Stories to feel 📖

On a farm, a duckling was born different from its siblings: bigger, greyer and clumsier. Everyone laughed at it and pushed it aside, and the poor duckling felt very sad and very lonely.

It decided to leave and spent a very hard winter, hidden and trembling with cold. It thought no one would ever love it.

When spring came, it approached a pond where some beautiful swans were swimming. It feared they would reject it again… but looking at itself in the water it discovered that it too had become a swan. It had never been ugly: it was just a swan among ducks, in the wrong place.

The hare boasted of being the fastest in the forest and laughed at the slow tortoise. Tired of the mockery, the tortoise challenged it to a race.

The hare shot off and, seeing how far behind it left the tortoise, grew so overconfident that it lay down for a very peaceful nap.

The tortoise, step by step, never stopping, kept going and going… and crossed the finish line while the hare was still asleep. The one who didn't give up won.

A little mouse accidentally woke up a huge lion. The lion was going to eat it, but the mouse begged: «let me go and one day I'll help you».

The lion laughed —how could something so tiny help him?— but it let it go.

Some time later, the lion fell into hunters' net and roared, unable to escape. The little mouse heard its roars, ran to it and gnawed the ropes until it set it free. The smallest had saved the biggest.