to take any action against timmy, now that his stolen pen was found. This opened timmy's eyes. He could now see what a good boy sammy was. He asked for forgiveness from his teacher and sammy. From that day, he became friends with sammy and gradually changed himself to be as good as sammy. Everyone began to love timmy and sammy was proud of his new friend. Despite being hurt by timmy, sammy gave him back only love in return. This is how we should also treat our enemies. Who knows? One day, our behaviour may just change themselves for the better.", "moral1": "When we meet real tragedy in life, we can react in two ways - either by losing hope and falling into self-destructive habits or by using the challenge to find our inner strength. ", "moral2": "Do not harm someone even if he harms you. Be good to all. ", "moral3": "Give people a second chance. ", "moral4": "Building true peace requires those who feel they have the right to attack to take steps towards forgiveness and reconciliation. ", "moral5": "Better one safe way than a hundred on which you cannot reckon.", "laebl": 2}
{"id": 202, "story": "Teacher blew the whistle and 50 boys and girls started running on racing track made on school grounds. Every kid goal was to reach end of the field and then back to starting point. Whole race to get at least one of the first three place in and get awards. Kids parents were also present there and encouraging them. When kids were running back from end point, parents cheers got louder - faster, faster,race ended, kids who took top three spot were waving there hands happily toward their parents. Kids who couldn't win were upset. When race was over, little girl who came in at number 5 ran towards here parents with sad face. Father went ahead towards her and said, \"Well done baby, let's go and eat ice cream as rewards for winning race. which ice cream would you like to eat?\"\"But papa, I didn't got any place in top three?\" Said girl. Father replied, \"Yes, baby. you got first place..\"\"How is that possible papa? didn't I came in at number 5?\" Said girl. Father asked, \"And how many kids were behind you?\"Girl calculated and replied, \"45\"\"It means you were first ahead of those 45 kids, that's why you will get ice cream.\" Said father. \"And four children who came before me?\", asked troubled girl. Father said, \"This time, you were not in competition with them.\"\"Why?\", asked girl. Father smiled and replied, \"Because they had done more preparations then you. if you practice more then next time you will come first in 48 and then after that you will be first in 50.\"\"Then I will run faster and will get first place in next race.\", girl said with great enthusiasm. Father said, \"Why such hurry? first let you legs get stronger and it's not about getting ahead of others but getting ahead of ourselves.\"Girl said confidently, \"As you say, papa.\"Then filled with a new joy of getting first among 45 children her eyes sparkled. She hugged her father and asked for chocolate ice cream.", "moral1": "Competition is not about comparing ourselves with others but to learn about ourselves. ", "moral2": "Look before you leap. ", "moral3": "Gentleness and kind persuasion win where force and bluster fail. ", "moral4": "When life is at stake, your whole energy become available. You don't live only on superficial level and do your best. ", "moral5": "I would rather be a little nobody, then to be an evil somebody.", "laebl": 1}
{"id": 203, "story": "Once, at the kingdom of kashi ruled by king brahmadatta, royal priest devdutt thought, \"King respect me a lot. all this honor I get, I don't know that it is because of my knowledge or because of my virtue. I should try to know this.\"One day, while returning from king's court, when devdutt was passing by treasury he stopped at treasury and went inside then silently picked up a coin and left. Treasurer was surprised to this. He thought, \"Why would a great person like devdutt would pick up a coin from treasury without saying anything to anyone. if he picked coin from treasury then there must be some reason. may be he was in hurry, that's why didn't said anything. he will tell me later.\"On second day, devdutt did same and didn't said anything to treasurer. Treasurer saw this again but remained patient and kept silent and thought that may be even today devdutt didn't had time to tell him reason. Third day, while passing by treasurer devdutt stopped and went inside and this time he picked up handful of gold coins. Now treasurer couldn't keep silent. He immediately called soldiers and arrested devdutt. Next day, devdutt was presented in front of king. Treasurer told everything to king. Everyone in court was surprised that such great scholar was stealing from king's treasury. King got angry and said to devdutt, \"You have committed a great crime. not only that, you also hurted our faith. you will be punished for this.\"After saying this to devdutt, king called soldiers and told them to cut all fingers of devdutt's hand as punishment for his crime of stealing from treasury. Listening to this devdutt smiled. Seeing him smiling, king asked him, \"Why are you smiling at such time?\"Devdutt said, \"I didn't steal money to become rich. I just wanted to know if you respected me because of my knowledge or my virtue.I tested this and today, I got my answer. my knowledge is same as before but in last few days, only thing that changed was my virtue, when I stole my virtue was broken and because of that I was getting punished.\"King understood whole situation and he freed devdutt with due respect.", "moral1": "Life gives you strange experiences, sometime it shocks you and sometimes it may surprise you. We end up making wrong judgments or mistakes in our anger, desperation and frustration. However, when you get a second chance, correct your mistakes and return the favor. Be kind and generous. Learn to appreciate what you are given. ", "moral2": "In serving the wicked, expect no reward, and be thankful if you escape injury for your pains. ", "moral3": "Always give affection and care to our dear ones. Always respect other's feelings. ", "moral4": "Changing and improving the world is a task that must begin with our own personal change and improvement. ", "moral5": "It is not just knowledge or talent which get us respect but it is our virtue, moral and good behavior towards others that get us honor and respect.", "laebl": 5}
{"id": 204, "story": "Once in a village lived a farmer who used to work in a big field. In middle of his field there was boulder stuck in land which used to get in farmer's way while working. Farmer would work cautiously around that boulder but still there were time he would stumble because of that boulder and fell. Whenever farmer fell, he would think of getting that boulder remove from his field but then got scared of thinking how big that stone was and how deep it might be stuck in land. He thought he couldn't do it alone and it would take lot of time. Thinking all that he would leave that stone as it is. Like everyday, in morning farmer went to his fields to work but again same thing happened, once again farmer's foot got stuck on that boulder and he stumbled and fell over. His plow also broke because of that stone. Farmer got very angry as for years he had to face loss of his tools many time because of that stone. This time he thought that, he would dig out that boulder from that land and throw it out of his fields. He immediately went back to village and came back with 4-5 people holding tools to dig that boulder out. When farmer reached near that boulder he said to people who came with him to help him, \"Friends, you see this stone, it has caused me much harm and today we will remove it from its root and throw it out of my fields.\"Saying this, farmer took shovel and started digging around that stone. He just made 2-3 strike to dig soil around that boulder and whole boulder came out of land. Seeing this people around him laughed and one of them said to him, \"What is this brother? you used to say that there is a very big boulder stuck in your field but this is just a big rock which was just lying here. you could remove it alone.\"Farmer was also surprise to see that for all these years, he thought that a big boulder was stuck there but today he found that it was just a big rock which could be remove easily by himself only. He regretted and wished that he had tired to remove it already then he wouldn't have to face this much all those years. Like farmer, in our life many times when we face small obstacles that looks too big to face, instead of dealing with them, we keep suffering. Therefore, it is important that we chose to fight those troubles without losing time.", "moral1": "When we want to learn spiritually we need to understand that to find ultimate truth we need to have vision of our own to achieve it. ", "moral2": "When we chose to fight, we can see that in no time, that big trouble start resembling a small problem and we can remove it from our life and move forward. ", "moral3": "Never be lazy. ", "moral4": "What memories cling 'round the instruments of our pleasure. ", "moral5": "Money is not everything. Friendship is all about care and affection.", "laebl": 2}
{"id": 205, "story": "In a village lived a poor woodcutter who would go to forest everyday to cut wood and then sell it in market. His income was very low. One day he heard about a monk who came to his village. He decided to go to monk. Next morning, he went to monk and said, \"Maharaj, I am very poor. please give me solution for my problem.\"Monk replied, \"Go forward.\"Woodcutter believed in words of monk and started walking forward. After sometime, he reached a sandalwood forest. Woodcutter became very happy. Now, he started selling sandalwood in market and soon he became rich. One time, in days of happiness, he thought, \"Monk told me to go ahead but here I am only surrounded by sandalwood. I should go further.\"Thinking this, woodcutter went further ahead and he reached a gold mine. Woodcutter became more wealthy after getting gold from mines. After sometime, again woodcutter thought about monk and thought to moving forward. Now, he found diamonds, rubies and pearls. He became very prosperous and happy. But then one day woodcutter started thinking, \"Monk knew so much, he could have been healthy still he doesn't use any of these precious things, why?\"Woodcutter couldn't think of any reason and at last he decided to visit monk again. When he met monk, he said, \"Maharaj, you told me to go forward and told me address to wealth and prosperity. why don't you use all this riches yourself?\"At this, monk gave a simple but extremely accurate answer. He said, \"What you are saying is correct but I am going further, further than diamonds and rubies.going forward there is such a special achievement, compared to which these diamonds and rubies feels equal to mud and clay. I am searching for that special thing.\"Woodcutter got curious and asked, \"What's that?\"Monk smiled and replied, \"The name of that special and priceless thing is god's name.\"", "moral1": "The tyrant can always find an excuse for his tyranny. The unjust will not listen to the reasoning of the innocent. ", "moral2": "This simple but deep meaning statement of monk, now awakened wisdom of woodcutter and he understood that any search of wealth is incomplete without god because one's mind cannot be satisfied until he gain wealth of god name. ", "moral3": "Honesty is the best policy. ", "moral4": "We must give ourselves great goals in life, because with effort and perseverance we can achieve even more than we had hoped to. ", "moral5": "Obscurity often brings safety.", "laebl": 2}
{"id": 206, "story": "Why we got this life? Why do we suffer? One day, a mahatma went to a walk with his disciple. Mahatma liked to speak less and do his work peacefully where as disciple was very agile. While walking, they were passing by a pond and there they saw that a fisherman was laying a trap in pond to catch fishes. Seeing this, disciple went to fisherman and started teaching him - ahimsa paramo dharma. Fisherman ignored him and continued with his work but disciple decided that he had to take him out of path of violence. Soon, a fight ensued between disciple and fisherman. Seeing this mahatma took his disciple aside and said, \"Our work is only to explain, not to punish..\"Disciple replied, \"But our king doesn't punish. then who will punish this violent man?\"Mahatma replied, \"Don't worry. there is power which is everywhere, he will receive his punishment. god sees everything, therefore it is wrong for you to get into fight.\"Disciple was satisfied listening to mahatma answer and left with him. Some years passed after this incident. Again mahatma and his disciple were walking by that same pond. This time, they saw an injured snake lying near pond who was in a lot of trouble. Thousand of ants were scorching and eating it. Disciple saw this and his heart melt with mercy. He leaned forward to save snake from ants, mahatma held his disciple hands and said, \"Son, let it enjoy fruits of its actions.if you save it now then this poor person will have to suffer this pain again in his next birth. because of fruits of his karma he must suffer.\"Disciple asked, \"Mahatma, what deed had it done to suffer such predicament?\"Mahatma said, \"This is same fisherman whom you saw some years back, the one whom you were teaching not to kill fish and he was fighting with you about it.these ants that you see who are eating it by scratching it, are fishes he caught.\"On hearing this, disciple said in astonishment, \"This is very strange justice.\"Mahatma said, \"Son, heaven and hell both are present in this world. every moment you see is sample of god's justice.whether your actions are auspicious or inauspicious, you have to bear consequences. that's why in vedas, god had preached that always remember your deeds and keep thinking about what you do because you will have to bear it consequences.every moment of life is precious. do not waste it by doing bad deeds. always do good deeds, pay attention to your actions because god always do justice.\"After listening to this disciple questioned, \"Mahatma, if someone is in a predicament, then should we not help him?\"Mahatma replied, \"You must do help. I stopped you because I knew what karma he was suffering and also I had to show you a glimpse of justice of god.I didn't help because I knew but if I didn't knew and still didn't help the suffering then it would be my sin.\"Disciple was now beginning to understand mahatma's words in true sense. Life is as the creator had decided for us. We don't know how many days the creator had given, so think of everyday as priceless. Day you are able to make a pleasant change in someone's life, then understand that you have paid off the debt of that day given to you by creator.", "moral1": "Human generation changes after 25 years but it will take us 200 yrs to understand what's wrong with education system. Today's generation scrap or change older traditions without realizing and understanding deeper value and meaning of those traditions. Change is good but first we should try to understand why we need to make change. ", "moral2": "That's why wise saints always say - don't be afraid of god, be afraid of your actions because your action will find you tomorrow if not today. ", "moral3": "This shows how life works, while one worry about hell and heaven based on our deeds, we should concentrate more on how we are living and behaving.  do good, good will come. Do wrong, wrong will come. ", "moral4": "As the professor explained, life is a bag of good and bad things, we all have positives and negatives along the way.  but we must always concentrate greater on the positives for a healthy and happy life.  life goes on no matter what so do not waste your time thinking about the negatives. ", "moral5": "Intelligence is nothing but finding a common ground to solve an issue. Every problem has a solution.", "laebl": 2}
{"id": 207, "story": "This story is from time of mahabharata, when guru drona acharya  was teaching pandavas and kauravas. One day acharya thought of testing his disciples. He called duryodhana  and said, \"Do one thing, go and search for a good man and bring him to me.\"Duryodhana said, \"Ok. I will leave right now and start searching for a good man..\"After some days, duryodhana came back to ashram and said to acharya, \"I searched everywhere, searched far and wide but couldn't find any good man whom I can bring to you.\"Acharya replied, \"Ok. now send yudhishthira to me.\"When yudhishthira  came to acharya, acharya said him, \"Do one thing, go and search for a bad man and bring him to me.\"Yudhisthira agreed and set out to search. After few days, yudhishthira returned to ashram without bringing anyone with him. Acharya asked him, \"Why did you come back alone?\"Yudhishthira replied, \"Acharya, I have not seen so much evil in any man that I could bring to you.\"At this, all other disciples were surprised and asked, \"Acharya, how is this possible that duryodhana couldn't find a good man and yudhishthira couldn't find a bad man!\"Then acharya explained, \"When we look at someone, then we look at them the way we ourselves are. then we judge if that person is good or bad.yudhishthira didn't find anyone bad because he himself is good, that's why he was not able to think of anyone as bad.good or bad is just difference of their respective attitudes. you will see what you want to see in a person.\" Judging others depends on one's thinking.. We do same in our life. We make an opinion about someone beforehand, with out limited thinking and give them title of good or bad. Being good or bad doesn't solely depend on one's nature but it also on our thinking and attitude.", "moral1": "We should focus our energy on positive and with in not time we would be able to do things we couldn't think of doing before. ", "moral2": "Don't respond to what people say in anger. Inner calmness and peace are ways to live contented life. ", "moral3": "Our own perspective is also very important in judging someone. ", "moral4": "Liars are not believed even when they speak the truth. ", "moral5": "This simple but deep meaning statement of monk, now awakened wisdom of woodcutter and he understood that any search of wealth is incomplete without god because one's mind cannot be satisfied until he gain wealth of god name.", "laebl": 3}
{"id": 208, "story": "Once in a forest by a river side lived a mongoose who was very naughty and enjoyed irritating other animals who were already hurt. Whenever any animals got hurt, mongoose would go to them and with great affection give them ointment saying that it would comfort them. Injured animals would thank him but as soon as they applied ointment, their pain would increase and would scream. It was because crook mongoose used to add lemon, salt and pepper to his ointment and when other animals screamed because of pain, he enjoyed it. He did to many animals and one of them was rabbit. Rabbit thought that he would teach mongoose a lesson. One day rabbit took two baskets, one small and one large. He took some coal tar and stick it under larger basket. He took both baskets and went to mongoose and said, \"Let's go to the mountain, there is sweet mango tree. we can collect them and bring back here.\"Mongoose quickly picked up a large basket in greed to get more mangoes. After going to mountain, both started to fill their baskets with sweet mangoes. Because of lots of mangoes, mongoose basket became heavy. Mongoose had to keep his basket on ground, to gather more mangoes. But as soon as he kept basket on ground, because of coal tar under basket, his basket was glued to ground. When mongoose was done collecting mangoes, he tried to lift his basket but he could not get it up. He pushed hard to lift his basket and because of this, his claws got peeled off. Mongoose started feeling hurt, just then rabbit gave an ointment to mongoose and said, \"Apply it on your wound, it will give you relief from pain.\"Mongoose quickly took that ointment and applied it. But as soon as he applied that ointment, his pain increased. Just then mongoose understood the trick of rabbit. Now he understood that how much his bullying had hurt others. Mongoose apologized for causing trouble to others and vowed not to do such thing again with others.", "moral1": "We should try to understand others pain and help them, not make fun of them. ", "moral2": "A story to help children discover the joys of reading, and the torrent of experience and imagination it releases. ", "moral3": "Don't be a bully. ", "moral4": "When life is at stake, your whole energy become available. You don't live only on superficial level and do your best. ", "moral5": "Union gives strength.", "laebl": 1}
{"id": 209, "story": "Once a king called his courts wise men and angrily said to them, \"You all are here and people say that you are greatest wise men in this kingdom but it seems that I have not been able to learn anything from you. \"He questioned, \"What is matter? you all are here and yet I remain same then what are you doing here?\"At that time, a child was also present there who came there with one of the wise man. He laughed at this. King asked, \"Why are you laughing? it is insulting to court! hasn't anyone told you about manners?\"Child replied, \"I am laughing because they are silent and I know why they are silent. I know why you haven't been able to be benefited by them.\"King looked at child's face and he could see innocent yet ancientness in his eyes, as if he carries all the knowledge from all his experiences in past. King said to him, \"Okay, then can you teach me something?\"Child said, \"Yes\"King said, \"Then teach me.\"Child said, \"Ok if you wan to learn from me then you have to follow me and do what I ask you.\"Then he said, \"First, you come down here where I am sitting and I will sit on throne. then again ask me like a disciple, not like a master.\"King understood then that he couldn't learn from those wise men not because they couldn't teach but he was not ready, he was not receptive, not humble enough to learn from them. Then king did as child said. When child sat on throne, he said to king, \"Now, you ask like a disciple, not like an emperor.\"King never asked anything. He just thanked child and saying, \"There is not need to ask. just by sitting in a humble attitude near your feet, I have learned much.\"", "moral1": "It is no good to be a dog in a manger. ", "moral2": "All things require a minimum of order, although that doesn't prevent the order from being applied with imagination. ", "moral3": "Thus do men often perish while meditating the destruction others. ", "moral4": "Humbleness is basic thing. If you are humble then you will learn much even without wise man. You can learn from trees, springs, wind. If you are humble enough then whole existence becomes teacher to you. ", "moral5": "Yield3 to all and you will soon have nothing to yield.", "laebl": 4}
{"id": 210, "story": "Once a successful businessman was getting ready to go to his office. He got out of his house and reached his car. As soon as he opened door of his car, a stray dog who was sleeping under his car suddenly came out and bit on his leg. Businessman got very angry and quickly picked up few rocks from sides and threw them at dog to hit him but dog ran away. After a while, when businessman reached his office, he called a meeting with his managers and during meeting he put the anger of dog on them. Managers also got upset because of this and they put their anger to the employees working under them and this chain kept going till the lower level and finally anger reached to office peon. But there was no one working under peon, so when office time was over, he reached his home late. His wife opened door and asked, \"Why are you late?\"Peon was angry because of anger threw at him by staff, he shouted at her, \"I didn't go to office to play football, I was at work so don't irritate me with your stupid questions\"Now, wife got upset that she got scolded for no reason and she put her anger on his son who was watching tv and got angry at him saying, \"This is all you do, you have no interest in studying. turn off tv now and go to study.\"Kid got upset and walked out of his house. He saw a dog passing by looking at him, he picked up a rock and hit dog in his anger and frustration. Dog getting hit by a rock away barking in pain. Dog getting hit by rock, runs away barking in pain. This was the same dog that bit the businessman early morning.", "moral1": "When life is at stake, your whole energy become available. You don't live only on superficial level and do your best. ", "moral2": "Look before you leap. ", "moral3": "As such no activity of life should be seen as a distraction for living a spiritual life. Every activity of life can be done with mindfulness or with a detached attitude but this is true for highly evolved soul. For most people who are still on the path, they should not let distractions them divert from spiritual path and focus intensely in our spiritual practice so that they become more centered inside. ", "moral4": "This shows how life works, while one worry about hell and heaven based on our deeds, we should concentrate more on how we are living and behaving.  do good, good will come. Do wrong, wrong will come. ", "moral5": "Do not try to take the credit to yourself that is due to others.", "laebl": 4}
{"id": 211, "story": "Germany is a highly industrialized country. In such a country, many will think its people lead a luxurious life. Once a group of men, colleagues from a company arrived at hamburg, germany. When they arrived they were all hungry, so they all looked for a near by restaurant. It was on walking distance. They walked into restaurant and saw that there were lots of empty table. Few seats were filled at restaurant. There was just a couple on one table and on other side there was sitting few old ladies. One of those man noticed that when dishes were served, waiter would serve food for them in their plates and they would finish every bit of food on their plate. They were hungry, they ordered food. After a while their head ordered more food. Soon they were full. When men got up to leave, there was still about one third of unconsumed food left on table. Seeing this, one of those old ladies said to those men in english that it was not good to waste food and they were unhappy about it. At this one of those man said, \"We paid for our food. it's none of your business how much food we leave behind.\"Old ladies got furious and one of them immediately took our her mobile and made a call to someone. Just after a little while, a man in uniform arrived from social security organization. Upon knowing what dispute was about. He issued a 50 euro fine to those men.", "moral1": "Over confidence never lets you win the race. ", "moral2": "If we're forever thinking about the past we can miss the fact that the future can always be better than what went before. ", "moral3": "Order what you can consume, money is yours but resources belong to society. There are many others in world who are facing shortage of resources. Have no reason to waste resource. ", "moral4": "Our parents love us and they never stop caring about us even if we don't care enough about them because they love us unconditionally and we never realize that till we have them. ", "moral5": "We should understand and have respect for other's person life style. We shouldn't we embarrassed of our elder's ways to do work.", "laebl": 3}
{"id": 212, "story": "Pilot and photographer story. .! Young man john was told that a plane would be waiting at airport for him. After arriving at airport, he spotted a plane warming up outside hanger. John went there, jumped in and said, \"Let's go.\"Pilot taxied and took off. Once in air, john said to pilot, \"Fly low over the valley so that I can take pictures of fire on hill.\"Pilot asked, \"Why?\"John replied, \"Because I am photographer for cnn and I need to get some close up shots of that hill.\"Pilot was silent for moment and then stammered, \"So, what you are telling me is, your are not my flying instructor.?\"", "moral1": "This story here tells us that an individual ego in a family would harm each of the members. Quarreling with our own people affects the whole family badly. So, for staying united, we should avoid having a state of two different minds. ", "moral2": "Fruits and vegetables are a key part of a diet and can prevent many health problems. ", "moral3": "We all should learn to be happy with what we have. Yes, we all desire more or better than we already have, but do not waste a chance of enjoying what you already have. There are those who may not have what you have, and there will be some who have lots more than you have. Do not always compare, be happy and lead a healthy life. ", "moral4": "Life is short. Always ask, never assume. ", "moral5": "Tidiness is a helpful virtue to achieve things that must be used on a daily basis.", "laebl": 4}
{"id": 213, "story": "A crow who had recently learned to fly, flying from one place to another, noticed that humans fed chilies to parrots and feed grains to white dove. Crow was hungry and hoping that someone would give him some food as well, he cawed but nobody took note of him. He thought to himself, \"It's better to be a dove than a crow.\"Just then he saw that someone had left a bucket full of white paint out in open. Seeing that he had an idea. He jumped into bucket of paint and before workers came, he flew out. Now, he was as white as dove. Then he flew towards doves and settled next to them. He too pecked at grains given to doves. None of dove noticed him that he was a crow. Crow was so happy that he cawed loudly, \"Caw, caw.\"Immediately doves knew that this bird in white was crow. They started cooing loudly and because of this poor crow had to flew away. \"I never knew doves could be so wild.\", he thought to himself. Little while later, crow saw a flock of crows and thought, \"Ah! friends..\"He flew towards them but crows were startled to see a white bird flying among them and they all flew away, leaving him behind. Crow became sad and to add to his problems, it started raining. Crow rushed to find shelter but then he saw that rain was washing away the paint. He was black once again. Crow was happy to be himself again. Later, he joined another flock of crows cawing loudly, proud of his black color.", "moral1": "Gratitude5 and greed go not together. ", "moral2": "Fury or force cuts no ice where gentleness does the job. ", "moral3": "Men often applaud an imitation and hiss the real thing. ", "moral4": "Never try to copy other as it never lasts long and one can't find happiness that way, therefore, always be true to yourself. ", "moral5": "It's our choice to keep positive attitude towards life. Circumstances are just parts of what makes us joyful. Pursuit of happiness is an inward journey. If we continue to bit our lips and just before we begin to complain we should shoot that seemingly harmless negative thought as it germinates, we will find there is much rejoice about.", "laebl": 4}
{"id": 214, "story": "In a village, lived a man who was a fool. Everybody in village made fun of him. He lived all his life cowering and not even daring to speak. One day, a monk came to village. At night, man went to monk and fell at his feet and said, \"Please give me some blessing. my whole life I have been living cowering and shrinking. everyone in village laugh at me. will I die a blithering idiot? is there no way I cam become a little intelligent?\"Monk said, \"There is way. follow this sutra: condemn everything.\"Man questioned, \"What will happen through condemning?\"Monk said, \"You will see. you do it for seven days and then come again to me.\"Man asked, \"But how should I condemn?\"Monk said, \"Whenever, whatever anyone says.. make a negative statement. for instant if someone say - what a beautiful sun is coming out then you say what's beautiful about it? prove it. where is beauty? it's just a globe of fire.if someone says what a beautiful woman then you say what of it? what beauty? prove it.you demand proof from everyone and remember to always remain negative. let them be in positive, you remain in negative.come to me after seven days.\"After seven days, when man came to monk, he didn't came alone, many had become his disciples. They had hung flower garlands around his neck. Man said to monk,\"That sutra worked. now, whole village is forced to be silent in front of me. not only that, wherever I went people lowered their head and respected me. news spread among people that I am a genius and no on could win against me. now what should I do?\"Monk replied, \"Now, don't do anything. if you want to save your intellect never fall into positive. whatever is said, always make a negative statement. no one will be able to defeat you.because to disprove a negative statement is very difficult. to prove a positive statement is very difficult.\"To affirm god, great intelligence in needed, a total wakefulness of heart is needed and purified state of consciousness is needed. But to deny god, nothing is needed. In denying there is no commitment. That's what people in world condemn.", "moral1": "Psychology of condemnation is cheap psychology, an easy way out. There is not need to go anywhere to learn. That's why everyone is skillful at condemning. ", "moral2": "Competition is not about comparing ourselves with others but to learn about ourselves. ", "moral3": "It is unwise to trust cunning people who surround powerful or wealthy ones, for their own benefit. ", "moral4": "Another definition of a hero is someone who is concerned about other people's well-being and will go out of his or her way to help them - even if there is no chance of a reward. That person who helps others simply because it should or must be done and because it is the right thing to do, is indeed without a doubt, a real superhero. ", "moral5": "Be content with your lot.", "laebl": 1}
{"id": 215, "story": "Toleration is the greatest gift of the mind, it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.", "moral1": "If we do not like our work and do not try to get happiness out of it, we are a menace to our profession as well as to ourselves. ", "moral2": "When pain, misery or anger happen, it is time to look within you, not around you. ", "moral3": "One should never take any action in haste. ", "moral4": "Teaching very young children about different sizes and shapes. ", "moral5": "The wise do not let themselves be tricked a second time.", "laebl": 1}
{"id": 216, "story": "Once in jungle, lived a lion with his three assistant - crow, jackal and leopard. They regularly roamed around jungle together. One day, they saw a camel in jungle. They were surprised to see a camel there. So lion went to him and ask about it. Camel told him that he was separated from his caravan and was lost. Lion felt pity for him and asked him to come live with them and assured him of all the safety. Camel agreed and all started to live together. Sometime elapsed and one day, while hunting lion got wounded in a battle with an elephant. He became too weak to even kill a small prey. Because of this assistants also suffered from shortage of food as they were always dependent on lions hunt and leftover to fill their stomach. Lion's assistant gathered and decided that they should kill camel as it would provide them with lots of food and with that they can survive even without hunt for some days. So, they went to lion and suggested that he should kill camel for meat. But lion refused as he didn't wanted to kill animal to him he assured security. At this assistant said that if they convince camel to offer himself as food then lion shouldn't have any problem in killing him. Lion agreed to this. Assistants made a plan. When all were gathered. Crow, jackal and leopard offered themselves to lion as meal, one by one. They said that it was their duty to ensure that king of jungle doesn't die because of hunger. But lion refused every time. Seeing this, camel also came forward and offered himself as meal to lion. No sooner had he made the offer, influenced by his assistants, lion jumped on camel and killed him and then camel was eaten by all animals together.", "moral1": "We often accumulate money to acquire things to make us feel better, but sharing time and money with others brings us more happiness. ", "moral2": "If we're forever thinking about the past we can miss the fact that the future can always be better than what went before. ", "moral3": "Success means doing something sincerely and wholeheartedly. ", "moral4": "It is unwise to trust cunning people who surround powerful or wealthy ones, for their own benefit. ", "moral5": "We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.", "laebl": 4}
{"id": 217, "story": "Long ago, there lived a flock of pigeon in dense forest. Among them was a wise old pigeon. Every pigeon in flock respected wise old pigeon. During daytime, pigeons used to fly all over the jungle, in search of food and water and before night fall, they used to come back to their nest. One day, while searching for food, they saw rice grains spread on ground. All pigeons, at once decided to fly down and eat that rice grain. But wise pigeon thought, \"How could so much of rice be found in this thick forest?\". He got suspicious that it could be a trap laid by bird catcher and tried to stop all other pigeons but none of them listened to him as they were very hungry. When all pigeon were done eating rice and tried to fly back, they realized that it indeed was a trap laid by bird catcher. Pigeons were unable to move their feet as it got stuck in net. Wise old pigeon decided to sit on branch of a nearby tree instead of going down to eat rice grains. Soon, bird catcher saw pigeons trapped. He chuckled, \"Ah! so many pigeons, I will put them in cages and sell them in market.\"Wise pigeon saw bird catcher coming toward pigeons trapped in net. On other hand, pigeons were desperately trying to free themselves from the net by pulling net in their own direction. Nothing could help pigeons to get free from net. They all cried, \"What should we do now? not matter how hard we try, we are not able to get rid of this net.\"They looked at wise old pigeon and begged, \"Please save us.\"Wise pigeon advised, \"Stop pulling net in your own direction. instead, try to fly up together and carry the net with you.\"All pigeon listened to him and started to flap their wings together and in no time started to fly away together with net still stuck to their feet. Bird catcher saw this act of unity of pigeons in disbelief. Then wise pigeon took entire flock, along with net to house of his friend - a mouse. He narrated entire incident and requested him to help cut the net and free all pigeons. Mouse agreed to help and immediately set to work and cut entire net, freeing all pigeons. Pigeon thanked mouse for help and also thanked wise old pigeon for saving their lives.", "moral1": "Unity had great strength. As long as you all stay united, no harm can come upon you. It's your act of unity that saved your lives today. ", "moral2": "Fruits and vegetables are a key part of a diet and can prevent many health problems. ", "moral3": "If you do not give 100 percent in a relationship, you will always kept doubting if the other person has given his hundred percent. This is applicable for any relationship like love, employee or employer, friendship, family, countries. ", "moral4": "Treat others the way you want to be treated. ", "moral5": "Self-help is the best help.", "laebl": 1}
{"id": 218, "story": "Jaggi vasudev, is popularly known by sadhguru. He is a master of spiritualism, author, good speaker and always ready to help the human society. He is also a founder of 'the isha foundation' and known for his wisdom, orator, yoga and self-realization. How deeply you touch another life, is how rich your life is.", "moral1": "To care for the natural world we need to act responsibly in our everyday actions, no matter how small. ", "moral2": "It's our choice to keep positive attitude towards life. Circumstances are just parts of what makes us joyful. Pursuit of happiness is an inward journey. If we continue to bit our lips and just before we begin to complain we should shoot that seemingly harmless negative thought as it germinates, we will find there is much rejoice about. ", "moral3": "When pain, misery or anger happen, it is time to look within you, not around you. ", "moral4": "It is easy to propose impossible remedies. ", "moral5": "Generosity starts with yourself. Before demanding from others, we should be the first to give without expecting anything in return.", "laebl": 3}
{"id": 219, "story": "Once upon a time, lived a strange bird near a big banyan tree beside river. Bird was strange because it had two heads but only one stomach. Once, while bird was wandering around and flying high in sky. Just then first head saw something shiny on river bed. Bird came down quickly and picked it up. It was a fruit and bird hadn't seen such wonderful fruit until now. First head started eating it, it was most delicious food it can have. Second head saw this and demanded to have some portion of that fruit. It said, \"How could you eat that alone? it's not good. I am your twin head. share it with me also. I also want to it and taste this delicious fruit.\"First head replied, \"Be quiet! I know we are twin head but don't you know that we have same stomach. whichever head eats, fruit will go to same stomach. so it's not important which head eats it. so stop complaining. I am one who found this fruit so I have right to eat it.\"Second head felt bad hearing this but didn't say anything at that time. It became anxious because of greedy behavior shown by first head. Some days later, while bird was flying in sky enjoying cool breeze. Second head suddenly saw something and flew down. It was a tree loaded with fruits. Second head went ahead and plucked one fruit from tree and was about to eat it. Just then first head shouted, \"Stop..! you must not eat this fruit. don't you know that this tree bears only poisonous fruits? if you eat this then both of us will die at once.\"Second head was angry with him because of previous incident and pretend as if it was not listening and kept on gazing at fruit. First head pleaded, \"Please think again. we share common stomach, if you eat this then it will kill both of us. why are you behaving so cruelly? don't eat it.\"Second head shouted, \"Shut up. look who is talking about cruel behavior now? as I have seen and plucked this fruit, I have every right to eat it. now, nothing could change my mind.\"First head kept on begging and crying but other head didn't listen to him and just wanted to take revenge. So, he ate that fruit and as it was to happen, both of them died on spot.", "moral1": "The dangers of others are generally of advantage to the wary. ", "moral2": "This story here tells us that an individual ego in a family would harm each of the members. Quarreling with our own people affects the whole family badly. So, for staying united, we should avoid having a state of two different minds. ", "moral3": "Borrowed feathers do not make fine birds. ", "moral4": "Better one safe way than a hundred on which you cannot reckon. ", "moral5": "Look before you leap.", "laebl": 2}
{"id": 220, "story": "Thomas stearns eliot was a poet, dramatist, literary critic and editor who won the nobel prize in literature in 1948 for \"His outstanding, pioneer contribution to present-day poetry\". Eliot is considered one of the greatest poets in the english language. His poems are some of the of the best-known, including 'the waste land', 'ash wednesday' and 'four quartets'. Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.", "moral1": "They who act without sufficient thought, will often fall into unsuspected danger. ", "moral2": "Every moment is a fresh beginning. ", "moral3": "Each day is a gift. We should learn to live happy. Happiness comes from inner self and we are one who decides to be happy or not. ", "moral4": "Those who achieve notoriety often mistake it for fame. ", "moral5": "Fear of the dark is not fear of anything real, and can only prevent you from discovering interesting things.", "laebl": 2}
{"id": 221, "story": "One day, birbal and his friend was coming back from somewhere. On there way, they were passing by a small stream. Bridge on that stream was very old, narrow and slippery. Birbal was able to cross that bridge but his friend couldn't. Just before reaching the other end, friend lost his balance and fell into water. Birbal immediately leaned down to help his friend. He stretched out his hand towards his friend, to help him come out. Friend quickly grabbed his hand and started to pull himself toward shore. While climbing up, his friend felt so obligated that he hastily promised birbal that he would give him twenty gold coins for saving his life. Birbal stoically said, \"Thank you.\"At that instant, he let his friend go into water again. Friend got shock of his life and went back into water with splash. Friend struggle to wade his way out of water and when he finally reached shore, he said to birbal, \"Why did you do that?\"Birbal replied, \"To take my reward.\"Friend said, \"Couldn't you have waited for me to come out of water safely, first?\"Birbal retorted, \"Couldn't you have waited till you came out of water and stood on ground?\"Friend realized that he had been hasty in offering reward. Friends do no help each other for material gains. He apologized to birbal and thanked him for saving his life and making him understand true meaning of friendship.", "moral1": "One should never speak hastily. Always think before you speak. ", "moral2": "Yield3 to all and you will soon have nothing to yield. ", "moral3": "Sometimes we need to understand that nature of person can not change and should act sensible. ", "moral4": "Envy is the result of not knowing how to appreciate what we already have. ", "moral5": "He that has many friends, has no friends.", "laebl": 1}
