Inspirational Stories / Motivational Stories

Three Smiling Faces

By Joseph J. Mazzella on October 21, 2025 / 1,263 views

By Joseph J. Mazzella on October 21, 2025 / 1,263 views

My daughter gave me the most wonderful birthday present this year. She took 3 pictures of her and her two brothers when they were just babies. Then she sent away to a place that printed them on 3 large refrigerator magnets. Now each time I open the freezer to get some ice cubes I get to see the 3 beautiful faces of my babies smiling at me. It is funny that each time I look at these pictures I feel...

A Flat Tire

By A Friend on October 20, 2025 / 1,096 views

By A Friend on October 20, 2025 / 1,096 views

Not only did this father and daughter help my girlfriend with her flat tire, he used it as an opportunity to teach his daughter how to do it. Wouldn’t accept cash, just said he was happy to help two people at the same...

Helping My Elderly Neighbor After She Hurt Herself And Couldn't Move

By Kiwi on October 20, 2025 / 1,156 views

By Kiwi on October 20, 2025 / 1,156 views

My sweet 80-something year old neighbor called me earlier today, unfortunately I didn't reach it in time so she texted "I've hurt myself and can't walk, will you please come and help?" My thoughts immediately went to her falling or something, so I yelled for my boyfriend and we ran.. 💨 When we got inside, she sat quietly in her chair, looking tired and sad. Turns...

Cashier Paid For Our Drinks So We Bought Her Chocolates

By A Friend on October 17, 2025 / 1,325 views

By A Friend on October 17, 2025 / 1,325 views

So this happened a few years ago, sometime during Covid. Since there was nothing much to do during the pandemic, me and my friend often walked around our town to hang out after school. We would typically get food and then wander around outside. One time as we were nearing winter break, we stopped by a gas station for some hot chocolate and some snacks. When the cashier told us our total,...

I Offered To Help A Lost Tourist And Ended Up Getting Invited To Dinner

By A Friend on October 16, 2025 / 1,249 views

By A Friend on October 16, 2025 / 1,249 views

Yesterday i saw a couple at a bus stop looking totally confused so i stopped to help turns out they were visiting from another country and couldn’t figure out the bus routes. I showed them around a bit and we started chatting.They insisted on taking me out for dinner as a thank you and honestly it turned into such a wholesome evening full of laughter, stories and good food. Kindness...

Empty Closets And Full Hearts

By Joseph J. Mazzella on October 15, 2025 / 1,436 views

By Joseph J. Mazzella on October 15, 2025 / 1,436 views

I hope this new story of mine inspires you to clean out any clutter in your own lives. God bless you always. When my children were in school, each year at the end of Summer my wife and I would buy them all some new clothes for the coming school year. It was a habit that I kept up over the years even though my Special Needs sons are now both in their thirties and wear sizes larger than me....

New Family Moved In And Became Friends In No Time

By A Friend on October 13, 2025 / 1,357 views

By A Friend on October 13, 2025 / 1,357 views

I love to garden and I always grow waaay too much. I give away the extra to my friends and neighbors. Well, some new neighbors moved in and we talked across the fence. I told him if he ever sees a bag hanging on the fence that it’s veggies from my garden. I hung a bag over the fence about a week later. A few days later he came buy with a jar of homemade pickled eggplant....

Didn’t Think Buying One Cup Of Coffee Would Make Me Cry Today

By Bella on October 13, 2025 / 1,494 views

By Bella on October 13, 2025 / 1,494 views

So this morning I went to my usual coffee shop before work. An old man in front of me was counting coins and didn’t have enough money. The barista was about to cancel his order, so I said, “I’ll pay for it.” He smiled and said, “You don’t know how much I needed this.” His wife passed away last week, and they used to come there together every...

Saved From Being Stranded At The Airport, After An Awful First Ever Flight

By Serena on October 10, 2025 / 1,661 views

By Serena on October 10, 2025 / 1,661 views

This happened maybe ten years ago. I (16F at the time) went to accompany my dad to his wedding out of the country. Complicated story, but I was to go with him to be his witness (turned out I was too young, but that's not relevant). We went by plane and I was pretty nervous since I'd never flew before. My dad can be.. kind of a jokster, and found it hilarious to tell me stories...

