1. The story of President Roosevelt in the United States who was always grateful. It is said that Roosevelt's house was robbed and a lot of things were stolen. After hearing the news, a friend rushed to write a letter to comfort him.

Roosevelt wrote in reply: "Dear friend, thank you for your letter to comfort me. I am fine now, thank God: because first, the thief stole my things without harming me. Second, the thief only stole some of my things, not all of them.

Third, the most fortunate thing is that he was the thief, not me. Said that theft is definitely a misfortune, but Roosevelt found three reasons to be grateful.

2. South Africa’s national champion Mandela was imprisoned for leading the opposition to the white apartheid policy. The white rulers imprisoned him on the desolate Atlantic island Robben Island for 27 years.

Robben Island is located in Table Bay, 7 miles northwest of Cape Town. The island is rocky and full of seals and snakes and other animals. Mandela was imprisoned in a "zinc skin room" in the general concentration camp. He lined up to the quarry every morning and was then unshackled.

Go down to a large limestone field and use a pickaxe and shovel to dig up the limestone. Kelp is sometimes fished from cold seawater. Because Mandela was a wanted criminal, there were three guards dedicated to guarding him. When Mandela was released from prison and elected president in 1991.

His actions at the presidential inauguration shocked the world. The presidential inauguration ceremony began, and Mandela stood up to deliver a speech to welcome his guests. After introducing dignitaries from all over the world, he said what made him most happy was that the three former prison staff who guarded him were also present.

He invited them to stand so that he could introduce them. Mandela's broad mind and generous spirit put to shame the white people in South Africa who had brutally abused him for 27 years, and also awe-inspiring everyone present.

Seeing the elderly Mandela slowly stand up and respectfully pay tribute to the three guards who had imprisoned him, all the guests present and the whole world fell silent. Mandela later explained to his friends that when he was young, he had a short temper and had a bad temper.

It was in prison that I learned to control my emotions and survived. His years in prison gave him the time and encouragement to learn how to deal with the pain of his own suffering. He said that gratitude and tolerance often come from pain and suffering and must be trained with great perseverance.

Mandela talked about his mood on the day he was released from prison: "When I walked out of the cell and stepped through the prison door leading to freedom, I already knew that if I could not leave my grief and resentment behind, , then I am actually still in prison.”

3. Marie Curie

Marie Curie is a Polish woman and the most famous female scientist in the world. She has won the Nobel Prize twice. The Bell Prize is known as the "Mother of Radium".

When she made great achievements and was infinitely admired by the world, the first thing she thought of was Teacher Euban, who taught French in her childhood, because Marie Curie deeply understood that if there was no careful and strict teacher, Without the teachings, it is impossible for me to achieve such great achievements.

On this day, Teacher Orban received a letter, the sender was "Marie Curie". Teacher Ouba simply didn’t dare to accept it, thinking that the post office had made a mistake! Because at this time, Madame Curie was already a great scientist praised all over the world. How could she give it to an old and poor person? Where is the unknown rural teacher writing a letter?

Teacher Ouban waved his hand repeatedly and said to the postman: "Sir, you must have made a mistake, you must have made a mistake. It is impossible for me to receive a letter from this famous person. !" It wasn't until the sender was sure that the recipient was correct that she opened the envelope with trembling hands.

Teacher Ouban thought this was really unbelievable! She put on her reading glasses tremblingly, opened the letter and read it carefully. As she read, she could not help but burst into tears of excitement. Her eyes bulged out of her eyes, and it turned out that the letter writer was actually Maria, the little girl who was the first in her class in every subject twenty years ago!

In her letter, Madame Curie expressed her deep respect for Mr. Oban and told the teacher that she had been engaged in scientific research in France and sincerely invited the teacher to visit Paris. The travel expenses were sent together.

After reading the letter, Teacher Ouban sat blankly on the chair, tears blurred her eyes, and the cute and diligent little Maria many years ago appeared in front of her eyes, Teacher Ouban murmured Said: "I actually taught such a great scientist."

Not long after, the teachers and students met after a long separation. Madame Curie warmly received her childhood teacher Ms. Orban at home. . She went to the kitchen to cook in person and toasted to the teacher. After the meal, I stayed close to the teacher again and talked cordially. She made Mr. Orban forget all his restraints and forget that he was in front of a Nobel Prize winner.