{"id": 222, "story": "Once a boat owner decided to get his boat paint. So one day, he called a painter and asked him to paint his boat. Painter bought with him paint and brushes and began to paint boat with bright red color as owner asked him. While painting boat, he realized that there was a hole in the hull and decided to repair it. After he finished painting, painter received his money from owner and left. Next day, owner of boat came to painter and presented him with a check with amount written much higher than payment of painting. Painter was surprised and said, \"You have already paid me for painting the boat.\"Owner replied, \"Yes. but this is not for paint job. it's for having repaired hole in boat.\"Painter replied, \"Ah! but it was such a small service. certainly it's not worth paying me such high amount for something so insignificant.\"Owner said, \"My dear friend, you do not understand. let me tell you what happened.when I asked you to paint the boat, I forgot to mention about hole to you. when paint on boat dried, my kids took boat and went for fishing trip.they didn't know that there was hole in hull of boat and I was not at home at that time.when I returned and noticed that they had taken boat, I was desperate because I remembered that there was a hole in boat and I hadn't asked you to repair it.imagine my relief and joy when I saw them returning from fishing, safely.then I went on boat and examined it, I was surprised to find that you had repaired that hole, even when I hadn't ask you to do it.you see, now what you did?you saved life of my children. I don't have enough money to pay for your small good deed.\"", "moral1": "When ever we take action against another person we should ask our self if we are doing right thing. What if same thing to be happen to us would we still feel same?? If we deceive another its like deceiving ourselves because with time dishonesty can become a habit. ", "moral2": "If you allow men to use you for your own purposes, they will use you for theirs. ", "moral3": "When the great fall out, the weak must suffer for it. . ", "moral4": "I would rather be a little nobody, then to be an evil somebody. ", "moral5": "No matter who, when or how.. Just continue to help. No matter how small it is because you never know when one is in need of us or when god holds a pleasant surprise for us to be helpful and important to someone.", "laebl": 5}
{"id": 223, "story": "Once in a city, lived a married young man with his wife. After marriage, young man started working as a teacher in primary school. But due to lack of experience, soon he was squashed by students in less than a week. When he returned home, he cried. His wife comforted him saying, \"When one is too full, he could either pour it out what's in him or he could just could not pour it out at all.you should not be too sad about it. probably there is a more suitable job waiting for you out there.\"In some days, he found another job and again in few days, he was fired due to his slowness. This time his wife consoled him saying, \"There are always people who are skillful and non skillful. some have experience from their years of work. as for you, how could you acquire skill needed for work in such short time.\"Young man didn't give up and kept on looking for job. He went for number of jobs but never stayed long in those jobs. Each time, he would return home with a dejected spirit and each time, his wife would always comfort him. Never for once, wife was disappointed or resentful. Years went by, man was in his thirties. By this time, man acquired a flair in languages. He became a counselor in a school of deaf and mute. Later on, he opened a school for disabled. Few years later, man was able to set up chain of stores in different cities and provinces selling apparatus equipment for disabled. With expansion of his business, man became a multi-millionaire. One day, he asked his wife, \"When I was looking bleak at my own future, what's reason that you had so much faith in me?\"His wife smiled and said, \"When a piece of land is not suitable for planting wheat, we could try planting beans. if the beans are not growing well, we could try planting fruits or gourds.if the vegetation is not economical, we can instead scatter buckwheat seeds. these seeds will one day bloom into flowers. on this land itself, there will be one seed that will germinate and grow.\"", "moral1": "If you spend your whole life trying to answer foolish questions, all your answers will be foolish too. ", "moral2": "If you adopt a creative and fun strategy, you can make learning even the most boring subject enjoyable. ", "moral3": "In this world, there is no one person who is useless. It is just that they have not positioned themselves firmly in right place. ", "moral4": "Obscurity often brings safety. ", "moral5": "You can't be a close friend to everybody. There just isn't enough time to be available for everyone, so it's only possible to have a few true friends. The others will by playmates or acquaintances but they won't be close friends.", "laebl": 3}
{"id": 224, "story": "A nobel laureate and pulitzer prize winner, ernest hemingway was one of the highly acclaimed american author who had a strong influence on 20th century fiction. He published seven novels, six short story collections and two non-fiction works, his books are considered classics in american literature. Lifethe best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.", "moral1": "Allow your awareness to shine light onto all your limiting beliefs and find who you truly are. ", "moral2": "Borrowed feathers do not make fine birds. ", "moral3": "Often we misunderstand the signs. God has given everyone a strength and ability to do their part. Always learn to see the things in a positive way and see yourself in a strong position to help the ones who need. Don't go for the easy choice. Make a right choice. ", "moral4": "I would rather be a little nobody, then to be an evil somebody. ", "moral5": "No one you love is ever truly lost.", "laebl": 5}
{"id": 225, "story": "Elon musk is an entrepreneur, business magnate, investor, engineer and inventor. The founder of solar city, tesla and spacex. He became a multimillionaire in his late 20's. Motivationalit is possible for ordinary people to choose to be extraordinary.", "moral1": "Make new friends but keep the old. The one is sliver, the older gold. ", "moral2": "We should focus our energy on positive and with in not time we would be able to do things we couldn't think of doing before. ", "moral3": "The tyrant can always find an excuse for his tyranny. The unjust will not listen to the reasoning of the innocent. ", "moral4": "It is very important to like the people you work with, otherwise life and your job is gonna be quite miserable. ", "moral5": "Just take care of my eyes dear.", "laebl": 4}
{"id": 226, "story": "Once there was a poor scottish farmer. One day, while working, he heard a cry for help from near by bog. He dropped his tools and ran to bog. There he saw a boy terrified and screaming stuck in bog up to waist. He was struggling to free himself. Farmer quickly acted and saved boy from that. Next day, a a fancy carriage pulled up to farmer's home. An elegant dressed nobleman stepped out and introduced himself as father of boy, whom farmer had saved previous day. Nobleman said, \"I want to repay you. you saved my son's life.\"\"No, I can't accept payment for what I did.\", replied farmer and refused to accept anything in return. At that moment, farmer's son came to door. Seeing him, noble man asked, \"Is that your son?\"\"Yes\", farmer replied. Nobleman said, \"I will make you a deal. let me provide him with level of education my own son will enjoy. if he is anything like his father, then no doubt, he will grow to be man we both will be proud of. \"And that what he did. Farmer's son attended the very best school and in time graduated from st. Mary's hospital medical school in london. He went on to become known throughout the world as noted - sir alexander fleming, the discoverer of penicillin. Years after the same nobleman's son was stricken with pneumonia. What saved his life this time was penicillin which was discovered by farmer's son. Name of nobleman was lord randolph churchill and his son was sir winston churchill who became a noted politicians and was prime minister of uk from 1940 to 1945.", "moral1": "You have to be careful about getting addicted to computers. They can divorce us from everyday life and the natural world. ", "moral2": "Everybody likes happy, smiling people. ", "moral3": "What goes around comes around. If you do good to others, it will come back to you. So, always do good to others. ", "moral4": "As such no activity of life should be seen as a distraction for living a spiritual life. Every activity of life can be done with mindfulness or with a detached attitude but this is true for highly evolved soul. For most people who are still on the path, they should not let distractions them divert from spiritual path and focus intensely in our spiritual practice so that they become more centered inside. ", "moral5": "When you read bhagavad gita. You may not understand or remember what you read but it words will change you from inside and out.", "laebl": 3}
{"id": 227, "story": "Lifesometimes one creates a dynamic impression by saying something and sometimes one creates as significant an impression by remaining silent.", "moral1": "For our life to be of value, I think we must develop basic good human qualities - warmth, kindness, compassion. Then our life becomes meaningful and more peaceful - happier. ", "moral2": "Self-help is the best help. ", "moral3": "Every time you victimized someone, you were victimizing yourself. Every act of kindness you have done was done to yourself. Every emotions experienced by any human will be experienced by you. . ", "moral4": "A way to overcome fear of darkness in children, through imagination and creativity. ", "moral5": "Watching television is often a waste of time, and brings no benefit.", "laebl": 1}
{"id": 228, "story": "It is under the greatest adversity that there exists the greatest potential for doing good, both for oneself and others.", "moral1": "We should focus our energy on positive and with in not time we would be able to do things we couldn't think of doing before. ", "moral2": "Familiarity breeds contempt. ", "moral3": "When we meet real tragedy in life, we can react in two ways - either by losing hope and falling into self-destructive habits or by using the challenge to find our inner strength. ", "moral4": "We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified. ", "moral5": "Gratitude5 and greed go not together.", "laebl": 3}
{"id": 229, "story": "Fashionfashion is not something that exists in dresses only. Fashion is in the sky, in the street, fashion has to do with ideas, the way we live, what is happening.", "moral1": "Men always remember a woman who caused them concern and uneasiness. ", "moral2": "The evil doer often comes to harm through his own deceit. ", "moral3": "I would rather be a little nobody, then to be an evil somebody. ", "moral4": "Life gives you strange experiences, sometime it shocks you and sometimes it may surprise you. We end up making wrong judgments or mistakes in our anger, desperation and frustration. However, when you get a second chance, correct your mistakes and return the favor. Be kind and generous. Learn to appreciate what you are given. ", "moral5": "Always be good with others and share good with others. When we share our goodness with others it makes world a better place to live in.", "laebl": 1}
{"id": 230, "story": "Once upon a time, a farmer was living in a village with his wife and new born baby. One day farmer bought a mongoose at his home to keep as a pet and his child companion. As time passed by, mongoose became close and very loyal to farmer's family. Farmer and his wife always treated mongoose with lots of love as their family member. One day farmer and his wife went to market, back at home was mongoose guarding sleeping baby. Suddenly, a snake entered into house. Mongoose saw snake and fought hard to save child from snake. After much effort mongoose was able to kill snake. At that moment, farmer and his wife returned home from market. Farmer's wife saw mongoose face covered with blood stains. Farmer ran inside where as farmer's wife got scared and thought that mongoose had hurt the baby and without giving second thought she started to throw things on mongoose. Poor mongoose was not able to react and got severely injured. When mongoose fainted, farmer's wife ran inside to see if child is ok. When she entered room, she found that child was fine and soundly asleep and a dead snake was lying near cot. Farmer's wife understood the scene and went to mongoose. Farmer took the mongoose to vet immediately for treatment. Luckily mongoose was saved. Farmer's wife realized her mistake and apologized to mongoose.", "moral1": "When you read bhagavad gita. You may not understand or remember what you read but it words will change you from inside and out. ", "moral2": "Building true peace requires those who feel they have the right to attack to take steps towards forgiveness and reconciliation. ", "moral3": "Tidiness is a helpful virtue to achieve things that must be used on a daily basis. ", "moral4": "It's our choice to keep positive attitude towards life. Circumstances are just parts of what makes us joyful. Pursuit of happiness is an inward journey. If we continue to bit our lips and just before we begin to complain we should shoot that seemingly harmless negative thought as it germinates, we will find there is much rejoice about. ", "moral5": "One should never take any action in haste.", "laebl": 5}
{"id": 231, "story": "Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement and success have no meaning.", "moral1": "Our opinions are not in our own power, they are formed and governed much by circumstances that are often as inexplicable as they are irresistible. ", "moral2": "Everything has its good and bad side. We are happiest when we look for the good in all things. ", "moral3": "Self-help is the best help. ", "moral4": "The dangers of others are generally of advantage to the wary. ", "moral5": "Sometimes struggles are exactly what we need, its god way to make us stronger.", "laebl": 1}
{"id": 232, "story": "Benjamin franklin was one of the founding fathers of the united states who drafted the declaration of independence and the constitution of the united states. An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.", "moral1": "One should not act selfish and know that if you do wrong with someone then other might do wrong with you.. So be careful about how you act with others. . ", "moral2": "The gods help them that help themselves. ", "moral3": "When we chose to fight, we can see that in no time, that big trouble start resembling a small problem and we can remove it from our life and move forward. ", "moral4": "We can look at every situation as an opportunity to realize and overcome our defects. This is possible only due to the strength of chanting the god's name. ", "moral5": "Do not anticipate trouble or worry about what may never happen.", "laebl": 5}
{"id": 233, "story": "Anne frank is one of the most discussed and famous victims of the holocaust. The jewish teenager journal-ed her world war ii experiences in a diary that later became one of the most widely read books in the world. Anne frank's diary is a record of her understanding of the war and showcases her incredible storytelling abilities in such horrific circumstances. Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.", "moral1": "Fruits and vegetables are a key part of a diet and can prevent many health problems. ", "moral2": "Think before you act. ", "moral3": "Those who achieve notoriety often mistake it for fame. ", "moral4": "It is always better to tell the truth. ", "moral5": "Where there is hope, there is life. It fills us with fresh courage and makes us strong again.", "laebl": 5}
{"id": 234, "story": "Only the wise know this mind, this mind called dharma-nature, this mind called liberation. Neither life nor death can restrain this mind. Nothing can. It's also called the unstoppable, the incomprehensible, the sacred self, the immortal, the great sage. Its names vary but not its essence.", "moral1": "Honesty is the best policy. ", "moral2": "No matter how big or strong someone is, there's always someone bigger who can do just as they do. ", "moral3": "In this world, there is no one person who is useless. It is just that they have not positioned themselves firmly in right place. ", "moral4": "There is always a way. ", "moral5": "To enter by reason means to realize the essence through instruction and to believe that all living things share the same true nature, which isn't apparent because it is shrouded by sensation and delusion.", "laebl": 5}
{"id": 235, "story": "Christmas celebrations occur all over the world, although the day on which it is celebrated varies, as well as the decorations, food and customs.", "moral1": "Helping others is not a bad thing at all. But sometimes, while we are helping others, we forget our own problems and needs. One must remember that sometimes sharing is better than giving away. You can do a lot more by being in a strong position instead of bringing yourself into a weaker situation. ", "moral2": "Here is our list of interesting facts about christmas. ", "moral3": "Do not take more than you need because it will lead to others not being able to have what they need. ", "moral4": "Self-help is the best help. ", "moral5": "That's what I have been telling you: drop it. Now sit down. Be just human, here nobody is emperor, nobody is beggar. Here everybody is himself. Just be yourself.", "laebl": 2}
{"id": 236, "story": "Stan lee was an american comic book writer, editor and publisher. He was an icon in the comic book industry with multiple awards for his achievements. Stan lee was most remembered for his own works like spiderman, the hulk, doctor strange, daredevil, iron man, x-men, the fantastic four and so many more. Life is never completely without it's challenges.", "moral1": "Never trouble anyone. ", "moral2": "Another definition of a hero is someone who is concerned about other people's well-being and will go out of his or her way to help them - even if there is no chance of a reward. That person who helps others simply because it should or must be done and because it is the right thing to do, is indeed without a doubt, a real superhero. ", "moral3": "The dangers of others are generally of advantage to the wary. ", "moral4": "Leadership is earned via actions that demonstrate courage, fairness, and commitment. ", "moral5": "Similarly, path we give to our life is in our own hands. By our choices and efforts we can decide what to make of our life. .", "laebl": 2}
{"id": 237, "story": "Bruce lee was a famous martial artist, actor and philosopher who was born on november 27th, 1940 in chinatown, san francisco. He is remembered today as the figure who popularized kung fu around the world. Motivationalas you think, so shall you become.", "moral1": "Success means doing something sincerely and wholeheartedly. ", "moral2": "It is very important to like the people you work with, otherwise life and your job is gonna be quite miserable. ", "moral3": "One should not be foolish to ignore nature. Sometimes we need to understand that nature of living being's can not be change and act sensibly. ", "moral4": "A story to help children discover the joys of reading, and the torrent of experience and imagination it releases. ", "moral5": "It is no good to be a dog in a manger.", "laebl": 1}
{"id": 238, "story": "We cannot change the past but we can change our attitude toward it. Uproot guilt and plant forgiveness. Tear out arrogance and seed humility. Exchange love for hate - thereby, making the present comfortable and the future promising.", "moral1": "Unity had great strength. As long as you all stay united, no harm can come upon you. It's your act of unity that saved your lives today. ", "moral2": "Humbleness is basic thing. If you are humble then you will learn much even without wise man. You can learn from trees, springs, wind. If you are humble enough then whole existence becomes teacher to you. ", "moral3": "Stealing makes people sad and mad. ", "moral4": "We should focus our energy on positive and with in not time we would be able to do things we couldn't think of doing before. ", "moral5": "Your reputation is the most important thing you will ever have. Not clothes, nor money, not the big cars you may drive. If your reputation is good, you can achieve anything you want in the world.", "laebl": 5}
{"id": 239, "story": "Once a man was known as master thief in kingdom. He was well known and famous all over kingdom. He was so much expert that nobody had ever been able to catch him. He would always leave marks so that people would know that he had stolen from there. He had stolen even from king's treasury but still he was never caught. Master thief was getting older and he had a son. One day his young son said to him, \"Now, you are getting older, teach me your art.\"His father said, \"If you want to learn then come with me tonight. this is something that can't be taught by words only. I can not teach it to you, you can only imbibe spirit of me. if you are intelligent enough, you can catch it. I can not give it to but you can get it.\"Son was afraid as it was first time he was going to steal something. At night, he went out with his father. Wall was broken, they went into the palace. Even his old age, master thief, his father hands were moving like a surgeon's hand, unwavering, unshakable, with no fear. He didn't even look here and there. He was so certain of his art. Where as young man was trembling, he was feeling like he might fall any moment. He was losing all his consciousness because of fear, thinking what if they were caught? Both entered in palace. Father was moving in dark as if it was his own place and he knew everything about this place, even in dark without stumbling against furniture or door, making no noise at all. They reached into innermost chamber of palace. There old man opened a cupboard and told his son to go in and find whatsoever was valuable. As soon as son entered, old man closed the door from outside and shouted, \"Thief! thief! wake up!\" And escaped through the hole they had come from. Son couldn't understand it. This was too much for him. He was locked in cupboard, trembling and whole house was awake, searching for thief. He thought, \"What kind of father is this? what kind of teaching is this?\" This was last thing young man could have ever imagined. Now he was certain to be caught. After an hour young man reached home. His father was fast asleep. Young man questioned loudly, \"What kind of nonsense is this?\"Father calmly replied, \"So you are back. just that you have come is enough proof that you are ready to start from tomorrow on your own. you have got the intelligence, awareness that a thief needs. I am immensely happy with you.no need to tell whole story. you also go to sleep. now you know the art, we need not to discuss anything.\"Young man was able to come back from such difficult situation, he wanted to tell everything to his father that has happened. He said, \"You almost killed me..!\"Father replied, \"It is hard but that's how a master has to act many time. ok tell me what happened.\"Son replied, \"When I was standing inside cupboard and people were searching for thief, a woman servant came with candle in her hand, I could see from keyhole. I started making noises as if I were a cat.thinking that there is cat inside cupboard, woman unlocked it. as she unlocked it, I don't know how and what came to my mind - I blew the candle out, pushed woman away and ran.people followed me. I was on verge of getting caught and suddenly I came across a well and saw a big rock, I don't believe I have such strength to pick rock up but I moved that rock, picked it up and threw it in well and ran away.that noise, sound of rock falling in well, grabbed everyone's attention, as they thought that I had jumped into well. they all surrounded well and looked there. in mean time, I ran and that's how I am back home.\"Father replied, \"In any fields of life, whether you are a thief or a scientist or poet, this is master key - that nothing happens from head, everything happens from somewhere - call it intuition or gut or meditation - these are different name for same thing.it has started functioning for you. I can see it on your face. I can see that aura. you are going to become a master thief. remember through being a master thief. so this may be way for you to attain meditation.\"", "moral1": "Wise person learn from anyone and everyone and as soon as he understand his mistake, he corrects them and move forward. ", "moral2": "If you spend your whole life trying to answer foolish questions, all your answers will be foolish too. ", "moral3": "When life is at stake, your whole energy become available. You don't live only on superficial level and do your best. ", "moral4": "Use serves to overcome dread4. ", "moral5": "Another definition of a hero is someone who is concerned about other people's well-being and will go out of his or her way to help them - even if there is no chance of a reward. That person who helps others simply because it should or must be done and because it is the right thing to do, is indeed without a doubt, a real superhero.", "laebl": 3}
{"id": 240, "story": "Once a great king decided to go meet buddha for first time. His wife had been a lay-disciple of buddha for long time even before she was married to king. When buddha came to king's capital, wife said to king, \"It doesn't look right that when a man like buddha comes to your capital, you won't even go to welcome him. therefore, I am going. when I meet him, he is sure to ask about you. what should is say then?\"King thought for a moment and said, \"Ok, I will also come to welcome him to our kingdom but I am meeting him for first time, I would like to give him some present.\"King then proudly said, \"I have a very precious diamond, no one else have that. if I take it as gift then buddha will appreciate it.\"Wife started laughing and said, \"Rather than diamond, it would be better if you take just a fresh lotus flower from pond. I have known and following him for long, therefore I know that to buddha lotus flower is more beautiful than a diamond. buddha is a sanyasi, what will he do with diamond. it will be an unnecessary burden.\"King replied, \"Ok, then I will take both and let us see what buddha will take and who wins.\"Buddha was going to start his morning talks, surrounded by thousand of monks who were waiting to listen to him. Just then king came on his golden chariot to the commune of buddha. King stepped out of his chariot and walked toward buddha. With him he was carrying gift for buddha. He bowed down to buddha and offered him the diamond. Buddha said, \"Drop it!!\"King knew that diamond was very precious and it was very difficult for him to drop his diamond. Buddha again said, \"Drop it.!\"He hesitated but he was surrounded by thousand of monks and listening to those words, he had no other choice. So king dropped it. Then king offered the lotus flower to buddha. Again buddha said, \"Drop it!!\"King thought, \"Is this man crazy?\" And dropped lotus flower too. Buddha said, \"Don't you listen? drop it.!\"King replied, \"But both my hands are empty. now what do you want me to drop?\"At that moment, one of old disciples of buddha said,\"You don't understand. buddha is not asking you to drop things you are holding in your hand.buddha is saying - drop your personality, drop that your are king, drop this mask, be just human because through the mask it is impossible for buddha to approach you.\"King never thought about it. But then great silence and king felt something and spontaneously fell at the feet of buddha.", "moral1": "That's what I have been telling you: drop it. Now sit down. Be just human, here nobody is emperor, nobody is beggar. Here everybody is himself. Just be yourself. ", "moral2": "Look before you leap.  do not just blindly walk in to anything without thinking. ", "moral3": "Competition is not about comparing ourselves with others but to learn about ourselves. ", "moral4": "Earning more money can be profitable but true profit lies in doing good deeds and helping others. ", "moral5": "It is easy to propose impossible remedies.", "laebl": 1}
{"id": 241, "story": "Once a disciple as going to be given his last initiation by his master. Once he passes his last initiation he would be declared enlightened. Disciple went to master and said, \"I am ready. please tell me what I have to do for my last initiation.\"Master said, \"You have to go to king, early morning. you have to be first visitor to king for the day. because king has a habit, whosoever comes to him first, asks whatever, kings will give.king is wise, takes care of his people so good that people forgot about it and years had passed and nobody goes to king, early morning to ask for anything.remember, after waking up as sun rises, first thing king does is to go into his garden for walk. so be there.\"Disciple followed order. He didn't take any chance and was at king's garden at 3 o'clock early in morning, waiting for king. As sun was rising, disciple saw that king came to garden. Disciple went to king and bowed down. King said, \"Do you need anything? you can ask for anything and I will give it to you.\"Disciple came from poor family and when king said that he can ask for anything, great desires possessed him. To be certain, disciple asked again, \"What do you mean by anything?\"King replied, \"I mean anything. you can ask for gold, palace or even if you demand for my kingdom, I will give it to you.\"Poor disciple couldn't think of just one thing. He thought that may be asking for ten thousand rupees will do but just then he thought why only ten thousand gold coins, why not hundred thousand coins. Disciple mind constantly kept thinking of more and more things. After waiting for a while, king said, \"It seems that you are not ready to ask, I will go for my morning walk, meanwhile you decide. when I return, whatsoever you ask will be given to you.\"For half an hour, he went on and on about thinking. When king came, disciple said, \"Sir, if you are so willing to give, I ask for everything. all that you have - your kingdom. all your riches, your palaces - everything.\"Listening to this, king fell on his knees, started praying to god, tears rolling down from his eyes - of great joy, ecstasy.", "moral1": "A good dead leads to another. ", "moral2": "Once should never try to cheat others. ", "moral3": "Intelligence is nothing but finding a common ground to solve an issue. Every problem has a solution. ", "moral4": "He was thanking god saying, I have been waiting for such a man. How long have I waited. Finally you heard my prayers. Now he has come and I am free of all this nonsense. Thank you. ! ", "moral5": "There's a time for work and a time for play.", "laebl": 4}
{"id": 242, "story": "Once a young couple lived in city. They were living a happy life together but they would still worry about if their happiness would last forever. One day, they heard that an old man had come to town who could solve all kind of problems. So couple decided to visit wise old man and told him about their problem. Wise old man said to them, \"Travel around world and seek a man and woman who are perfectly happy as couple. when you find such couple, ask them for a piece of cloth from man's shirt, then keep that piece of cloth always with you and with that you will always be happy.\"Young couple were happy to know that and began their journey to find the happiest couple. On their way, they heard about governor and his wife were happiest. So went to their place and asked them, \"Are you the happiest couple?\"Governor and his wife replied, \"Yes, we are happy in every way except for one thing.. we don't have any children.\"Couple realized they weren't the happiest couple. So they continued their journey. They arrived in one city where they had heard about a couple who were known as happiest. They went to them and asked, \"We heard that you are happiest couple in this city. are you happiest?\"Couple replied, \"Yes, we are really happy except that we have too many children which makes our life a bit uncomfortable.\"That couple didn't sound to be happiest. So young couple continued their journey. Young couple visited many villages, cities, towns, countries and asked many couples same questions but still they didn't find what they were looking for. Couple met a shepherd on their way. Shepherd was with his wife and child, taking his sheep for grazing. While they waited, wife laid the mat and everyone started to eat contentedly. They seemed really happy with each other. Young couple went to them and asked, \"Are you the happiest couple?\"They replied, \"We are happy. we have everything we could have asked for.\"Young couple immediately understood that they are happiest couple. So, they asked shepherd for a piece of his cloth, so that their happiness too would last through. Shepherd replied, \"If I give you a piece of cloth from my shirt then I will be left without any clothes. since I own just one shirt.\"Young couple left without piece of cloth and understood that it is difficult to find perfect happiness anywhere in world. So young couple decided to return to their home and went to old wise man. They told him about all the places they went and about people they met. They also complained about how difficult it was to find couples. Wise old man laughed, \"Was your journey useless or did you learn something from it?\"", "moral1": "Self-help is the best help. ", "moral2": "If there is a will there is a way. ", "moral3": "Nobody is perfectly happy. We learned that their are difficulties in everyone life. Happy is one who is contented with whatever they have. ", "moral4": "Silly credulity may take this as a proof how much evil a double-tongued man may often contrive. ", "moral5": "Look before you leap.", "laebl": 3}
{"id": 243, "story": "On a summer day, ant was carrying corn to it's nest. A grasshopper was hoping near by, chirping and singing to it's heart content. Seeing ant, grasshopper said, \"Why not come and chat with me instead of toiling in that way?\"Ant replied, \"I am helping to lay up food for winter and I recommend you to do same.\"Grasshopper laughed and said, \"Why bother about winter? we have plenty of food at present.\"Ant didn't say anything and went on his way, doing his work. Winter came. Grasshopper had nothing to eat and was dying of hunger. He saw that ants were distributing corn every day from stores which they had collected during summer. Grasshopper went to ant and said, \"Please give me some corn from your home. I am hungry and cold and dying. I haven't eaten anything for days. there is nothing available for me to eat.\"Ant replied, \"I told you to work and save food for winter but at that time you refused to work and passed all time playing.\"At that time grasshopper realized his mistake and left.", "moral1": "Think before you act. ", "moral2": "When we chose to fight, we can see that in no time, that big trouble start resembling a small problem and we can remove it from our life and move forward. ", "moral3": "Don't respond to what people say in anger. Inner calmness and peace are ways to live contented life. ", "moral4": "It is easy to propose impossible remedies. ", "moral5": "Make new friends but keep the old. The one is sliver, the older gold.", "laebl": 1}
{"id": 244, "story": "Once lived a skilled artist named shikaki. With his expertise and interest, he made an beautiful ink pot to present it to the king. Seeing that beautiful ink pot, he expected that king would encourage him and appreciate his skill as far as possible. With countless hopes and desire, he presented that ink pot to king. In beginning king was impressed by his skill. But while king was observing that ink pot, shikaki was lost in his thoughts. Just then king was informed that a scholar is about to enter the court. As soon as scholar entered, king got so busy with welcoming and talking to him that he forgot about shikaki artistry. Shikaki who came with countless hopes, couldn't accept that and this incident caused an adverse and deep effect on shikaki heart. He then realized that he couldn't get enough encouragement for his artistry and felt bad. Shikaki couldn't be at peace because of this. He started to think what he should do. He was old and learning new thing would be too difficult for him yet he decided to learn about literature and books. He took admission in school and started to go to class with young children. Shikaki was old and at that age it was not easy for him to study with young children but he didn't have a choice. Worse than that was shikaki had spend all his life working on art and handicraft because of this he couldn't find reading and writing interesting. Still he tried his best and got strict with his studies. His teacher taught him a line which he would repeat many times a day to remember. Yet on exam day he even messed only thing he was trying to remember for long. Upon hearing all people in class started to laugh at him and everybody said that old man couldn't learn reading or writing at this age. This incident broke shikaki and he left school and went toward jungle. By chance, he reached the foot of a mountain, there he saw water falling drop by drop from top and due to continues falling of water on same place, a hole had been formed even in that hard stone. Seeing this he thought, \"May be it's my heart which is not ready to accept knowledge of books and literature.. but it is not harder than this stone. if I study more and more then it wouldn't be ineffective.\"Therefore, he came back and started to work harder to study and learn. He got busy in attaining knowledge. As result, he was reckoned as one of popular scholar of his time.", "moral1": "Watching television is often a waste of time, and brings no benefit. ", "moral2": "Psychology of condemnation is cheap psychology, an easy way out. There is not need to go anywhere to learn. That's why everyone is skillful at condemning. ", "moral3": "Nobody see that hard work and patience. Everyone see only success but they don't see that one have to sacrifice life in preparation and to achieve that success. Success seeks experience and struggle. ", "moral4": "If you work together in a team you can achieve much more than you could have done on your own. ", "moral5": "You are never be too old to learn something new. If anyone put all his effort and persist on things he wants to learn then one day he will definitely succeed.", "laebl": 5}
{"id": 245, "story": "Abraham lincoln born in kentucky in 1809, served as the 16th president of the united states is known as one of the greatest us presidents to have served this country and his wisdom and compassion for all people changed the nation. Human action can be modified to some extent but human nature cannot be changed.", "moral1": "Little friends may prove great friends. ", "moral2": "I would rather be a little nobody, then to be an evil somebody. ", "moral3": "When we meet real tragedy in life, we can react in two ways - either by losing hope and falling into self-destructive habits or by using the challenge to find our inner strength. ", "moral4": "For our life to be of value, I think we must develop basic good human qualities - warmth, kindness, compassion. Then our life becomes meaningful and more peaceful - happier. ", "moral5": "Give people a second chance.", "laebl": 2}
{"id": 246, "story": "Chanakya was insulted at king nanda's kingdom and he wanted to take revenge for his insult. Soon, he meet a child name chandragupta who was bright. Chanakya started to teach him. He collected enough money to raise an army for chandragupta. He taught them about battle strategies and taught chandragupta all about rights and duties of a king. Chanakya remembered how he was insulted in kingdom of king nanda and decided to attack his kingdom first. Chandragupta army was inexperienced compared to king nanda's army and was not able to stand up to them. As result, chandragupta was defeated and had to flee along with chanakya and hid in woods. One day as chanakya entered village in search of food, he passed by a hut. There he heard excited voice of a child. Chanakya saw that mother was serving him hot rice porridge. As soon as, boy started to eat rice porridge, he started to cry saying that his fingers got burnt. Seeing this, mother said, \"Of course, they will get burnt because you acted as foolish as chanakya.\"Intrigued and curious chanakya entered into room and before woman could say anything he said, \"Sorry to barge in like this but I just came in to inquire meaning of your words.\"Woman was surprised but still replied, \"I was merely telling this kid to eat properly. I served him hot rice porridge and he should have realized that it was hottest at the center and start eating from outer fringe which cools down first.\"\"Yes, I get that but what has it do with chanakya's foolishness?\", questioned chanakya. Woman replied, \"Everything. chanakya is foolish, he went and attacked nanda's kingdom at the outset instead of conquering small kingdoms all around before going to the center.just like a child trying to eat hot porridge from middle..! that's why chanakya lost and had to flee.\"Chanakya was surprised and humbly replied, \"Thank you mother. you have taught me a wonderful lesson in war strategy. I shall not make same mistake second time.\"Saying this chanakya left. Later he reorganized their army and set about conquering small kingdom first and eventually succeeded in ousting nanda's kingdom from pataliputra.", "moral1": "Wise person learn from anyone and everyone and as soon as he understand his mistake, he corrects them and move forward. ", "moral2": "Better to yield when it is folly to resist, than to resist stubbornly and be destroyed. ", "moral3": "A burning desire is starting point to all accomplishment. Just like a small fire can not give much heat, weak desire can not produce great results. ", "moral4": "There is always someone worse off than yourself. ", "moral5": "Our parents love us and they never stop caring about us even if we don't care enough about them because they love us unconditionally and we never realize that till we have them.", "laebl": 1}
{"id": 247, "story": "A young man asked socrates about secret to success. Socrates ask young man to meet him near river next morning. Young man came near river next morning. Socrates asked young man to walk with him towards the river. When water got up to their neck, socrates took the young man by surprise and ducked him into the water. The boy struggled to get out but socrates was strong and kept him there until boy started to turn blue. Just then socrates pulled his head out of water and first thing young man did was to gasp a deep breath of air. Socrates asked him, \"What did you want most when you were there inside river?\"Young man replied, \"Air.\"Socrates said, \"That is secret to success. when you want success as badly as you wanted the air, then you will get it. there is no other secret.\"", "moral1": "Make new friends but keep the old. The one is sliver, the older gold. ", "moral2": "A burning desire is starting point to all accomplishment. Just like a small fire can not give much heat, weak desire can not produce great results. ", "moral3": "If we seek for something and don't get it, we should not lose hope.. We don't know what destiny had in store for us.. Never lose hope and keep trying. ", "moral4": "I would rather be a little nobody, then to be an evil somebody. ", "moral5": "That's what I have been telling you: drop it. Now sit down. Be just human, here nobody is emperor, nobody is beggar. Here everybody is himself. Just be yourself.", "laebl": 2}
{"id": 248, "story": "Lao tzu was an ancient chinese philosopher and writer. He was born between the 6th-5th century bc into the zhou dynasty. He is the founder of philosophical taoism. Way to live betterhe who is contented is rich.", "moral1": "A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving. ", "moral2": "Never judge anyone because you never know how their life is and what they're going through. ", "moral3": "Better one safe way than a hundred on which you cannot reckon. ", "moral4": "One bad turn deserves another. ", "moral5": "Be content with your lot.", "laebl": 1}
{"id": 249, "story": "Ben carson is an american neurosurgeon and politician. Carson has performed several path breaking surgical procedures during his illustrious career like that of separating siamese twins. As a leading surgeon and political thinker, he has written a number of books. Believe in godgod has an overall plan for people's lives and the details get worked out along the way, even though we usually have no idea what's going on.", "moral1": "The doors of the world are opened to people who can read. ", "moral2": "Those who achieve notoriety often mistake it for fame. ", "moral3": "We should explain things to children in an honest manner because children deserve respect. We should resist telling them silly stories for our own amusement. ", "moral4": "Don't trick others or the same thing will happen to you. ", "moral5": "When we chose to fight, we can see that in no time, that big trouble start resembling a small problem and we can remove it from our life and move forward.", "laebl": 1}
