Inspirational Stories / Motivational Stories

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Ocean Views With A Smile

By Hand Pan Leann on August 28, 2025 / 194 views

Today I went to the pacific view mall with two of my 3 kiddos. I homeschool my son with special needs who is a 6th grader and also my youngest who just stared kindergarten. We go to the mall to socialize a little bit as home schooling can feel isolating at times. I dropped my son off with his tutor Tom at a place called “game world “ ran by a wonderful and compassionate guy named Mike....

Cat Comes To Check On Little Girl Every Day

By A Friend on August 27, 2025 / 379 views

This is Muffin. He's not mine, but ever since my daughter hurt herself in the garden a while ago, he comes every day. He sits at the back door watching till he sees her and knows she...

From Your First Day Until Your Last

By Joseph J. Mazzella on August 26, 2025 / 790 views

Here is my new story. I hope it reminds you of just how much you can make a difference in this world. An elderly friend wrote me recently. She was discouraged about her failing health. But the thing that bothered her the most was she was no longer able to volunteer and help her community the way she used to. At the end of the letter she asked me: “What can I do to make this world...

Random Act Of Kindness In The Emergency Room I’ll Never Forget

By Maci Nicole on August 25, 2025 / 1,101 views

About 2 weeks ago I (31 year old female) fell and heard a snap in my foot. I was screaming crying with both pain and fear. There was no one to take me to the ER as it was about midnight when this happened. I don’t have insurance so I got a ride share there hobbling along until the staff got me a wheelchair. I sat alone facing a corner crying. I had never broken a bone, been to the ER by myself, and I was...

A Stranger Helped Me Get Enough Gas To Get Home And Just Asked That I Pay It Forward

By A Friend on August 23, 2025 / 710 views

This happened a few years ago when gasoline was over $4 per gallon. I was on my way home from work and I noticed my gas tank was on E. I stopped at a gas station about halfway between my work and home. When I reached over to get my purse, I realized it wasn't where it's supposed to be. I searched the whole vehicle and realized that I had completely forgotten my purse in my locker at work. In...

A Story About A Random Lady At The Costco Food Court

By A Friend on August 22, 2025 / 1,399 views

I really wanted to share this with someone because it was just so amazing! For context I have a 2 month old baby. So I went towards the tables of the food court after getting my food and I notice this older lady (not like senior age but older than me), I only noticed her because she looked like one of my teachers and I brushed it off. We sit down and she congratulates us and asks how old...

The Quality Of Your Attention Determines The Quality Of Your Life

By Attentioneer on August 21, 2025 / 1,476 views

I've been studying attention for several years now, and this statement ('The quality of your attention determines the quality of your life') has become my north star. My entire thesis for practicing attentioneering. Here's why I believe it's true. Your attention is a filter. Every moment, you're bombarded with information, thoughts, feelings, impulses. What you focus on...

A Tow Truck Driver Turned A Stressful Day Into A Kindness Story

By Jennifer on August 20, 2025 / 1,384 views

My mother was involved in an incident on a motorway (in Brisbane) this afternoon. The towtruck driver who assisted her was incredibly helpful; he took photos on her phone, offered to drive her home (after dropping her car off at his holding yard), helped her into his truck, arranged and paid for an Uber when he realised he wasn't able to drive her home, gave her his phone number in case she...

A Little Goes A Long Way When You Least Expect It. Customer Made Me Cry

By A Friend on August 19, 2025 / 1,577 views

Customer made me cry. I work at a large national retail store. It was crazy busy. A family waits in my line, I concentrate on 1 customer at a time, the one standing in front of me. A family of 3 are now here, they tell me the order will be 3 transactions. Sweet. Im ring 1st lady's stuff. The 2nd lady is about 20, looks like she might a disability. Im asking her about the...

Growing Up Grateful

By Joseph J. Mazzella on August 18, 2025 / 1,674 views

My new story is about the happiness that thankfulness brings us. When I was a boy growing up we didn’t have much materially. I spent most of my childhood living in my Nana’s 75 year old house with my Dad, Mom, Nana, and two brothers. It was built from two shanty cars with lots of lean-to’s, porches, and other rooms built on as the years went by. I can only remember my Mom buying me...

A Man Paid For My Pizza Last Week! Made My Day And My Week!

By A Friend on August 16, 2025 / 1,227 views

I just moved to NYC, and since I’m in grad school, I’m broke as a joke! I always eat at those $1.50 pizza spots on the corners of every street, and one day last week, my card declined cause I didn’t have the exact change for the slice. (I have groceries at home, so I’m not in as bad a position as one would think, but I digress!) As I turned to go, a random old man...

Italian Guys Offered A Homeless Man A Place To Sleep

By A Friend on August 15, 2025 / 1,567 views

In 2017, I was homeless, sleeping on the streets of Prague. One night, I was resting on the stairs of a hostel when, around 5 AM, a group of Italian men returned from a nightclub. They woke me up and offered me to sleep in their room because they had two or three extra beds. The moment I lay down and hugged the pillow, I realized how often we take the simplest things in life for granted. I cried a...

Sometimes People Are Just Lovely And They Make Me Glad To Be Alive

By A Friend on August 14, 2025 / 1,691 views

Today I went to return my Switch Lite at GameStop and had the money put back into my debit card. I wasn't sure how quickly the money would appear in my account, but wanted a soda and an ice cream cone so I went to the little shop in the food court. Well, the guy tried my card three times and it didn't go through, and I felt so down already because of money issues and having to...

Our Good Friend Jeorge

By Hand Pan Leann on August 13, 2025 / 1,866 views

We moved into our neighborhood 12 years ago when I was pregnant with our second son. We didn’t know anyone there but started to figure out who was who. A year and a half after my son was born he had a terrible reaction to the MMR vaccine that made him break out in a full body rash and have high fevers for a week. Shortly there after he lost all his speech and had trouble walking. It...

You Matter

By Joseph J. Mazzella on August 13, 2025 / 1,510 views

When I was a boy growing up in the 1970's and 1980's, it was common to see hitchhikers walking along the side of the road as you drove along. A lot of people back then couldn’t afford cars so they either walked or hitched a ride when they had to go into town. As I got older, though, I noticed them less and less. That is until recently. It seems the difficulties of life these days are leaving a...

Older Man Made Me Cry In A Restaurant

By A Friend on August 12, 2025 / 1,816 views

I was at a restaurant with my 3 year old son, just the two of us. An older gentleman at a table nearby finishes his meal, walks over and says “I’ve been listening to you with your son and just want you to know you’re a great dad.” I didn’t have much of a father figure growing up, and I wish I could have expressed to him how much this compliment meant to me. It felt like...

A Little Boy And A Much-needed Laugh

By A Friend on August 11, 2025 / 1,949 views

I did a random act of kindness almost a decade ago and I can’t stop thinking about them. Back in 2019 I was a ride attendant at a big theme park on one of the coasters. We had to close early because of an event so we had to keep the gates to the attraction closed so no one else could get in while we cleared the line out. While at the gate, I noticed a little kid (probably like 5 or...