Inspirational Stories / Motivational Stories

This Was Over 45 Years Ago, But It's Still With Me

By A Friend on January 20, 2025 / 2,643 views

By A Friend on January 20, 2025 / 2,643 views

I was fleeing my abusive husband. My son was just 2 (I was 23), and we left without much money in my pocket (the rest was in our bus tickets). Halfway through the trip (NC to OR), we stopped for a couple hours in Grand Junction, Colorado, at a tiny station with a tiny diner at night. I didn't have my glasses (husband had destroyed them), so that meant going far into the restaurant to see the...

She Told Me She Ugly Cried Because Of How Much She Needed To Hear It

By A Friend on January 18, 2025 / 2,556 views

By A Friend on January 18, 2025 / 2,556 views

I wanted to try to do something kind today and I had an appointment with a nutritionist I recently started working with who has been absolutely incredible. She let me know we'd need to skip next week and while chatting after the session she shared that she is going through a very challenging time at home. I left the session and felt so bad for what she's going through. I thought of what a...

What Are You Going To Teach

By Joseph J. Mazzella on January 16, 2025 / 3,435 views

By Joseph J. Mazzella on January 16, 2025 / 3,435 views

It was over 30 years ago. I had graduated college with a degree in Education but hadn’t been able to find a full time job as a teacher. Instead I was working as a substitute. One day I would be called in to work in an elementary classroom, on another day I would be at the high school, and on another I would be working all day in the special education classroom. Through it all, though, I tried my best to...

Found Out Yesterday, My Random Act Of Kindness Meant Something To A Random Stranger!

By A Friend on January 15, 2025 / 2,504 views

By A Friend on January 15, 2025 / 2,504 views

I crochet to keep my mind and hands busy. Probably have undiagnosed ADHA. Anyway, I keep a ball of yarn and a hook in my purse and make roses whenever I have to wait anywhere. Grocery lines, doctor's offices, as a passenger in a car... I like to hand them out to random strangers to give someone a smile. Last year I was at my dentist, I had just finished a rose, so I gave it to the intern...

A Woman Saw Me Scraping Ice Off My Car With My Bare Hands

By A Friend on January 14, 2025 / 2,400 views

By A Friend on January 14, 2025 / 2,400 views

A woman saw me scraping ice off my car with my bare hands and keys in store parking lot. The fact that she asked multiple people in the store who was doing that til she found me was above and beyond. She said she had an extra one. I almost cried as I was in the store trying to figure out how to afford medicine and an ice scraper. It made my day to say the...

He Had No Idea It Was My Birthday - And That It Had Been A Tough Year

By A Friend on January 13, 2025 / 2,611 views

By A Friend on January 13, 2025 / 2,611 views

My husband and I had had a rough year - new baby, new puppy (yes, we were ambitious/clearly don’t like to sleep), new jobs, and a big cross-country move. We were stressed, money was tight, and we had no time to ourselves. But my birthday was upcoming, and I wanted to feel a little special. My husband reserved a new, hip restaurant at 5pm so baby could come, but we were nervous we might have...

A Woman Bought Me A Water To Make A Bottle, And Held My Baby While I Actually Made It

By A Friend on January 13, 2025 / 2,141 views

By A Friend on January 13, 2025 / 2,141 views

Yesterday I went sledding with some friends and family at golf course that had a restaurant/bar inside. My daughter is 6 months, and when she was starting to get cold I brought inside to warm up. When we sat down on a single chair, a woman offered to move off of a couch so we would have more room. After she warmed up, I called my husband to bring in the diaper bag so I could make her a...

The Most Heartwarming Random Act Of Kindness I've Witnessed At Work

By A Friend on January 10, 2025 / 2,981 views

By A Friend on January 10, 2025 / 2,981 views

This happened years ago, but it still warms my heart. I’m a bartender at a restaurant, and a lady comes in by herself and is having a drink before her meal. She says she wants to pay for a specific drink, but doesn’t want me to make it for her. She had me add a dirty grey goose martini with blue cheese olives to her tab. She then told me this is her first time in without her husband who...