{"id": 250, "story": "One day a young man went to buddha and seemed very upset. Buddha asked him reason. Young man told him that his father has died and he wants to perform best after life rituals for his father and despite of his father's good or bad actions in his life, he wants his father's soul to go to heaven. He said, \"I could have gone to any ordinary priest but I have come to you with this request. I want you to perform after life ritual for him so that in his after life he can gain entry to heaven and permanently resides there.\"Buddha listened to man and said, \"Go to market and buy two earthen pots. also bring some butter and some pebbles to fill in the pot.\"Young man went to market and bought them, thinking that this was for ritual. Then young man filled one pot with butter and another with pebbles and sealed them. Buddha them told him to put them in a near by pond. Young boy did as said and both pots sank to the bottom of pond. Now buddha asked him to bring a stout stick and strike both pots and break them open. He did so, thinking that now the buddha would perform a wonderful ritual for his father. As young man hit pots and break them open, the butter escaped from first and floated to the surface where as stones from other pot settled at bottom. Buddha said, \"I have done this much. now call all your priest. let them come and pray  'oh pebbles, rise to the surface.. oh butter, sink to bottom..'young man replied, \"Are you joking? How is it possible? It is against law of nature. Pebbles are heavier than water, they are bound to stay down, can't float where as butter is lighter than water, it is bound to float, cannot go down. \"Buddha replied, \"Young man, you know so much about nature yet you do not want to understand the law that is applicable to one and all. If your father kept performing actions like pebbles and stones , he was bound to go down. Then no one can pull him up and if he kept performing actions which are lighter than butter , he is bound to go up. Then no one can push him down. Our difficulty is that we think that some invisible power will somehow favor us, even though we do nothing to change our own behavior pattern, our own actions.", "moral1": "If a person doesn't understand what difficulty loved one have faced to provide them comfort then they will never value it. ", "moral2": "We should understand that this is eternal law of nature - fruits depends on our actions. Therefore we must be careful about out actions in daily life and do only good. ", "moral3": "A way to overcome fear of darkness in children, through imagination and creativity. ", "moral4": "The dangers of others are generally of advantage to the wary. ", "moral5": "Everything has its good and bad side. We are happiest when we look for the good in all things.", "laebl": 2}
{"id": 251, "story": "Once a young man came to a renowned indian sage. He went to him and said, \"I have come to you because I wish to study vedas..\"Sage asked, \"Do you know sanskrit?\"\"No\", young man replied. Sage asked, \"Have you studied any indian philosophy?young man confidently said, \"No but I just finished my doctoral dissertation at harvard on socratic logic. Now, I would just like to round out my education with little study of vedas. \"Sage replied, \"I doubt that you ready to study vedas. It's deepest knowledge ever known. But if still wish to study then I am willing to examine you in logic and if you pass that test than I will teach you vedas. \"Young man agreed.sage hold up two fingers and said, \"Two men come down a chimney. One comes out with a clean face and other comes out with a dirty face. Which one washes his face? \"Young man stares at sage and said, \"Is that really a test of logic? \"Sage nods.\"The one with dirty face washes his face. \", young man answered confidently.sage replied, \"Wrong. The one with the clean face washes his face. Examine the logic - the one with the dirty face looks at the one with the clean face and thinks his face is clean. The one with the clean face looks at the one with the dirty face and thinks his face is dirty. So, the one with the clean face washes his face. \"Young man responded, \"Very clever. Please give me another chance. \"Sage holds up his two fingers again and said, \"Two men come down a chimney. One comes out with a clean face and other comes out with a dirty face. Which one washes his face? \"Young man replied, \"But we have already established that. The one with clean face washes his face. \"Sage replied, \"Wrong again. Each one washes his face. Examine the logic - the one with the dirty face looks at the one with the clean face and thinks his face is clean. The one with the clean face looks at the one with the dirty face and thinks his face is dirty. So, the one with the clean face washes his face. When the one with the dirty face sees the one with the clean face wash his face, he also washes his face. So, each one washes his face. \"\"I didn't think of that.. It's shocking to me that I could make an error in logic. Please test me again. \", young man replied.sage holds up his two finger again and said, \"Two men come down a chimney. One comes out with a clean face and other comes out with a dirty face. Which one washes his face? \"Young man replied with confused face, \"Each one washes his face. \"Sage responded, \"Wrong. Neither one washes his face. Examine the logic - the one with the dirty face looks at the one with the clean face and thinks his face is clean. The one with the clean face looks at the one with the dirty face and thinks his face is dirty. But when the one with the clean face sees the one with the dirty face doesn't wash his face, he also doesn't wash his face. So, neither one washes his face. \"Young man got desperate and said, \"Please give me one more chance. \"Young man groans, though, when sage lift two fingers again and said, \"Two men come down a chimney. One comes out with a clean face and other comes out with a dirty face. Which one washes his face? \"Young man replied, \"Neither one washes his face. \"Sage smiled and said, \"Wrong again. Do you now see why logic is an insufficient basis for studying vedas? Tell me, how is it possible for two men to come down the same chimney and for one to come out with a clean face and the other with a dirty face? Don't you see? The whole question is nonsense, foolishness.", "moral1": "Nobody is perfectly happy. We learned that their are difficulties in everyone life. Happy is one who is contented with whatever they have. ", "moral2": "Thus do men often perish while meditating the destruction others. ", "moral3": "Don't give up too easily. Keep trying until you reach the goal. ", "moral4": "There is always a way. ", "moral5": "If you spend your whole life trying to answer foolish questions, all your answers will be foolish too.", "laebl": 5}
{"id": 252, "story": "Once in a village lived a boy name shiva. He belonged to a poor family and to help his family he would go to forest to get some wood to sell in market and earn some money. One day while returning from forest he saw an old man. When asked man told him that he was hungry. Shiva was on way to his home, so he had no food left with him. He felt sad that he couldn't give old man anything to eat. He continued on his way. Later he saw a man who wanted to make camp but didn't have woods for fire. When shiva saw him he asked, \"What's wrong?\"Man told him that he needed dry wood for camp. Shiv had dry wood with him, so he gave some to that man. In return, man gave him some food and water. Shiva went back to old man and took out food and gave all that to old man. Then on his way he saw a deer who was thirsty. He gave him some water. Shiva happily went on his way but when he was about to get out of forest, he slipped and fell down the hill. He hurt his leg and was in pain. He couldn't move at all and there was no one around to help him. Shiva was lying down the hill, after some time old man happened to pass through same path and saw him. He immediately bent down to help shiva get up hill. With old man's help shiva was able to get up the hill. Shiva's leg was hurt and he was not able to move. Deer whom shiva has helped, saw his wound and went into forest and brought some herbs. Old man took those herbs and covered his wound. Soon, shiva was able to move and went to his way to his home.", "moral1": "Any excuse will serve a wicked person. ", "moral2": "If we're forever thinking about the past we can miss the fact that the future can always be better than what went before. ", "moral3": "Instead of jumping into senseless action, we should stand back and apply thought to the best course to take. ", "moral4": "When you read bhagavad gita. You may not understand or remember what you read but it words will change you from inside and out. ", "moral5": "A good dead leads to another.", "laebl": 5}
{"id": 253, "story": "Once upon a time, in a kingdom lived a priest who had magical power and knew a special spell which was given to him by his teacher. There was a condition on use of that special spell that it can be used only once a year at a specific time. Priest had a disciple who was a very good student and was intelligent and able to understand his teacher even most difficult lessons. He was obedient and faithful and always wishing to honor and protect his teacher. One day priest had to go on a trip faraway from village. Since trip was long and he had to pass through dangerous road, he asked his disciple to come with him. Both priest and his disciple were going on their trip and along this road, they were attacked and kidnapped by a gang. Gang demanded 5000 gold coins to release him. So, priest sent his disciple to get them from his village. Before leaving disciple knelt before priest and bowed respectfully. He said to him in low voice, \"Master, tonight is night when you can use your special spell once a year but please do not use this spell. I will come back with ransom money. please bear till then.\"After disciple left. In evening, kidnappers tied up priest tightly and left him and outside their cave for night and gave him nothing to eat and drink. At night moon came out. Priest was in pain. He looked at and saw lining up of planet and knew that this is time his spell could work. He thought to himself, \"Why should I suffer like this when I can pay my own ransom using my magical spell. my life is much more worth than jewels.besides this lucky night comes only once a year. I can not waste this cane to use my great power.\"Priest decided to use the spell. He called out kidnappers and said, \"I can make you rich beyond your wildest dream. for I am great and powerful. you must trust me and untie me. treat me properly, let me wash my head and face and dress me in new clothes. then after honoring me properly, leave me alone to do my magic.\"Kidnappers wanted money so they agreed and did as said. But they didn't trust him completely, they hid in bushes and secretly watched him. They saw that. Priest looked up into sky and calculated that planets were lined up in special pattern then he lowered his head and muttered a spell into his hands and then gazed up into sky and clapped his hands. Suddenly he was showered with the most beautiful jewels from sky. Seeing such beautiful jewels, kidnappers came out of hiding and grabbed all precious stones. They thought that if priest can give them so much jewels why leave him. They tied him up again and took him with them. On way they were stopped by another gang of robbers. That gang demanded money from them. Kidnappers were less in number. They knew they couldn't win against them so they bring priest to them and said, \"Leave us alone and you can get all the riches from this priest. he knows a magical spell with which he can make precious jewels shower. he can do this for you also.\"Priest replied, \"Of course I can give but now you have to wait for another year as I can do this spell only once a year. you can come see me next year and I will give you all the jewels I get at that time.\"Robbers didn't believe him and angrily said, \"You tricky priest you are lying. you made kidnapper gang wealthy but now refusing to do same for us.\"Saying this they killed priest. Then they attacked kidnapper gang for jewels and killed them all. After getting jewels robbers started to fight between them and in bloody battle all died. Few days later, disciple returned with ransom money. He went inside forest but couldn't find priest and kidnapper gang. Instead he found only things left by kidnapper gang before they left in hurry. When he continued in search and he found his teacher dead body. Disciple mourned his death and built a funeral pyre and covered it with flowers. He burned his body as per rituals and gave his last respects to his teacher before leaving. Little further on his way, disciple found body of kidnapper gang. Then he walked little further in search to know what may had happened. He found bodies of another gang then near them he found bundles of jewels. Seeing jewels he could tell immediately what had happened. He thought to himself, \"It is so sad. my teacher had great knowledge but not enough wisdom. regardless of result, he couldn't resist using his magical spell and that resulted in end of so many people.\"Then disciple took that bundle of jewels and took it back to village and used it for benefits of many.", "moral1": "The wise do not let themselves be tricked a second time. ", "moral2": "Impatience can ruin even the best laid plans. ", "moral3": "Competition is not about comparing ourselves with others but to learn about ourselves. ", "moral4": "When power had no conscience and greed has no limit and killing has no end. ", "moral5": "The advice of wise people should be taken seriously.", "laebl": 4}
{"id": 254, "story": "Once upon a time, a caravan of tradesman was going to another country to sell goods. Along the way they came to edge of a severe hot sand desert. Before coming to that desert, they got to know that during day sun heats up the fine sand so much that no one can walk on it, not even bullock or camels. Leader of tradesman caravan knew that they could only travel at night when sand cools down. So he hired a guide who could help them to cross that desert and began their dangerous night time journey across the desert. After traveling for couple of night, one evening after they had their evening meal and when sand was cool down, they started out again. That night guide who was driving the first cart, saw from stars that they were getting close to other side of desert and relaxed. While relaxing he fell to sleep. Because guide slept, his camel whom everyone was following, gradually turned to side and went in big circle until they ended up at same place where they had started from last night. When sun came up and caravan stopped, people realized that they were back at same spot where they camped last time. Everyone in caravan became worried and began to cry about their condition. Since the desert crossing was supposed to be over by now, they had no more water were afraid that they would die of thirst. All people started to blame caravan leader and desert guide and said, \"We can do nothing without water, how will we survive?\"Then leader thought to himself, \"If I lose courage now in middle of this disastrous situation and do nothing then all these good and bullocks and lives of people will be lost.\"So he started to think of way to save them all. Remaining alert, at some distance, he noticed a small clamp of grass. He knew that it wouldn't be possible for plant to survive in this desert without water. He got hope to find water and went to his fellow travelers. He told that about grass and asked them to dig up the ground on that very spot. All agreed and started to dig that area. They dug and dug and after a while they got down to a large stone which seemed impossible to break. Seeing it they all lost hope again and began to blame leader saying, \"This is useless. we are just wasting our time.\"Leader replied, \"No, my fellow travelers. it's not useless. if we give up now all our effort will be ruined and our poor animals will die. we should try little more..!\"As he said this, he got down into already dug hole and put his ear to stone and heard very light sound of flowing water. He called over strongest man from caravan and said, \"If you give up, we will all perish.. so, take this heavy hammer and strike the rock with all your strength.\"Man lifted hammer over his head and hit rock as hard as he could. He himself was surprised to see that large rock split in two and a mighty flow of water gushed out from under it. Suddenly, all people were over joyed and filled up their water pouches and continued on with their journey. Before they left, they raised a high banner so that other travelers could see it from afar and can come to this new spring in middle of hot sand desert.", "moral1": "In overcoming adversity can lie the seeds of our success. ", "moral2": "All things require a minimum of order, although that doesn't prevent the order from being applied with imagination. ", "moral3": "Don't give up too easily. Keep trying until you reach the goal. ", "moral4": "Organisation and following rules, allows collaboration to achieve great things. ", "moral5": "The laws of nature are unchangeable.", "laebl": 3}
{"id": 255, "story": "Once there were two friends, one was gurmeet and other was manpreet. They were very good friends. Gurmeet believed in god but manpreet didn't. Gurmeet would wake up early in morning, take bath and recite holy hymns and was always engaged in doing good works while manpreet would stay in bed sound asleep and spend whole day playing around. Once they were travelling through forest and as they were passing through forest, manpreet found a bag of coal. Manpreet was very happy to found that bag as he could sell it and make some money. As they walked further while talking about how lucky manpreet was, gurmeet screamed with pain. It appeared that a splinter got stuck in gurmeet's foot. While gurmeet was in pain, suddenly manpreet started laughing. Gurmeet was surprised to see him laugh and asked, \"Why are you laughing?\"Manpreet replied, \"You have been worshiping god everyday and what you got as a result, a splinter in your foot where as I have never worshiped god and yet got a bag full of coal.\"At that time, an old sage happened to pass by. Old sage heard manpreet's comment and stopped near them. He had a big smile on his face. Manpreet was astonished to see that sage's smile. Manpreet asked sage about reason for his smile. Old man replied, \"You are naive. you were destined to find a bag full of diamonds today if you have been worshiping god and doing good works but you got only bag of coal.where as your friend was destined to be harmed severely but got splinter in his foot just because he had been worshiping god severe physical loss simply turned into small pain caused by splinter.\"", "moral1": "It is always better to tell the truth. ", "moral2": "Don't boast that you can do something when you can't. ", "moral3": "Familiarity breeds contempt. ", "moral4": "Always give affection and care to our dear ones. Always respect other's feelings. ", "moral5": "We should live our life doing good because god is always watching us and will always be there for us in our difficult times.", "laebl": 5}
{"id": 256, "story": "Once upon a time, on outskirt of a big city stood an old temple. Many young boys who wanted to study buddhism would come to live in temple and to learn from master  at temple. One day, master decided to test his students. So he gathered all young boys around him and said, \"My dear students, as you can see I am growing old. I am not able to provide for needs of temple as I used to.I know I haven't yet taught you to work for money but we need money to keep running this school at temple. so I can think of only one thing that can keep our school from closing..\"Students drew close to him with eyes wide open. Master continued, \"As you all know our near by city is full of wealthy people. I want you all to go into city and follow those rich people as they walk through crowded streets or walk down deserted alleyways.and when no one is looking absolutely no one is looking you must steal from them. if you all can do this then we can have enough money to keep our school alive.\"Young boy chorused in disbelief, \"But master you have taught us that it is wrong to steal from anyone.\"Master replied, \"Yes, indeed I have. it would be wrong to steal if it were not absolutely necessary and remember you must not be seen by anyone while stealing.. if anyone, anyone can see you, you must not steal.. do you understand?\"Boys looked nervously at each other and thought to themselves if something happened to their master. \"Yes, master\", boys replied. Master replied, \"Good. now go and remember, you must not be seen while stealing.\"Slowly, young boys started to get up and quietly began to go out of temple building. Master also got up and watched them go. When master turned back, he saw one student still standing quietly in corner of room. \"Why did you not go with others? don't you want to save our school?\", asked master. \"I do, master\", boy replied calmly. \"But you said that we had to steal without being seen and there is no place on earth that would not be seen as for I would always see myself.\", said boy. \"Excellent..! this is just lesson that I hoped my students would learn but you were the only one to see it.\", exclaimed master. Then master asked him to go and ask everyone else to return to temple. Boy ran out and found his friends who were nervously gathered just out of sight of temple and trying to decide what to do. When they returned master explained them and all of them understood lesson.", "moral1": "They complain most who suffer least. ", "moral2": "A friend in need is a friend indeed. ", "moral3": "No matter what we do, we always have a part of ourselves that is quietly watching and that knows right from wrong and can guide us if we listen. ", "moral4": "Humbleness is basic thing. If you are humble then you will learn much even without wise man. You can learn from trees, springs, wind. If you are humble enough then whole existence becomes teacher to you. ", "moral5": "If you allow men to use you for your own purposes, they will use you for theirs.", "laebl": 3}
{"id": 257, "story": "Once two men came to sage who used to live in forest inside a small hut. They requested him to allow them to be his students. Sage asked them to come next day. Next day when they came, sage was holding two birds in his hands. He asked them to hold on to birds. Both men took one bird each in their hands. Now sage instructed them, \"Go and kill bird you are holding but there is one condition..\"Men asked, \"What?\"Sage replied, \"You can only kill bird at a place where no one can see you when you kill that bird..\"First man immediately went inside forest, little far from sage's hut and looked here and there. Man saw that there was no one around, so he went behind a tree and kill that bird and brought it back to sage. Another man took that bird and went very far away to a deserted place. Then he stopped to kill bird. Then while he was looking at bird to kill it, he thought, \"When I kill this bird, it sees me and I also see it, this means two and third god is watching all this,but sage ordered to kill this bird when these is no one else..\"After thinking all this, that man brought that bird back alive to the sage and said, \"Mahatma ji..!! I could not find any place where no one sees because god is everywhere.\"Sage replied, \"You are right.. you have passed this test and have right to get knowledge, you can come to me as my student.\"Saying this sage asked first one to leave as he was not fit to be his student.", "moral1": "Don't respond to what people say in anger. Inner calmness and peace are ways to live contented life. ", "moral2": "We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified. ", "moral3": "Watch were your going and be friendly to others. ", "moral4": "If we always remember that god is everywhere and he can see us even when we try to sin hiding from everyone else.. Then we can stop ourselves from doing wrong. ", "moral5": "We are all valuable in ourselves; much more so than we sometimes believe.", "laebl": 4}
{"id": 258, "story": "Once a kingdom was ruled by kind king raja bhanu pratap. One day while declaring a punishment for a criminal, he thought that he should try to know more about those who were punished for some offense they done. After getting punished do they really have a feeling of remorse? Next day, king went to prison house of his kingdom and started to ask prisoners about the crime committed by them. One prisoner said, \"I have not committed any crime. I'm innocent. \"Another said, \"I have been framed. I am innocent too.\"Similarly, king saw that all prisoner's there were trying to prove their innocence to king. Just then king saw a prisoner sitting in corner with his head down crying. King went to him and asked, \"Why are you crying?\"Prisoner replied with humility, \"I was troubled by my poverty and stole. I have no doubt about justice. I did an offense and I got punished for it.\"The king thought that the law of punishment does not create a sense of atonement inside all but this is one of those prisoners who is atoning for his mistake. If this person is freed from penalties then he can improve himself. So the king freed him.", "moral1": "Honestly is the best policy. ", "moral2": "This simple but deep meaning statement of monk, now awakened wisdom of woodcutter and he understood that any search of wealth is incomplete without god because one's mind cannot be satisfied until he gain wealth of god name. ", "moral3": "Once should never try to cheat others. ", "moral4": "It is always better to tell the truth. ", "moral5": "Union gives strength.", "laebl": 4}
{"id": 259, "story": "It had happened after swami vivekananda ji had returned after his great address at world parliament of religion and everyone in country knew about him. Vivekananda was wandering near himalayas and came across a river. There he saw that boat had already left the bank. So he sat by shore to wait for boat to come back. In meantime, a sadhu came. He saw swami ji sitting there, he approached him and said, \"Why are you sitting here..?\" Swami ji replied, \"I am waiting for boat..\"Sadhu questioned, \"What's your name?\" Swami ji replied, \"I am vivekananda..\"Sadhu replied in mocking tone, \"Oh..!! so you are famous vivekananda, who thinks that just by speaking in foreign, he can become a great sage..\"Swami ji didn't said anything. Then sadhu demonstrated his power by walking few meters on river and then said, \"Can you cross the river like I did?\"Swami ji showing respect humbly said, \"Indeed it's a great power.. but can you tell me how much time it took you to gain such great power?\"Sadhu proudly replied, \"It's was not easy. I did twenty years of extreme sadhna then I got this power..\"Saying this sadhu seemed very proud.", "moral1": "With your dedication and determination to learn something you can do anything you want.. ! ! ", "moral2": "Evil companions bring more hurt than profit. ", "moral3": "You could have devoted these 20 years serving the destitute the poor. You wasted 20 years to save 5 mins, its not wisdom. ", "moral4": "We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified. ", "moral5": "The family has such strength because it is united by love, and this is why the family accepts and forgives a thousand times.", "laebl": 3}
{"id": 260, "story": "Once in a village lived tow brothers arun and varun who used to live together. One day they got in a fight and decided to divide everything. Arun was elder and cunning where as varun was simple minded. After all things were divided. Brothers were left with blanket, cow and mango tree to be divided. Seeing this arun said,\"My brother, I will have blanket during night time, you can have it during day time..as for cow, I will have the back end of cow and you can have the front end to cow..and about tree, I will take care of the upper half of tree and you can take the lower half of tree.\"Varun who was simple minded agreed to his brother's term. It was winter time, varun got to use blanket during day time, when sun blazed down but at night when it was too cold, he had to give it to his elder brother and shiver in cold. Varun got first half of cow and had to feed cow while arun milked cow and had all the milk to himself and made curd and butter with it. Younger brother had to water and weed mango tree around its base while elder brother would come and pick delicious and ripped fruit. Varun had to bear hunger and cold. After sometime, he couldn't bear it anymore and went to one of his friend who was a wise man. He told him everything that happened. His friend understood all situation and said, \"If you want to get out of this situation you must do as I say..before giving blanket to your brother at night, you must dip it in the water. as for cow, do not feed cow and let it be hungry for sometime and lastly when you brother come to collect fruits, you should go there and cut the upper half of tree.\"Varun agreed. On returning home in evening, varun did as his friend said. At night when arun got blanket, it was wet and because of it he had to shiver all night in cold. Next day when arun tired to milk cow, cow just kicked him because cow was hungry as varun hadn't feed her in morning. Arun couldn't understand what's happening. At last frustrated, he went to mango tree to have some sweet fruit but there he saw varun standing there with an axe ready to chop off that tree upper half. Seeing this arun asked, \"What's wrong what are you doing?\"Varun replied, \"'I am going to cut the tree in half. I am going to chop my half from your half.\"Arun understood everything and felt sorry for his behavior to his brother and promised to never trouble him again and would share everything fairly. Now both shared the blanket and kept each other warm at night, shared the milk to make butter and yogurt and shared those delicious mangoes.", "moral1": "Teamwork can defeat the opponent. ", "moral2": "It is a cause to be a miser. ", "moral3": "When we want to learn spiritually we need to understand that to find ultimate truth we need to have vision of our own to achieve it. ", "moral4": "Once should never try to cheat others. ", "moral5": "Any excuse will serve a wicked person.", "laebl": 4}
{"id": 261, "story": "Once there were two good friends arun and karan. They were classmates since kindergarden. Arun was always ahead of karan in all fields be it studies or sports or any extra curricular activities. Arun was always selected to perform in all school programs and was famous throughout school. Karan would endeavor to out-do arun each time but never succeeded. One day when karan returned home he had gloomy face. When his mother saw that she said, \"Why do you look like a cry baby??\"Karan made grumpy face and replied, \"It's all because of arun. once again he got higher marks than me and no matter how hard I try but he is always ahead of me.. I don't understand why I am always lagging behind..\"Mother questioned, \"Are you jealous of arun??\"Karan replied, \"No.. no why I would be jealous of him. he is my friend..\"Mother replied, \"Ok.. listen carefully to what I say and tell me whether you agree or not..?\"Karan agreed and started to listen.. Mother continued, \"When people praise arun, you don't like it. when he loss, you feel happy. whatever he does, you feel compelled to do it all. you keep seeing negative qualities in him and feel a sense of dislike towards him. you feel like telling others about his negatives. you burn like fire all day long. tell me, do you feel all of this?\"Karan was stunned with what he heard and said, \"It's true but how did you know about this??\"Mother replied, \"Your gloomy face shows it all but I have a great solution for you to overcome jealousy..\"Karan replied, \"What is it?? please tell me..\"Mother replied, \"When you heartily appreciate the positive qualities in others, those qualities manifest in you. our strength increases and by heartily accepting the positive in others, our jealousy for the person dissolves completely. therefore, you too should appreciate the positive qualities in arun from the bottom of your heart.\"Just listening to this karan replied with grumpy face, \"Positives qualities?? in arun?? even if search I cannot find even a single positive quality in him..\"Mother rhetorically asked, \"You can't or you don't want to find?\"Karan looked down speechlessly. Mother said, \"Ok.. tell me when do you start preparing for exam?\"Karan replied, \"A week before..\"Mother asked, \"And arun??\"Karan thought and replied, \"He studies daily. once his father told me that arun always follows his timetable. he has slotted aside time to watch tv, play and chat with friends and he diligently follows the timetable.\"Mother replied, \"So.. this is known was good management skills and this proves that he is sincere and hardworking..\"Karan nodded in yes. Mother than said, \"Instead of being jealous, if you appreciate his positive qualities then these qualities will also begin to develop in you.\"Karan felt inspired and following that day, he remembered his mother's teaching. He began to notice and appreciate arun's discipline, sincerity, concentration, hard working qualities. Within no time, he also became sincere and hard working like arun. Exam results were declared. Karan went home to mother and looked very happy. Mother smiled and said, \"What's matter? you look very happy today..!!\"Karan replied, \"Yes.. I got results today. arun again stood first while I came second. best part is today I am not jealous of him at all. I am happy to see my progress and at same time I am happy with his,\"Karan continued, \"Thank you.. you have given me the ultimate solution to overcome jealousy. all my energies were lost being jealous. now, I can steer my strengths onto the path of progress.\"Mother was happy and hugged karan and congratulated him on his good work and progress.", "moral1": "This is designed for you, who, when you have threatened great things, produce nothing. ", "moral2": "They complain most who suffer least. ", "moral3": "Self-help is the best help. ", "moral4": "I would rather be a little nobody, then to be an evil somebody. ", "moral5": "We should focus our energy on positive and with in not time we would be able to do things we couldn't think of doing before.", "laebl": 5}
{"id": 262, "story": "Once upon a time, there was a spider who used to live in basements of museum. Spider's web was spin alongside paintings that were in basement for years. Spider's web was artistic and had made most beautiful web in whole museum. It was really spectacular and spider took all effort into looking after his web. For him it was most valuable thing in world. However, one day museum started reorganizing it's paintings and started to pick paintings from basements to put on display. Many other spiders realized what happening and left their webs and moved to other place. But this spider didn't bother and thought, \"It will just a few paintings..\"With time more and more paintings were removed from basement but yet spider carried on reinforcing his web. He thought, \"Where am I going to find a better place than this??\"One morning museum employees took painting alongside which his web was built. Spider didn't want to leave his web but he realized that if he didn't leave his web right now then he would end up in exhibition room. In an act of strength and decisiveness, he chose to abandon his magnificent web, the web he had worked his whole life to build up. It was good decision as if he hadn't left then he would have been killed because of insect killer that were being sprayed on paintings. In his escape, after overcoming many difficulties, the spider ended up in a secluded little garden, where he found such a quiet corner that there he was able to spin an even better web and became a much happier spider. Sometimes in life, there come a time where we have to take a difficult decision and abundant place which we put our whole handwork and life to built but yet have to leave but leaving doesn't mean losing.", "moral1": "Fear of the dark is not fear of anything real, and can only prevent you from discovering interesting things. ", "moral2": "Sometimes we need to understand that nature of person can not change and should act sensible. ", "moral3": "No one you love is ever truly lost. ", "moral4": "If we gather up strength and face difficulties then we end up at better place, because we never know what future has in store for us. ", "moral5": "We should understand and have respect for other's person life style. We shouldn't we embarrassed of our elder's ways to do work.", "laebl": 4}
{"id": 263, "story": "Once a saint who was on his death bed called his disciple and said, \"Remember one thing.. never allow a cat in your life..\"Just after saying that saint died. Disciple was perplexed by those last words. He was not able to understand it's meaning. He thought to himself, \"Why would I allow a cat in my life?? what does this meant?? how will I know it's meaning..\"There was a old wise man who used to follow that saint. One day he met his disciple and got into discussion. Disciple told him about last words. Just listening to those words old man realized it's meaning and said, \"You don't know it's meaning because you don't know whole story..\"Old man then started story.. Once a young man renounced from his life of worldly pleasure and came to mountains to live a secluded life as a saint. He would roam around looking for food and water for his basic need. There was a village near by and soon people learned about that saint. Saint was respected by villagers and soon they built him a small hut. Saint started to live in that hut. Saint had only 2 cloths and nothing else. Soon trouble arise for him as some rat came into hut and started to chew away on those two clothes. In meantime, one of villagers got to know about this trouble. He bought a cat with him and said, \"You are troubled by rats and if you keep this cat here then you wouldn't have to worry about rats anymore..\"Saint accepted it and continued with his routine. Saint was no longer troubled by rats but now his problem was that he needed milk or food to feed his cat. Now, saint had to go to village to get milk for cat. After few days, villagers thought that it would lot of trouble for saint to come to village daily for milk to feed his cat. So they collected fund and bought him a cow. It was solution for cat's milk but now saint had to go to village and beg for grass for his cow.. Villagers said it's not right and thought that if we look for someone who can look after things for saint then it won't be so troublesome for him. There was a widow in village, villagers persuaded her to help and serve saint.. After much persuasion she agreed and started to take care of chores for saint.. With time young saint and widow grew fond of each other and love started to bloom between them. Before saint could even realized he was married to that lady and had children. And then he thought to himself, \"My god, that's what I had left behind! I have renounced the world - this is the whole world again! it grew so slowly that I was not aware until the children came.\"Old man said, \"Just because of that cat whole world came in..!! that's why he told you not to allow a cat in your life.. he was talking about his own life story..\"", "moral1": "We should help others and others will help us. ", "moral2": "We shouldn't value people by their appearance, but rather for their true personality. ", "moral3": "As such no activity of life should be seen as a distraction for living a spiritual life. Every activity of life can be done with mindfulness or with a detached attitude but this is true for highly evolved soul. For most people who are still on the path, they should not let distractions them divert from spiritual path and focus intensely in our spiritual practice so that they become more centered inside. ", "moral4": "Do not harm someone even if he harms you. Be good to all. ", "moral5": "A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving.", "laebl": 3}
{"id": 264, "story": "Once a camel and fox became very good friends. They would look for food together and have fun. One day while looking for food they saw a farm but they had to cross river to reach there. Camel knew how to swim but fox didn't. So camel said, \"You can climb on my back and I will carry you across river..\"Fox was happy and he hopped on camel's back. Soon they both crossed river and made their way to farm. Arriving at farm, fox caught a chicken while camel dug up some fresh vegetables. Fox quickly gobbled up his chicken but camel was slow with eating his vegetables. Despite seeing that fox said, \"My friends, when I finish eating, I am accustomed to singing.. now I shall sing..\"Camel got scared and said, \"Don't sing yet.. I haven't finished eating vegetables and if you sing now farmer will hear you and we will be in trouble..\"Fox didn't listen to him and started singing, hearing it farmer came out running with a very large stick.. Fox was small and quickly ran away but camel was slow and received many blows on his legs and back before being able to escape from farmer. When camel came back to river, fox was waiting for him. Camel was very upset with him and questioned, \"Why did you sang, when I was still eating my food.?\"Fox replied, \"Because it's a custom.. now let me get on your back so that we can go back..\"Camel didn't said anything more and let him climb on his back. Camel slowly started to walk across river and as soon as they reached half way in river, camel stopped and said, \"When I am done eating, I am accustomed to take bath..\"Listening to this fox got scared and they were in middle of river where water was deep and fox could have easily drowned. He pleaded, \"Please.. don't take bath here. if you take bath I will be drowned in river..\"Camel ignored him and lowered his back deep into river until the fox lost her grip on his back and began to splash around helplessly against the fast current. \"Help me..!! help me..!!\", cried fox. Camel got up and said, \"Now you understand?? are you sorry that because of your selfishness I got beaten by farmer..\"Fox cried, \"Yes.. yes.. I have realized my mistake.. now please forgive me..\"Seeing this camel felt pity and swam the rest of the way across the river and climbed up the bank onto the warm grass.", "moral1": "One should not act selfish and know that if you do wrong with someone then other might do wrong with you.. So be careful about how you act with others. . ", "moral2": "Always keep your eyes open and stay alert before walking in any situation. ", "moral3": "The evil doer often comes to harm through his own deceit. ", "moral4": "Allow your awareness to shine light onto all your limiting beliefs and find who you truly are. ", "moral5": "Honesty is rewarded and greediness is punished!", "laebl": 1}
{"id": 265, "story": "Once near a pond was a very big tree. There lived a big group of swans. In that group lived an old swan who was very wise, intelligent and far-sighted. Everyone around respected him. One day, old swan saw a small vine wrapped at the bottom of tree trunk. He called other swans and said, \"We should destroy this vine or one day it will take us to our death.\"Everyone laughed and said, \"How can this little vine hurt us??\"Old swan explained, \"Today, it seems little but with time it will become thick and strong and will be wrapped up all around tree trunk and would be so thick that hunter could climb on tree using this vine as stairs..\"Other swan could believe and said, \"But it's so small, how can this small vine form a ladder?\"One of them said, \"You are worrying too much.. this small vine can not harm us ever..\". Other said, \"You are just now making up stories to prove that whatever you say is right..!!\"Saying this everyone ignored his warning and kept on enjoying life. Time went by and soon that small vine climbed up to branches of trees. With time vine became strong and thick wrapped around trees and formed kind of stairs which could be climbed very easily. Soon, swans noticed that vine and realized they should have listened to old swan as nothing could be done now because that vines became so thick that it couldn't be destroyed by swans. One day when all swans were gone in search of food. A hunter passing by, saw that tree and climbed up. He placed a net trap below tree and left. When swans returned they got stuck in that net and started fluttering there wings trying to get out of that trap but they were stuck and couldn't get out. Everyone was ashamed and felt guilty for not listening to wise old swan. They were so ashamed that they couldn't gather courage to ask him for help now. Just then one of those swan said, \"We were fools, we didn't listen to you but please help us.. only you can help us.. please tell us a way by which we can get out of this trouble.. we will follow your advice and do as you say.\"Old swan replied, \"Ok then listen to me carefully.. in morning when hunter come to check his net.. you all pretend to be dead. thinking that you are dead, he will start to get you out of net and keep on ground.even then you all should stay there like dead and as soon as he keeps last swan on ground I will whistle and you all should fly away that instant..\"Everyone understood. Next morning when hunter came, he did same as said by old swan. Thinking of those swan dead he kept all of them on ground and as soon as old swan whistle, they all flew away.", "moral1": "Every time you victimized someone, you were victimizing yourself. Every act of kindness you have done was done to yourself. Every emotions experienced by any human will be experienced by you. . ", "moral2": "It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds. ", "moral3": "In a pinch a good use of our wits may help us out. ", "moral4": "We should help others and others will help us. ", "moral5": "The advice of wise people should be taken seriously.", "laebl": 5}
{"id": 266, "story": "Once a grocer got distressed at his work. So he went to his master and told him about reason for his distress. He said to master, \"A large chain store had opened across the way and it would drive me out of business.my family had been running this shop for centuries and I don't any other skill. if my shop get closed that it would be a great loss to our family and to lose it now would be his undoing\"Master replied, \"If you fear the owner of chain store that you will hate him and then hatred will be your undoing..\"\"Then what shall I do??\", asked distraught grocer. Master smiled and replied, \"Each morning walk out of your shop onto the sidewalk and bless your shop, wishing it prosperity then turn to face the chain store and bless it too.\"Grocer got confused and questioned, \"What?? I should bless my competitor??\"Master replied, \"Any blessing you give him will rebound to your good. any evil you wish him will destroy you.\"Grocer left and did as his master said. After six months the grocer returned to report that he had had to close down his shop as he had feared but he was now in charge of the chain store and his affairs were in better shape than ever before.", "moral1": "Pleasure bought with pains, hurts. ", "moral2": "We should live our life doing good because god is always watching us and will always be there for us in our difficult times. ", "moral3": "When life is at stake, your whole energy become available. You don't live only on superficial level and do your best. ", "moral4": "Divinity lies within us all. We just need to look inside ourselves. ", "moral5": "Always think good and do good for other and it will reflect back to you.", "laebl": 5}
