This site is a cluster of wellsprings. Wellsprings of heartwarming anecdotes, stirring stories, age-old fables, epic tales, mythical musings, good deeds, life’s lessons, inspiring insights, and much more.
None of these are our own but they have something for all of us. That’s why we have taken the liberty of putting them together, acknowledging the author and/or the source wherever we could.
The images too, mostly postage stamps, are taken from various sources, with due acknowledgement, for spreading knowledge; this is a non-commercial blog.
View this site as your digital farmhouse, visit it often and browse through all the things good and great about humanity to your heart’s content. Go back with a positive mindset – and with proof that good people always outweigh others in this vast world.
Now, you may still ask, why did we choose to build this website as a repository of good stories ? Here are some answers, again in the words of many others:
“Tell me a fact and I’ll learn.
Tell me a truth and I’ll believe.
But tell me a story and it will live in my heart forever.”
Native American proverb
“All stories teach, whether the storyteller intends them to or not.
They teach the world we create. They teach the morality we live by.
They teach it much more effectively than moral precepts and instructions.”
Philip Pullman, author of ‘His Dark Materials’ trilogy
“Human beings are meaning-seeking creatures;
we crave narratives that have a beginning and an end –
something that we rarely encounter in everyday life.
Stories give coherence to the confusion of our experience.”
Author Karen Armstrong, Guardian, 26 August 2006
“Stories are memory aids, instruction manuals and moral compasses.”
Aleks Krotoski, Observer, 7 August 2011
“Stories are compensatory. The world is unfair, unjust, unknowable, out of control.”
Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? by Jeannette Winterson (2011)
“Telling stories is our way of coping, a way of creating shape out of a mess. It binds everyone together.”
Canadian film director Sarah Polley, Observer, 23 June 2013
“The key to the future of the world is finding the optimistic stories and letting them be known.”
American singer-songwriter Pete Seeger (1919-2014)
Source: http://www.rogerdarlington.me.uk/
Tell your stories. Your neighbours may not understand you, but they will understand your soul. Stories are the last bridge left to allow different cultures to communicate among each other.
Paulo Coelho
Consider this story:
The naked truth clothed
Truth entered a village naked as the day she was born. The villagers had one look at the naked truth and were afraid of the stark harshness and drove her out in anger and malice.
Dejected, the Truth wandered in the desert. Without food and nourishment, she weakened and would have soon died of loneliness. One day she got to the home of the Parable. Parable took her in, nursed her back to life. Soon the Truth was feeling well again. This time she returned to the same village clothed in a parable and was welcome and accepted with ease.
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