Inspirational Stories / Motivational Stories

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A Quarter From Nanny

By Joseph J. Mazzella on December 18, 2020 / 5,505 views

I was sitting at my kitchen table the other day with a pen, notebook, calculator, and a stack of bills. I was doing my monthly budget. There were bills for electric, water, rent, insurance, the car payment, the phone bill, and the cable bill. Plus money needed to be set aside for food, gas, clothes, and hopefully a little left over to save for those unexpected bills that always seemed to show up. When I was...

My Very Old Dog Was Rescued By A Random Stranger

By A Friend on December 12, 2020 / 5,717 views

I wanted to share a positive story and spread some of that same love around. A few weeks ago my very old, mostly blind dog decided to go on a walk about. When I tried to call for him he got disoriented and ended up going down into a hill covered in blackberry bushes. If you’ve ever lived in the PNW, you'd understand how awful that really is. I was so distraught and lost as to...

A Professor Gave A Balloon To Every Student...

By Unknown on December 11, 2020 / 37,310 views

A professor gave a balloon to every student, who had to inflate it, write their name on it and throw it in the hallway. The professor then mixed all the balloons. The students were given 5 minutes to find their own balloon. Despite a hectic search, no one found their balloon. At that point the professor told the students to take the first balloon that they found and hand it to...

Paying It Forward

By A Friend on December 11, 2020 / 5,604 views

Today a homeless lady asked if I could buy her dinner, so I thought "sure why not!". While I was paying, the cashier noticed the homeless lady waiting outside and asked me if I was buying the food for her. I said yes, and the cashier gave me her food for free! One good turn deserves...

Always A Student

By Joseph J. Mazzella on December 04, 2020 / 6,221 views

It was an afternoon in August. I was just short of turning eighteen. I stood in front of a six story high, red brick building. It was to be my new home for the next several years. It was my first day of college and I was a bit scared and a bit excited at the same time. I had two suitcases and a duffel bag with me. In them were packed all of my clothes, towels, sheets, alarm clock and everything else I thought...

Best Gift Ever

By A Friend on December 02, 2020 / 6,955 views

This is a response from a Reddit user to the question "What's the single most important item in your home that has a value of $1 or less?" ............. One time, about five years into our relationship, my girlfriend (now wife) and I were in separate rooms in our one bedroom apartment in early December. From the other room, she hollered to me “what do you...

If You Find Yourself Constantly Making Excuses To The Things You Want To Do, Use The 'if, Then' Mindset

By A Friend on December 02, 2020 / 4,059 views

I use this "If, then" mindset quite often and it puts momentum to where I want to go and what I want to do. This can be a food for thought to some who struggles with taking action. I discovered this when I was having this self-help stage in my life and I didn't find an easy explanation to this at the time. I only discovered this after reading tons of self help books and watching tons...

Fear Of Being Stung

By Joseph J. Mazzella on November 24, 2020 / 4,507 views

It was a hot, humid Summer day a few years ago. I had just pulled into the local gas station to fill my tank. After pumping the gas I started to walk inside to pay. That is when I noticed them. Two elderly women where standing back from their car. There was a mixture of shock, fear, and dread on their faces. I looked and saw what they saw. Five yellow jackets had started to build a nest around their gas cap....

Hot Chocolate

By Susan on November 21, 2020 / 4,183 views

On a recent cold blustery day right before the election, I was working as a volunteer to clean-up annuals around the roundabout at the Boothbay Common. A car I didn’t recognize pulled up right behind mine, and a woman I don’t know got out. I was a little concerned because not everyone has liked the roundabout, it was right before a contentious election, and during the pandemic so I was thinking...

This Guy Being A True Boss

By A Friend on November 18, 2020 / 4,272 views

I had a new guy working for me once in retail who fell asleep a few times during his shifts. I had coworkers and customers both tell me they thought he was on drugs cuz he'd nod off right in the middle of something like that. When I talked to him about it it turned out he was homeless and he'd been living in his car and being harassed by cops for sleeping in it, so every night...

Innocence + Kindness = Growth

By David on November 17, 2020 / 4,773 views

It was June of 1988. Out of a 13-year-old's early summer boredom, I had pitched a tent in our rural Virginia yard and intended to sleep in it, but I was staying in the house late to finish watching the Lakers’ play-off game. It was almost midnight and Daddy had been asleep upstairs for hours. Someone knocked on the front door. It never occurred to me not to answer it. On the other side was...

We Are Mosaics

By A Friend on November 17, 2020 / 6,978 views

I make my Ramen the way a friend taught me in eleventh grade. Every fall, I listen to a playlist made for me by a boy I drove across a border to see. I eat sushi because a girl who won't talk to me anymore made me try it, and Indian food because my best friend's parents ordered for me before I knew what I liked. There are movies I love because someone I loved loved them...

Happy Tears

By A Friend on November 11, 2020 / 3,779 views

Right now I’m laying in bed next to the love of my life with happy tears in my eyes because I’m about to graduate college from my dream school with a degree in my dream job. And I’m just so overwhelmed with happiness. Flashback to 5+ years ago. I was so unsure that I’d ever make it into any college, yet alone graduate. And I was so scared of being alone, being gay felt like the hardest...

Get On Someone's Level Today

By Indiana State Police on November 09, 2020 / 4,285 views

This little fella was having a tough morning and fell out on the floor. I seen his mother step back and look. She stated this is how he is expressing himself lately. I decided to get on his level and talk to him. He started to cry so I wiped his tears and told him it will be ok. As an adult sometimes all we want is one person to stop, get on our level and maybe wipe...

Man Buys Kid A New Bike After Accident

By Sunny Skyz on November 09, 2020 / 6,732 views

This heartwarming story happened in Turkey. A child was riding an old bike with brakes that didn't work properly. He accidentally crashed into an older man's car, causing a dent. Instead of yelling at him, the man surprised the boy with a new bike. The boy's reaction says it...

Completely Turned My Life Around

By A Friend on November 06, 2020 / 3,939 views

So I've pretty much always struggled with poverty to various degrees throughout my life. From literal homelessness or just scraping by working a basically dead end factory job. I'm a fairly intelligent person, who has spent nearly a decade learning mechanics and related trades in various capacities, but have no formal education or certifications behind me, so have always struggled to utilize...

Thank You Charlotte

By Heather on November 05, 2020 / 3,341 views

Our daughter, Charlotte admires one of the awesomely decorated houses we pass and asked if we could leave them a note. So, last night, she wrote and decorated a note, I ran up the driveway and stuck it in the mailbox (only to notice a Ring camera). Well today, this is hanging up. Thank you to the home owner(s) for not only the amazing decorations, but for receiving her note and going as...