{"id": 267, "story": "Once all bird in jungle gathered and decided that they should have a king among birds. Now the question was - who will be the king of birds?? Myna had an idea and suggested, \"Let's keep a competition between bird and one who fly highest could be crowned as king of all birds..\"Everyone liked the idea and agreed for it. Eagle who was also present there started to boast about his strong and big body and said, \"I am the strongest of all birds. you all know that I am only one who can fly highest.. then why bother with all this competition? why not make me king now. \"\"Still.. there is a possibility that you may not win.\",piped a little voice. Eagle turned to look around to see who said that. To his surprise it was said by a little sparrow. In mocking voice eagle said, \"Oh..!!! and who is going to beat me?? you..??\"Sparrow didn't said anything. Later all birds got ready for race. As soon as owl signaled all birds started flying up into the air but they could not fly very high and very fast for long. One by one, they dropped out of the race. Only the eagle went on flying, as strong as ever. Eagle looked below him and saw that all birds had given up. He said, \"Didn't I said that already? I am only one who can fly highest, now you all agree that I am king of all the birds..\"What the eagle did not know was that the tiny sparrow had been flying under his wing. The moment he stopped, sparrow darted out. He flew just above the eagle's head and cried out, \"No, no, no mr eagle. I am king of the birds. look, I have flown higher than you.\"All the birds agreed with the sparrow. In any case, they were glad to see the proud eagle beaten. They chose sparrow as their king.", "moral1": "The doors of the world are opened to people who can read. ", "moral2": "That's why wise saints always say - don't be afraid of god, be afraid of your actions because your action will find you tomorrow if not today. ", "moral3": "Envy is the result of not knowing how to appreciate what we already have. ", "moral4": "What goes around comes around. If you do good to others, it will come back to you. So, always do good to others. ", "moral5": "Even if opponent or the work is stronger than your ability, it does not mean that you should give up before trying but instead you should think and try to find a solution to the problem sensibly and patiently.", "laebl": 5}
{"id": 268, "story": "Once a pregnant lion died soon after giving birth. New born cub didn't know what to do. Cub started to roam around just when it saw a herd of sheep. Seeing that little cub, mother sheep decided to raise it as its own. With time, that little cub grew up along with sheep and started to think and act just like a sheep. It would even eat grass like sheep. Lion was teased by other sheep for being so different. Some of them would say, \"You are so ugly. your voice is so weird. you are disgrace to sheep family.\"Lion felt sad that he didn't looked like them and that something was missing. Lion tired to get along with sheep herd but still it felt that he had let down the sheep community by being so different and that it was a waste of space. One day, an older lion saw herd of sheep and decided to attack it. While attacking, it saw the young lion running away along with the other sheep. Older lion got curious and decided to pursue younger lion. Soon it was able to pounce on young lion and then asked, \"Why are you running away with sheep?\"Younger lion who had never seen lion, shaking in fear it said, \"Please don't eat me. I am just a young sheep, please let me go..!!\"Hearing this, older lion growls, \"What?? you are not a sheep.. you are a lion just like me..\"Young lion just kept on saying, \"I am sheep.. please let me go..\"At this point the older lion gets an idea. It drags the younger lion to a river nearby and asks it to look at its reflection. Upon looking at the reflection and then older lion, young lion realized who he really was. Young lion learned that it was not a sheep but a lion. The young lion feels so thrilled that it let's out a mighty roar. Many time we are unaware of our true potential because of limiting beliefs that we inherits from our surroundings.", "moral1": "It was: we already have everything we need. It it now our task to assemble and use it in appropriate way. We will not be able to find any meaning if we perceive fragments separately but as soon as we are able to understand connection and get fragment together then new entity emerges. ", "moral2": "When we meet real tragedy in life, we can react in two ways - either by losing hope and falling into self-destructive habits or by using the challenge to find our inner strength. ", "moral3": "Always be good with others and share good with others. When we share our goodness with others it makes world a better place to live in. ", "moral4": "When you have enough to help others, don't let that chance go. Your good deeds will always be repaid to you. ", "moral5": "Allow your awareness to shine light onto all your limiting beliefs and find who you truly are.", "laebl": 5}
{"id": 269, "story": "Once there was a little girl lily who was very friendly and popular in her class. She was friends with everyone in her class. There was no one in class who didn't like her. She was very kind and would always be busy with her friends. She felt very happy that she had so many friends at school and in her neighborhood. On friendship day, their class organized an event, in which everyone had to make three presents and give them to their best friends. Lily was very happy for coming friendship day and was expecting gifts from her friends. However, when all presents were shared among classmates. She was only one who hadn't received any present. She felt terrible and cried a lot. She thought to herself that how is it possible. She had made so much effort to be friends with everyone and making so many friends but in end no one think of her as one of their best friend. Everyone came and tried to console her for a while but each one only stayed for a short time before leaving. This was exactly what lily had done so many times to others. On that day when she got home. Seeing her sad face, when her mother asked her reason for her sadness, she questioned, \"Where can I find true friends?\"Mother was surprised at her question. When mother inquired lily told her about day in school. Her mother consoled her and said, \"You cannot buy friends with a smile or a few good words. if you really want true friends, you will have to give them real time and affection. for a true friend you must always be available, in good times and bad.\"Lily replied, \"But I want to be friends with everyone..!!\"", "moral1": "Treat others the way you want to be treated. ", "moral2": "You can't be a close friend to everybody. There just isn't enough time to be available for everyone, so it's only possible to have a few true friends. The others will by playmates or acquaintances but they won't be close friends. ", "moral3": "It's our choice to keep positive attitude towards life. Circumstances are just parts of what makes us joyful. Pursuit of happiness is an inward journey. If we continue to bit our lips and just before we begin to complain we should shoot that seemingly harmless negative thought as it germinates, we will find there is much rejoice about. ", "moral4": "Divinity lies within us all. We just need to look inside ourselves. ", "moral5": "To enter by reason means to realize the essence through instruction and to believe that all living things share the same true nature, which isn't apparent because it is shrouded by sensation and delusion.", "laebl": 2}
{"id": 270, "story": "Long ago, in a village lived two friends raman and tarun. Raman was from wealthy family where as tarun was from poor family. Despite their status difference they used to stay with each other all the time and were best friends. As time went by both grew up and got busy with their life. With busy life they didn't get much time to met each other. One day, tarun got very ill and he was given best rest. When raman came to know about it. He went to tarun's house to meet him. He didn't stayed there for long and talked much but instead he just took some money out of his pocket and gave it to his friend and left. Tarun felt very bad but didn't said anything to him. With time tarun got well and worked hard to earn money so that he could return raman's money. Once tarun earned enough money. He went to raman to return his money. Still tarun couldn't forget how rude was raman's behavior toward him. Just after sometime, raman got ill and doctor suggested him bed rest. As soon as tarun got news of raman's illness, he left all his work as it is and went to meet raman and stayed by his side until raman got all well. After this, one day raman went to meet tarun and said, \"My friend, I feel very guilty. when you fell ill, I gave you money and you returned it.but when I got ill, you stayed by my side whole time and took care of me, how am I ever going to be able to return this favor of yours..?\"Tarun hugged him and replied, \"I just wanted you to realize that money is not everything and today I am very happy that you understand that..\"", "moral1": "Any knowledge teacher gives to student has value in life of a student as he goes on with life.   think from kindergarten till highest level of study you have completed, see what you will be left with if there were no teachers in your life.   parents give us life, love and help in going right direction, but teachers show us how to live life, shows us path and makes us self dependable so that we can pick the right path.   always respect your teachers, do not value them any lesser than your parents.   when student succeeds in studies and life, its student who always gets praised by people, not the one who gave student a knowledge to success.    teacher's happiness is in student's success, and student should not forget to at least thank politely to the one who made you capable of following journey of life.   and if you had learned what your teacher taught you with dedication and respect to towards teacher, journey of life always gets comfortable. ", "moral2": "Money is not everything. Friendship is all about care and affection. ", "moral3": "It matters little if those who are inferior to us in merit  should be like us in outside appearances. ", "moral4": "Any excuse will serve a wicked person. ", "moral5": "Thus do men often perish while meditating the destruction others.", "laebl": 2}
{"id": 271, "story": "Once in a town lived a man and his wife. Man had really bad temper and used to beat his wife. Unfortunately one day even though he didn't wanted to kill her, wife succumbed to his beating and died. When he realized what happened he became fearful of wife's relatives and thought of consequences. Just thought of what his relative would do to him, he shivered with fear. In state of anxiety he went out to met one of his acquaintance and told him about his problem and asked him for solution. That acquaintance instead of reporting him to police or telling him to go to police and admit his crime, gave him an idea. He told him that - he should invite an young man to his house and behead him then put that young man's head beside his wife body and tell all his relatives that as he reached home, he found both of them in bed and killed both of them because he was unable to control his anger. Man liked the idea and went back to his home. He hid her wife body in his room and then went out. As he was passing by his street he met a young man. He talked him into coming to his house. Young man agreed and walked to his home with him. He poisoned him and then beheaded him. He did as his acquaintance has suggested him to do. Later he called all his wife's relatives and told them story he made-up to cover his crime. Listening to his story relative couldn't blame him and all left. His relatives went away but his acquaintance who devised plan had a teenage son who didn't came home last night. He was worried. Just then man who was saved by his plan came to thank him and told him that his plan worked and then he took out his phone and showed him picture of dead body of his wife and beheaded young man. His acquaintance was shocked when he saw that the youth he had killed was his own son. His evil advice caused the death of his own son. If you dig a hole for others, you are sure to fall in it yourself. Those who conspire against others, bring all those bad times to them.", "moral1": " don't judge anything too quickly or reach a conclusion.  always spare a time to understand things better. ", "moral2": "This also implies that it is said that when we do good to others, when we help others, when we sympathize with others we are doing those to ourselves and we get all those benefits and all those goodness returns back to us. ", "moral3": "Divinity lies within us all. We just need to look inside ourselves. ", "moral4": "Those who seek to harm others often come to harm themselves through their own deceit. ", "moral5": "Similarly, path we give to our life is in our own hands. By our choices and efforts we can decide what to make of our life. .", "laebl": 2}
{"id": 272, "story": "Once in a village an old man used to live with his four son. Four brother always used to quarrel among themselves. Seeing this their father felt very sad and wanted to end their dispute. Father trying to talk to them but still he failed to heal their disputes. At last he thought of an idea. He called them one day and asked them to bring a bundle of wooden sticks with them. When they came, his father asked them to stand side by side and then placed the bundle of sticks in hands of oldest son and ordered him to break it into pieces. He tried with all his strength but was not able to break it then he asked his younger sons to break it but even they couldn't do it. After this their father opened that bundle and took out a single stick and then gave that to oldest son and asked him to break it. This time son was able to break it. Similarly his younger sons were also given single stick to break and they were able to break it. Sons were standing their in confusion that why their father is asking such things to do. Seeing this father understood and said, \"My sons, if you are divided among yourselves, you will be easily target of your enemies and you would be hurt easily but if you are of one mind and unite to assist each other then you will be like bundle of sticks which can't be injured if you are stick together.\"", "moral1": "In union there is strength and in division we fall. ", "moral2": "When we chose to fight, we can see that in no time, that big trouble start resembling a small problem and we can remove it from our life and move forward. ", "moral3": "When you quarrel someone else gains. ", "moral4": "Your job doesn't always define you, but being a good human being does. ", "moral5": "A burning desire is starting point to all accomplishment. Just like a small fire can not give much heat, weak desire can not produce great results.", "laebl": 1}
{"id": 273, "story": "Rohit was traveling from one city to another but he missed his morning train. So while waiting he thought of having breakfast. He went out of station and started walking toward a near by hotel to eat. On his way he saw two kids sitting on sidewalk. There condition was not looking good and by look on their face he could guess that they were very hungry. He felt bad for them and gave them 10r and left. After this, as he was walking toward hotel he thought to himself, \"How stupid of me..!! I gave them just 10rs.. what can they buy to eat with it, when I can't even get a cup of tea with 10rs.\"He felt ashamed of himself and went back to those kids. He asked them if they would like to eat at hotel with him. Kids were confused and looked at each other. As they were very hungry, they accepted his offer. When kids were at the hotel, hotelier stopped them from entering as their clothes were too dirty and torn. Seeing this rohit went to him and asked him to allow those kids to enter as they were with him and he is going to pay for their food. Seeing this hotelier understood whole situation and felt ashamed at his act of stopping those kids from entering. They got inside and got seated comfortably. After this rohit asked kids, \"What do you want to eat.\" Kids kept silent. Rohit ordered food. As soon as food came, he saw smile on face of boys and felt happy. When the children started eating, the happiness of their face was somewhat different. After having food. They returned back. Before leaving rohit handed them some more money and asked them to buy some clothes. Whole incident was over. Rohit was back to his normal routine but even after many days he couldn't stop thinking about those boys and felt bad for them. One day while visiting temple he said, \"God, where are you?? how can you sit quietly when there are children like them who are suffering from hunger..\"Just in next moment a thought struck his mind, \"Who had been providing food for them until now?? what I did for those boys, could I have done that with my own thinking??\"At that moment he realized and understood that ever we do is just a part of god's plan. Whenever we help someone it's because god find us worthy to help someone, he send us to help that person.", "moral1": "This simple but deep meaning statement of monk, now awakened wisdom of woodcutter and he understood that any search of wealth is incomplete without god because one's mind cannot be satisfied until he gain wealth of god name. ", "moral2": "God wants us to give up all those fake and cheap things we hold very preciously in our life. It can be habits, hatreds, harming relationships, activities, negative thoughts, etc. He will provide us genuine things to give up the fake! ", "moral3": "Refusing to help someone is like refusing work of god. If you see someone in need of help and you can help that person according to your capability as no help is small for person who needs it. ", "moral4": "An invitation prompted by selfishness is not to be accepted. ", "moral5": "Instead of jumping into senseless action, we should stand back and apply thought to the best course to take.", "laebl": 3}
{"id": 274, "story": "Once in a village lived two wood cutter rohit and sahil. Every morning they would go out to forest to cut wood to sell it to near by market. They both used to earn enough to survive. One day while wood cutter were taking a break from their and sat to eat lunch, there one of them noticed a beggar who seemed very thin and exhausted. As beggar was passing by he noticed them and begged, \"I am very hungry, would you care to spare a few bites of food for me??\"Rohit felt pity toward him and quickly looked in his bag for a packet of food he had kept for later but before rohit could give that to beggar, sahil grabbed his hand and pulled him back. Sahil looked toward beggar and said, \"We have no food to spare. we both work hard all day long and have enough food to get us through the day. we can not give you what we are eating..but if you wish I can lend you my axe and we both will teach you how to cut firewood. then you can sell it and hope that at end of day you will have enough money to buy yourself enough food.this way you can learn to earn a livelihood with dignity and hopefully never have to beg again.\"Beggar felt little disappointed but still joined them. Patiently sahil taught him how to cut firewood and helped him. At end of day they went to market. At first beggar had no success in selling those woods and began to get little angry saying, \"It would have been much simpler if they had just share little food with me.\"While he was thinking a carriage pulled up before him. A person came down and purchased whole bunch of woods from him. Beggar was delighted and he proudly went to woodcutters to show them his earning. Sahil took him to axe shop and purchased him a brand new axe with a part of money earned by him. Beggar was happy. He thanked them and headed to an inn to buy some food. After beggar left sahil told rohit, \"Had you given the beggar some food, he would have eaten it quickly and would have been again hungry tonight.by teaching him how to start his own trade in firewood, we have both taught him a skill, which will last him a lifetime. now he will never go hungry again.\"", "moral1": "To care for the natural world we need to act responsibly in our everyday actions, no matter how small. ", "moral2": "Similarly, path we give to our life is in our own hands. By our choices and efforts we can decide what to make of our life. . ", "moral3": "There is a famous saying don't give them fish but teach them how to catch the fish.   ", "moral4": "They who act without sufficient thought, will often fall into unsuspected danger. ", "moral5": "We should help others and others will help us.", "laebl": 3}
{"id": 275, "story": "Once there was a kingdom which was ruled by a tyrant king. He was so arrogant that he couldn't stand praise of anyone else except for himself. One time in his kingdom came a sage. Sage admiration was spread through kingdom with in few days. He was kind and wise. He helped people by giving wise answers for their queries. Soon this news of sage reached king through his loyal ministers. King envied him and decided to defame him among people. So, king thought of a plan. King sent his guards to invite sage to his palace. Sage accepted his invite. Public announcements were made for the day. On decided day sage came with smiling face. King welcomed priest. King told priest that he heard about his wisdom and wanted to see it for himself. King said, \"I will ask you question..\"Sage smiled in response. King was holding a dark cloth bag in his hand. He questioned, \"Tell me what is in my hand??\"Sage replied, \"You are holding a bird inside that bag..\"King was little surprised yet calmly replied, \"Yes.. you are right.. now tell me is it alive or dead??\"\"If you are a wise man you will be able to answer..\", commented king. King's planned that if sage says that bird is alive then he will crush the neck of bird and show everyone a dead bird.. And if he says that it's a dead bird then I will let bird live and show everyone that it's alive. King thought that whatever he answer it's a win win situation for him. \"Well.. it's in you hand.. you can decided it.. if it's alive or dead..\", replied sage.", "moral1": "Trying to cover up mistakes with lies only worsens the final consequences. ", "moral2": "Similarly, path we give to our life is in our own hands. By our choices and efforts we can decide what to make of our life. . ", "moral3": "If there is a will there is a way. ", "moral4": "We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified. ", "moral5": "Success means doing something sincerely and wholeheartedly.", "laebl": 2}
{"id": 276, "story": "Once in village a man used to live alone at home. He loved animals and wanted to keep a pet for himself. One day while walking by village cross road, he saw a little poisonous snake who was searching for food. Man liked it so much that he decided to keep it as his pet. When he took it home, he would let it crawl in his house freely. For other's safety he made a bamboo cage for it when he started to take care of it. Whenever he had to leave home, he would keep that snake in cage. He named it coco and was so fond of his pet that all his friends and relatives would call him as coco's father. Man used to follow a monk. Before long, monk heard about it. He called man to him. Monk asked him, \"Is it true?? are you keeping a snake as your pet??\"Man replied, \"Yes master.. I love him like my own child..\"Monk was wise, he said to him, \"It's not safe to live with a poisonous snake. I would advice you to let him go for your own safety..\"Man was too fond of snake, so he replied, \"Little coco is like my own son.. I know it wouldn't bite me and can't give him up..!!\"Before man left, his master again warned him about danger of living with a poisonous snake. Later one time, monk and his followers went on to mountains for some work. Man went along with them and while out on mountain's man left snake in cage. Monk and his followers returned after few days. After returning home, man realized that snake had not eaten whole time while he was out on mountains. Man went toward cage and opened it to let him out for food. Because snake was hungry for long, as soon as man hand went toward him, snake bite him. Within minutes man died.", "moral1": "One should not be foolish to ignore nature. Sometimes we need to understand that nature of living being's can not be change and act sensibly. ", "moral2": "Watch were your going and be friendly to others. ", "moral3": "We should live our life doing good because god is always watching us and will always be there for us in our difficult times. ", "moral4": "Trying to cover up mistakes with lies only worsens the final consequences. ", "moral5": "In serving the wicked, expect no reward, and be thankful if you escape injury for your pains.", "laebl": 1}
{"id": 277, "story": "Once a person wanted to seek for the truth of life. So in search of truth he went from place to place. At one place someone advised him to go a cave and look there. Man went to the cave where he met a sage. Sage told him about a village and said, \"On crossroad of that village you shall find what you are seeking.\"Full of hope man went on searching for that village. At last he was able to find that village. He went on the crossroad and saw that there were three shops. One shop was selling metal piece, another one was selling woods and then here was last one where seller was selling thin wires. Man stood there for long looking at the shops but still he couldn't think of anything that seem to be related to revelation of truth. Disappointed he returned to sage and told him about shops. Sage replied, \"You will understand in the future.\"Man demanded explanation but sage didn't respond. Man got frustrated and thought to himself that he had been making fool of himself by coming here. He left from cave and continued his search for truth. As years went by, memories for this experience faded. One day while he was on a walk at night, he heard sound of some kind of music which caught his attention. It was wonderful music and man was moved by it. Man felt drawn towards the music player. When he found him, he saw that player fingers were dancing over strings of sitar. Then suddenly he exploded in a cry of joyous recognition  the sitar was made out of wires and pieces of metal and wood just like those he had once seen in the three stores and had thought it to be without any particular significance. At last man was able to understand that sage's message.", "moral1": "We should help others and others will help us. ", "moral2": "It was: we already have everything we need. It it now our task to assemble and use it in appropriate way. We will not be able to find any meaning if we perceive fragments separately but as soon as we are able to understand connection and get fragment together then new entity emerges. ", "moral3": "I would rather be a little nobody, then to be an evil somebody. ", "moral4": "We are all valuable in ourselves; much more so than we sometimes believe. ", "moral5": "The best way to encourage honesty is to create an environment of honesty and generosity, since he who wants nothing for himself is farthest from falling into greed and envy.", "laebl": 2}
{"id": 278, "story": "During the reign of akbar, birbal's wisdom was known to all. Many ministers in akbar's court were jealous of him and one of them was akbar's brother-in-law. He request akbar to remove birbal from his ministry and appoint him in his place. Birbal got to know about it. Before akbar could decide, birbal resigned from his ministry and left. Akbar decided to test his new minister. So he called him and gave him three hundred coins saying, \"Spend these coins in such a way that I get hundred coins in this life, another hundred after life in other world and left hundred coins neither here nor in other world..\"New minster was confused. He couldn't think of any solution and spent endless night worrying about it. He felt hopeless, seeing this his wife advised him to go to birbal. So, at last he went to birbal for help. When minister went to birbal for solution he said to him, \"Give me coins and I will handle the rest.\"Next day birbal went out with those coins. On his way he noticed rich merchant celebrating his son's wedding. Birbal went to him. Birbal gave a hundred gold coins to him and bowed courteously saying, \"Emperor akbar sends you his good wishes and blessings for the wedding of your son. please accept the gift he has sent.\"Merchant felt honored to receive gift from emperor, so he honored birbal and gave large number to expensive gift as return gifts for the emperor. Next, birbal went to place where poor lived. He bought cloths and food with hundred coins and distributed them in the name to emperor. With left hundred coins he organized a music and dance concert for everyone. Next day birbal entered akbar's court and announced that the king had asked his brother-in-law to do. Birbal told him about all the events. Akbar asked him to explain. Birbal replied, \"The money I gave to the merchant for the wedding of his son - you have got back while on this earth. the money I spent on buying food and clothing for the poor - you will get it in the other world. the money I spent on the musical concert - you will get neither here nor there.\"Akbar's new minister understood his mistake and resigned to give birbal his place back.", "moral1": "Money you spend on friends is returned or reciprocated in some form. Money spent on charity gets converted into blessings from god which will be your eternal property. Money spent on pleasures is just frittered away. ", "moral2": "Look before you leap. ", "moral3": "A magical story to help overcome fear of thunder storms. ", "moral4": "Injuries may be forgiven, but not forgotten. ", "moral5": "Strife feeds on conflict.", "laebl": 1}
{"id": 279, "story": "One day while a farmer was on the field getting his harvest ready to take to market, just then buddha came by and stood in front of him holding a bowl in his hand.. Begging for alms. Seeing this farmer got angry and said, \"I worked in fields, I ploughed and sow and there for I eat. it would be better if you were in like manner to plough and to sow, and then you would have food enough to eat without begging.\"Buddha smile and replied, \"Don't get angry.. I plough and sow too.. and having ploughed and sown, I eat.\"Farmer replied, \"If it's true then where are your bullocks and seed?? where is your plough?? I see no sign of it..!!\"Buddha answered, \"Faith is the seed I sow and good works are the rain that fertilizes it. wisdom and good works are the parts of the plough, and my mind is the guiding rein. I lay hold of the handle of the law; earnestness is the goad I use and diligence is my daughter. thus my ploughing is done, destroying the weeds of delusion. the harvest that it yields is the ambrosia-fruit of nirvana, and by this ploughing all sorrow ends.\"", "moral1": "Sacrificing innocent creature.. ! ! ", "moral2": "We should help others and others will help us. ", "moral3": "A bad boy discovers what good effects kind people have in the world. ", "moral4": "Don't fool other. Otherwise you will be fooled. ", "moral5": "Once should never try to cheat others.", "laebl": 1}
{"id": 280, "story": "Once buddha was sitting under a tree. A man came to him and started abusing him. After abusing buddha that man stood there waiting for some buddha's response or reaction but to his surprise there wasn't even slightest change in buddha's expression. Man got more angry and used more insulting words to insult buddha. Still he didn't got any reaction or response from him. This kept on going for few hours. At last man got tired and asked buddha, \"I have been abusing you, insulting you yet you are not angry at me??\" Buddha replied, \"It's because I haven't accepted it..\"Man got confused and questioned, \"But you heard it, every single word.. didn't you??\" Buddha smiled and replied, \"I don't need abuse.. then why would I hear it??\"Man got more confused and stood there. Buddha understood his confusion and explained it further, \"All those abuse remains with you..\" Man replied, \"I have said all those words to you.. how would it remain with me??\"Buddha questioned, \"Suppose you give someone coins and if that person doesn't accept those coins.. then with whom will those coins remain??\"Man replied, \"If person doesn't accept those then coins would remain with me..\"After listening to man's reply buddha smiled and said to him, \"You are right..!! same happened with abuse.when you came here and abused me.. said those insulting words but since I haven't accepted a single abuse from you.. then all those abuse would remain with you..so, I have no reason to be angry with you..\"Man understood his mistake and apologized to buddha.", "moral1": "Don't respond to what people say in anger. Inner calmness and peace are ways to live contented life. ", "moral2": "Think before you act. ", "moral3": "Silly credulity may take this as a proof how much evil a double-tongued man may often contrive. ", "moral4": "The evil doer often comes to harm through his own deceit. ", "moral5": "No one is too small to help.", "laebl": 1}
{"id": 281, "story": "Once a wise man bought a very big and beautiful house. This house had a huge orchard in front and it filled with trees bearing lots of fruits. Wise man was good by nature and greeted everyone with love and respect. Everyone in his neighbor liked him except one of his neighbor. This neighbor was an old man who used to live just next door to him was envious of him. He was jealous of him because everyone else liked him and old man didn't like that. Old man wanted him to leave that neighborhood and for this he thought of irritating his new neighbor to make his every day miserable by one or other way. For some days old man tried many tricks but he didn't got any reaction from his new neighbor. He got irritated by it and then one day old man took all his garbage and threw it in his neighbor's porch at night. Next morning when wise man woke up and came to his porch, he saw that loads of garbage was thrown there. He cleaned his porch and collected all that garbage in a bucket. He knew that it was work of old man. He went to old man house with bucket and knocked on the door. Old man saw that it was that new neighbor. He grinned and thought to himself that at last he was able to make him angry and now he had come to quarrel with him. When old man opened door, wise man gave him that bucket. When old man looked inside that bucket it was filled with freshly picked apples. Wise man returned saying, \"One who is rich in something.. shares it with others..\"Listening to this old man realized his mistake and felt ashamed for his acts.", "moral1": "Always be good with others and share good with others. When we share our goodness with others it makes world a better place to live in. ", "moral2": "The wise do not let themselves be tricked a second time. ", "moral3": "Self-help is the best help. ", "moral4": "Yield3 to all and you will soon have nothing to yield. ", "moral5": "That's why wise saints always say - don't be afraid of god, be afraid of your actions because your action will find you tomorrow if not today.", "laebl": 1}
{"id": 282, "story": "Guru nanaki ji father knew that nanak ji like to communicate with people. So he decided that if nanak ji was to learn anyway to earn money, it can be done through trading. So one day, guru nanak's father gave bhai bala twenty rupees and said, \"Go with nanak and buy some good from market and them sell them at profitable rate.\"So bhai bala and nanak went to market to buy some goods. As they had passed ten miles from their village, they come across a group of hermits who were sitting under a tree. Seeing them nanak ji stopped bhai bala and said, \"Father asked us to make some profitable transaction and nothing can be more profitable than to feed these hermits.I can't go forward leaving such great opportunity to make true profitable transaction.\"Nanak ji took all the money from bhai bala and offered that money to them saying, \"I offer this in your service..\"Head of that hermit group replied, \"Son, this money is of no use for us as we never go to any village or town.we always stay here in jungle.. if you offer us a meal, we will accept it..\"Then nanak ji and bhai bala went to near by village to get meals for hermits and with remaining money he purchased clothes for hermits. Nanak ji offered all that to group of hermits and left for home empty handed.", "moral1": "Earning more money can be profitable but true profit lies in doing good deeds and helping others. ", "moral2": "When pain, misery or anger happen, it is time to look within you, not around you. ", "moral3": "The wise do not let themselves be tricked a second time. ", "moral4": "This is designed for you, who, when you have threatened great things, produce nothing. ", "moral5": "Fury or force cuts no ice where gentleness does the job.", "laebl": 1}
{"id": 283, "story": "Once a middle aged man lost his job and was looking for a job to support his living. In newspaper he found that a job of \"Office boy\" Is available. He needed a job badly so he applied for post of \"Office boy\" At a very big firm. Next day he was called for interview. Manager interviewed him and gave him a test. Man cleared the test. Manager said, \"You are hired.. now give me your e-mail address so that I can send you further details and your joining letter..\"Man replied, \"Sir, I don't have a computer and neither do I have any e-mail address.\"Manager replied, \"What..? in today time if you don't have an e-mail id that means you don't exist and that means you can't get this job.. I am sorry but you are not hired.\"Man left. He didn't know what to do as he had only 200rs left in his pocket and no job. He had no hope of getting any other job anytime soon. He didn't know what to do. He didn't want to go home without job. He thought for a while,then he decided to go to super market and buy 10kg veggies with that money and then went door to door to sell those veggies. Till evening he was able to sell off all those veggies and even doubles up his money. This made him realize that he can survive by this and started to go to super market every day early in the morning and buy fresh veggies and then whole day he would sell them going door to door and by evening he would sold all the veggies he bought in morning. He worked very hard everyday and with his determination and persistence, just in 5 years he became a well established businessman. Now he had his own fleet of delivery vehicles and became one of the biggest food chain retailers in us market. One day he decided to have life insurance for his family and himself. He called an insurance consultant. After all discussions, consultant asked him about his e-mail address. Man replied, \"I don't have an e-mail address.\"Consultant was surprised and said, \"You don't an e-main address and yet you succeeded to build an empire.. can you imagine what you could have done and what you could be if you had an e- mail address..\"Man thought for a moment and replied, \"An office boy..!!\"", "moral1": "You are never be too old to learn something new. If anyone put all his effort and persist on things he wants to learn then one day he will definitely succeed. ", "moral2": "A good dead leads to another. ", "moral3": "Union gives strength. ", "moral4": "Success means doing something sincerely and wholeheartedly. ", "moral5": "If we seek for something and don't get it, we should not lose hope.. We don't know what destiny had in store for us.. Never lose hope and keep trying.", "laebl": 5}
{"id": 284, "story": "Once a farmer painted an advertisement for puppies to sell and was fixing it on the edge of his yard. As he was hitting last nail for board to be fixed on it's place he felt a tug on his overalls. When he looked behind he saw a little kid. He asked, \"What do you want kid??\"Kid replied, \"I want to buy a puppy..\"Farmer replied, \"Well kid.. these pup are quite expensive as they came from very good breed of dog..\"Little boy dropped his head but after a moment, reaching deep down into his pants pocket he pulled some coins from his pocket and held it up to the farmer and said, \"Sir, I have got only 50 cent.. would that be enough for a puppy?\"Farmer smiled and said, \"Yes..!!\"Then farmer whistle and called out his dog. Dog came along with came its four puppies running behind it out of dog house. Boy was delighted to see them. Boy noticed that behind four puppies there was little one who was slowly coming out of that dog house and in awkward manner that little puppy was trying to catch up with other. Boy pointed toward that puppy and said, \"I want that one..\"Farmer replied, \"Kid, you don't want that.. he will not be able to play or run with you like other puppies..\"Listening to this, kid took a step back from the fence and began rolling up one leg of his trousers revealing a steel brace which was attached with specially made shoes which kid was wearing and said, \"Sir, I don't run too well myself and that puppy will need someone who understands..\"", "moral1": "One should never speak hastily. Always think before you speak. ", "moral2": "We shouldn't value people by their appearance, but rather for their true personality. ", "moral3": "Evil companions bring more hurt than profit. ", "moral4": "Everyone of us have our own weakness but if we willing to accept it instead of opposing then we can make advantage out of our own weakness. ", "moral5": "Nature will out.", "laebl": 4}
{"id": 285, "story": "Once an old man living who used to live in small village who was invited by his son to visit mumbai who was a successful businessman living with wife and son there. Old man was bit scared to go to city as he had spent most of his life at his birthplace in village. He only knew his local language and wouldn't understand hindi or english much. Also old man was habitual to wearing traditional clothes like dhoti kurta. Yet he was happy that he would get to spend few days with his son and family. He thought to himself, \"It's ok. I will spend best time with my son.\"On decided day old man came to mumbai. His son received him and was very much excited about his father visit. Son and his wife wanted to show him around city. His son would take him out to nearest place and there they would have their favorite drinks. Son would take his father to visit various places and all had lots of fun. Old man had very good time with family and was very happy. In last week of old man's visit, son said to his father, \"Let's go to best hotel here.\"Son and father went to hotel. They ordered their drinks and some snacks as accompaniments with their drinks. Old man wasn't feeling like eating with drinks at that time so when they got up to leave, old man simply took a handful of chana and stuffed it in fold of his dhoti to eat them on his way. While their way back in the lobby, old man stumbled and down went all the chana on the plush carpet. As father was going to fall, son supported him and saved him from falling. Gently he helped his father to get back on his feet and instead of feeling irritated he was amused and laughed with his father about what happened and on their way back they decided to come back at that hotel as father liked it there. A few days later he went to his friends party and shared this incident and they all laughed it off. One of friends asked, \"Weren't you embarrassed?\"Son replied, \"Why should I be embarrassed?? he is my father. he is a person who loves to talk in his native language and prefer to wear dhoti to posh hotel and takes chana to eat later, so what?\"He continued, \"Should I feel embarrassed because of his nature and habits?? he should be allowed to do what ever he feels comfortable with as long as he is not harming others.at that time I didn't cared about what people there would think about me or what hotel staff thought about that but only concern then was my father's happiness.\"", "moral1": "Try to be kind to everyone. ", "moral2": "Do not harm someone even if he harms you. Be good to all. ", "moral3": "Building true peace requires those who feel they have the right to attack to take steps towards forgiveness and reconciliation. ", "moral4": "Sometimes struggles are exactly what we need, its god way to make us stronger. ", "moral5": "We should understand and have respect for other's person life style. We shouldn't we embarrassed of our elder's ways to do work.", "laebl": 5}
