Inspirational Stories / Motivational Stories

A Complete Stranger Gave Me Flowers Today! It Made My Day!

By A Friend on June 04, 2025 / 2,492 views

By A Friend on June 04, 2025 / 2,492 views

Okay so basically I love going to Trader Joe's, right? And I was just going in to get some coffee ice cream (their coffee ice cream is THE BEST!!) and I hadn't seen this girl in a couple of months. She said "hey _____!" (My name exactly as I prefer to be called it) And I was so surprised she remembered and I turned around and said hey. She asked how I had been and I was...

She's Right About No One Talking To Me Unless They're Mad

By A Friend on June 04, 2025 / 2,915 views

By A Friend on June 04, 2025 / 2,915 views

A few months back, my kids and I went out to eat at a fairly well known fast food restaurant. The food wasn't known for being the best, but my kids loved it, so I humored them. The food was amazing! It was hot and fresh and served quickly. The kids and I happily ate everything we ordered. As we were leaving, I happened to see the manager behind the counter helping to fill orders. I...

Mom's Eyes

By Joseph J. Mazzella on June 03, 2025 / 3,259 views

By Joseph J. Mazzella on June 03, 2025 / 3,259 views

It was the middle of Summer, yet my Dad was already getting ready for Winter. He had dumped a load of firewood from his pickup truck and it was my job to put it in the wheelbarrow and move it to our winter woodpile. I was a skinny 12 year old and it wasn’t easy work. I was loading the wheelbarrow for the fifth time when I felt like I was being watched. I looked up and saw my Mom smiling at me from the...

Anonymously Gifted Singing Classes To A Girl Who Can't Afford Them But Really Loves Musical Theatre

By Lottie on June 02, 2025 / 2,840 views

By Lottie on June 02, 2025 / 2,840 views

There's this girl I met through community theatre a few years ago. She's in her late teens, so significantly younger than me (I'm 25 female). I've been doing musical theatre for years and she's more of a newcomer, so I've always tried to give her advice and feedback if she asks for it, be supportive, even taught her how to braid her hair for the latest show we did. She's...

This Lady Saw My Child Lose 3 Times Playing A Claw Machine Game

By A Friend on May 31, 2025 / 2,848 views

By A Friend on May 31, 2025 / 2,848 views

We went out to dinner tonight and my child got excited when they saw a claw machine game with big prizes inside. Parents, we all know how these games, especially the big prize claw machines, are rigged against you. I despise these because they often get the kids hyped up for disappointment. Anyway, after the third time and $3 worth of losses, my child was bummed out and as she was sadly...

After 15 Years Of Homelessness, I Finally Have My Own Home!

By A Friend on May 30, 2025 / 2,762 views

By A Friend on May 30, 2025 / 2,762 views

I have up until VERY recently lived in the homeless shelter graduating their Alcohol and Drug Recovery Program! I have been HORRIBLY addicted to alcohol and began homelessness at 22 years old, I am now 35. So for over a DECADE I was either sleeping on the streets or staying in motels and drinking and doing day labor to afford it . 3 years ago I was lying in a hospital bed with stomach...

Keepin' It Dry

By Lisa Jernigan on May 29, 2025 / 2,900 views

By Lisa Jernigan on May 29, 2025 / 2,900 views

My grandmother always taught me to never brag about good deeds because it destroyed the value of the deed to get attention for it, Since my niece "outed" me for this one, I figure it's okay, maybe helpful, to tell you about it. One day, I was driving in the rain and saw a woman at a bus stop getting soaked because she had no umbrella. I promptly pulled over and handed my umbrella out...

A Simple Smile Is More Special Than You Think

By A Friend on May 29, 2025 / 2,785 views

By A Friend on May 29, 2025 / 2,785 views

I just passed a man while walking in the park and turned back to give him a (somewhat cursory, I thought) smile and hello. After a moment, he said to me that I was the only person who looked at him with a smile—that everyone else looked at him with a mean or blank expression. I thought it was pretty remarkable how my simple smile made such an impression. It caught me off guard. I...