Working In The Cafeteria

By Joseph J. Mazzella on October 09, 2025 / 1,870 views

By Joseph J. Mazzella on October 09, 2025 / 1,870 views

This story is for all of the hard working people in this world. I hope you enjoy it. God bless you always. It was 40 years ago and I was in college. Although I had signed up for all of the financial aid I could possibly get and chose one of the least expensive colleges in the state I was still struggling to afford it. I signed up for work study jobs each semester then to have at least a few...

Flat Tire, In A Cellular Dead Spot, On Christmas Day

By Eana34 on October 08, 2025 / 1,645 views

By Eana34 on October 08, 2025 / 1,645 views

This was several years ago, with my two younger brothers. I was around 27, brothers were 21, and 17. We were spending the holiday at the grandparents place 1.5 hours away from my parents place. Something was needed all the way back at our folks place. (Don't remember, and the whole thing would have been forgotten had it not been for the flat.) We get past the old back dirt roads and down the...

An Older Lady Who's A Regular At The Store I Work At Surprised Me With Cookies For My Birthday

By A Friend on October 07, 2025 / 1,964 views

By A Friend on October 07, 2025 / 1,964 views

I've worked at a small local grocery store in the town I live in three separate times. The first was from October 2023 - June 2024, the second was from February 2025 - April 2025, and I'm currently working there now. The first time I worked there, I became familiar with an older lady (in her 70's) because on the colder days, she'd wear a big fluffy jacket with cats all over it when...

Dropped Off My Dry Cleaning Today. Owner Fixed My Favorite Cardigan On The Spot For Free

By K on October 06, 2025 / 1,805 views

By K on October 06, 2025 / 1,805 views

It was a small act of kindness that made my day. I picked up and dropped off my dry cleaning earlier. I had a nice cardigan for work I was hoping they could fix because a button popped off and there weren’t extras provided. She tested different buttons for some time until she found the perfect one, sewed on the spot and refused to charge me for it. It’s my favorite...

My Best Ever Decision To Bring Random Joy To People: A Pocket Full Of Tiny Ducks

By The Duck Lord on October 03, 2025 / 1,969 views

By The Duck Lord on October 03, 2025 / 1,969 views

So a long time ago when I was a kid, I read about people getting tiny figurines of something and hiding it in places for others to find. I really liked that idea. Although I didn't want to hide it in places as I didn't cause a disturbance by accident I started to plan and always have something on me to give to people at random times. At the start of this I used origami cranes, I couldn't...

Random Girl Sang To Me To Soothe My Panic Attack During PE

By A Friend on October 02, 2025 / 2,450 views

By A Friend on October 02, 2025 / 2,450 views

When I was a freshman in highschool with hella anxiety I had a pretty bad panic attack (no idea why but back then it was horrible to me). It was PE we were outdoors on the black top and the senior teacher's assistant named Olivia told me to come sit by her cause she probably saw I was hyperventilating. She had me put my head in her lap and she softly rubbed my hair/arm/something while...

Birthdays

By Joseph J. Mazzella on October 01, 2025 / 1,144 views

By Joseph J. Mazzella on October 01, 2025 / 1,144 views

September 29th was my 59th birthday. I’ve lived 59 full years on this earth and just began day one of year 60. It feels strange because the person inside this wrinkled, aging body certainly doesn’t feel 60. But I do have so many memories: memories of love, memories of joy, memories of pain, memories of fear, and even memories of regret. I wouldn’t change any of them, though. They...

Gave My Food To A High School Kid Who Didn't Have Any

By A Friend on September 30, 2025 / 2,159 views

By A Friend on September 30, 2025 / 2,159 views

It's been a few years now but one day I visited a Taco Bell around 4 pm or so. I had eaten what I could of my meal and had a few extra food item I would normally have shared with my own teen but he wasn't with me. I had noticed a small group of teen boys and a few of them had food but one boy didn't. He was kind of glancing at the others then checking his phone. My take was,...