{"id": 286, "story": "Once upon a time lived a couple on country side. Husband was very loving soulmate before he left for wars but ever since he returned he became very angry and unpredictable. His nature became so scary that his wife was scared to live with her. There was hermit who used to live there and people would go to him to find solution for their problem. Wife went to hermit for advice. As she approached hermit, he said, \"What's your problem??\"Wife explained the situation. Hermit replied, \"Hmm.. it's often when soldiers return from the war. what do you want me to do??\"Wife replied instantly, \"Make me a portion.. or a drink.. whatever it takes to get my husband the way he used to be before going to war..\"Hermit replied, \"Young woman, your request is unusual. I need some time to think and look if there is any solution. come back tomorrow.\"Next day in morning wife went back to hermit's place. Hermit greeted her with a smile and said, \"Young woman there is a good news for you.. there is a portion which can turn back your husband to normal but that potion require an unusual ingredient. you must bring me a whisker from a live tiger.\"She with shocked reaction replied, \"What..!! it's impossible..\"Hermit replied, \"I cannot make potion without it. there is not other solution. you must now leave as there is nothing more to say..\"Wife went home. She wanted her husband back the way he used to be. So, all night she was thinking about way to get tiger's whisker. She had heard about a tiger leaving in cave just outside their city. Next day before dawn she got up prepared a bowl of rice with meat sauce on the top. She took that bowl and went to the tiger's cave on mountain side. She was scared to go anywhere near the cave but still took that bowl and silently placed it in front of cave and then carefully backed down. Next day again she went there with a rice of bowl with meat sauce on the top. When she reached there, she saw empty bowl. She replaced that empty bowl with filled one and tried to leave silently as she didn't wanted to attract the wild beast attention. This went on for months yet she never saw tiger but from the footprints she could guess that animal eating all the food must be tiger. One day as she approached, she noticed tiger's head poking out of cave. Very carefully she set down the fresh rice bowl on the same spot replacing empty one and stepped back. After few weeks she noticed that tiger would come out of cave, when she came to replace empty rice bowl with fresh one. She stayed away from tiger but in her heart she knew that one day she have to come closer to get it's whisker. Another month went by and now tiger would sat beside empty bowl waiting for her to come. As she looked at tiger carefully, she felt it's rather friendly creature. Not a week later, tiger allowed her to gently rub it's head and as she rubbed it's head, tiger would purr and stretch like a house cat. She went back home and that night she knew that time had come. Next morning she brought a knife and also took a fresh bowl of rice to tiger's cave. She placed the rice bowl and said to tiger, \"May I please have just one of your whiskers??\"Tiger nodded and while petting its head, she carved whisker off tiger's head. She thanked tiger and left. Next day she went to hermit's hut with the precious whisker in her fist. She said, \"I have the whisker.. live tiger's whisker you needed for making potion..\"Hermit was surprised and said, \"Really?? from live tiger??\" Kim replied, \"Yes..\"Hermit checked the whisker, it was indeed tiger's whisker. \"Tell me.. how did you do it??\", said hermit. Kim told him about the story that how she earned tiger's trust and when she requested, tiger permitted her to cut off one off it's whisker. After listening to kim story, hermit took the whisker and flicked it into fire and said, \"Kim.. you no longer need the whisker.. tell me, what's more vicious.. a tiger or a man?? if a dangerous wild beat respond to you gradual patient care.. don't you think a man will respond??\"Kim stood speechless and then returned to her.. Now she knew what she could do to get her husband back.", "moral1": "Often we misunderstand the signs. God has given everyone a strength and ability to do their part. Always learn to see the things in a positive way and see yourself in a strong position to help the ones who need. Don't go for the easy choice. Make a right choice. ", "moral2": "Don't judge a book by its cover. ", "moral3": "The best kindness is to give our time and sincere best wishes to people, regardless of whether they can give us anything in return. ", "moral4": "With patience, love and care you can won anyone's heart. ", "moral5": "Those who seek to harm others often come to harm themselves through their own deceit.", "laebl": 4}
{"id": 287, "story": "Once on a mountain farm lived an old man with his grandson. Old man used to wake up early in morning everyday and sat on table to read bhagavad gita. His grandson used to admire his grandfather and wanted to be just like him, so he tried to do everything the way his grandfather does. One day grandson went to his grandfather and said, \"Dadu, I read bhagavad gita daily just like you but I am not able to understand most of it.and whatever I am able to understand I forget it as soon as I close the book. if I forget what I read or what good is it doing me to read bhagavad gita??\"Grandfather was holding a coal basket. He turned to boy and handed him coal basket saying, \"Go down to river and bring me a basket of water.\"Boy did as told but as soon as he could get to home all the water from the basket would get leaked. Grandfather smiled and said, \"Go back and try again but this time try to move a little faster.\"Boy agreed and this time he ran faster to reach home with water but even this time the basket was empty as he got home. Grandfather asked him to try again but every time basket get empty in the way. Grandson was tired and said, \"It's impossible to carry water in a basket.. I can bring you a bucket full of water..\"Grandfather replied, \"I don't want bucket of water, I want you to bring water in coal basket only.. try harder..\"Boy knew that it would be impossible but still he tried again and this time he ran as fast as possible but again basket was empty. Boy was tired. He said to his grandfather, \"See dadu it's useless..\"Grandfather replied, \"You think it's useless but look at the basket..\"Boy looked at the basket and saw that basket was looking much cleaner. He saw that all the coal stains were removed from the basket and now it was clean from inside and out.", "moral1": "In a pinch a good use of our wits may help us out. ", "moral2": "Envy is the result of not knowing how to appreciate what we already have. ", "moral3": "When you read bhagavad gita. You may not understand or remember what you read but it words will change you from inside and out. ", "moral4": "Earning more money can be profitable but true profit lies in doing good deeds and helping others. ", "moral5": "The gods help them that help themselves.", "laebl": 3}
{"id": 288, "story": "Once in small village lived a snake who used to attack and kill village animals. Villagers wanted to respect all creatures but they hate that snake because snake was not just attacking animals but now it used to attack villagers children also. All villagers wanted to kill snake. So one day all villagers gathered on the field and started shouting and drumming and with stones and sticks started to search for that snake. A holy man who used to live on out skirts of that village heard all the sound and came to village and asked, \"What is this all about??\"Villagers told him about snake and his acts. After listening to all, holy man replied, \"If this snake does not attack your children or hunt your animals then will you think about sparing its life??\"Some villagers wanted revenge but some just wanted to get rid of snake so agreed. Holy man entered the field and with his powers commanded snake to come and it came crawling to the feet of holy man. Snake hissed and asked holy man about him calling out. Holy man replied, \"There is enough food in jungle and you need not to attack animals or children of village for this.\"There was kindness in holy man's voice and snake didn't hissed and just nodded in front of holy man and promised that it will not ever again attack villagers. Soon villagers discovered that snake would no longer harm anyone and there were some villagers who wanted to take revenge from that snake for whatever he did in the past. So villagers started attacking that snake and it would have to hid itself. One day snake heard holy man walking by and with it's weak body it crawled to holy man. Seeing its condition holy man asked, \"What happened to you??\"Snake replied, \"After I promised not to bite anyone. soon villagers started to attack me and I had to hid myself under the rock to keep myself safe from their attacks. why is this happening to me??\"Holy man stood silently and then in low voice replied, \"You are such a fool! you don't know how to protect yourself. I asked you not to bite but I didn't forbid you to hiss. why didn't you scare them by hissing?\"Snake understood his mistake and slithered away hissing.", "moral1": "You could have devoted these 20 years serving the destitute the poor. You wasted 20 years to save 5 mins, its not wisdom. ", "moral2": "Be nice and help others. ", "moral3": "A man living in society should make a show of tamas to protect himself from evil-minded people but he should not harm anybody in anticipation of harm likely to be done him. ", "moral4": "To care for the natural world we need to act responsibly in our everyday actions, no matter how small. ", "moral5": "It was: we already have everything we need. It it now our task to assemble and use it in appropriate way. We will not be able to find any meaning if we perceive fragments separately but as soon as we are able to understand connection and get fragment together then new entity emerges.", "laebl": 3}
{"id": 289, "story": "Once there was a carpenter who was really good at his job. He used to work very hard and build beautiful house. With time he grown old and felt that his body was not that strong as it used to be. Also he earned enough money to live a peaceful and leisure life with his family for rest of his life. So, he decided that it was time for his retirement from all that hard work. He went to his employer and informed him about his retirement. Employer was sad to hear about his retirement and seeing his good worker go. Before carpenter left, employer said, \"I know you want to retire but I request you if you could build me one last house as a personal favor.\"Being a employ for such long time carpenter agreed and also made sure that this would be his last project. Carpenter had made up his made about retire so even when he accepted the proposal, carpenter did not pay much attention to the details of the building he was constructing as last project. Carpenter did all his life all work with all his heart and best way he can but this time carpenter's heart was not in his work. He resorted to poor workmanship as he wanted to finish work as soon as possible and leave for his retirement. When the job was done carpenter called his employer and showed him the house he built. Employer came there and was holding some papers in his hand. As the carpenter was going to hand over keys of house to employer, his employer hold his fist and wrapped those keys back in to his hands and gave those papers to him saying, \"This is your house. it's a gift from me to you as you have so many years of your life to this company.\"Carpenter was surprise and shocked. He thought to himself, \"What a shame!! if only I had known I was building my own house, I would have built better than any other house I had built in my life..\"", "moral1": "If you love someone, tell them, don't let your heart be broken by words left unspoken. ", "moral2": "One should never take any action in haste. ", "moral3": "Self-help is the best help. ", "moral4": "First, god has send us in this world to live life best way we can and now, it's in our hand how well we build our life and live our life. Second, when ever we accept any work, we should do it with honesty and give our best to it. ", "moral5": "They complain most who suffer least.", "laebl": 4}
{"id": 290, "story": "Once a wise old man who lived in himalaya used to visits local villages once a while. During his visits to local villages he used to meet villagers and entertain them and sometimes amuse them with his abilities. His ability was to tell anyone about the contents they hold in their pocket without looking at them or tell them what they were thinking. Villagers would visit him regarding their problems and find solutions. Every one in the village knew about wise old man talent and trusted him. Their lived a boy who decided to play a joke on old man, so that he can discredit his abilities in front of villagers and prove him to be a fake. Boy knew that old man would be able to answer what object he was holding in his hand. So, boy came up with an idea to trick old man. His idea was to hold that bird in his hands behind his back and ask old man. He decided that once old man rightly state the object he was holding, he would ask old man if the bird was alive or dead.. If old man would say bird is alive then young man will crush birds neck and show him the dead bird and this would prove him wrong.. If old man replied bird is dead then he would leave the bird to fly away. This way he can prove he old man wrong and fraud. Following week when old man came to village, boy quickly caught a bird and hold it in his hands behind it's back so that old man can't see it. He walked up to old man and said, \"Can you tell what's in my hand??\"Old man replied, \"You have a bird..\"Young man again questioned, \"Is it dead or alive?\"Old man replied, \"It is as you choose for it..\"After listening to old man reply young man realized that it's not his ability but also wisdom of old man because of which everyone in village trusted him. He apologized for his arrogance and left.", "moral1": "One story is good, till another is told. ", "moral2": "We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified. ", "moral3": "Similar is with our life.. It's our choice.   ", "moral4": "In a pinch a good use of our wits may help us out. ", "moral5": "In serving the wicked, expect no reward, and be thankful if you escape injury for your pains.", "laebl": 3}
{"id": 291, "story": "A conversation between god and man who had died in a car crash.. Man - what happened?? Where am I?? God - you died. It was a fatal car accident. Man - there was a truck.. Skidding.. I died?? God - yes. But don't feel bad.. Everyone dies. Man - where am I?? Is this afterlife?? Are you god?? God - yes I am.. Man - my wife my kids.. Will they be alright?? God - don't worry.. They will be fine. Your kids will remember you in a perfect way.. Your wife will be crying outside but relieved inside. To be fair your marriage was falling apart. Man - oh.. So what happens now? Do I go to heaven or hell?? God - nothing, you will be reincarnated.. Man - so.. Hindus were right.. God - all religions are right in their own way.. Now god asked man to walk with him.. They followed through a void.. Man - are we going somewhere special?? God - nothing in particular.. It's just nice to walk and talk sometimes. Man - so what's next?? What's point of reincarnation?? When I reborn I will be like blank slate and everything I did in this my life won't matter. God - no.. No.. Your knowledge and experiences from all your past lives.. Its just you don't remember them right now. God stopped walking and kept his hands on man shoulder's. God - your soul is magnificent and beautiful. A human kind can only be fraction of what you are.. It's like dipping a part of your finger into a vessel to see if that water is hot or cold and when you bring that out you have gained all the experiences it had.. You have been human for 50 yrs and haven't felt rest of your immense consciousness but there is no point in doing that between each life you had. Man - how many time have I been reincarnated?? God - many time and in lots of different lives. This time you will be reincarnated as a peasant girl in 500 ad. Man - so what's point of it all?? Why reincarnation again and again when I don't even remember anything? God - well, reason I made this world is for you to mature.. With each new life you grow and mature and become larger and greater intellect. Man - just for me?? What about others?? God - all are just different incarnations of you. Man - what. .? I am everyone? I am every human being who lived? God - now you are getting it.. Man got silent. .", "moral1": "Success means doing something sincerely and wholeheartedly. ", "moral2": "To help shy children realise that their body language can say things that cause them more embarrassment than normal behaviour. ", "moral3": "Sometimes we need to understand that it could be our views that are not letting us see clearly. We should not judge person without clearing our thoughts and understanding all about situation. ", "moral4": "Every time you victimized someone, you were victimizing yourself. Every act of kindness you have done was done to yourself. Every emotions experienced by any human will be experienced by you. . ", "moral5": "Do not try to take the credit to yourself that is due to others.", "laebl": 4}
{"id": 292, "story": "An 90 year old lady had lost her husband and now had to move to nursing home. So the day she had to move to nursing home in morning she woke up early got dressed properly with perfectly applied makeup. She was ready to move to nursing home. Cab was called to take her to nursing home. She got into cab and reached nursing home. After reaching nursing home she was asked to wait in the nursing home lobby. She waited patiently for many hours. She smiled sweetly when told her room was ready. As she maneuvered her walker to the elevator nurse gave her a brief visual description of her room including colors of sheets on window. After hearing just description she replied with enthusiasm, \"I love it.\"Nurse was surprised to hear her reply and responded, \"But you haven't even seen your room yet, just wait until you see your room.\"She replied, \"That doesn't have anything to do with it. happiness is something that you decide. it doesn't depend on how my room look or I will like my room or not. it depends on how my mind is arranged..I already decided to love it. it's decision I made when I wake up in morning.I had choice either I can spend day counting problem I have to face because of body parts with no longer works or I can get out of bed and be thankful for one that do.as long as my eyes open I'll focus on the new day and all the happy memories I've stored away.. just for this time in my life.\"", "moral1": "A liar2 will not be believed, even when he speaks the truth. ", "moral2": "God wants us to give up all those fake and cheap things we hold very preciously in our life. It can be habits, hatreds, harming relationships, activities, negative thoughts, etc. He will provide us genuine things to give up the fake! ", "moral3": "Do not let anything turn you from your purpose. ", "moral4": "Each day is a gift. We should learn to live happy. Happiness comes from inner self and we are one who decides to be happy or not. ", "moral5": "Injuries may be forgiven, but not forgotten.", "laebl": 4}
{"id": 293, "story": "It's story of hard work and it's value of picasso a very famous painter born in spain. One day when picasso was walking through a road, a women who was passing by same road saw picasso. She recognized him and ran to him. She said to him, \"Am big fan of yours. I like your paintings very much.. please will you make me a painting too..??\"Picasso smiled at request and said, \"I have nothing to paint. I am empty handed here. I will make you a painting some other time..\"Women replied, \"I don't know if I will be able to meet you again or not.. please make me a painting now..\"On being insisted so much by women picasso took out a small piece of paper and pen out of his pocket and began to make something on that paper. Within 10 seconds picasso completed drawing handed that paper to that women and said, \"Take this it's a million dollar painting..\"Women find it strange that how can he make a complete drawing within 10 seconds and is saying that it would value million dollar painting. Women thanked him and took that painting with her. After she reached home she thought that may be picasso was joking about value of that drawing he made for her. So, she went to market to know about the right value of painting. She was surprised to know that that drawing actually worth million dollars. After that women again got a chance to meet picasso. She was very excited to see him. She went to him and said, \"Sir, you were right that drawing you made was worth million dollar.\"She continued, \"Sir, please make me your student. please teach me how to paint so that I am able to paint like you made million dollar painting in such small time.\"Picasso smiled and said, \"Dear, this drawing which I made in 10 sec, it values million dollar. this value is of 30 yrs of my life I gave to hard work, struggle and dedication towards learning arts..!!if you want to do this.. give your life to this and you will also be able to make painting like this..\"Women was speechless. When we see other successful we think that they got it easy.. What we don't realize is the hard work and time hidden behind that success. .", "moral1": "Nobody truly knows which employee actually deserves the merit of success, or who's actually contributing the nesessary support to kae things happen. ", "moral2": "Nobody see that hard work and patience. Everyone see only success but they don't see that one have to sacrifice life in preparation and to achieve that success. Success seeks experience and struggle. ", "moral3": "When we chose to fight, we can see that in no time, that big trouble start resembling a small problem and we can remove it from our life and move forward. ", "moral4": "Every moment is a fresh beginning. ", "moral5": "They who act without sufficient thought, will often fall into unsuspected danger.", "laebl": 2}
{"id": 294, "story": "A young disciple wanted to learn wisdom so he went to zen master and requested him to accept him as his disciple. Master accepted him. Young disciple used to admire his master a lot. So he decided to observe his behavior minutely and believed that if he did everything the way his teacher did then he would be able to acquire the same wisdom as his master. So he started imitating his master working and do things as his master did. Firstly, he started to wear white clothes, as his master used to wear white clothes. Secondly, he started sleeping on straw mattress as his master did. Thirdly, young disciple was non-vegetarian but when he noticed that master ate only vegetables and herbs, he replaced his diet with vegetables and herbs. He started eating similar to what his master ate. His master noticed all this changes in his disciple behavior and understood what's going on so he called him to his room. When disciple came master asked, \"Why did you change??\"Young disciple replied, \"I am climbing step of initiation.. color of my clothes shows the simplicity of me, vegetarian food purifies my body and lack of comfort brings me more close to nature and spiritual things.\"Master smiled and took him to a field where horse was grazing and said, \"Look at horse.. he has white skin and eats only grass and sleeps in stable on straw bed. do you think that he is a teacher or saint??\"Master continued, \"All this time you spent was on the outside of yourself but what matter's most is the inner self.\"Disciple understood what master said and continued to work hard for spiritual enlightenment not from just outside but inside from his heart.", "moral1": "To understand and learn wisdom we need to find and change our inner self not just the outer self. ", "moral2": "It is a cause to be a miser. ", "moral3": "Honesty is rewarded and greediness is punished! ", "moral4": "One should never take any action in haste. ", "moral5": "There is no necessity to add evil to evil.", "laebl": 1}
{"id": 295, "story": "It's story of a boy who has just finished his college and hadn't had got any job yet and was living in a small rented room. One day his cousin came to him and asked him to help with some concepts. Boy had good hold of knowledge over that subject so boy helped his cousin without any difficulty. Soon boy by joined by some more friends for help in studies and were also willing to pay him fee for teaching them. However, house owner was not happy with all the crowd coming to his house. So he asked boy to leave that rented room or look for some place to continue his teaching activities. Boy really wanted to continue teaching as he loved that and also helped him to earn some money so he looked for another place to teach his students. By luck he found out a place. It was a big hall where a saint used to live alone. Boy went to saint and asked him for permission to use that hall for teaching his students. Saint agreed and allow him to take classes in the corner of that hall but on one condition. Saint asked him to pay rent of rs 100 every month in advance. Boy was surprised to know that saint asked him to pay rent for using his place for teaching. 100rs was quiet big amount at that time but still boy agreed as he was happy to have a place to teach his students and managed to pay first month rent in advance. Once classes started some more students joined. As months passed by boy continued teaching there but one thing bothered him that saint was very strict about rent to be paid in advance. Saint used to remind him about paying rent on 30th or 31st date so that he doesn't delay paying rent in advance. Boy had seen saint used to live very simple life and even during class time saint's presence never disturbed boy's class. Classes continued for a year but after a year boy got a good job in another place and had to stop taking classes. On last day boy told saint about leaving and he saw that saint was sad  to hear that. Boy left for job. After two years when boy came back to his place he received a letter from a charitable trust which used to fund for poor children education, with letter there was receipt for 1200rs donation. Boy was confused to see that receipt as he never made that donation. So he rang them up and told them that they must have sent that letter to wrong person. Person from trust asked him his father's name. When boy told his father name person confirmed that the same name was given along with boy's name on the covering note they received with the money every month. Boy asked him what was the monthly contribution had been. Person said that there were twelve payments of rupees hundred each.", "moral1": "Money is not everything. Friendship is all about care and affection. ", "moral2": "Men often applaud an imitation and hiss the real thing. ", "moral3": "Our life is small and we need to understand that no one can live forever. So if we want to live life  than we should try to accept death as we accept life. ", "moral4": "Never judge a person by how he speaks. ", "moral5": "We should always try to improve, not giving in to the kind of fear shown in people who have never attempted what they want to do in life. Specially designed for those thinking of starting something new.", "laebl": 4}
{"id": 296, "story": "Surdas was a 14th-century blind saint, poet and musician, who was known for his devotional songs dedicated to lord shri krishna. When young, surdas wanted to learn spirituality so he went to guru and requested him, \"Please accept me as your disciple.\"Guru found out that surdas has lots of quality but he had anger issue which prevented him from learning. Guru understood that and decided to first help him to shed his anger. So, guru instructed surdas to chant god's name while doing all activities for a month and then meet him. Surdas was very eager to learn spirituality so he followed those instructions. One month passed by. Next day he went to meet his guru. On his way to guru's ashram, a sweeper was cleaning street and when surdas was going by his side, sweeper carelessly put dirt on his clothes. Surdas got angry and scolded sweeper. Surdas went back to home, changed clothes and then went back to met his guru. When he meet his guru, his guru told him that he was not yet ready to learn. Guru asked him to continue chanting and come back to him again after a month. Surdas followed instructions and after one month again when he was on way to his guru home,  same thing happened and surdas became really angry and even this time he scolded that sweeper and went back home, changed clothes then went back to meet his guru. This time again guru ji said same and asked him to come after another month. Again one month passed away and same incident happened on way to his guru home. However, this time surdas didn't get angry. Instead he thanked sweeper saying, \"Thank you, you have helped me overcome my anger.\"This time when surdas approached his guru, surdas could see this guru standing in front of hermitage. Guru ji told surdas,\"Now you are ready to learn and I accept you as my disciple.\" A guru knows what a student is lacking of and knows the ways that would teach him. As a student, you must have faith in guru's words and follow them with devotion.", "moral1": "We can look at every situation as an opportunity to realize and overcome our defects. This is possible only due to the strength of chanting the god's name. ", "moral2": "If you love someone, tell them, don't let your heart be broken by words left unspoken. ", "moral3": "Better one safe way than a hundred on which you cannot reckon. ", "moral4": "No matter how big or strong someone is, there's always someone bigger who can do just as they do. ", "moral5": "That's what I have been telling you: drop it. Now sit down. Be just human, here nobody is emperor, nobody is beggar. Here everybody is himself. Just be yourself.", "laebl": 1}
{"id": 297, "story": "Once in dragon land, there was a young dragon name brad. There was a tradition in dragon land that dragons would have to chose his side and become either a dragon of light or darkness. When time comes each dragon had to chose his side and join army. All dragons would chose his side and train for years before big change but brad was undecided and time was running out. At dawn his wings would be changed for life. Both group of dragons had hatred for each other and once wings change they will remain like that forever and dragon have to had hatred for other for rest of his life. Because if this brad went to forest to think and in hope to find answer. While sitting there in silence he saw the beauty of night. Beautiful white full moon shimmering, cool and soft wind blowing, night full of stars. For nothing in the world did brad want to become a dragon of light in order to hate all that wonder and he felt his wings slowly begin to dye into the color of the night. As time went by, night was losing its strength and first light of dawn was making its way. Brad loved that time of day and gentle first ray of sun on his face. Brad didn't want to hate it either. Brad felt sad and tears flooded his eyes. Before brad wings color would change for final, he flew deep into lake to find peace and then flew up high into sky as high as it could, in order to escape its fate. When he had flown so high that the cold prevented him from moving his wings, he opened his mouth to spit out a great flame, as if to spend it completely, to never have it again but instead of fire, a thin layer of frost came out of his mouth and covered fields below. Only then he discovered that he wouldn't be a dragon of just light or darkness but now his one wing belong to moon and one wing belong to sun. After attaining final form. Brad would not decorate fields with his frosty breath and would remind world that its not necessary to chose between day and night when you don't want to hate.", "moral1": "When ever we take action against another person we should ask our self if we are doing right thing. What if same thing to be happen to us would we still feel same?? If we deceive another its like deceiving ourselves because with time dishonesty can become a habit. ", "moral2": "It's not necessary to see things as black and white or chose sides. When we don't want to hate. Having peace with ourselves is best way to live. ", "moral3": "Yield3 to all and you will soon have nothing to yield. ", "moral4": "A best companion will always get you out of difficulties. ", "moral5": "Never judge anyone because you never know how their life is and what they're going through.", "laebl": 2}
{"id": 298, "story": "Once a young man went to his master and said, \"Master.. I fear death!! how can I get rid of this fear??\"Master said, \"Tell me.. when you borrow some coins from someone then are you afraid to give them back??\"\"Of course not..! I will not be afraid..\", young man replied. Young man didn't understand why did his master ask such question so he inquired, \"But master what does it have to do with my fear??\"To explain this master picked up some soil from ground and said, \"You are made from dust, you have received your body in debt with required return.with every bite of bread and every sip of water drank by you.. you increase that debt.dust on which you walk is your main creditor, constantly reminding you of this debt.\"Master threw soil into air and after it fell down back into ground he said, \"No matter how high you rise, how long you are in flight.. you still need to fall down.. in end ground will swallow you whole, without any remains..so to coup up with this fear - stop thinking about yourself as master of your body and accept truth that you are just a tenant.because you don't know the length of your rent, always remember it can end at any second..we are all debtors and in end our debts will certainly be recovered.. no mater if we are afraid or not..\"Master smiled and continued, \"So tell me, is there a point of being afraid or being feared?\"", "moral1": "When doing things together the important thing is to make sure things turn out for the best, rather than worry about how much each individual has contributed. ", "moral2": "It is always better to mind our own business. ", "moral3": "Envy is the result of not knowing how to appreciate what we already have. ", "moral4": "You can change people's lives by bringing them a little joy and good health. ", "moral5": "Our life is small and we need to understand that no one can live forever. So if we want to live life  than we should try to accept death as we accept life.", "laebl": 5}
{"id": 299, "story": "A man went to a flower shop to order some flowers to be wired to a distant place. Order of flower was to be sent to his mother who lived three hundred miles away. As man got out of shop and went to his car, he noticed a young girl sitting alone on footpath crying. He went to girl and asked her, \"Are you alright?\"She replied, \"I want to buy rose for my mother but I have only one dollar and a single rose cost 2 dollar.\"Man smiled toward that girl and said, \"Come with me. I will buy that rose for you.\"He took that girl into flower shop and asked girl to order rose for her mother. As girl was leaving shop with rose, man offered girl to give her ride. She accepted and said, \"Yes please.. take me to my mother.\"She directed him toward cemetery where she placed that rose on freshly dug grave. At that moment man realized something and went back to flower shop and cancelled the order he placed before and then picked up a bouquet and drove three hundred miles to his mother's house.", "moral1": "Refusing to help someone is like refusing work of god. If you see someone in need of help and you can help that person according to your capability as no help is small for person who needs it. ", "moral2": "Our parents love us and they never stop caring about us even if we don't care enough about them because they love us unconditionally and we never realize that till we have them. ", "moral3": "What ever we have done in past but still we can change our life and people views towards us. So never give up. Anytime is good to start good work. ", "moral4": "This is what we call 'self appraisal'.   every time if we don't get ahead of others, we blame others for it.   we should look to our self and compare, find own weaknesses and work hard to throw away weaknesses.   always work hard, honest and with full dedication.   it will always pay up. ", "moral5": "Whoever lays crafty stratagems for others, ought to beware that he himself be not entrapped by cunning.", "laebl": 2}
{"id": 300, "story": "Once a zen master had a dog. Dog loved his evening play with his master. Daily they used to play a game in evening. Master used to throw the stick and dog would go ahead to fetch a stick and run back and give ball to master and sit there wiggling tail waiting for next game. There were many student who used to learn from master but one student used to question a lot about contradictions in buddhist doctrine. So one particular evening, when master was out with his dog to play, he also invited this students to join him. Master said, \"You must understand that words which are use to teach you are just guideposts. so, never let words or symbols get in the way of truth.\"\"Let me show you..\", master continued. With this teacher called his dog then pointed his finger toward moon and said, \"Fetch me the moon..\"\"Tell me, where is my dog looking?\" Master asked his student who was standing there with master. \"He is looking at your finger\", student answer. Master looked in students eyes and said, \"Exactly..!! don't be like my dog. don't confuse the pointing finger with the thing that it is being pointed at. you need to understand that all buddhist words are only guidepost and every man fight his way through other men's word to find his own truth.\" Leader's job is not to set his vision on his people but to have goals of the vision and let everyone find their own vision.", "moral1": "In the beginning lies can seem helpful, but as time goes on they will backfire on you. ", "moral2": "In overcoming adversity can lie the seeds of our success. ", "moral3": "When we want to learn spiritually we need to understand that to find ultimate truth we need to have vision of our own to achieve it. ", "moral4": "When we chose to fight, we can see that in no time, that big trouble start resembling a small problem and we can remove it from our life and move forward. ", "moral5": "It's our choice to keep positive attitude towards life. Circumstances are just parts of what makes us joyful. Pursuit of happiness is an inward journey. If we continue to bit our lips and just before we begin to complain we should shoot that seemingly harmless negative thought as it germinates, we will find there is much rejoice about.", "laebl": 3}
{"id": 301, "story": "One day a scorpion looked at his surrounding of mountains and decided that he wanted to change. So, after few days he started his journey through forest and hills and vines. He kept going until he reached a river. Scorpion saw that river was swift and wide. He couldn't see anyway to cross that river. He analyzed all the sides and this made him think that he might have to turn back on his way. Suddenly he saw a frog sitting in the bushes by the bank of the river. He decided to ask the frog for help to get him across the river. Scorpion called to frog, \"Hello mr.frog..! would you be so kind to let me ride on your back so that I can go across river?\"\"Well, mr. scorpio..! even I try to help you, how can I be sure that you won't try to kill me??\" Questioned frog. \"You can be sure of that, you see if I kill you, then I would die too as I cannot swim..\" Replied scorpio. Frog thought that this made sense but still he had doubts and again questioned, \"What about when I get close to the bank to get you on my back, it's possible that you would kill me and then get back to shore.!\"\"That's true.. that's possible.. but then again I won't be able to get across river, if I kill you.\", replied scorpio. Again frog thought for a while and questioned, \"How do I know that if I get you to the other side and then u will not kill me?\"\"Ah.. once you have taken me to to her side. I would be so grateful to you then it wouldn't be fair to kill you.. would it be?\" Replied scorpio. At last frog agreed to take the scorpion across the river. He went over to that side of bank and pick up scorpio. Scorpio crawled over on to frog's back. Now, frog slide into river and started kicking strongly through the stream. Halfway across the river frog suddenly felt a sharp sting in his back and out of his corner of eyes, frog saw that scorpio was removing his sting from the frog's back. Frog started to feel the numbness in his body and croaked, \"You fool.. what have you done..! now we both shall die.\"Scorpion shrugged on drowning frog's back and said, \"I could not help myself. it's in my nature..\"And both sank into water of flowing stream.", "moral1": "As the professor explained, life is a bag of good and bad things, we all have positives and negatives along the way.  but we must always concentrate greater on the positives for a healthy and happy life.  life goes on no matter what so do not waste your time thinking about the negatives. ", "moral2": "Never let words of discouragement pull you down. Don't let others tell you: you cannot roll in the hay. Always believe yourself. ", "moral3": "Nobody truly knows which employee actually deserves the merit of success, or who's actually contributing the nesessary support to kae things happen. ", "moral4": "Always keep your eyes open and stay alert before walking in any situation. ", "moral5": "Sometimes we need to understand that nature of person can not change and should act sensible.", "laebl": 5}
{"id": 302, "story": "Once a married couple moved to a new home. Next morning, just after waking up wife looked through window and saw that a women in neighboring home was hanging out washed linen clothes to dry. After wife saw this she said to her husband, \"Dear, look at those dirty clothes that women is hanging there to dry.\"Husband didn't paid attention and continued to read his newspaper. Another day again when wife saw neighbor doing same, she said to husband, \"May be her soap is bad or she doesn't know how to wash clothes. even after washing her clothes seems so dirty.\"For few days, whenever wife saw that neighboring women dry clothes, she would be surprised by how dirty it was. One day she said, \"We ought to teach her how to wash clothes.\"Still husband didn't say anything about it. One morning when she woke up and looked through the window. She screamed with surprise look on her face and said, \"Oh!! today cloths seems so clean. probably that neighboring women learned to wash it at last..\"\"No, it's not her. today I just woke up bit earlier and washed up our window..\" Replied husband.", "moral1": "We often accumulate money to acquire things to make us feel better, but sharing time and money with others brings us more happiness. ", "moral2": "Our own perspective is also very important in judging someone. ", "moral3": "Sometimes we need to understand that it could be our views that are not letting us see clearly. We should not judge person without clearing our thoughts and understanding all about situation. ", "moral4": "Be humble. ", "moral5": "Intelligence is nothing but finding a common ground to solve an issue. Every problem has a solution.", "laebl": 3}
{"id": 303, "story": "One night when a shopkeeper was just about to close his shop, a dog came to him into his shop. Dog was holding a bag in his mouth. Dog moved toward shopkeeper to give that bag to him. Shopkeeper understood what dog was trying to do and took the bag. When shopkeeper opened the bag, saw a list of items and money in the bag. Shopkeeper kept money and placed all the items in the bag written on list. Immediately dog picked up bag full of items and left. Shopkeeper was surprised to see the action of dog. He closed his shop and decided to follow dog to meet dog's owner. As shopkeeper was following dog he saw that first dog waited at the bus stop. Soon bus came and dog got into the bus. After that when conductor came, dog moved forward to show his neck belt. When conductor check it had money and address as well. Conductor took money and kept ticket in his neck belt. When bus reached destination, dog started to wag his tail to indicate that he wanted to get down. Bus stopped and dog got down. Shopkeeper was still following that dog. Shopkeeper saw that after walking some distance dog reached a house and knocked on door of that house with its legs. A person came out who was owner of dog. When dog owner saw dog, he started to beat it with stick very badly. This shocked shopkeeper who was following dog. Shopkeeper went to dog owner and asked him, \"Why are you beating the dog?\"Owner replied, \"He disturbed my sleep. instead it could have taken keys with him,!\"", "moral1": "If you work together in a team you can achieve much more than you could have done on your own. ", "moral2": "Sometimes we need to understand that it could be our views that are not letting us see clearly. We should not judge person without clearing our thoughts and understanding all about situation. ", "moral3": "There are no end to expectations of people have from you. Just one mistake done by you is enough to forget all good things done by you in past. That's nature of this material world. ", "moral4": "Never judge anyone by their outlook. ", "moral5": "No one is too small to help.", "laebl": 3}
{"id": 304, "story": "Once there lived a boy in a village of parra in goa which was famous for its watermelons. Every year farmers would organize a watermelon eating contest at the end of every harvest season in may. Farmers used to invite kids from all over village to participate in the contest. Farmer would keep best watermelons from harvest for kids to eat at contest. Kids were allowed to eat as many watermelons as they wanted only condition for them was not to bite into seeds of watermelon and spit out all the seeds into a bowl. Years later boy went to college. After completing his study boy came back to his village after 7 years. Boy was very happy to return to his village and went to market looking for watermelons but there was nothing like before. All was gone. Watermelon that were available int he market were small. Boy came to know that contest was still held but things were changed now. Whole farming and contest things were now handled by farmer's son. Farmer's son held contest even now but there was small difference. When farmer son took over, he realized that larger watermelons would fetch good money in market so he would sold the larger one in market and kept the smaller ones for the contest. This same thing continued for year after year and at last best watermelons were finished from the village. What went wrong?? How did this changed?? Previously when contest was held best watermelons were kept for kids to eat and seeds collected in bowls would be used for next harvest of watermelon. This way farmers would get best seeds from next year harvest of watermelons. It would yield even bigger watermelon next year. Now when his son took over, he would kept the smaller ones for contest because of which next year yield watermelon were smaller, the year later even smaller. In watermelon generation was one year but village best watermelons were finished in 7 yrs.", "moral1": "Human generation changes after 25 years but it will take us 200 yrs to understand what's wrong with education system. Today's generation scrap or change older traditions without realizing and understanding deeper value and meaning of those traditions. Change is good but first we should try to understand why we need to make change. ", "moral2": "Wise person learn from anyone and everyone and as soon as he understand his mistake, he corrects them and move forward. ", "moral3": "Always keep your eyes open and stay alert before walking in any situation. ", "moral4": "If we do not like our work and do not try to get happiness out of it, we are a menace to our profession as well as to ourselves. ", "moral5": "Here is our list of interesting facts about christmas.", "laebl": 1}
