You often need words of encouragement, a strong dose of motivation, a spark of inspiration—call it what you will—when you’re feeling down...

This is a fictional story that might just as well be true. For, it contains an important lesson for young people. A college once invited...

American author Richard Bach's illustrated Jonathan Livingston Seagull (1970) is one of the most inspiring books in the self-help and...

I have no plans to stop working. I hope to remain active in a professional or personal capacity for as long as I can. A trip to the bank...

It’s time to see what I can do To test the limits and break through No right, no wrong, no rules for me I’m free Let it go, let it go…...

The sun was barely shining through the clear blue sky of a winter morning when I visited my 82-year old mother who has Alzheimer's and...

Books do more than just inform and entertain us. They also help us to see through the good times and bad times, and inspire us in ways...

“Smell that? That’s the smell of new comic-books. Oh, yes!” — Sheldon Cooper (Jim Parsons) in The Big Bang Theory I remember when I read...

Watch your thoughts, they become words; watch your words, they become actions; watch your actions, they become habits; watch your habits,...

The pandemic may be over but Covid-19 has changed the way we live, work, do business, communicate, travel, socialise and entertain. Most...

Living in a city apartment usually means less liveable space which makes it necessary to use every square foot judiciously. This is why...

Home is where one seeks comfort, indulgence and hygge (pronounced hoo-gah). SELF, the lifestyle website, quoted Meik Wiking, author of...

Photo: Krakenimages/Unsplash Last week, my friend turned 56 and at the lunch get-together where we, a group of ladies in our 50s, met,...

There is a scene in the American sitcom Friends where Chandler (Matthew Perry) is upset because he comes across an old home video of a...

During the time I worked as a trainer for the IELTS exams (International English Language Testing System), one of the questions in the...

It has become fashionable to drop the phrase carpe diem, especially on social media. It means enjoying the present moment. To seize each...

We've all been granted the gift of a pocketful of happiness but the choice of how we utilise it is ours. We can either fritter it away on...