In the 1980s, the #1 bestseller All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten was published. The author, Robert Fulghum, realised one day that “what’s necessary to live a meaningful life” wasn’t…
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About Wellsprings
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 source or the author wherever we could.
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The Gandhi ‘talisman’
To a friend, who was tormented by doubts, Gandhiji wrote a letter. The letter was mislaid, but on a later occasion the words were recalled to memory and transcribed. The following is…
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A man of courtesy
Bapu was always the soul of courtesy towards young and old, rich and poor. An incident illustrative of this side of his character was described by Giralda Forbes in the Catholic World of Calcutta.…
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‘Nothing too small for him’
Acharya Kaka Kalelkar, who was with Gandhiji in Bombay at the time of the Congress Session there in 1915, relates the following story revealing how great the latter could be even in…
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What made Gandhiji wear only loincloth or dhoti
Ninety-five years ago on 22nd September 1921, Gandhi made a momentous decision to change his attire. From the elaborate Gujarati attire, he decided on a simple dhoti and shawl. This epoch-making decision was…
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The troublesome tooth
When Gandhiji was staying in London towards the close of 1906 pleading with British statesmen the cause of his countrymen in South Africa, he developed a toothache. He was busy with his…
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Touch
Can a simple touch — the holding of a hand, a hug, a pat on the back — really ease another’s burden? The answer is yes, according to a recent study at…
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Mary Todd Lincoln
Mary Todd Lincoln was no stranger to tragedy, even before her husband’s assassination. The Lincolns lost one son, Eddie, at age three. Then, in their White House years, they lost eleven-year-old Willie…
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‘What do you do all day?’
Have you heard the story of the man who came home from work one day to find kid’s bikes and scooters blocking the driveway, the house in shambles, dirty dishes stacked in…
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A longer life
An article on livescience.com discussed some ways science is looking into to extend the human life span, including eating less, genetic tinkering, or a special diet for pregnant or nursing moms. Or you…