{"id": 305, "story": "There was a man who only cared about money. He didn't even spend money to buy bare necessities of life. He collected a large sum of money. He spend all his money to buy a lump of gold. Man buried that gold in a secret place in his house. Everyday he used to check that lump of gold daily to make sure that it was still there. One day one of his helper saw him examining that gold. Man was not aware that he was being watched. After some days man had to go away from home to do some work. Helper knew that and dug out the gold and fled. When he came he went to check his lump of gold and found that it had been stolen. His hard earn wealth was now stolen by thief. Man cried in grief. Man neighbors learned about his loss. His neighbors came to console him. They saw man's grief and advised him to bury a piece of stone in that hole in place of that gold. Because he never intended to use that gold. So, there was no difference between lump of gold and piece of stone and he should regards it as his gold.", "moral1": "Look before you leap. ", "moral2": "It all depends on the point of view, and who tells the story. Always trust your own wit and try judge the circumstances. ", "moral3": "When ever we take action against another person we should ask our self if we are doing right thing. What if same thing to be happen to us would we still feel same?? If we deceive another its like deceiving ourselves because with time dishonesty can become a habit. ", "moral4": "Impatience can ruin even the best laid plans. ", "moral5": "A liar2 will not be believed, even when he speaks the truth.", "laebl": 3}
{"id": 306, "story": "Once in village lived two brothers who used to live on adjoining farms for last 40 years. For all these years they lived happily side by side farming, sharing machinery and trading labor and good as per need. Once they both got into conflict which started with a small misunderstanding and grew into major difference between them. Their collaboration felt apart. It grew so serious that both started to use bitter words for each other and this ended with silence between them. Both stopped just any kind of communication between them. One day someone knocked on elder brother jamie's door. When he opened the door he found a person with carpenter's toolbox. Person said to jamie, \"I am looking for some work. perhaps you would have some small jobs. if you have any small job may be I can help you do it..?\"Older brother thought for a while and said, \"Yes, I do have job for you.\"He pointed toward the creek in the farm and said, \"That's my neighbor, my younger brother. last week there was a meadow but he took his bulldozer and now there is creek between us. now I want you to build a fence so that I don't have to see his place anymore.\"Carpenter agreed and said, \"I think I understand. please how me nails and other things I need so that I will be able to do a job that please you.\"Older brother had to go to town for some work so he helped carpenter to get material ready and complete work till he come back from town. After sunset when older brother returned but there was no fence but he could see a bridge streching from one side to another of creek. It was beautiful bridge. A fine piece of work handrail and older brother's neighbor was coming across, his hand outstretched. Younger brother said to his older brother, \"After all I have said and done you still build this brigde.!! \" Both stood at each end and then they both met in middle taking each others hand. As soon as they turned to see carpenter, he waved at them. Seeing him leaving both shouted, \"No, wait we have lots more work for you. please stay.\" Carpenter replied, \"I would love to stay but I have many more bridges to build..\"", "moral1": "Train up a child in the way he should go; and when he is old he will not depart therefrom. ", "moral2": "We fight over small things and these become big with time. Instead of making conflicts big we should look for solutions. Sometimes we just need a new outlook and understand what's more important. ", "moral3": "He was thanking god saying, I have been waiting for such a man. How long have I waited. Finally you heard my prayers. Now he has come and I am free of all this nonsense. Thank you. ! ", "moral4": "Too much attention to danger may cause us to fall victims to it. ", "moral5": "A burning desire is starting point to all accomplishment. Just like a small fire can not give much heat, weak desire can not produce great results.", "laebl": 2}
{"id": 307, "story": "A couple had been married for 10 years but they didn't had any child. They stayed with each other and really hoped that they will have a child before their 11th anniversary. Their family and friends were pursuing them to get a divorce but they didn't wanted to get separated because of strong love between them. Months passed. One day while husband was returning home from work, he saw his wife walking down street with a man. They were looking very happy. After a week again husband saw his wife with same man again. Husband saw them many times roaming places with each other. Hugging each other. One evening while husband was returning home, he saw that man dropped her off with a good bye kiss on her cheek. Husband got angry and sad. After a hectic day at work, husband was home. While he was holding a glass jug to get water, phone rang. He received the call. As soon as he picked the call voice came form other side saying, \"Hello dear, I will be coming to your home this evening to see you as I promise, I hope..\"Husband hung up call before hearing any further. Husband thought to himself, \"It was male voice and I am sure it's same person I have seen with my wife many times.\" He thought he had lost his wife to another man and thinking that glass jug fell from his hand and shattered into pieces. Listening to noise, his wife came running to him and asked, \"Is everything okay??\"In anger he pushed his wife. She fell and wasn't moving. Few seconds later husband realized that she fell on the broken jug pieces and a large piece has pierced her. Husband tried to feel her breath, heartbeat but there wasn't any. His wife was dead. He saw an envelope in her hand. He took it and read it. He was shocked by what was written in it. It reads : \"My loving husband, words can't express how I feel so, I had to write down this letter. I have been seeing a doctor for over a week and I wanted to be sure before giving you the big news.doctor have confirmed that I am pregnant. our baby is due 5 months from now. doctor I have been seeing is my long lost brother whom I contacted after our marriage. he promised me to take care of me and baby and will give us best care without any fee.he promised to have dinner with us tonight. I had to write to you because I am so happy. thanks for staying by my side.your loving wife.\"Letter fell from his hands. At same time he heard knock on the door it was same man he had seen with his wife. He came in and said, \"Hello, I am john, your wife's brother,,\" Suddenly he notice his sister lying in pool of her blood. He rushed her to hospital where she was confirmed dead.", "moral1": "When we chose to fight, we can see that in no time, that big trouble start resembling a small problem and we can remove it from our life and move forward. ", "moral2": "Don't give up too easily. Keep trying until you reach the goal. ", "moral3": "We should not be quick to judge other person. In relationships we should try to talk and clear things. We should not let our anger control us because not everything we see or hear is true. ! ", "moral4": "What is most truly valuable is often underrated. ", "moral5": "One should not be carried away by what others say. Don't be fooled by those who wants to take advantage of you.", "laebl": 3}
{"id": 308, "story": "Once in a kingdom, king brought a beautiful diamond necklace for his daughter as gift but the necklace was stolen and everyone in the kingdom tried to find it out but couldn't find it. At last king announced that who ever find necklace will be rewarded $50,000. Everyone in kingdom knew about reward. One day a man was walking to home along a river. The river was too polluted and smelly. As man was passing by he saw a shimmering sparkle in the river. When he looked in to river he saw a diamond necklace. Seeing it reminded him about the reward announced by king. So, he decided to try and catch that necklace to get that reward. Now, to reach that necklace in the river he put his hands into that filthy river. He tried to grab that necklace but still couldn't catch it. He took out his hand out of river to check if the necklace was still there or not but the necklace was still there. Again he tried to get to that necklace and this time to reach it he walked into river and dirty his pants too. He tried to reach that necklace by putting his whole arm into dirty river to catch it but strangely he still couldn't get necklace. At last he thought to gave up and walked away feeling depressed about it. As he was going to pass he again saw the necklace and stopped. This time he was determined to get it by any means. To get necklace he decided to get into river. Even though it was very disgusting thing to do to get into that polluted dirty river still he went in. He searched everywhere for the necklace but still failed. Feeling more depressed he came out of river. As he came out a saint who was passing by river saw him and asked him what's matter. Man knew that necklace could get him reward of 50,000$ so he refused to tell saint about what's the problem is. Still saint asked him again about his problem as he saint can see that he was very disturbed and depressed. Man thought about it for moment gathered his courage and decided to put some faith in saint and tell him problem. He asked saint to promise him that he will not tell anyone else about it. Saint promised. , he told said about the necklace and how he tried to get it but still failed. Saint told him that perhaps he should try to look upward, towards branches of tree, instead of that river. Man looked up and was surprised to see that necklace was dangling on the branch of tree. For the whole time he had been trying to catch a mere reflection of real necklace.", "moral1": "Do not take more than you need because it will lead to others not being able to have what they need. ", "moral2": "We should respect and care for everyone. We should not neglect or ignore them. Everyone is important. ", "moral3": "A little thing in hand is worth more than a great thing in prospect2. ", "moral4": "Material happiness is just like that polluted river, because it a mere reflection of true happiness that lies in spiritual world. ", "moral5": "Honesty is rewarded and greediness is punished!", "laebl": 4}
{"id": 309, "story": "One day a young person who was academically excellent applied for manager's post in big company. He passed written exam and then group interview. After this young man had to face final interview to be taken by company's director. In final interview director looked into young man cv and saw that young person did extremely well throughout his study life. Director started questioning him. Director: did you ever obtained any scholarship in your school or college? Young man: nonedirector: did your father paid for your school fees? Young man: my father passed away when I was 3, it was my mother who paid for fees. Director: where did your mother worked? Young man: sir, my mother used to work as cloths cleaner. After this director asked young man to show his hand. Young man showed his hands that were smooth and soft. After this director questioned him again. Director: have you ever helped your mother for washing cloths? Young man: no, she always wanted me to study and learn more. Further more, she could wash cloths much faster than I could. Now, director asked the young man that when he go back to his home today just go to his mother and clean her hands, after that he can come back and see him for job. Seeing of getting a chance to get the job young man was very happy. So, when he went back to his home he requested his mother to let him clean her hands. Listening to this request she felt strange and happy and with such mixed emotions she showed her hands to him. Now young man started to clean her hands slowly and as he slowly cleaned her hand tears fell from his eyes. For first he noticed his mother hands were so wrinkled and there were bruises in her hands and some bruises were so painful that she shivered with pain when they were cleaned. This was the first time young man realized that his mother washed clothes everyday to enable him to pay his school fees. Bruises on her hands was price that mother had to pay for his graduation. After cleaning of his mother's hand he washed up remaining clothes quietly and that day he spent a long time talking to her. Next morning he went to director's office. Director noticed tears in his eyes. Director asked him, \"What you did yesterday?\" Young man replied, \"I cleaned my mother's hands and finished cleaning remaining cloths.\"Director asked him, \"Please tell me what are you feeling now?\" Young man replied, \"Firstly, now I know what's appreciation. without my mother I wouldn't be here today. second, by helping my mother now I realize how difficult is to get things done. third, now I learned to appreciate importance and value of family.\"After listening to young man answer director said, \"This is what I had been looking for in my manager. I want to recruit someone who can appreciate help of others and understand suffering of others to get things done. you are hired.\"", "moral1": "All things require a minimum of order, although that doesn't prevent the order from being applied with imagination. ", "moral2": "Greed can never be satisfied. Be happy with what you have and live life to fullest. Happiness is not in things around us but in company of people we live with. ", "moral3": "We must give ourselves great goals in life, because with effort and perseverance we can achieve even more than we had hoped to. ", "moral4": "If a person doesn't understand what difficulty loved one have faced to provide them comfort then they will never value it. ", "moral5": "Our own perspective is also very important in judging someone.", "laebl": 4}
{"id": 310, "story": "A boy and girl loved each other very much. One day boy proposed girl. Girl asked, \"What am I to you?\" Boy thought for a moment  and then looked into her eyes and said, \"You are missing part of my heart.\"Girl smiled and accepted his proposal. Soon they both got married and lived a happy life for a while. With time young couple began to drift apart because of their busy schedule. Due to daily worries and work their life became difficult. With each passing day couple started to have quarrels and with this their relation got affected badly with time it became worse. One day after fight girl ran out of the house and shouted to her husband, \"You don't love me.\" Boy hated her silliness and out of impulse said, \"May it was a mistake. you were never the missing part of my life!!\"Suddenly girl turned quiet and she knew spoken words can't be taken back. With tears in her eyes she went home, pack her things and before leaving him left a note for him. Note said, \"May be I was never missing part of your life, let me go and search for some who is, lets go our separate ways. this way it would be less painful.\"Five year passed.. Boy never married again but he used to keep information about girl somehow. He knew that she had left country and was living her dreams. He used to regret about what happened but never went to girl and tried to patch up. He never wanted to accept the fact that he missed her and still missing her in his life. One day at the airport while he was going away on business trip he saw her. She was standing alone just few steps away. She saw him and smiled at him gently. Boy asked, \"How are you?\" Girl replied, \"I am fine how about you? did you find love of your life?\" Boy answered, \"No..\" Girl said, \"I will be flying in next flight.\" Boy said, \"I will be back in 2 week. give me a call then..\"Girl smiled and waved goodbye to him. Same evening boy heard of plane crash. Same plane on which girl went. Boy tried to found about her and he got to know that she was dead. Once again like before he felt pain of missing her. He finally knew that she was the missing part that he had broken carelessly and now she was gone forever.", "moral1": "Sometimes people say things out of anger but we should not act in impulse and try to think wisely and give time because a moment of anger could result in lifetime of punishment. ", "moral2": "With patience, love and care you can won anyone's heart. ", "moral3": "If you work together in a team you can achieve much more than you could have done on your own. ", "moral4": "Teaching very young children about different sizes and shapes. ", "moral5": "Whoever lays crafty stratagems for others, ought to beware that he himself be not entrapped by cunning.", "laebl": 1}
{"id": 311, "story": "About hundred of years ago, a man woke and got his newspaper from door. As he sat to read newspaper to his horror ans surprise he read his name in the obituary column. Newspaper reported the death of person himself by mistake. Firstly he got shocked but after sometime he regained his mental state to normal and now he wanted to find out about what people had said about him\"Dynamite king died. he was merchant of death.\"That man was inventor of dynamite. After reading this obituary he asked him self, \"Is this how I want to be remembered?\"He felt something inside and decide that it's not way he wanted to be remembered and from that day onward he started working for peace. His name was alfred nobel and he is not remember for great nobel prize. The most prestigious peace prize given to people from different fields for their work towards peace.", "moral1": "There is always someone worse off than yourself. ", "moral2": "Be humble. ", "moral3": "Our parents love us and they never stop caring about us even if we don't care enough about them because they love us unconditionally and we never realize that till we have them. ", "moral4": "It is always better to tell the truth. ", "moral5": "What ever we have done in past but still we can change our life and people views towards us. So never give up. Anytime is good to start good work.", "laebl": 5}
{"id": 312, "story": "During first month of college, professor gave his students a list of quiz questions. In his class there was one student name sam. He was very brilliant student. As professor gave him list he solved whole paper really quick but got stuck at last question. Question was, \"What is the first name of women who cleans school?\"Boy thought it would be some kind of joke still after reading question thoughts about cleaning lady started to go through his mind. Like he remembered she was tall, dark-hared and in her 50's but he could remember her name. At last he handed paper to professor leaving last question blank. Just before class ended, he went to professor and asked, \"Is this last question going to count for total grading?\"Professor replied, \"Absolutely.\"Professor continued, \"Dear sam, in you life you are going to meet many people and all are significant. they all deserve proper attention and care. we should respect all despite of their rank and work. all you have to do is smile and say hello.\"Since that day sam always remembered that lesson for rest of his life.", "moral1": "Regretting the past won't solve anything. What is required is to change one's situation and seek the necessary help to do so. ", "moral2": "First, god has send us in this world to live life best way we can and now, it's in our hand how well we build our life and live our life. Second, when ever we accept any work, we should do it with honesty and give our best to it. ", "moral3": "We should respect and care for everyone. We should not neglect or ignore them. Everyone is important. ", "moral4": "Generosity and humility are part of the true meaning of christmas. ", "moral5": "Generosity starts with yourself. Before demanding from others, we should be the first to give without expecting anything in return.", "laebl": 3}
{"id": 313, "story": "A young man was soon going to graduate college. For many months he used to admire a very beautiful sports car. He knew that his father can afford it so he told him that he wanted that car. As graduation day was near he awaited for signs that his father has bought that car for him. Finally it was graduation day. On the morning of graduation his father called him to his study. There he told his son that how proud he is to have such good son and how much he loved him. After telling this father handed a wrapped gift box to his son as graduation present. Curious son opened that gift. He found a bible with beautiful leather cover. Angrily son in raised voice said to his father, \"With all the money you bought me a bible?\" And left house at that instant, leaving book there. Years passed by he never returned home. Young man become a very successful businessman in mean time. He had a beautiful home and family. Years after he realized that he should go to him as he never returned after leaving the house on graduation day. Before he could make arrangements to return home to his father he received telegram. In telegram there was message for him informing him about his father death. It was to inform him that his father willed all his possession to his son and he should come home as soon as he can to take care of things. He returned home but on reaching home his heart was filled with regrets and sadness. He began to search for important papers and saw that the bible his father gifted was still new and he had left it years ago. With tears he opened the bible and began to turn pages and as he read those words suddenly a car key dropped from envelope which was stick behind the bible. It had a tag with dealer's name, same one who had sports car he desired. The date on tag was of his graduation day with words written on it, \"Paid in full\".", "moral1": "This is designed for you, who, when you have threatened great things, produce nothing. ", "moral2": "Sometimes we miss blessings just because they are not packed as we expected. We should take time to think and should not get angry and act at instant. Its better to think before act than to regret later. ", "moral3": "One should not be carried away by what others say. Don't be fooled by those who wants to take advantage of you. ", "moral4": "Nature will out. ", "moral5": "A bad boy discovers what good effects kind people have in the world.", "laebl": 2}
{"id": 314, "story": "It's story of two men who were both seriously ill and occupied same room at hospital. One man was next to room's only window and allowed to get only for one hour to sit up during his treatment of lungs. Other man had to spend all day lying flat on his back. Both men talked for hours. They spoke about their wives, families, home, job, vacation. Every afternoon when men next to room window would sit, he would pass time by describing scenery outside window to his roommate. The man in the other bed would love that one hour periods where his world would be broaden and activities and colors of outside world. As the man by the window described all the exquisite details of outside world and other man would close his eyes and imagine those scene. One afternoon man by the window described a very beautiful parade passing by the window. In-spite other man couldn't hear the band but he could imagine all the things man by window described him. Suddenly a thought crossed his mind, \" Why should he have all the pleasure of seeing everything and I get to see nothing.\"As days passed guy started to miss seeing sights more and more. His envy got over him and soon turned him sour. He was unable to sleep and thought now should control his life. Late one night as he was lying looking at the ceiling, the man by window started coughing. He was chocking on his fluids and other man watched in dim light of room. As struggling man by window trying to get hold for button to call for help. Even listening this other man never moved, never pushed his own button which would have bought nurse running. In less than five minutes man by window chocking stopped along with sound of breathing. Now there was only deathly silence. Next morning nurse arrived to bring water for both of them. She saw there lifeless body of man by window. As soon as man found it appropriate he asked if he could move to bed next to window. The nurse made the switch and after making sure he was comfortable, she left him alone. After moving to bed next to window, slowly painfully he tried to get up to take his first look out side the window. He was excited that he would finally get to see outside window. He slowly turn to look out the window beside the bed and to his surprise window was facing \" Blank wall \".", "moral1": "It's our choice to keep positive attitude towards life. Circumstances are just parts of what makes us joyful. Pursuit of happiness is an inward journey. If we continue to bit our lips and just before we begin to complain we should shoot that seemingly harmless negative thought as it germinates, we will find there is much rejoice about. ", "moral2": "Never judge a person by how he speaks. ", "moral3": "Organisation and following rules, allows collaboration to achieve great things. ", "moral4": "It is easy to propose impossible remedies. ", "moral5": "Always be good with others and share good with others. When we share our goodness with others it makes world a better place to live in.", "laebl": 1}
{"id": 315, "story": "It's story of girl and boy who loved but.. !! 10th grade:- as I sat there in english class, I stared at the girl next to me. She was my 'best friend'. I stared at her long, silky hair, and wished she was mine. But she didn't notice me like that, and I knew it. After class, she walked up to me and asked me for the notes. I handed them to her. She thanked me and gave a kiss on my cheek. All I wanted to do is to tell her how I feel about her. I lover her and wanted to tell her that I want her to be mine but I was too shy to tell her. 11th grade:- the phone rang. On the other end, it was her. She was in tears, mumbling on and on about how her love had broke her heart. She asked me to come over because she didn't want to be alone, so I did. As I sat next to her on the sofa, I stared at her soft eyes, wishing she was mine. After 2 hours, one drew barrymore movie, and three bags of chips, she decided to go home. She thanked me and gave a kiss on my cheek. All I wanted to do is to tell her how I feel about her. I lover her and wanted to tell her that I want her to be mine but I was too shy to tell her. Senior year:- one fine day she walked to my locker. \"My date is sick\" She said, \"Hes not gonna go\" Well, I didn't have a date, and in 7th grade, we made a promise that if neither of us had dates, we would go together just as 'best friends'. So we did. That night, after everything was over, I was standing at her front door step. I stared at her as she smiled at me and stared at me with her crystal eyes. She thanked me and gave a kiss on my cheek. All I wanted to do is to tell her how I feel about her. I lover her and wanted to tell her that I want her to be mine but I was too shy to tell her. Graduation:- a day passed, then a week, then a month. Before I could blink, it was graduation day. I watched as her perfect body floated like an angel up on stage to get her diploma. I wanted her to be mine-but she didn't notice me like that, and I knew it. Before everyone went home, she came to me in her smock and hat, and cried as I hugged her. She said, \"You are my best friend.\" And gave a kiss on my cheek. All I wanted to do is to tell her how I feel about her. I lover her and wanted to tell her that I want her to be mine but I was too shy to tell her. Marriage:- now I sit in church. That girl is getting married now. And drive off to her new life, married to another man. I wanted her to be mine, but she didn't see me like that, and I knew it. But before she drove away, she came to me and said 'you came ! '. She thanked me and gave a kiss on my cheek. All I wanted to do is to tell her how I feel about her. I lover her and wanted to tell her that I want her to be mine but I was too shy to tell her. Death:- years passed, I looked down at the coffin of a girl who used to be my 'best friend'. At the service, they read a diary entry she had wrote in her high school years. This is what it read: \"I stare at him wishing he was mine, but he doesn't notice me like that, and I know it. I want to tell him, I want him to know that I don't want to be just friends, I love him but I'm just too shy, and I don't know why. I wish he would tell me he loved me!\"\"I wish I did too\" I thought to my self, and I cried! !", "moral1": "A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving. ", "moral2": "If you love someone, tell them, don't let your heart be broken by words left unspoken. ", "moral3": "Sometimes we miss blessings just because they are not packed as we expected. We should take time to think and should not get angry and act at instant. Its better to think before act than to regret later. ", "moral4": "To stay out of trouble, don't make the same mistakes others make. ", "moral5": "Be kind and respectful to everyone, as you never know when will you need help from others.", "laebl": 2}
{"id": 316, "story": "Once there was a fisherman and his wife who were very poor and lived in bad conditions. Everyday husband used to go out for fishing. One day while he was sitting with his rod looking at clear water, suddenly he felt like something was caught so he drew it up and it was a large fish. As he bought it up the fish said, \"I pray you fisherman, let me live. am not a fish really but an enchanted prince. what good you can get from killing? please let me back into water.\" Fisherman replied, \"No need for many words. you can speak and I should let you go anyhow.\" And after saying this he left the fish into the water. On returning home his wife asked, \"No fish for today?\" Husband replied, \"No, but I did caught a fish who was an enchanted prince so I let him go.\"Wife questioned, \"Didn't you asked any wish before leaving it back to sea?\" Husband was confused and said, \"What should I wish for?\"Wife replied, \"We live in such bad conditions and it's so disgusting. you could have wished for little hut for us. now go back and asked him to give us that.\"Husband didn't wanted to go back but still he couldn't oppose his wife and went to sea. There he stood still and called for enchanted prince to come to him. Fish came to him and asked him for reason to come back. Husband asked him to full fill his wife wish to have hut. Prince fulfilled his wish and said, \"Go then, she has it already.\"When husband reached home his wife took him inside and it was pretty house with a kitchen, yard, and garden with hens and duck. It was well acquainted house for them to live. Everything went well for few weeks. But then wife started to think and asked his husband that enchanted prince could have provided them with bigger house like a stone castle. So asked him to go back to sea and wish for castle. Husband did as his wife asked and wish was granted. When he reached home he found a great castle instead of hut and his wife was really happy and they went to sleep. Next morning again she woke up and said, \"We can be king, go and ask for us to be king.\" Husband didn't wanted to go back and ask but his wife forced him to go and so the man went. Husband went to sea and asked for his wife wish. Again the wish was fulfilled. Fisherman wife was still not satisfied, so she keep on sending her husband with wish to be emperor, then she wanted to be pope. All her wishes were granted by enchanted prince. But still she was not happy, she asked her husband to wish for her to be god. Listening to this husband refused to go and tried to tell her that this wish can not be full fil but wife angered with rage kicked him out of church to go for wish to sea to the fish. Scared fisherman went to fish and told him about wish of his wife to be god. Enchanted prince said, \"Go to her, and you will find her back the way she used to be same life she used to live before meeting me at sea.\"And after that they both lived the same for rest for their life.", "moral1": "Everyone of us have our own weakness but if we willing to accept it instead of opposing then we can make advantage out of our own weakness. ", "moral2": "The gods help them that help themselves. ", "moral3": "Greed can never be satisfied. Be happy with what you have and live life to fullest. Happiness is not in things around us but in company of people we live with. ", "moral4": "Don't be greedy. ", "moral5": "Little friends may prove great friends.", "laebl": 3}
{"id": 317, "story": "According to hindi legend, once there was time when every human being were god but they abused their divinity. So, one day brahma decided to take back divinity from humans and decided to hide it some place where humans could never find it. To do this brahma called meeting of all gods to decide about place to hide the divinity. Some said, \"Lets bury it deep in earth.\" Brahma refused saying, \"Humans will dig into earth and find it.\"Some said, \"Lets sink it in deepest ocean.\" Again brahma refused and said, \"Human will learn to dive and find it.\"Then some suggested, \"Lets take it to top of mountains.\" Brahma replied, \"Humans will climb up mountains and get divinity.\"After so many refuse gods gave up and said, \"We don't know where to hide divinity as eventually humans will reach places and no place left to hide.\"Then brahma thought for long and said, \"We will hide it in the center of human own being, humans will search for it here and there but wont look for divinity inside their true self.\"All gods agreed that its perfect place for hiding divinity and since then humans have been searching for divinity up and down digging earth, diving oceans and searching for something which lies within themselves.", "moral1": "That's what I have been telling you: drop it. Now sit down. Be just human, here nobody is emperor, nobody is beggar. Here everybody is himself. Just be yourself. ", "moral2": "Listening can keep you safe. ", "moral3": "Envy is the result of not knowing how to appreciate what we already have. ", "moral4": "Divinity lies within us all. We just need to look inside ourselves. ", "moral5": "With your dedication and determination to learn something you can do anything you want.. ! !", "laebl": 4}
{"id": 318, "story": "One day a man found cocoon of butterfly. He saw a small opening and set there to watch butterfly who was struggling to force it body through the hole. Man watched this whole process for several hours. After some hours butterfly stopped making any progress and it seemed like it reached it limit to put effort to get through that hole. So man decided to help it and with the help of pair of scissors he snipped off the remaining bit of cocoon so that butterfly can emerge out of that hole easily. After removing cocoon man sat there expecting butterfly to fly expanding its wings to support its body after been free from cocoon but nothing happened. Instead of it he saw a swollen body and small shriveled wings. In fact that butterfly was never able to fly again and crawled for rest of its life around. What man did was hi kindness but what he didn't understand was that the struggle that butterfly did to get through that hole was god's way to force fluids from the body of butterfly into wings so that it could be ready to fly once it received its freedom from cocoon.", "moral1": "Gentleness and kind persuasion win where force and bluster fail. ", "moral2": "Watching television is often a waste of time, and brings no benefit. ", "moral3": "Think before you act. ", "moral4": "Sometimes struggles are exactly what we need, its god way to make us stronger. ", "moral5": "We should focus our energy on positive and with in not time we would be able to do things we couldn't think of doing before.", "laebl": 4}
{"id": 319, "story": "In a village, there lived a pandit. Despite being well-versed in all scriptures and knowing everything he was very poor and didn't have a house. Even getting meals for a day was very difficult for him and his clothes were worn out. Pandit used to beg for his meals, \"Please give me alms.\" By going from house to house. On seeing his worn out clothes most of people used to think that he is mad and shut the door. Because of this he hadn't got anything to eat for days. However one day he got new clothes which were given to him by a rich man. Wearing those new cloth he went to be for alms as before. Today, for the very first home he went, the householder invited him inside with great respect, \"Sir please come in and have food in our house.\" Pandit went inside and sat down to eat. Householder served him with varieties of soup, meals, vedas and sweet food to eat. Having prayed first, pandit took a sweet in his hand and began to feed it to his new cloths saying, \"Eat, eat.\"On seeing this the householder was surprised and was not able to understand the activity of pandit. So he asked, \"Pandit ji cloths don't eat. right? then why are you offering food tot he clothes?\"Pandit answered, \"Indeed because of this new clothes you offered me food today. yesterday itself you asked me to go away when I asked for food. since I got this food due to these clothes, I am grateful to them and that's why I am feeding them.\"Listening to his householder was little ashamed of himself.", "moral1": "When ever we take action against another person we should ask our self if we are doing right thing. What if same thing to be happen to us would we still feel same?? If we deceive another its like deceiving ourselves because with time dishonesty can become a habit. ", "moral2": "Never judge anyone by their outlook. ", "moral3": "Evil companions bring more hurt than profit. ", "moral4": "Your job doesn't always define you, but being a good human being does. ", "moral5": "Humbleness is basic thing. If you are humble then you will learn much even without wise man. You can learn from trees, springs, wind. If you are humble enough then whole existence becomes teacher to you.", "laebl": 2}
{"id": 320, "story": "Long-era ago, in india lived a boy named eklavya, son of tribal chief in the forest of kingdom hastinapur. Eklavya was brave and handsome boy who was loved by all. His father saw that something was troubling him. Many times he saw his son lost in deep thought and other boys used to play and hunt for pleasure. One day father asked his son, \"Why are you so unhappy? why don't you play with your friends?\"\"I want to be a archer. I want to be a disciple of the great guru dronacharya, the greatest tutor of archery in hastinapur. his gurukul is a magical place where ordinary boys are turned into mighty warriors.\", he replied. \"I know that we belong to the hunting tribe, but I want to be a warrior, father, not a mere hunter. so please allow me to leave home and become the disciple of dronacharya.\", he addedhis father knew it not going to be easy for him but he didnot want to refuse the only wish of his son. So, father gave his blessings. Eklavya set on his way to reach part of forest where drona taught the princes of hastinapur. When boy reached drona's gurukul and saw it was consisted of several huts surrounded by treesand an archery yard. There he saw a man standing near a tree busy instructing a boy. Though eklavya had never seen drona before, he put his guess at work. He went near drona and bowed. The sage was surprised to see a strange boy addressing him. Who are you? He asked. \"Dronacharya, I am eklavya, son of the tribal chief in the western part of the forests of hastinapura.\" Eklavya replied. \"Please accept me as your disciple and teach me the wonderful art of archery.\"Drona sighed. \"Eklavya… if you are a tribal hunter, you must be a shudra, the lowest social community according to the vedic caste system. I am a brahmin, the highest caste in the kingdom. I cannot teach a shudra boy\" He said. The innocent tribal boy was deeply hurt by drona's refusal to teach him. \"It's not fair!\" He thought miserably. \"God has given knowledge to all, but man alone differentiates his kind.\" He left the place with a broken heart but it could not shatter his ambition to learn archery. He was still as determined to learn archery. \"I may be a shudra but does it make any difference?\" Thought he. \"I am as strong and zealous as drona's princes and disciples. if I practice the art everyday, I can surely become an archer.\"Eklavya reached his own forests and took some mud from a nearby river. He made a statue of dronacharya and selected a secluded clearing in the forests to place it. Eklavya did this because he faithfully believed that if he practiced before his guru, he would become an able archer. Thus, though his guru shunned him, he still held him in high esteem and thought of him as his guru. Day after day, he took his bow and arrow, worshiped the statue of drona and started practice. In time faith, courage and perseverance transformed eklavya the mere tribal hunter into eklavya the extraordinary archer. One day while eklavya is practicing, he hears a dog barking. At first the boy ignored the dog, but continuous disturbance in his practice angered him. He stopped his practice and went towards the place where the dog was barking. Before the dog could shut up or get out of the way, eklavya fired several arrows in rapid succession to fill the dog's mouth without injuring it. As a result it roamed the forests with its mouth opened. As fate would have it, that day, drona was instructing prince about some finer points of archery by making them learn in the real-life condition of the open jungle. As they were busy practicing, they suddenly chanced upon the \"Stuffed\" Dog, and wonder who could have pulled off such a feat of archery. Drona was amazed too. \" Such an excellent aim can only come from a mighty archer.\" He exclaimed. He told the pandavas that if somebody was such a good archer then he surely needed to be met. The practice was stopped and together they began searching the forest for the one behind such amazing feat. They found a dark-skinned man dressed all in black, his body besmeared with filth and his hair in matted locks. It was eklavya. Dronacharya went up to him. Drona said,\"Your aim is truly remarkable! from whom did you learn archery?\" Eklavya was thrilled to hear drona's praises. How surprised he will be if he told drona that he, in fact was his guru! \"From you my master. you are my guru,\" Eklavya replied humbly. \"Your guru? how can I be your guru? I have never seen you before!\" Drona exclaimed in surprise. But all of a sudden he remembered something. He remembered about an eager boy who had visited his gurukul several months ago. \" Now I remember,\" Said he. \"Are you not the same hunter boy whom I refused admission in my gurukul some months back?\"\"Yes, dronacharya\", replied the boy. \"After I left your gurukul, I came home and made a statue like you and worshiped it every day. I practiced before your image. you refused to teach me, but your statue did not. thanks to it, I have become a good archer.\"Hearing this, arjuna became angry. \"But you promised me that you'd make me the best archer in the world!\" He accused drona. \"Now how can that be? now a common hunter has become better than me!\" The other princes remembered their master frequently praising arjuna that he had immense talent and will be the greatest archer in the kingdom. They waited with bated breath. What will their teacher do now? Unable to answer arjuna's question, drona remained silent. The sage too was upset that his promise to prince arjuna was not going to be fulfilled. He was also angry with eklavya for disobeying him. So the sage planned to punish eklavya. \"Where is your guru dakhsina? you have to give me a gift for your training,\" The sage demanded. He had finally found a way to make eklavya suffer for his disobedience. Eklavya was overjoyed. A guru dakshina is the final offering from a student to the guru before leaving the ashram. The teacher may ask for something or nothing at all. \"Dronacharya, I'll be the happiest person on earth to serve you. ask me anything and I will offer it to you as my guru dhakshina \"He said. \"I might ask something you don't like to give me. what if you refuse the dhakshina I want?\" Drona asked cunningly. Eklavya was shocked. It was considered a grave insult and a great sin if a guru's dakshina was refused. \"No! how can I, teacher? I am not that ungrateful. I'll never refuse anything you ask, dronacharya,\" Promised the unsuspecting boy. Drona did not wait anymore. \"Eklavya, I seek to have your right-hand thumb as my guru dhakshina\" He declared. Silence befell on everyone. Everyone was shocked, even arjuna. He looked at his teacher in horror and disbelief. How could their teacher make such a cruel demand? That too, from a mere boy? For a moment eklavya stood silent. Without his thumb he could never shoot arrows again. But the teacher must be satisfied. \"Ok gurudev, as you wish.\" Said he. Then, without the slightest hesitation, eklavya drew out his knife and cut his thumb! The princes gasped at eklavya's act of bravery. But the tribal boy betrayed no signs of pain, and held out his severed thumb to dronacharya. \"Here is my guru dakshina, drona\", ekalavya said. \"I am happy that you have made me your disciple, even if I'm a mere shudra hunter.\"The sage was humbled. He blessed the young archer for his courage. \"Eklavya, even with out your thumb, you'll be known as a great archer. I bless you that you will be remembered forever for your loyalty to your guru,\" Drona declared and left the forests. He was moved and grieved at his own action. But he was content that his promise to arjuna was not broken. The gods blessed eklavya from above. But despite his handicap, eklavya continued to practice archery. How could he do so? When one is dedicated, one can make even mountains bow. With practice, eklavya could shoot arrows with his index and middle finger and he became a greater archer than he was ever before. His renown spread far and wide. When drona came to know this, he blessed the boy silently and begged for divine forgiveness. And true to drona's blessing, eklavya is still praised as the most loyal and brave student in the epic of mahabharatha.", "moral1": "With your dedication and determination to learn something you can do anything you want.. ! ! ", "moral2": "What memories cling 'round the instruments of our pleasure. ", "moral3": "What goes around comes around. If you do good to others, it will come back to you. So, always do good to others. ", "moral4": "We should always think positive of others and ignore their deficiencies. We should learn to focus on the good things instead of trying to hide weaknesses. If we think and approach positively even in a negative situation, then we will be able to solve our problems more efficiently. ", "moral5": "You can change people's lives by bringing them a little joy and good health.", "laebl": 1}