Melting The Ice

By Joseph J. Mazzella on January 08, 2025 / 3,138 views

By Joseph J. Mazzella on January 08, 2025 / 3,138 views

It was the coldest part of January several years ago. The jet stream had dropped and an arctic blast had arrived from Canada. The overnight temperatures had dropped below zero and the raw northern wind made it feel even colder. I had left my water dripping the night before but it had still frozen in the pipes. I sat outside then near the opening where the water lines came out of the ground and up into the...

I Saw The Biggest Act Of Kindness From McAlister's Deli

By Melody on January 07, 2025 / 2,715 views

By Melody on January 07, 2025 / 2,715 views

As all of you know it’s cold it’s rainy and you just want to stay at home curl up on your couch, and watch some TV but some of us do not have that privilege today. I saw the biggest act of kindness from Mcallister’s Deli in Jackson (TN) from the managers we had a little homeless man sitting on the patio wrapped up in plastic bags, trying to stay out of the cold weather and stay...

I Regularly Accost My Workplace With Tiny, Random Gifts And Acts Of Kindness And It Started A Little Kindness Revolution

By A Friend on January 06, 2025 / 2,968 views

By A Friend on January 06, 2025 / 2,968 views

I started working at a new company back in March. It’s one of those businesses where the needs of clients are constantly in opposition with the capacity of the employees and rarely is everyone on the same page. A reorganization was also happening right as I got there, and tensions were high. I decided to do something about it. I schemed and planned, and when the crowd strike IT blackout...

Two Days Of Beans

By Joseph J. Mazzella on January 03, 2025 / 3,163 views

By Joseph J. Mazzella on January 03, 2025 / 3,163 views

We didn’t have much when I was growing up but I never felt poor. In order to feed all of us we had four huge gardens that we harvested every year. Mom and Nana would can the vegetables and fill up every corner of the root cellar. We also raised pigs during the Summer to keep us in meat during the Winter. Even with all of this, though, sometimes we would need to stretch out the food by having two days of...

I Absolutely Lost It And Was In Tears

By Simone on January 02, 2025 / 2,729 views

By Simone on January 02, 2025 / 2,729 views

We ate out for lunch today as a family. A very rare event as we don’t very often eat out due to how expensive it is with a family of 6. I had saved some $5 coupons from work I had received so we could get a short stack each. Imagine our surprise on walking out to be told someone had paid and taken care of our bill!! I absolutely lost it and was in tears. Thank...

Add Life To Your Days

By A Friend on December 30, 2024 / 4,485 views

By A Friend on December 30, 2024 / 4,485 views

"You can't add days to your life, but you can add life to your days." This quote is a powerful reminder to focus on the quality of the time we have rather than the quantity. Every moment is an opportunity to embrace joy, pursue passions, and connect deeply with others. It encourages us to live intentionally, finding meaning in even the simplest of experiences. While we may not control...

The Warmth Within

By Joseph J. Mazzella on December 27, 2024 / 3,216 views

By Joseph J. Mazzella on December 27, 2024 / 3,216 views

With Winter entering a particularly brutal cold stretch with temperatures dropping into the low teens every night and only reaching the 20's during the day, our electric furnace stopped working. I spent all day trying to reach a repairman only to find that they were overwhelmed with people in similar circumstances and it would be 8 days before someone could arrive here. I quickly went to the local hardware...

Well... That's A Wrapped!

By Rick E. on December 23, 2024 / 2,191 views

By Rick E. on December 23, 2024 / 2,191 views

Very close to my home there is a shelter for homeless teen girls, every year for the last four years, I have reached out to the community to buy gifts for the young ladies who will be spending Christmas day at the shelter. I grew up in places like this, and I know from personal experience that Christmas can be the most painful time of year for homeless youth to be without family. Once...

A Message For The Holidays

By WB on December 20, 2024 / 2,728 views

By WB on December 20, 2024 / 2,728 views

I know current events can be scary, and that the financial outlay of the holidays can be intimidating and overwhelming. But please consider that regardless of what faith you may or may not possess, there is an inherent call to good and companionship in the air. With all the division, anger, and frustration bubbling up worldwide, this is an opportunity for a real break. Ignoring the calls especially...