Our Cleaning Lady Baked This Cake For Our Daughter’s 4th Birthday

By Tesat on May 29, 2025 / 2,280 views

By Tesat on May 29, 2025 / 2,280 views

Our cleaning lady baked this cake for our daughter’s 4th birthday without us asking A homemade round birthday cake decorated with an image of Disney’s Elsa from Frozen on top and blue and white frosting, featuring her name (which I blurred for privacy reasons) and the number 4. We were honestly speechless this morning. She wasn’t expecting anything at all. We...

I’m A First Time College Student At 50 Yrs Old!

By David on May 28, 2025 / 1,984 views

By David on May 28, 2025 / 1,984 views

I decided to skip college after high school as I was more interested in dr*gs, art, travel, and music. 30 plus years, 3 ex wives and raising 26 year old twins, I’ve decided to start a whole new chapter and get out of retail grocery as a career. Seemed like the perfect time in my life and now that community college is free for most folks in MA, I’d be silly to not give it a...

Eternally Young

By Joseph J. Mazzella on May 27, 2025 / 2,351 views

By Joseph J. Mazzella on May 27, 2025 / 2,351 views

My family and I had stopped to eat at a fast food place before we went grocery shopping the other day. I had my daughter order while I went to the restroom. When I got back she told me the amount and I went to the counter to pay. The cashier asked for less than what she had said and I paid him. When I got back to our table my daughter laughed and pointed to the receipt. I had gotten a “senior...

Saved In The Bathroom By A Stranger While Out Of State

By Magstarunner on May 26, 2025 / 2,335 views

By Magstarunner on May 26, 2025 / 2,335 views

I was in a different state with my youngest son for a hockey tournament. My husband called me between games distraught: our best college friend was suddenly in the hospital and it didn’t look good. I tried to comfort my husband, then went back in and watch the last game. I didn’t really know the other parents, so I didn’t have anyone to tell. The kids won their last game and won the...

Grocery Store Clerk Gave Us Expensive Mylar Balloons For Husband In Long Term Hospital Stay

By A Friend on May 24, 2025 / 2,282 views

By A Friend on May 24, 2025 / 2,282 views

I was decorating my husband’s hospital room with string lights, balloons, and drawings of our pets to cheer him up. He was stuck in the hospital for so long, it really helped and the doctors/nurses liked the cheery room too. I had been changing out balloons for the holidays/events. Thanksgiving, Christmas, new years, birthday, anniversary…anyway in the middle of this, I was buying some...

My Airport Heroes

By Pam M. on May 23, 2025 / 5,310 views

By Pam M. on May 23, 2025 / 5,310 views

On May 19, 2025, I had the pleasure of meeting two football players from North Carolina Central University in the Philadelphia, PA airport as we were all headed back to Raleigh, NC. To protect their privacy, I will use only the initials of their first names – L and N. They politely asked if they could sit beside me in the airport and I said yes, that I would welcome strong young men sitting...

Don't Tell Your Mother About This

By A Friend on May 22, 2025 / 2,324 views

By A Friend on May 22, 2025 / 2,324 views

We came across this gem on a forum where someone asked, “In honor of Father’s Day, what was your ‘don’t tell your mother about this’ moment?”—and we knew it had to be shared here: "Female coworker of mine was miserable at work one day. I asked her what was wrong...she told me it was her anniversary, and she knew her husband had forgotten. She had...

People Who Do Things Just To Brighten Someone’s Day Are The Best

By A Friend on May 21, 2025 / 2,752 views

By A Friend on May 21, 2025 / 2,752 views

I checked in to my hotel and joked with the check-in lady that as long as my room had a bowl of M&M’s with all the blue ones removed, everything would be great. She laughed and told me about some other crazy guest request. 20 minutes later there was a knock on my door and she handed me this...

I’m So Thankful For My Parents’ Neighbors For This Random Act Of Kindness

By A Friend on May 20, 2025 / 2,482 views

By A Friend on May 20, 2025 / 2,482 views

My dad has cancer. He’s 72 and didn’t want a lot of invasive surgeries and treatments, so he isn’t treating it. He isn’t in much pain and has a hospice nurse who comes by a few times a week, so overall he’s doing ok. However, his breathing isn’t great and obviously he’s pretty tired. My mom is 64 and is pretty healthy, but she’s also a Type-1 diabetic. They are...