{"id": 321, "story": "On a sunday afternoon, on a small private plane a doctor, a lawyer, a little boy and a sadhu were out. Suddenly an engine problem occurred in the plane. In spite of the best effort pilot was not able to get plane to fly properly, so the plane started to go down. Knowing that plane going to crash the pilot grabbed the parachute and yelled to other passengers that they better jump off the plane and try to save their lives. He himself bailed out. Unfortunately there were only three parachutes left and people on the plane were four. Instantly doctor grabbed one and said, \"I have to save lives of other people so I must live.\" And jumped off the plane. Then the lawyer said, \"I am lawyer and lawyers are the smartest people on earth so I deserve to live.\" And he too jumped off the plane. Now the sadhu and the little boy were left on the plane with one parachute left. So the sadhu looked at the little boy and said, \"Son, I have lived long enough. you are young and have whole life ahead. you take the last parachute and save you life.\"Little boy handed the parachute back to sadhu and said, \"Don't worry. the smartest man just took off with my backpack.\"", "moral1": "What memories cling 'round the instruments of our pleasure. ", "moral2": "The best kindness is to give our time and sincere best wishes to people, regardless of whether they can give us anything in return. ", "moral3": "Your job doesn't always define you, but being a good human being does. ", "moral4": "You could have devoted these 20 years serving the destitute the poor. You wasted 20 years to save 5 mins, its not wisdom. ", "moral5": "Our life is small and we need to understand that no one can live forever. So if we want to live life  than we should try to accept death as we accept life.", "laebl": 3}
{"id": 322, "story": "There was a girl who hated herself just because she was blind. She used to hate everyone around her except her boyfriend. He was always there for her even after the accident in which she got blind and her behavior changed towards life. She always used to say that if she could see the world. She would marry her boyfriend. One day, someone donated a pair of eyes to her. She had an operation and now she could see everything, everyone including her boyfriend and was very happy. Seeing her happy boyfriend was happy too and asked her, \"Now that you can see the world, will you marry me?\"But the girl was shocked to see that her boyfriend was blind too. So, she refuse to marry him.", "moral1": "Laziness ends up having a bad effect on many aspects of life. It can only be combated with forward-planning and hard work. ", "moral2": "Be humble. ", "moral3": "Honesty is the best policy. ", "moral4": "Just take care of my eyes dear. ", "moral5": "The dangers of others are generally of advantage to the wary.", "laebl": 4}
{"id": 323, "story": "Once there were two friends going through forest. Being in forest they knew that there is danger of being attacked by dangerous animal in the forest. So, they decided to keep close to each other and promise to remain united even if they get in dangerous situation. Suddenly, while they were on their way, they saw a very large bear approaching them. Both friends got scared but instead of staying with each other, one of the friends at once climbed to a near by tree leaving the other one behind. Other friend didn't knew how to climb and was left on ground. He did quick thinking and he lay down on the ground breathlessly and pretended to be a dead man. The bear came near laying man and then smelt near ear and left the place because bears don't eat dead bodies. Now after the bear left friend on tree came down and asked his friend on ground, \"What did bear said in your ears?\"Friend replied, \"The bear advised me not to believe a false friend.\"", "moral1": "Self-help is the best help. ", "moral2": "True friend is the one who always supports and stands by you in any situation. ", "moral3": "The doors of the world are opened to people who can read. ", "moral4": "This is designed for you, who, when you have threatened great things, produce nothing. ", "moral5": "Money you spend on friends is returned or reciprocated in some form. Money spent on charity gets converted into blessings from god which will be your eternal property. Money spent on pleasures is just frittered away.", "laebl": 2}
{"id": 324, "story": "After being called for urgent surgery doctor came to hospital as soon as possible and changed clothes for surgery. There he saw that the boy's father was pacing in hall waiting for doctor. As father saw doctor coming, he yelled, \"Why you took so much time to come? don't you have any responsibility? don't you know my son's life is in danger?\"Doctor smiled and said, \"I am sorry for being late but I came as fast as I can after receiving the call. please calm down so that I can do my work.\"Father replied in anger, \"How can I calm down? what if it was your son waiting for operation? what if he dies waiting for doctor like you?\"Again doctor smiled and asked, \"We will do our best. pray for your son's life.\"\"Advising someone is so easy\" , father murmured. After few hours when the surgery was complete. Doctor came out happy and said to father, \"You son is saved.\" And without waiting for response from father he went away saying ,\"If you have any question ask to nurse.\"Seeing this father commented to nurse, \"Why so arrogant? couldn't he wait for some minute to answer my question concerning my son's surgery?\"The nurse answered, \"His son died yesterday in a road accident, he was at the burial when we called him for your son's surgery.  and now that he saved your son's life, he left running to finish his son's burial.\"", "moral1": "Injuries may be forgiven, but not forgotten. ", "moral2": "Liars are not believed even when they speak the truth. ", "moral3": "The laws of nature are unchangeable. ", "moral4": "Never judge anyone because you never know how their life is and what they're going through. ", "moral5": "If you work together in a team you can achieve much more than you could have done on your own.", "laebl": 4}
{"id": 325, "story": "King akbar was very fond of birbal. This made a certain courtier very jealous. Now this courtier always wanted to be chief minister, but this was not possible as birbal filled that position. One day akbar praised birbal in front of the courtier. This made the courtier very angry and he said that the king praised birbal unjustly and if birbal could answer three of his questions, he would accept the fact that birbal was intelligent. Akbar always wanting to test birbals wit readily agreed. The three questions were 1. How many stars are there in the sky? 2. Where is the center of the earth? 3. How many men and how many women are there in the world? Immediately akbar asked birbal the three questions and informed him that if he could not answer them, he would have to resign as chief minister. To answer the first question, birbal brought a hairy sheep and said, \"There are as many stars in the sky as there is hair on the sheep's body. my friend the courtier is welcome to count them if he likes.\"To answer the second question, birbal drew a couple of lines on the floor and bore an iron rod in it and said, \"This is the center of the earth, the courtier may measure it himself if he has any doubts.\"In answer to the third question, birbal said, \"Counting the exact number of men and women in the world would be a problem as there are some specimens like our courtier friend here who cannot easily be classified as either. therefore if all people like him are killed, then and only then can one count the exact number.\"", "moral1": "Human generation changes after 25 years but it will take us 200 yrs to understand what's wrong with education system. Today's generation scrap or change older traditions without realizing and understanding deeper value and meaning of those traditions. Change is good but first we should try to understand why we need to make change. ", "moral2": "We should always try to improve, not giving in to the kind of fear shown in people who have never attempted what they want to do in life. Specially designed for those thinking of starting something new. ", "moral3": "Do not let anything turn you from your purpose. ", "moral4": "There is always a way. ", "moral5": "This is what we call 'self appraisal'.   every time if we don't get ahead of others, we blame others for it.   we should look to our self and compare, find own weaknesses and work hard to throw away weaknesses.   always work hard, honest and with full dedication.   it will always pay up.", "laebl": 4}
{"id": 326, "story": "There was a lawyer. He loves fishing and hunting. It was a clear saturday and he decided to spend his day fishing and hunting. He drove a long way to reach the forest and a lake was located near the forest. He decided to try his chance in fishing. Unfortunately, he could not catch even a single fish. He decided to return home. Suddenly he saw a rabbit moving around in the nearby area. He shot the rabbit and the rabbit fallen down on the ground inside a fence of a garden. The lawyer had a quick glance in and around the garden and he saw nobody was there. He jumped inside the garden, grabbed the rabbit and when he was about to climb back the fence, he was caught by the garden owner. The garden owner and lawyer argued for the ownership of the rabbit. The lawyer told he shot the rabbit and it belonged to him. The owner argued, the rabbit grew in his garden and it was lying in his garden. So it belonged to him. The lawyer shouted at the owner, 'see, I'm a lawyer! I can sue you in the court and get you severe punishment! 'the owner decided to teach a lesson to the lawyer. He said, 'okay. I'll kick you three times with my strength. You again kick me three times with your full strength. Let us continue this until you or me request to give up! The one who gives up lose the game and the other one wins and owns the rabbit! Lawyer agreed to the 'three kick' rule and he was confident that he could win it! Apparently, the lawyer looked bigger and stronger than the garden owner. They then argued on who should kick first. The decided on tossing a coin and the garden owner won the toss. He decided to kick the lawyer first! The garden owner kicked him on his stomach, his legs and face! The lawyer groaned in pain and before he starts kicking the owner, the garden owner said, 'I give up! It is all yours. Now, enjoy the rabbit! '", "moral1": "Never underestimate anyone and never become overconfident on your talent and powers. A big blow on the right place on you can bring you down. ", "moral2": "That's what I have been telling you: drop it. Now sit down. Be just human, here nobody is emperor, nobody is beggar. Here everybody is himself. Just be yourself. ", "moral3": "Laziness ends up having a bad effect on many aspects of life. It can only be combated with forward-planning and hard work. ", "moral4": "We should help others and others will help us. ", "moral5": "Sometimes people say things out of anger but we should not act in impulse and try to think wisely and give time because a moment of anger could result in lifetime of punishment.", "laebl": 1}
{"id": 327, "story": "Once upon a time, an old man lived with his three sons in a village. All his three sons were hard workers. Still, none of them agreed with each other and quarreled all the time. The old man tried a lot to unite them but he failed. While the villagers were surprised at their hard work and efforts, they also made fun of them on their fights. Months passed by and the old man fell sick. He talked to his sons to stay united, but none of his sons heard his words. So, he decided to teach them a practical lesson so that they would shed off their differences and stay united. The old man called as his sons. He told them, 'I will give you a bundle of sticks. Separate each stick and you will have to break each stick into pieces of two. The one who breaks the sticks quickly will be rewarded more. 'all sons agreed. The old man gave a bundle of 10 sticks to everyone of them and asked to break it into pieces. All the sons broke the sticks into pieces in minutes. And again they started to quarrel among themselves as who came first. The old man said, 'dear sons, the game is not over. Now I will give another bundle of sticks to all of you. You will have to break the sticks as a bundle, not as separate sticks. ' the sons agreed and began to break the bundle of sticks. Unfortunately, they could not break the bundle. They tried very hard but failed to complete the task. All sons said to the father about their failure. The old man replied, 'dear sons, see! You could easily break the single sticks into pieces, but you were not able to break the bundle! The sticks were same. So, if you stay united, nobody can make any harm to you. If you quarrel every time with your brothers, anyone can easily defeat you. I request you to stay united. 'the three sons understood the power of unity and promised their father that whatever be the problem, they would all stay together.", "moral1": "Be grateful for who you are. ", "moral2": "We should always try to improve, not giving in to the kind of fear shown in people who have never attempted what they want to do in life. Specially designed for those thinking of starting something new. ", "moral3": "Unity is strength! ", "moral4": "We should always think positive of others and ignore their deficiencies. We should learn to focus on the good things instead of trying to hide weaknesses. If we think and approach positively even in a negative situation, then we will be able to solve our problems more efficiently. ", "moral5": "Don't be greedy.", "laebl": 3}
{"id": 328, "story": "Rohan was a greedy and a selfish man. He always desired to have lots and lots of wealth and never hesitated to cheat others to earn money. Also, he never wished to share anything with the others. He was so selfish that he would like to own everything for himself.   the selfish man used to calculate each and every small aspect. He paid a very little amount of wages to his servants. Where ever he went, he calculated a lot to save money by deceiving others. He also told a lot of lies to protect his wealth. Simply, rohan was the antonym for the word honesty. However, he was taught a nice lesson by his own act. One day, he missed a small bag, which contained 50 gold coins. He was searching for the bag of gold coins day and night. He sent his workers in search of the bag, but none could find it. He told his friends and neighbors that he had lost a bag of gold coins and requested them to inform if they found it. Rohan was so sad that he had lost so many gold coins. After a couple of days, a ten year old girl, who was located near rohan's house, told her father that she had found a small bag and it had 50 gold coins. Her father worked in rohan's land. He told his daughter that it was his chief's money and he had lost it before two days and added he would return the bag to his master. They weren't very rich and the father could retain the gold coins with themselves and hide the fact of finding the bag.   he was so honest that he should return the valuable coins to his master, who really owed it. He gave it back to his master rohan and asked him to check whether the bag had 50 gold coins. Rohan who was literally happy to get the coins, decided to play a trick. He shouted at his worker, 'there were 75 gold coins in this bag and you gave me only 50! Where are the other coins? You have stolen them! 'the worker was shocked to hear this and he pleaded to his master that he gave whatever his daughter had found. Selfish and greedy rohan did not accept it and they decided to take the issue to court to get the right judgment. The judge heard both the sides. He examined the daughter and the worker about the number of coins they had found in the bag and they assured it was only 50! He cross-examined rohan and rohan replied, 'yes lord, I had 75 gold coins in my bag and now they gave me only 50! They have stolen my 25 coins! ' judge asked, 'are you sure you had 75 coins? ' and rohan nodded his head. Then the judge made his judgment, 'since rohan lost a bag of 75 gold coins, the bag found by the girl which had only 50 coins doesn't belong to rohan and it was lost by somebody else. In addition, if anyone found a bag of 75 gold coins, I would declare it belongs to rohan. Also, there were no claims against the loss of 50 coins and I order the girl and his father to take those 50 coins as a token of appreciation for their honesty! '", "moral1": "Honesty is rewarded and greediness is punished! ", "moral2": "Life is short. Always ask, never assume. ", "moral3": "Humbleness is basic thing. If you are humble then you will learn much even without wise man. You can learn from trees, springs, wind. If you are humble enough then whole existence becomes teacher to you. ", "moral4": "Don't underestimate yourself. There are bigger fools in this world. ", "moral5": "One should not be foolish to ignore nature. Sometimes we need to understand that nature of living being's can not be change and act sensibly.", "laebl": 1}
{"id": 329, "story": "Menu is a sweet, lovable and beautiful girl, aged six years. She is an adorable kid as she obeys every word of the elders. Menu's parents loved her for her amazing behavior. One day her mother took her to grocery shopping. As they passed the shops, menu noted a cute plastic pearl necklace in dazzling pink! She asked her mother to buy her the necklace. Her mother told her it cost a few pennies and she asked her to do some chores, so that for every completed work menu will get some money and she could buy the pink necklace. Menu prepared a to-do list and assisted her mom with all the chores. Her mom was so happy and she paid enough money to buy the pink necklace. Menu happily purchased the desired necklace and wore it just everywhere, every time, except while taking bath. Her mom told that her neck would turn pink and the pearls would lose its sheen if she wore it while bathing. She wore it even while sleeping. Menu was known for her kindness and respect to elders. Her dad wanted to play with her. Her daddy used to tell her bed time stories frequently. One day, after completing a story, her dad asked how much she loved him. Menu replied, 'you know how much I love you'. Dad asked, 'then give me your pearl necklace please! ' menu replied, 'please daddy, I love you so much but please don't ask pearls. I will give you the pink barbie which you bought me a month ago. ' dad replied, 'fine sweetheart. ' and left. After a few days, the same conversation was held between menu and her dad. Again, menu refused to give her pearl necklace and instead asked her dad to take her pet. Dad kissed her and left with smile. This conversation was repeated several times. One day, she slept while her dad was reading her a story. As he was about to leave her room, menu in her sleep, said, 'here dad, please don't take the pearl necklace. ' she was holding the necklace in her hands. Her dad with a big smile gently without disturbing her sleep, took off the pearl necklace from her hand. The next moment, she woke up and asked, 'dad what are you doing? 'dad replied, 'darling your pearl necklace had fallen on the floor, I was just picking! 'dad, by hiding the plastic necklace taken by menu's hand, immediately opened the jewel box placed near her bed and handed over the real and precious pink pearl necklace to menu, and said, 'sweetheart, here is your necklace! ' she replied, 'thank you dad! ' menu's dad had been trying for a long time to make her give up the cheap pearl necklace for the real one. Finally, she gave-up fake and grabbed the real one.", "moral1": "The man who speaks for both sides is not to be trusted by either. ", "moral2": "When we chose to fight, we can see that in no time, that big trouble start resembling a small problem and we can remove it from our life and move forward. ", "moral3": "God wants us to give up all those fake and cheap things we hold very preciously in our life. It can be habits, hatreds, harming relationships, activities, negative thoughts, etc. He will provide us genuine things to give up the fake! ", "moral4": "Things can be enjoyed so much more when we treat them with care. ", "moral5": "We should not be quick to judge other person. In relationships we should try to talk and clear things. We should not let our anger control us because not everything we see or hear is true. !", "laebl": 3}
{"id": 330, "story": "Long time ago, an old man lived with his three sons in a deserted village. In his all life he earned 17 camels. His business was to rent camels for shipping in desert. One day he passed away leaving his will and assets to all his three sons. After funeral, sons read the will. As stated in his will he divided all the properties in to three equal parts but he divided 17 camels in different way. It wasn't shared equally as 17 is odd number. He stated that the eldest son will own half of the 17, middle one will get one third and third son will get one ninth of 17 camels. All the sons were confused to read and couldn't divide 17 camels according to the will. Several days went but still they couldn't find the answer. Finally the took the issue to the village head. Wise man heard the problem and instantly found the solution. He asked them to bring camels to him. Now, wise man added a camel owned by himself to other 17 and made total count of 18. He started reading will and according to the will first son gets half of camels, which now counts to 18/2 - 9 camels! The eldest one got 9 camels as his share. Remaining camels left - 9 camelsthe wise man asked the second son to read the will - he was assigned a share of 1/3 of the total camels. It comes to 18/3 - 6 camels. Second son got 6 camels as his share. Total camels shared by the elder sons - 9 + 6 = 15 camels. The third son read his share of camel - 1/9th of total camels - 18/9 = 2 camels. The youngest one got 2 camels as his share. Totally there were 9 + 6 + 2 camels shared by the brothers, which counts to 17 camels. In end, camel bought by wise man was taken back and problem was smartly solved.", "moral1": "That's why wise saints always say - don't be afraid of god, be afraid of your actions because your action will find you tomorrow if not today. ", "moral2": "It all depends on the point of view, and who tells the story. Always trust your own wit and try judge the circumstances. ", "moral3": "Do good things and then you will have many friends. ", "moral4": "Intelligence is nothing but finding a common ground to solve an issue. Every problem has a solution. ", "moral5": "Always keep your eyes open and stay alert before walking in any situation.", "laebl": 4}
{"id": 331, "story": "Once upon a time, there was a kingdom. The king there only had one leg and one eye, but he was very intelligent and kind. Everyone in his kingdom lived a happy and a healthy life because of their king. One day the king was walking through the palace hallway and saw the portraits of his ancestors. He thought that one day his children will walk in the same hallway and remember all the ancestors through these portraits. But, the king did not have his portrait painted. Due to his physical disabilities, he wasn't sure how his painting would turn out. So he invited many famous painters from his and other kingdoms to the court. The king then announced that he wants a beautiful portrait made of himself to be placed in the palace. Any painter who can carry out this should come forward. He will be rewarded based on how the painting turns up. All of the painters began to think that the king only has one leg and one eye. How can his picture be made very beautiful? It is not possible and if the picture does not turn out to look beautiful then the king will get angry and punish them. So one by one, all started to make excuses and politely declined to make a painting of the king. But suddenly one painter raised his hand and said that I will make a very beautiful portrait of you which you will surely like. The king became happy hearing that and other painters got curious. The king gave him the permission and the painter started drawing the portrait. He then filled the drawing with paints. Finally, after taking a long time, he said that the portrait was ready! All of the courtiers, other painters were curious and nervous thinking, how can the painter make the king's portrait beautiful because the king is physically disabled? What if the king didn't like the painting and gets angry? But when the painter presented the portrait, everyone in the court, including the king, left stunned. The painter made a portrait in which the king was sitting on the horse, on the one-leg side, holding his bow and aiming the arrow with his one eye closed. The king was very pleased to see that the painter has made a beautiful portrait by cleverly hiding the king's disabilities. The king gave him a great reward.", "moral1": "Do good things and then you will have many friends. ", "moral2": "We should always think positive of others and ignore their deficiencies. We should learn to focus on the good things instead of trying to hide weaknesses. If we think and approach positively even in a negative situation, then we will be able to solve our problems more efficiently. ", "moral3": "Similar is with our life.. It's our choice.   ", "moral4": "It is not just knowledge or talent which get us respect but it is our virtue, moral and good behavior towards others that get us honor and respect. ", "moral5": "Never try to copy other as it never lasts long and one can't find happiness that way, therefore, always be true to yourself.", "laebl": 2}
{"id": 332, "story": "Recently steve had a car accident. So he put his car in the garage to carry out the repair work. Since he had to go to the job daily, he decided that until the car is ready, he will travel by the metro train. One day, he noticed a homeless guy at the train station at night. He felt pity for him, so he gave him some change from his pocket. The homeless guy thanked him for it. Next day again, he noticed the homeless guy at the same place. This time steve though to get him something to eat, so he went outside the station and brought him a meal. The homeless guy thanked him for his kindness. But steve got curious and asked him, \"How did you get to this point?\"The homeless guy looked up at him and with a smile, he said, \"By showing love.\" Steve didn't understand it, so he asked him, \"What do you mean by that?\" The homeless guy replied that \"Throughout my whole life, I made sure that everyone was happy. no matter what was going right or wrong in my life, I always helped everyone.\" Steve asked him, \"Do you regret it?\" To which the homeless man replied, \"No, it just hurts my soul that the very people I gave the shirt off my back to wouldn't give me a sleeve of that same shirt when I was in need. son, it is better to build your own house and invite someone in for shelter than to hand them your bricks while you are building yours. because one day you will turn around and look at the spot where you had planned to build your house. it will be an empty lot. then you are the one looking for bricks.\"Steve understood what the homeless guy meant and thanked him for the good advice.", "moral1": "When you quarrel someone else gains. ", "moral2": "Helping others is not a bad thing at all. But sometimes, while we are helping others, we forget our own problems and needs. One must remember that sometimes sharing is better than giving away. You can do a lot more by being in a strong position instead of bringing yourself into a weaker situation. ", "moral3": "We should not be quick to judge other person. In relationships we should try to talk and clear things. We should not let our anger control us because not everything we see or hear is true. ! ", "moral4": "Evil companions bring more hurt than profit. ", "moral5": "Every moment is a fresh beginning.", "laebl": 2}
{"id": 333, "story": "A lion and a man chanced to travel in a company through the forest. They soon began to quarrel, for each of them boasted that he and his kind were far superior to the other both in strength and mind. Now they reached a clearing in the forest and there stood a statue. It was a representation of heracles in the act of tearing the jaws of the nemean lion. \"See,\" Said the man, \"That's how strong we are! the king of beasts is like wax in our hands!\" \"Ho!\" Laughed the lion, \"A man made that statue. it would have been quite a different scene had a lion made it!\"", "moral1": "Greediness leads to misfortune. ", "moral2": "It all depends on the point of view, and who tells the story. Always trust your own wit and try judge the circumstances. ", "moral3": "Think before you act. ", "moral4": "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. ", "moral5": "The family has such strength because it is united by love, and this is why the family accepts and forgives a thousand times.", "laebl": 2}
{"id": 334, "story": "A sage was passing through the capital city of the famous king. While he was walking, he noticed a single currency coin on the road. He picked it up. He was satisfied with his simple living and he had no use of that coin. So, he planned to donate it to the one who is in need of it. He strolled around the streets throughout the day but didn't find anyone such. Finally, he reached the rest area and spent a night there. Next morning, he wakes up in the morning for his daily activities and sees that a king is going for his invasion of another state with his war ready army. When the king saw the sage standing, he ordered his army to be stopped. He came to the sage and said, \"Oh great sage, I am going to war to win another state so that my state can be expanded. so bless me to be victorious\". After thinking, sage gave a single currency coin to the king! The king was confused and annoyed with this because what use he has for a single coin while he is already one of the richest kings! He curiously asked a sage, \"What's the meaning of this one coin?\" A sage explained, \"Oh great king! I found this coin yesterday while strolling around the streets of your capital city. but I had no use of it. so, I had decided that I will donate it to someone needy. I strolled around till the evening in your capital, but found no one such. everyone was living a happy life. it seemed that they were satisfied with what they had. so I found no one to give this coin. but today, the king of this state, still have the desire to gain more and not satisfied with what he already has, I felt you were in need of this coin.\"The king realized his mistake and gave up the planned war.", "moral1": "We all should learn to be happy with what we have. Yes, we all desire more or better than we already have, but do not waste a chance of enjoying what you already have. There are those who may not have what you have, and there will be some who have lots more than you have. Do not always compare, be happy and lead a healthy life. ", "moral2": "As such no activity of life should be seen as a distraction for living a spiritual life. Every activity of life can be done with mindfulness or with a detached attitude but this is true for highly evolved soul. For most people who are still on the path, they should not let distractions them divert from spiritual path and focus intensely in our spiritual practice so that they become more centered inside. ", "moral3": "Do not attempt the impossible. ", "moral4": "Divinity lies within us all. We just need to look inside ourselves. ", "moral5": "It's our choice to keep positive attitude towards life. Circumstances are just parts of what makes us joyful. Pursuit of happiness is an inward journey. If we continue to bit our lips and just before we begin to complain we should shoot that seemingly harmless negative thought as it germinates, we will find there is much rejoice about.", "laebl": 1}
{"id": 335, "story": "Once upon a time, there was a very lazy man who would always look for an easier way to feed himself. One day while he was searching for something to eat, he saw the fruit farm. He looked around and didn't see anyone guarding the fruits on the tree, so he quickly decided to steal some fruits. But as soon as he walked into the farm and started to climb the tree, the farmer saw him and started coming at him to catch him. The lazy man saw the farmer coming at him with a stick, he got afraid and ran towards the forest nearby and went inside it to hide. After some time when he felt he started to move on from the forest and while passing through, he saw the wonderful scene. There was a fox. It had only two legs and still was crawling on them happily. The lazy man thought, how can this fox stay alive in such condition?! The fox can't run, how he must be able to feed himself or stay alive from the threat of other animals. Suddenly, he saw the lion coming towards the fox with a piece of meat already in his mouth. All the animals ran away and the lazy man climbed up on the tree to save himself but, the fox stayed there only, he didn't have the ability to run on two legs. But what happened next surprised the lazy man. The lion left a piece of meat which was in his mouth for the fox! The lazy man felt happy seeing god's play. He thought the god who is the creator of all, always has a plan set to take care of what he created. He felt that god must have something planned for him too. So, he left that place and sat somewhere away alone waiting for someone to feed him too. As time starting to pass, he kept looking at the road, waiting for his food. He waited there for 2 days without any food! Finally, he couldn't bear the hunger and started to leave. He met an old sage  on the way. He told everything happened to the sage. The sage first gave him some food and water. After having it, the lazy man asked the sage, \"Oh wise one, the god had shown his mercy on the crippled fox, but why the god was so cruel to me?\"The old sage with a smile said, \"True that the creator has a plan for everyone. you are obviously a part of the god's plan. but son, you took his sign in a wrong way. he didn't want you to be like the fox. he wanted you to be like the lion\".", "moral1": "We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified. ", "moral2": "Often we misunderstand the signs. God has given everyone a strength and ability to do their part. Always learn to see the things in a positive way and see yourself in a strong position to help the ones who need. Don't go for the easy choice. Make a right choice. ", "moral3": "Stealing makes people sad and mad. ", "moral4": "Sometimes we miss blessings just because they are not packed as we expected. We should take time to think and should not get angry and act at instant. Its better to think before act than to regret later. ", "moral5": "They who act without sufficient thought, will often fall into unsuspected danger.", "laebl": 2}
{"id": 336, "story": "Once, there lived a pious priest in a small village.  he was very innocent and simple minded person, used to perform religious rituals.  on one occasion, he was rewarded with the goat for his services by a wealthy man.  the priest was happy to get a goat as the reward.  he happily slung the goat over his shoulder and began the journey towards his home.  on the way, three cheats  saw the priest taking the goat. All of them were lazy and wanted to cheat the priest so that they could take away the goat.  they said, \"This goat will make a delicious meal for all of us. let's somehow get it\".  they discussed the matter amongst themselves and devised a plan to get the goat by fooling the priest.  after deciding the plan, they got separated from one another and took different hiding positions at three different places on the way of the priest. As soon as, the priest arrived at a lonely place, one of the cheats came out of his hiding place and asked priest in a shocking manner, \"Sir, what are you doing?  I don't understand why a pious man like you needs to carry a dog on his shoulders?\"  the priest was surprised to hear such words.  he screamed, \"Can't you see? it's not a dog but a goat, you stupid fool\".  the cheat replied, \"Sir, I beg your pardon.  I told you what I saw.  I am sorry if you don't believe it\".  the priest was annoyed at the discrepancy but started his journey once again. The priest had barely walked a distance, when another cheat came out of his hiding place and asked the priest, \"Sir, why do you carry a dead calf on your shoulders?  you seem to be a wise person. such an act is pure stupidity on your part\".  the priest yelled, \"What? how can you mistake a living goat for a dead calf?\"  the second cheat replied, \"Sir, you seem to be highly mistaken in this regard.  either you don't know how does goat look like or you are doing it knowingly.  I just told you what I saw. thank you\".  the second cheat went away smiling.  the priest got confused but continued to walk further. Again the priest had covered a little distance when the third cheat met him.  the third cheat asked laughingly, \"Sir, why do you carry a donkey on your shoulders? it makes you a laughing stock\".  hearing the words of the third thug, the priest became really worried.  he started thinking, \"Is it really not a goat? is it some kind of a ghost?\"He thought that the animal he was carrying on his shoulders might really be some sort of ghost, because it transformed itself from the goat into a dog, from a dog into a dead calf and from dead calf into a donkey.  the priest got frightened to such an extent that he hurled the goat on the roadside and ran away.  the three tricksters laughed at the gullible priest.  they caught the goat and were happy to feast on it.", "moral1": "Do not try to take the credit to yourself that is due to others. ", "moral2": "Familiarity breeds contempt. ", "moral3": "One should not be carried away by what others say. Don't be fooled by those who wants to take advantage of you. ", "moral4": "One should not be foolish to ignore nature. Sometimes we need to understand that nature of living being's can not be change and act sensibly. ", "moral5": "We should live our life doing good because god is always watching us and will always be there for us in our difficult times.", "laebl": 3}
{"id": 337, "story": "Once upon a time shree krishna and arjun went for a short stroll around the city. They saw a poor looking priest begging. Arjun felt pity at him and he gave him a bag full of 100 gold coins. The priest became very happy and thanked arjun. He left for his home. On way, he saw another person who needed help. The priest could have spared a coin or two to help that person. However, he chose to ignore it. But on way to his home, one thief robbed him of his bag of coins and ran away. The priest became dejected and went back again for begging. Next day again when arjun saw the same priest begging and he was surprised that after getting a bag full of coins which can last a lifetime, the priest was still begging! He called the priest and asked him the reason for this. The priest told him about the whole incident and arjun again felt pity at him. So, this time he gave him a diamond. The priest became very happy and left for home and he again saw someone who needed help but he chose to ignore again. Upon reaching home, he safely put the diamond in an empty pot of water with a plan to cash it out later and live a wealthy life. His wife was not at home. He was very tired so he decided to take a nap. In between, his wife came home and picked up that empty pot of water, walked towards the river close by to fill up the water. She had not noticed the diamond in the pot. Upon arriving at the river, she put the whole pot into the running river water to fill it up. She filled up the pot but the diamond was gone with the water flow! When the priest woke up, he went to see the pot and asked his wife about the diamond. She told him, she had not noticed it and it must have been lost in the river. The priest couldn't believe his bad luck and again started begging. Again arjun and shree krishna saw him begging and arjun inquired about it. Arjun felt bad and started thinking if this priest will ever have a happy life. Shree krishna who is an incarnation of god smiled. Shree krishna gave that priest one coin which was not even enough for buying a lunch or dinner for one person. Arjun asked shree krishna, \"Lord, I gave him gold coins and diamond, which could have given him a wealthy life, yet it didn't help him. how will just one coin help this poor guy?\" Shree krishna smiled and told arjun to follow that priest and find out. On the way, the priest was thinking that one coin shree krishna gave him, he can't even buy a lunch for one person. Why would he give so little? He saw a fisherman who was getting a fish out of his net. Fish was struggling. The priest felt pity at fish. He thought that this one coin won't solve my problem, why not I save that fish. So the priest paid the fisherman and took the fish. He put the fish in his small pot of water which he always carried with him. The fish was struggling in a small pot of water, ended up throwing out a diamond from the mouth! The priest screamed with a joy, \"I got it, I got it\". At that same point, the thief who had robbed the priest's bag of 100 gold coins, was passing through there. He thought that the priest recognized him and may get him punished. He got nervous and ran to the priest. He apologized to the priest and returned his bag full of 100 gold coins. The priest couldn't believe what just happened. Arjun saw all this and said, \"Oh lord, now I understand your play\".", "moral1": "The advice of wise people should be taken seriously. ", "moral2": "Don't underestimate a weaker opponent. ", "moral3": "For our life to be of value, I think we must develop basic good human qualities - warmth, kindness, compassion. Then our life becomes meaningful and more peaceful - happier. ", "moral4": "Never trouble anyone. ", "moral5": "When you have enough to help others, don't let that chance go. Your good deeds will always be repaid to you.", "laebl": 5}
{"id": 338, "story": "One day a professor entered the classroom and asked his students to prepare for a surprise test.  they waited anxiously at their desks for the test to begin.  the professor handed out the question paper with the text facing down as usual.  once he handed them all out, he asked his students to turn the page and begin.  to everyone's surprise, there were no questions, just a black dot in the center of the page. The professor seeing the expression on everyone's face, told them the following, \"I want you to write what you see there.\"  the confused students got started on the inexplicable task.  at the end of the class, the professor took all the answer papers and started reading each one of them aloud in front of all the students.  all of them with no exceptions described the black dot, trying to explain its position in the middle of the sheet etc. After all had been read, the classroom was silent.  the professor began to explain, \"I am not going to grade on you this, I just wanted to give you something to think about.  no one wrote about the white part of the paper.  everyone focused on the black dot and the same happens in our lives.  we have a white paper to observe and enjoy, but we always focus on the dark spots.  our life is a gift given to us by god with love and care.  we always have reasons to celebrate, nature renewing itself every day, our friends around us, the job that provides our livelihood, the miracles we see every day.\" \"However, we insist on focusing only on the dark spots, the health issues that bother us, the lack of money, the complicated relationship with a family member, the disappointment with a friends etc.  the dark spots are very small compared to everything we have in our lives, but they are the ones that pollute our minds.  take your eyes away from the black spots in your life.  enjoy each one of your blessings, each moment that life gives you.  be happy and live a life positively!\"", "moral1": "When doing things together the important thing is to make sure things turn out for the best, rather than worry about how much each individual has contributed. ", "moral2": "Do not attempt the impossible. ", "moral3": "No one you love is ever truly lost. ", "moral4": "Impatience can ruin even the best laid plans. ", "moral5": "As the professor explained, life is a bag of good and bad things, we all have positives and negatives along the way.  but we must always concentrate greater on the positives for a healthy and happy life.  life goes on no matter what so do not waste your time thinking about the negatives.", "laebl": 5}
