Inspirational Stories / Motivational Stories

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Growing Up Grateful

By Joseph J. Mazzella on August 18, 2025 / 130 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 / 270 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 / 399 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 / 514 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 / 660 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 / 480 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 / 676 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 / 804 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...

I Took My Grandsons To GameStop Today, And We Ran In To The BEST Guy Ever!

By Patti on August 08, 2025 / 554 views

I took my grandsons to GameStop today in small town SE Georgia. They were looking for Pokemon cards. At the same time, there was a young man there that was sending his cards out to be “graded”. He asked the boys if they liked Pokemon cards, and of course they replied, "YES!" He asked them to wait for a minute, and when he was finished, he would go to his car and get...

A Random Family Watched The Valuables Of My Friends And I While We Were Hiking

By A Friend on August 07, 2025 / 900 views

My friends and I went on a hike leading down to a creek and up a waterfall today. There was a family at the mouth of the falls, that had looked like they were there for awhile and were getting ready to go. It was a steep climb up and down a rope, so for safety we decided to put our backpacks at the mouth of the falls and just come back for them on the way down. Once we scale back down the waterfall...

Witnessed A Quiet Act Of Kindness At Winco Yesterday

By Dan on August 06, 2025 / 1,200 views

Just wanted to share something that stuck with me yesterday. I was at Winco in Kent WA, where they only accept debit cards, no credit cards or Apple Pay. A couple was having trouble paying, and it became clear they didn’t have a working payment method. They started quietly arguing, clearly stressed and overwhelmed. Then this guy, who had been behind them came up and very subtly said,...

A Random Old Couple Helped Me And My Daughter Get Home

By Dani on August 05, 2025 / 1,130 views

I felt like I needed to share this especially because of of the kindness I experienced as someone who seems to never get treated well. I was stranded 1.5 hours away from home, my car over-heated and I had my daughter at a therapy center. I tried to add coolant to my car which usually works but this time it didn't, every time I tried to drive, my gauge went up to H for my engine being...

A Gift Of Dandelions

By Joseph J. Mazzella on August 02, 2025 / 1,443 views

I was a young father struggling just to earn enough to feed my family. I had gone back to college to earn a teaching degree hoping that it would help me to land a better paying job. All of the full time teaching positions were filled, however, so I found myself on the substitute list, waiting each day for the phone to ring telling me where I’d be working that day, if at all. I’d teach History one...

I Started Reading Out Loud To My Boyfriend Before Bed

By A Friend on August 01, 2025 / 987 views

I wasn’t really sure if he would like it or not at first. I was worried he was just humoring me when he said he wanted me to keep doing it. But tonight, he wasn’t feeling well and he fell into a restless sleep. I stopped reading and he woke up to ask me to keep going. I laughed and said “but you’re sleeping!” He said it didn’t matter, he just liked...

Monthly 'Walk And Dine' Surprise

By Laraine on July 31, 2025 / 1,094 views

I have been leading Heart Foundation Walks for 20 years, walking every Friday afternoon. We decided a few months ago to go to dinner after the walk one week each month. Today was this months Walk & Dine. We had extreme weather conditions so for only the second time in 20 years I cancelled today's walk, but we still planned to dine. Due to various reasons only six of us turned up....

When Small Kindnesses Find You At Just The Right Time

By A Friend on July 31, 2025 / 1,357 views

A little while ago, I was having a rough week, feeling invisible and just worn down. One afternoon I’d popped into a coffee shop, barely talking above a mumble as I ordered. But the barista greeted me with the biggest smile, complimented my earrings (which I’d worn on a whim), and tucked a note inside my cup that just said, “Hope today gets gentler for you.” It was...

A Simple Kind Word Can Change Everything

By Emma on July 30, 2025 / 1,282 views

Today, while waiting in line for coffee, I decided to compliment a stranger on their outfit. It was such a simple thing, but the way their face lit up made my entire afternoon. I realized in that moment how powerful even the tiniest bit of kindness can benot just for someone else, but for me, too. I walked away feeling lighter and more connected to the world around me. Lately, I’ve...