In May 1932, the Radium Institute in Warsaw was built. As a patron, Marie Curie happily accepted the invitation of her motherland and went to Warsaw to attend the opening ceremony. On this day, many famous figures from all over the world gathered around Madame Curie. Among them were kings and queens, leaders of many countries, the most famous scientists in various fields, and relatives and friends of Madame Curie.

When the opening ceremony was about to begin, Madame Curie ignored everyone and suddenly walked down from the rostrum. She walked through the crowd holding flowers and came to an elderly woman in a wheelchair. . Madame Curie kissed her affectionately and gently pushed her wheelchair towards the podium. Back on the stage, Madame Curie introduced to everyone that this old man was her teacher Oban in her childhood.

When everyone in the venue saw this scene, they all looked at the teacher and student with envy and admiration, and they all stood up and applauded enthusiastically. The face of this eighty-year-old man was covered with tears of excitement and happiness. Even after her students became world celebrities, they still loved and respected her so much.

4. Albert Einstein

The greatest physicist of the 20th century, Albert Einstein, was born on March 14, 1879 in Ulm, a city in southwest Germany, and moved to Munich with his family a year later.

Einstein’s parents were both Jewish. His father, Hermann Einstein, and his uncle, Jacob Einstein, jointly opened a company that produced motors, arc lamps, and electrical instruments for power stations and lighting systems. electrical appliance factory. Mother Pauline was a housewife with a secondary education. She loved music very much and taught Einstein to play the violin when he was six years old.

Einstein was not lively when he was a child. He could not speak even when he was more than three years old. His parents were worried that he was mute and took him to a doctor for examination. Fortunately, little Einstein was not mute, but he could not speak very smoothly until he was nine years old. Every word he spoke had to be thought through laboriously but carefully.

When Einstein was four or five years old, he was bedridden and his father gave him a compass. When he found that the compass always pointed in a fixed direction, he was very surprised and felt that there must be something deeply hidden behind this phenomenon.

He happily played with the compass for several days and pestered his father and Uncle Jacob with a series of questions. Although he couldn't even pronounce the word "magnetism" well, he stubbornly wanted to know why the compass could guide. This profound and lasting impression could still be vividly recalled by Einstein until he was sixty-seven years old.

When Einstein was in elementary school and middle school, his homework was ordinary. Because he behaves slowly and doesn't like to interact with others, his teachers and classmates don't like him. The teacher who taught him Greek and Latin was even more disgusted with him. He once publicly scolded him: "Einstein, you will definitely not be successful when you grow up." And because he was afraid that he would affect other students in class, he actually wanted to Kick him out of school.

Einstein's uncle Jacob was responsible for technical matters in the electrical appliance factory, while Einstein's father was responsible for business dealings. Jacob was an engineer and loved mathematics very much. When little Einstein came to him to ask questions, he always introduced mathematical knowledge to him in very simple and popular language. Under the influence of his uncle, Einstein received early enlightenment in science and philosophy.

My father’s business is not doing well, but he is an optimistic and kind-hearted person. The family invites poor students who come to Munich to study one night a week for dinner, which is equivalent to providing relief to them.

5. One afternoon more than 100 years ago, a poor farmer was working in a field in a British countryside. Suddenly, he heard a cry for help in the distance. It turned out that a young man had unfortunately fallen into the water.

The farmer jumped into the water to save people without thinking. The child was saved.

Later, everyone found out that the rescued child was a noble prince. A few days later, the old nobleman came to thank him personally with a gift, but the farmer refused this generous gift.

In his opinion, saving people at that time was just out of his own conscience, and he could not covet other people's property just because the other person was of noble birth. The story doesn't end here. The old noble admired the kindness and nobility of the farmer and was grateful for his kindness.

So, it was decided to sponsor farmers’ sons to receive higher education in London. The farmer accepted this gift. It has been his dream for many years to provide his children with a good education. The farmer was happy because his son finally had access to the outside world.

The opportunity to change his own destiny; the old nobleman was also very happy, because he finally fulfilled his dream for his benefactor. Many years later, the farmer's son graduated from St. Mary's Medical College in London. He was excellent in both character and academics, and was later knighted by the British royal family.

And won the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1945. He was Alexander Fleming, the inventor of penicillin. The aristocratic son also grew up and suffered from severe pneumonia during World War II, but fortunately, he recovered quickly with the help of penicillin.

This aristocratic son is British Prime Minister Churchill. Peasants and nobles both lent a helping hand when others were in need, but they sowed good seeds for their own descendants and even the country.