The Priceless Worth of Wisdom: Art Learning Through Inspiring Stories

A man is throwing starfish back into the sea. "There are thousands of them," someone tells him. "You'll never make a difference." He picks up another one: "To this one, I just did."Some stories fit on a single page and stay with you for twenty years. The jar filled with large stones - which would never have held them if the sand had gone in first. The butterfly helped out of its cocoon, and grounded for life. The man who answers an insult with silence, and wins.This book gathers forty short stories that deliver in five minutes what a three-hundred-page self-help book takes a whole chapter to explain. Each one is followed by what it really says, and by a way to put it to work tomorrow morning.Read one in the morning before the day starts, in the evening to step back, or out loud with your family. One story, one lesson, five minutes.Wisdom cannot be taught. It can only be told.