{"id": 339, "story": "A man who has gone out of his town comes back and finds that his house is on fire. It was one of the most beautiful houses in the town, and the man loved the house the most! Many were ready to give a double price for the house, but he had never agreed for any price and now it is just burning before his eyes. And thousands of people have gathered, but nothing can be done, the fire has spread so far that even if you try to put it out, nothing will be saved. So he became very sad. His son comes running and whispers something in his ear, \"Don't be worried. I sold it yesterday and at a very good price. the offer was so good, I could not wait for you. forgive me.\"The father said, \"Thank god, it's not ours now!\" Then he became relaxed and stood as a silent watcher, just like 1000s of other watchers. Then the second son comes running, and he says to the father, \"What are you doing? the house is on fire and you are only watching it burn?\" The father said, \"Don't you know, your brother has sold it.\"He said, \"We have taken only advance amount, not settled fully. I doubt now that the man is going to purchase it now.\"Tears which had disappeared came back to the father's eyes, his heart started to beat fast. And then the third son comes, and he says, \"That man is a man of his word. I have just come from him.\" He said, \"It doesn't matter whether the house is burnt or not, it is mine. and I am going to pay the price that I have settled for. neither you knew, nor I knew that the house would catch on fire.\"Then all just stood and watched the house burn without a worry.", "moral1": "We should understand and have respect for other's person life style. We shouldn't we embarrassed of our elder's ways to do work. ", "moral2": "We should live our life doing good because god is always watching us and will always be there for us in our difficult times. ", "moral3": "Avoiding responsibility ends in overburden. ", "moral4": " this is a very complicated human nature to describe. Even though person here loved his house which he lost, became relaxed knowing it was not his anymore. He never wanted to give it away till it was beautiful but, as soon as it started to lose its beauty, he didn't mind letting it go for a profit.   sorrow and happiness followed after each son came with their advice. But, most important thing to understand is, how his feeling changed.  how the ratio of loss and profit changed his feelings towards a house, which he loved the most.  this is how in present time we have come to give a priority to our relations and friendship - based on loss or profit ratio.  everyone should understand this story and put their own moral. ", "moral5": "Everyone is more or less master of his own fate.", "laebl": 4}
{"id": 340, "story": "A father and his daughter were playing in the park.  his young daughter spotted an apple vendor.  she asked her father to buy her an apple.  father didn't bring much money with him, but it was enough to purchase two apple.  so, he bought two apples and gave his daughter. His daughter held one apple each in her two hands.  then a father asked her if she can share one apple with him.  upon hearing this, his daughter quickly took a bite from one apple.  and before her father could speak, she also took a bite from the second apple. A father was surprised.  he wondered what mistake he made raising her daughter that she acted in such a greedy way.  his mind was lost in thoughts, that perhaps he is just thinking too much, his daughter is too young to understand about sharing and giving.  a smile had disappeared from his face. And suddenly his daughter with an apple in her one hand  said, \"Father have this one, this one is much juiciest and sweeter\".  her father was speechless.  he felt bad about reaching to the judgement so quickly about a small child.  but, his smile came back now knowing why his daughter quickly took a bite from each apple.", "moral1": "Plodding wins the race. ", "moral2": "Self-help is the best help. ", "moral3": "The man who speaks for both sides is not to be trusted by either. ", "moral4": "Building true peace requires those who feel they have the right to attack to take steps towards forgiveness and reconciliation. ", "moral5": " don't judge anything too quickly or reach a conclusion.  always spare a time to understand things better.", "laebl": 5}
{"id": 341, "story": "Once upon a time, there was a man who was very helpful, kindhearted, and generous. He was a man who will help someone without asking anything to pay him back. He will help someone because he wants to and he loves to.  one day while walking into a dusty road, this man saw a purse, so he picked it up and noticed that the purse was empty. Suddenly a woman with a policeman shows up and gets him arrested. The woman kept on asking where did he hide her money but the man replied, \"It was empty when I found it, mam.\" The woman yelled at him, \"Please give it back, it's for my son's school fees.\"  the man noticed that the woman really felt sad, so he handed all his money.  he could say that the woman was a single mother.  the man said, \"Take these, sorry for the inconvenience.\"  the woman left and a policeman held the man for further questioning. The woman was very happy but when she counted her money, later on, it was doubled, she was shocked.  one day while the woman was going to pay her son's school fees towards the school, she noticed that some skinny man was walking behind her.  she thought that he may rob her, so she approached a policeman standing nearby.  he was the same policeman, who she took along to inquire about her purse.  the woman told him about the man following her, but suddenly they saw that man collapsing.  they ran at him and saw that he was the same man whom they arrested a few days back for stealing a purse. He looked very weak and the woman was confused.  the policeman said to the woman, \"He didn't return your money, he gave you his money that day.  he wasn't the thief but hearing about you son's school fees, he felt sad and gave you his money.\"  later, they helped the man stand up, and the man told the woman, \"Please go ahead and pay your son's school fees, I saw you and followed you to be sure that no one steals your son's school fees.\"   the woman was speechless.", "moral1": "Tidiness is a helpful virtue to achieve things that must be used on a daily basis. ", "moral2": "Good or bad fortune does not make one a better or worse person, and we all have a responsibility to help the less fortunate. ", "moral3": "Life gives you strange experiences, sometime it shocks you and sometimes it may surprise you. We end up making wrong judgments or mistakes in our anger, desperation and frustration. However, when you get a second chance, correct your mistakes and return the favor. Be kind and generous. Learn to appreciate what you are given. ", "moral4": "Always give affection and care to our dear ones. Always respect other's feelings. ", "moral5": "Don't trick others or the same thing will happen to you.", "laebl": 3}
{"id": 342, "story": "Once a fox was roaming around in the dark. Unfortunately, he fell into a well. He tried his level best to come out but all in vain. So, he had no other alternative but to remain there until the next morning. The next day, a goat came that way. She peeped into the well and saw the fox there. The goat asked, \"What are you doing there, mr. fox?\"The sly fox replied, \"I came here to drink water. it is the best I have ever tasted. come and see for yourself.\" Without thinking even for a while, the goat jumped into the well, quenched her thirst and looked for a way to get out. But just like the fox, she also found herself helpless to come out. Then the fox said, \"I have an idea. you stand on your hind legs. I'll climb on your head and get out. then I shall help you come out too.\" The goat was innocent enough to understand the shrewdness of the fox and did as the fox said and helped him get out of the well. While walking away, the fox said, \"Had you been intelligent enough, you would never have got in without seeing how to get out.\"", "moral1": "Look before you leap.  do not just blindly walk in to anything without thinking. ", "moral2": "Everyone is more or less master of his own fate. ", "moral3": "Do not anticipate trouble or worry about what may never happen. ", "moral4": "To stay out of trouble, don't make the same mistakes others make. ", "moral5": "The laws of nature are unchangeable.", "laebl": 1}
{"id": 343, "story": "Once upon a time, a clever monkey lived in a tree that bore juicy, red rose apples. He was very happy. One fine day, a crocodile swam up to that tree and told the monkey that he had traveled a long distance and was in search of food as he was very hungry. The kind monkey offered him a few rose apples. The crocodile enjoyed them very much and asked the monkey whether he could come again for some more fruit. The generous monkey happily agreed. The crocodile returned the next day. And the next. And the next one after that. Soon the two became very good friends. They discussed their lives, their friends and family, like all friends do. The crocodile told the monkey that he had a wife and that they lived on the other side of the river. So the kind monkey offered him some extra rose apples to take home to his wife. The crocodile's wife loved the rose apples and made her husband promise to get her some every day. Meanwhile, the friendship between the monkey and the crocodile deepened as they spent more and more time together. The crocodile's wife started getting jealous. She wanted to put an end to this friendship. So she pretended that she could not believe that her husband could be friends with a monkey. Her husband tried to convince her that he and the monkey shared a true friendship. The crocodile's wife thought to herself that if the monkey lived on a diet of rose monkeys, his flesh would be very sweet. So she asked the crocodile to invite the monkey to their house. The crocodile was not happy about this. He tried to make the excuse that it would be difficult to get the monkey across the river. But his wife was determined to eat the monkey's flesh. So she thought of a plan. One day, she pretended to be very ill and told the crocodile that the doctor said that she would only recover if she ate a monkey's heart. If her husband wanted to save her life, he must bring her his friend's heart. The crocodile was aghast. He was in a dilemma. On the one hand, he loved his friend. On the other, he could not possibly let his wife die. The crocodile's wife threatened him saying that if he did not get her the monkey's heart, she would surely die. So the crocodile went to the rose apple tree and invited the monkey to come home to meet his wife. He told the monkey that he could ride across the river on the crocodile's back. The monkey happily agreed. As they reached the middle of the river, the crocodile began to sink. The frightened monkey asked him why he was doing that. The crocodile explained that he would have to kill the monkey to save his wife's life. The clever monkey told him that he would gladly give up his heart to save the life of the crocodile's wife, but he had left his heart behind in the rose apple tree. He asked the crocodile to make haste and turn back so that the monkey could go get his heart from the apple tree. The silly crocodile quickly swam back to the rose apple tree. The monkey scampered up the tree to safety. He told the crocodile to tell his wicked wife that she had married the biggest fool in the world.", "moral1": "Greed can never be satisfied. Be happy with what you have and live life to fullest. Happiness is not in things around us but in company of people we live with. ", "moral2": "Sometimes we need to understand that it could be our views that are not letting us see clearly. We should not judge person without clearing our thoughts and understanding all about situation. ", "moral3": "Leadership is earned via actions that demonstrate courage, fairness, and commitment. ", "moral4": "When doing things together the important thing is to make sure things turn out for the best, rather than worry about how much each individual has contributed. ", "moral5": "Don't underestimate yourself. There are bigger fools in this world.", "laebl": 5}
{"id": 344, "story": "Once upon a time, there lived a herd of eighty thousand elephants at the bottom of the majestic himalayas. Their leader was a magnificent and rare white elephant who was an extremely kind-hearten soul. He greatly loved his mother who had grown blind and feeble and could not look out for herself. Each day this white elephant would go deep into the forest in search of food. He would look for the best of wild fruit to send to his mother. But alas, his mother never received any. This was because his messengers would always eat them up themselves. Each night, when he returned home he would be surprised to hear that his mother had been starving all day. He was absolutely disgusted with his herd. Then one day, he decided to leave them all behind and disappeared in the middle of the night along with his dear mother. He took her to mount candorana to live in a cave beside a beautiful lake that was covered by gorgeous pink lotuses. It so happened that one day, when the white elephant was feeding he heard loud cries. A forester from benaras had lost his way in the forest and was absolutely terrified. He had come to the area to visit relatives and could not find his way out. On seeing this big white elephant he was even more terrified and ran as fast as he could. The elephant followed him and told him not to be afraid, as all he wanted to do was to help him. He asked the forester why he was crying so bitterly. The forester replied that he was crying because he had been roaming the forest for the past seven days and could not find his way out. The elephant told him not to worry as he knew every inch of this forest and could take him to safety. He then lifted him on to his back and carried him to the edge of the forest from where the forester went on his merry way back to benaras. On reaching the city, he heard that king brahmadutta's personal elephant had just died and the king was looking for a new elephant. His heralds were roaming the city, announcing that any man who had seen or heard of an elephant fit for a king should come forward with the information. The forester was very excited and immediately went up to the king and told him about the white elephant that he had seen on mount candorana. He told him that he had marked the way and would require the help of the elephant trainers in order to catch this fantastic elephant. The king was quite pleased with the information and immediately dispatched a number of soldiers and elephant trainers along with the forester. After travelling for many days, the group reached the lake besides which the elephants resided. They slowly moved down to the edge of the lake and hid behind the bushes. The white elephant was collecting lotus shoots for his mother's meal and could sense the presence of humans. When he looked up, he spotted the forester and realized that it was he who had led the king's men to him. He was very upset at the ingratitude but decided that if he put up a struggle many of the men would be killed. And he was just too kind to hurt anyone. So he decided to go along with them to benaras and then request the benevolent king to be set free. That night when the white elephant did not return home, his mother was very worried. She had heard all the commotion outside and had guessed that the king's men had taken away her son. She was scared that the king would ride him in to battle and her son would definitely be killed. She was also worried that there would be no one to look after her or even feed her, as she could not see. She just lay down and cried bitterly. Meanwhile her son was led in to the beautiful city of benaras where he was given a grand reception. The whole city was decorated and his own stable was gaily painted and covered with garlands of fragrant flowers. The trainers laid out a feast for their new state elephant who refused to touch a morsel. He did not respond to any kind of stimuli, be it the fragrant flowers or the beautiful and comfortable stable. He just sat there looking completely despondent. The worried trainers went straight to report the situation to their king, as they were scared that the elephant would just waste away without any food or water. The king was extremely concerned when he heard what they had to say and went to the stable himself. He offered the elephant food from the royal table and asked him why he grieved in this manner. He thought that the elephant should be proud and honored that he was chosen as the state elephant and would get the opportunity to serve his king. But the white elephant replied that he would not eat a thing until he met his mother. So the king asked him where his mother was. The elephant replied that she was back home on mount candorana and must be worried and hungry as she was blind and had no one to feed her and take care of her. He was afraid that she would die. The compassionate king was touched by the elephant's story and asked him to return to his blind, old mother and take care of her as he had been doing all along. He set him free in love and kindness. The happy elephant went running home as fast as he could. And he was relieved to find that his mother was still alive. He filled his trunk with water and poured it over his sick mother who thought that it was raining. Then she cried out as she thought that some evil spirit had come to harm her and wished and prayed that her son was there to save her. The white elephant gently bent over his blind mother and stroked her lovingly. She immediately recognized his touch and was overjoyed. Her son lifted her up and told her that the kind and compassionate king of benaras had set him free and he was here to love and look after his mother forever. His mother was absolutely thrilled and blessed the kind king with peace, prosperity and joy till the end of his days. She was so thankful to him for sending her son back home. The white elephant was able to take good care of his mother till the day she died. And when he died himself, the king erected a statue of him by the side of the lake and held an annual elephant festival there in memory of such a caring and noble soul.", "moral1": "Always give affection and care to our dear ones. Always respect other's feelings. ", "moral2": "Pride goes before fall. ", "moral3": "Self-help is the best help. ", "moral4": "Avoiding responsibility ends in overburden. ", "moral5": "Money you spend on friends is returned or reciprocated in some form. Money spent on charity gets converted into blessings from god which will be your eternal property. Money spent on pleasures is just frittered away.", "laebl": 1}
{"id": 345, "story": "Once upon a time, there was a baby mouse and mother mouse. They lived in a hole in the skirting board in a big, warm house with lots of cheese to eat, where they wanted for nothing. Then, one day, mother mouse decided to take baby mouse outside of their home. Waiting outside for them was a huge ginger tomcat, licking its lips and waiting to eat them both up. \"Mother, mother! what should we do?\" Cried baby mouse, clinging to his mother's tail. Mother mouse paused, staring up into the beady eyes of the hungry cat. But she wasn't scared because she knew exactly how to deal with big, scary cats. She opened her mouth and took in a deep breath. \"Woof! woof! bark bark bark!\" She shouted, and the cat ran away as fast as he could. \"Wow, mother! that was amazing!\" Baby mouse said to his mother, smiling happily.", "moral1": "It's always good to have a second language. ", "moral2": "Wise person learn from anyone and everyone and as soon as he understand his mistake, he corrects them and move forward. ", "moral3": "The best way to encourage honesty is to create an environment of honesty and generosity, since he who wants nothing for himself is farthest from falling into greed and envy. ", "moral4": "Look before you leap.  do not just blindly walk in to anything without thinking. ", "moral5": "It is always better to tell the truth.", "laebl": 1}
{"id": 346, "story": "Two men were walking along one summer day. Soon it became too hot to go any further and, seeing a large plane tree nearby, they threw themselves on the ground to rest in its shade. Gazing up into the branches one man said to the other, \"What a useless tree this is. it does not have fruit or nuts that we can eat and we cannot even use its wood for anything.\"\"Don't be so ungrateful,\" Rustled the tree in reply. \"I am being extremely useful to you at this very moment, shielding you from the hot sun. and you call me a good-for-nothing!\"", "moral1": "Trying to cover up mistakes with lies only worsens the final consequences. ", "moral2": "We should act intelligently. ", "moral3": "Don't underestimate yourself. There are bigger fools in this world. ", "moral4": "All of god's creations have a good purpose. We should never belittle god's blessings. ", "moral5": "You can change people's lives by bringing them a little joy and good health.", "laebl": 4}
{"id": 347, "story": "This is the story of a long-gone era. In the country of india, nearly five thousand years back, lived a boy named eklavya, the son of a tribal chief in the forests of the kingdom- hastinapura. Eklavya was a brave, handsome boy. He was loved by all. But he was not happy. His father saw that something troubled eklavya. More than once he found his son lost deep in thought when other boys enjoyed the pleasures of hunting and playing. One day the father asked his son, why are you so unhappy, eklavya? Why don t you join your friends? Why are you not interested in hunting? Father, I want to be an archer replied eklavya, I want to become a disciple of the great dronacharya, the great tutor of archery in hastinapura. His gurukul is a magical place where ordinary boys are turned into mighty warriors. Eklavya saw his father was silent. He continued, father, I know that we belong to the hunting tribe, but I want to be a warrior, father, not a mere hunter. So please allow me to leave home and become the disciple of dronacharya.  eklavya's father was troubled, for he knew that his son's ambition was not an easy one. But the chief was a loving father and he did not want to refuse his only son's wish. So the kind man gave his blessings and sent his son on his way to drona s gurukul.  eklavya set on his way. Soon he reached the part of the forest where drona taught the princes of hastinapur. In those days, there was no such system as a school, college, university or hostel. The only place where one could get some education was a gurukul. A gurukul  is a type of ancient hindu school in india that is residential in nature with the shishyas or students and the guru or teacher living in proximity, many a time within the same house. The gurukul is the place where the students resided together as equals, irrespective of their social standing. The students learned from the guru and also helped the guru in his day-to-day life, including the carrying out of mundane chores such as washing clothes, cooking, etc. The education imparted thus, was a wholesome one. Having said this much, let us now return to eklavya. When the boy reached dronacharya s gurukul, he saw that it consisted of a group of huts,  surrounded by trees and an archery yard. The disciples were practicing to shoot arrows with their bows and arrows in the yard. It was an engaging sight. But eklavya s eyes searched drona. Where was he? Will he be able to see the man? Without drona, all his purpose of coming here would be meaningless. But all his worries soon subsided. He did not have to wait for long. There was the man standing near a tree busy instructing a boy, who was none else than the third pandava prince arjuna, as eklavya came to know later. Though eklavya had never seen drona before, he put his guess at work. He went near drona and bowed. The sage was surprised to see a strange boy addressing him. Who are you? He asked. \"Dronacharya, I am eklavya, son of the tribal chief in the western part of the forests of hastinapura.\" Eklavya replied. \"Please accept me as your disciple and teach me the wonderful art of archery.\"Drona sighed. \"Eklavya… if you are a tribal hunter, you must be a shudra, the lowest social community according to the vedic caste system. I am a brahmin, the highest caste in the kingdom. I cannot teach a shudra boy\" He said. \"And he's also a royal teacher,\" Interrupted prince arjuna. \"Our guru has been appointed by the king to train us, the princes and the highborn. how dare you come inside the gurukul and seek him? leave! now!\" He spat out, looking enraged that eklavya had disturbed his practice. Eklavya was stunned at arjuna's behavior. He himself was the son of the chief of his clan, but he never insulted anyone below him in such a way. He looked at drona for some kind of support, but the sage remained silent. The message was loud and clear. Dronacharya also wanted him to leave. He refused to teach him.  the innocent tribal boy was deeply hurt by drona's refusal to teach him. \"It's not fair!\" He thought miserably. \"God has given knowledge to all, but man alone differentiates his kind.\"He left the place with a broken heart and a bitter taste in his mouth. But it could not shatter his ambition to learn archery. He was still as determined to learn archery.  \"I may be a shudra but does it make any difference?\" Thought he. \" I am as strong and zealous as drona's princes and disciples. if I practice the art every day, I can surely become an archer.\"Eklavya reached his own forests and took some mud from a nearby river. He made a statue of dronacharya and selected a secluded clearing in the forests to place it. Eklavya did this because he faithfully believed that if he practiced before his guru, he would become an able archer. Thus, though his guru shunned him, he still held him in high esteem and thought of him as his guru. Day after day, he took his bow and arrow, worshiped the statue of drona and started practice. In time faith, courage and perseverance transformed eklavya the mere tribal hunter into eklavya the extraordinary archer. Eklavya became an archer of exceptional prowess, superior even to drona's best pupil, arjuna. One day while eklavya is practicing, he hears a dog barking. At first, the boy ignored the dog, but the continuous disturbance in his practice angered him. He stopped his practice and went towards the place where the dog was barking.  before the dog could shut up or get out of the way, eklavya fired seven arrows in rapid succession to fill the dog's mouth without injuring it. As a result, it roamed the forests with its mouth opened. But eklavya was not alone in his practice. He was unaware of the fact that just some distance away, the pandava princes were also present in that area of the forest. As fate would have it, that day, they had come with their teacher, drona, who was instructing them about some finer points of archery by making them learn in the real-life condition of the open jungle. As they were busy practicing, they suddenly chanced upon the \"Stuffed\" Dog, and wonder who could have pulled off such a feat of archery. Drona was amazed too. \"  such an excellent aim can only come from a mighty archer.\" He exclaimed. He told the pandavas that if somebody was such a good archer then he surely needed to be met. The practice was stopped and together they began searching the forest for the one behind such amazing feat. They found a dark-skinned man dressed all in black, his body besmeared with filth and his hair in matted locks. It was eklavya. Dronacharya went up to him. \"Your aim is truly remarkable!\" Drona praised eklavya, and asked, \"From whom did you learn archery?\" Eklavya was thrilled to hear drona's praises.  how surprised he will be if he told drona that he, in fact, was his guru! \"From you my master.  you are my guru,\" Eklavya replied humbly. \"Your guru? how can I be your guru? I have never seen you before!\" Drona exclaimed in surprise. But all of a sudden he remembered something. He remembered about an eager boy who had visited his gurukul several months ago. \"  now I remember,\" Said he. \"Are you not the same hunter boy whom I refused admission in my gurukul some months back?\"\"Yes, dronacharya\", replied the boy. \"After I left your gurukul, I came home and made a statue like you and worshiped it every day. I practiced before your image. you refused to teach me, but your statue did not. thanks to it, I have become a good archer.\"Hearing this, arjuna became angry. \"But you promised me that you'd make me the best archer in the world!\" He accused drona. \"Now how can that be? now a common hunter has become better than me!\"The other princes remembered their master frequently praising arjuna that he had immense talent and will be the greatest archer in the kingdom. They waited with bated breath. What will their teacher do now? Unable to answer arjuna's question, drona remained silent. The sage too was upset that his promise to prince arjuna was not going to be fulfilled. He was also angry with eklavya for disobeying him. So the sage planned to punish eklavya.  \"Where is your guru dakhsina? you have to give me a gift for your training,\" The sage demanded. He had finally found a way to make eklavya suffer for his disobedience. Eklavya was overjoyed. A guru dakshina was the voluntary fee or gift offered by a disciple to his guru at the end of his training. The guru-shishya parampara, I. E. The teacher-student tradition, was a hallowed tradition in hinduism. At the end of a shishya's study, the guru asks for a \"Guru dakshina,\" Since a guru does not take fees. A guru dakshina is the final offering from a student to the guru before leaving the ashram. The teacher may ask for something or nothing at all. \"Dronacharya, I'll be the happiest person on earth to serve you. ask me anything and I will offer it to you as my guru dhakshina \"He said. \"I might ask something you don't like to give me. what if you refuse the dhakshina I want?\"  drona asked cunningly. Eklavya was shocked. It was considered a grave insult and a great sin if a guru's dakshina was refused. \"No! how can I, teacher? I am not that ungrateful.  I'll never refuse anything you ask, dronacharya,\" Promised the unsuspecting boy. Drona did not wait anymore. \"Eklavya, I seek to have your right-hand thumb as my guru dhakshina\" He declared. Silence befell on everyone. Everyone was shocked, even arjuna. He looked at his teacher in horror and disbelief. How could their teacher make such a cruel demand? That too, from a mere boy? For a moment eklavya stood silent. Without his thumb, he could never shoot arrows again. But the teacher must be satisfied. \"Ok gurudev as you wish\", said he. Then, without the slightest hesitation, eklavya drew out his knife and cut his thumb!  the prince gasped at eklavya's act of bravery. But the tribal boy betrayed no signs of pain and held out his severed thumb to dronacharya. \"Here is my guru dakshina, drona\", ekalavya said. \"I am happy that you have made me your disciple, even if I'm a mere shudra hunter.\"The sage was humbled. He blessed the young archer for his courage. \"Eklavya, even without your thumb, you'll be known as a great archer. I bless you that you will be remembered forever for your loyalty to your guru,\" Drona declared and left the forests. He was moved and grieved at his own action. But he was content that his promise to arjuna was not broken. The gods blessed eklavya from above. But despite his handicap, eklavya continued to practice archery. How could he do so? When one is dedicated, one can make even mountains bow. With practice, eklavya could shoot arrows with his index and middle finger and he became a greater archer than he was ever before. His renown spread far and wide. When drona came to know this, he blessed the boy silently and begged for divine forgiveness. And true to drona's blessing, eklavya is still praised as the most loyal and brave student in the epic of mahabharata.", "moral1": "Fruits and vegetables are a key part of a diet and can prevent many health problems. ", "moral2": "You are never be too old to learn something new. If anyone put all his effort and persist on things he wants to learn then one day he will definitely succeed. ", "moral3": "He that has many friends, has no friends. ", "moral4": "Each day is a gift. We should learn to live happy. Happiness comes from inner self and we are one who decides to be happy or not. ", "moral5": "Any knowledge teacher gives to student has value in life of a student as he goes on with life.   think from kindergarten till highest level of study you have completed, see what you will be left with if there were no teachers in your life.   parents give us life, love and help in going right direction, but teachers show us how to live life, shows us path and makes us self dependable so that we can pick the right path.   always respect your teachers, do not value them any lesser than your parents.   when student succeeds in studies and life, its student who always gets praised by people, not the one who gave student a knowledge to success.    teacher's happiness is in student's success, and student should not forget to at least thank politely to the one who made you capable of following journey of life.   and if you had learned what your teacher taught you with dedication and respect to towards teacher, journey of life always gets comfortable.", "laebl": 5}
{"id": 348, "story": "A little boy went into a drug store, reached for a soda carton and pulled it over to the telephone. He climbed onto the carton so that he could reach the buttons on the phone and proceeded to punch in seven digits.  the store-owner observed and listened to the conversation. Boy: 'lady, can you give me the job of cutting your lawn? Woman: : 'I already have someone to cut my lawn. ' boy: 'lady, I will cut your lawn for half the price of the person who cuts your lawn now. 'woman: I'm very satisfied with the person who is presently cutting my lawn. Boy: : 'lady, I'll even sweep your curb and your sidewalk, so on sunday you will have the prettiest lawn in all of palm beach, florida. 'woman: no, thank you. With a smile on his face, the little boy replaced the receiver.  the store-owner, who was listening to all this, walked over to the boy. Store owner: 'son… I like your attitude; I like that positive spirit and would like to offer you a job. 'boy: 'no thanks. 'store owner: but you were really pleading for one. Boy: no sir, I was just checking my performance at the job I already have. I am the one who is working for that lady I was talking to! '", "moral1": "This is what we call 'self appraisal'.   every time if we don't get ahead of others, we blame others for it.   we should look to our self and compare, find own weaknesses and work hard to throw away weaknesses.   always work hard, honest and with full dedication.   it will always pay up. ", "moral2": "Pride goes before fall. ", "moral3": "Think before you act. ", "moral4": "Self-help is the best help. ", "moral5": "The advice of wise people should be taken seriously.", "laebl": 1}
{"id": 349, "story": "One day emperor akbar and birbal were taking a walk in the palace gardens. It was a nice summer morning and there were plenty of crows happily playing around the pond. While watching the crows, a question came into akbar's head. He wondered how many crows were there in his kingdom. Since birbal was accompanying him, he asked birbal this question. After a moment's thought, birbal replied, \"There are ninety-five thousand four hundred and sixty-three crows in the kingdom\". Amazed by his quick response, akbar tried to test him again, \"What if there are more crows than you answered?\" Without hesitating, birbal replied, \"If there are more crows than my answer, then some crows are visiting from other neighboring kingdoms\". \"And what if there are less crows\", akbar asked. \"Then some crows from our kingdom have gone on holidays to other places\".", "moral1": "First, god has send us in this world to live life best way we can and now, it's in our hand how well we build our life and live our life. Second, when ever we accept any work, we should do it with honesty and give our best to it. ", "moral2": "Don't give up too easily. Keep trying until you reach the goal. ", "moral3": "There is always a way if you think with ease. ", "moral4": "Here is our list of interesting facts about christmas. ", "moral5": "Injuries may be forgiven, but not forgotten.", "laebl": 3}
{"id": 350, "story": "It was the aftermath of a big festival. Two cats were prowling together. One of the cats saw a big cake and missed. The other jumped up and picked it. The first cat said, \"Give me the cake. it is I who saw it first.\"The other cat said \"Keep away from it. it is I who picked it up.\" They were fighting and fighting. But there was no solution. Just then, a monkey passed by. He thought \"What foolish cats they must be! let me make use of this chance.\"He came to the cats and said in a loud voice. \"Don't fight. let me share the cake with you both\". The cake was handed over to the monkey. The monkey split the cake into two parts. He shook his head and said, \"Oho! one is bigger. one is smaller\". He had a bit of the bigger and now said \"Oho! this has become smaller now\". He ate from the other. And thus, he went on eating from part to part and finally finished the whole cake. The poor cats were disappointed.", "moral1": "Clumsy jesting is no joke. ", "moral2": "Don't boast that you can do something when you can't. ", "moral3": "When you quarrel someone else gains. ", "moral4": "Honesty is the best policy. ", "moral5": "Everyone is more or less master of his own fate.", "laebl": 3}
{"id": 351, "story": "One day a man saw an old lady, stranded on the side of the road, but even in the dim light of day, he could see she needed help. So he pulled up in front of her mercedes and got out. His pontiac was still sputtering when he approached her. Even with the smile on his face, she was worried. No one had stopped to help for the last hour or so. Was he going to hurt her? He didn't look safe; he looked poor and hungry.   he could see that she was frightened, standing out there in the cold. He knew how she felt. It was those chills which only fear can put in you. He said, \"I'm here to help you, ma'am. why don't you wait in the car where it's warm? by the way, my name is bryan anderson.\" Well, all she had was a flat tire, but for an old lady, that was bad enough. Bryan crawled under the car looking for a place to put the jack, skinning his knuckles a time or two. Soon he was able to change the tire. But he had to get dirty and his hands hurt.   as he was tightening up the lug nuts, she rolled down the window and began to talk to him. She told him that she was from st. Louis and was only just passing through. She couldn't thank him enough for coming to her aid. Bryan just smiled as he closed her trunk. The lady asked how much she owed him. Any amount would have been all right with her. She already imagined all the awful things that could have happened had he not stopped. Bryan never thought twice about being paid. This was not a job to him. This was helping someone in need, and god knows there were plenty, who had given him a hand in the past. He had lived his whole life that way, and it never occurred to him to act any other way. He told her that if she really wanted to pay him back, the next time she saw someone who needed help, she could give that person the assistance they needed, and bryan added, \"And think of me.\"He waited until she started her car and drove off. It had been a cold and depressing day, but he felt good as he headed for home, disappearing into the twilight. A few miles down the road the lady saw a small cafe. She went in to grab a bite to eat, and take the chill off before she made the last leg of her trip home. It was a dingy looking restaurant. Outside were two old gas pumps. The whole scene was unfamiliar to her. The waitress came over and brought a clean towel to wipe her wet hair. She had a sweet smile, one that even being on her feet for the whole day couldn't erase. The lady noticed the waitress was nearly eight months pregnant, but she never let the strain and aches change her attitude. The old lady wondered how someone who had so little could be so giving to a stranger. Then she remembered bryan. After the lady finished her meal, she paid with a hundred dollar bill. The waitress quickly went to get change for her hundred dollar bill, but the old lady had slipped right out the door. She was gone by the time the waitress came back. The waitress wondered where the lady could be. Then she noticed something written on the napkin. There were tears in her eyes when she read what the lady wrote: \"You don't owe me anything. I have been there too. somebody once helped me out, the way I'm helping you. if you really want to pay me back, here is what you do: do not let this chain of love end with you.\"Under the napkin were four more $100 bills. Well, there were tables to clear, sugar bowls to fill, and people to serve, but the waitress made it through another day. That night when she got home from work and climbed into bed, she was thinking about the money and what the lady had written. How could the lady have known how much she and her husband needed it? With the baby due next month, it was going to be hard…. She knew how worried her husband was, and as he lay sleeping next to her, she gave him a soft kiss and whispered soft and low, \"Everything's going to be all right. I love you, bryan anderson.\"", "moral1": "What goes around comes around.   you do good, you will get good in return.   always be helpful. ", "moral2": "We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified. ", "moral3": "It is easy to propose impossible remedies. ", "moral4": "In overcoming adversity can lie the seeds of our success. ", "moral5": "No matter who, when or how.. Just continue to help. No matter how small it is because you never know when one is in need of us or when god holds a pleasant surprise for us to be helpful and important to someone.", "laebl": 1}
{"id": 352, "story": "Bhola owns a donkey called khandya. Bhola is a very tolerant and kind master. The donkey is lazy and is always finding ways to avoid work. Once while returning with loads of salt on his back, khandya falls in the river. He realizes that the fall has lessened the weights of the sacks as the salt has dissolved in the water. The next few days khandya purposely falls into the water every day. Bhola is unhappy at the way khandya is behaving because he is losing money in the process. He decides to teach khandya a lesson. The next day instead of salt bags he loads khandya with bags of cotton. Khandya is unaware of the change. As planned, he falls into the water and gets the bags wet. He is surprised to find the load unbearable. His otherwise master also starts beating him. Khandya learns his lesson and starts behaving.", "moral1": "Men always remember a woman who caused them concern and uneasiness. ", "moral2": "Thus do men often perish while meditating the destruction others. ", "moral3": "Work with honesty and sincerity because laziness will ruin you. ", "moral4": "Honesty is rewarded and greediness is punished! ", "moral5": "Look before you leap.  do not just blindly walk in to anything without thinking.", "laebl": 3}
{"id": 353, "story": "There was pundit in the village. He was well-versed in all scriptures. He knew everything, but, he was poor. He did not have a house. He used to get his meals also with great difficulties. Even his clothes were very much worn out. So, the pundit used to beg for his meals. He went from house-to-house begging. \"Please give me alms\". On seeing his old clothes many people were thinking that he is mad. So, saying \"Go away\" They shut the door. For many days he did not even eat. Once somehow he obtained new clothes. A rich man gave those clothes to the pundit. Wearing those new clothes he went for begging as before. To the very first house he went, the householder said, \"Sir, please come in. please have your food in our house\". Saying thus, with great respect, he took the pundit inside for food. The pundit sat down to eat. Varieties of soups, sweet meals, vedas, and sweet foods were served for eating. Having prayed first, the pundit took a sweetmeat with his hand and began to feed his new clothes saying, \"Eat, eat!\"On seeing that all the householders were surprised and were not able to understand. So, they asked thus, \"The clothes do not eat right? the why o, great pundit, do you offer food to the clothes?\"Then that pundit answered thus, \"Indeed because of this new clothes you offered me food today. yesterday itself in this very house you asked me to go away. since I obtained food due to these clothes, I am grateful to them. this is why I am feeding them.\" The householders were a little ashamed.", "moral1": "The evil doer often comes to harm through his own deceit. ", "moral2": "To stay out of trouble, don't make the same mistakes others make. ", "moral3": "Listening can keep you safe. ", "moral4": "Never judge anyone by their outlook. ", "moral5": "Wise person learn from anyone and everyone and as soon as he understand his mistake, he corrects them and move forward.", "laebl": 4}
{"id": 354, "story": "Once upon a time, there was a lion that grew so old that he was unable to kill any prey for his food. So, he said to himself, I must do something to stay my stomach else I will die of starvation. He kept thinking and thinking and at last an idea clicked him. He decided to lie down in the cave pretending to be ill and then who-so-ever will come to inquire about his health, will become his prey. The old lion put his wicked plan into practice and it started working. Many of his well-wishers got killed. But evil is short lived. One day, a fox came to visit the ailing lion. As foxes are clever by nature, the fox stood at the mouth of the cave and looked about. His sixth sense worked and he came to know the reality. So, he called out to the lion from outside and said, how are you, sir? The lion replied, \"I am not feeling well at all. but why don't you come inside?\"Then the fox replied, I would love to come in, sir! But on seeing, all footprints going to your cave and none coming out, I would be foolish enough to come in. Saying so, the fox went to alert the other animals.", "moral1": "Gratitude5 and greed go not together. ", "moral2": "It's our choice to keep positive attitude towards life. Circumstances are just parts of what makes us joyful. Pursuit of happiness is an inward journey. If we continue to bit our lips and just before we begin to complain we should shoot that seemingly harmless negative thought as it germinates, we will find there is much rejoice about. ", "moral3": "When we chose to fight, we can see that in no time, that big trouble start resembling a small problem and we can remove it from our life and move forward. ", "moral4": "Use serves to overcome dread4. ", "moral5": "Always keep your eyes open and stay alert before walking in any situation.", "laebl": 5}