Kindness Stories / Feel Good Stories

It Will Take Just 1 Minute To Read This And Change Your Thinking

By Chris on August 20, 2015 / 7,650 views

Two men, both seriously ill, occupied the same hospital room.One man was allowed to sit up in his bed for an hour each afternoon to help drain the fluid from his lungs. His bed was next to the room's only window. The other man had to spend all his time flat on his back. The men talked for hours on end. They spoke of their wives and families, their homes, their...

Two Books

By Joseph J. Mazzella on August 19, 2015 / 6,491 views

When I was in college one year I signed up for some Summer classes. The college was quiet and mostly empty during the Summer months and I spent most of my time in the huge library with its air conditioning to beat the July heat. It felt like every book in the whole world was there and I took my time going through the shelves looking at as many as I could. One day in particular I found two very...

Words That Changed The Mind!

By Anjali Mohapatra on August 18, 2015 / 7,569 views

I think, mind runs fastest, even faster than the speed of light! I feel, mind is very, very delicate! It should be handled with care. 'Mindset' has a key role for every success or failure in life! And since it is delicate, sometime the words fed by others can change it's entire program. Why I mentioned this, because I want to elicit an example of 'impact of words over mind', through a short...

What Will YOU Do For Your Fellow Humans Today

By Scooter on August 18, 2015 / 5,127 views

Oscar Wilde said "The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the grandest intention." How busy we are with our daily schedules and activities. But how long would it take to do a small favour for someone, a random act of kindness? It could be as simple as telling a fellow human that they have a nice hat, or holding a door open for someone. You could give up a cab for someone in a...

The Santa Suit Miracle

By Suzanne Alexander on August 17, 2015 / 5,168 views

In 2000, my parents were still alive and while I was visiting I told my mom I wanted to rent a Santa Suit but I needed a yellow pages to find a Costume Shop in Sacramento. She gave me the yellow pages and I found B-BOPS COSTUMES on 19th & L St so I called and this man answered and I asked if he had a Santa Suit for rent he told me yes it is $50 bucks and I have one left. I told him I would be there in one...

Listen To Your Heart

By Sonia Kaur on August 17, 2015 / 6,301 views

Heart tells the truth because it knows what it wants but we guys become slave of mind. Mind always puts into competition and heart gives us pleasure. Heart never lies it shows you right way and encourages you for doing good because god dwells in the heart. Our ego remains in our mind that is why decision taken from mind are always wrong, you may agree with me or not but mind always shows wrong...

Patience Is A Virtue

By Richard Nana Yaw Otwey on August 17, 2015 / 19,541 views

Patience is one of the greatest virtues to possess as we seek greatness. It's expressed in other words as forbearance, tolerance, persistence, fortitude, serenity, perseverance, imperturbability etc. Let me share this funny but true story. I visited my dad one vacation and had to do my internship where he worked. One day, after work, I decided to take the lead home because my dad had to work...

Recovering Shopaholic Says 'Less Is More'

By Free Spirit on August 17, 2015 / 5,975 views

I'm a recovering shopaholic and this is my story: When I was growing up, we didn't have much. We lived in a house, but we were always money poor. Sometimes I would sell things in order to have money to go out with friends. My friends never knew. I went to university and took on student loans. It was the first time I had money and it felt good. At university campuses, we were given free gifts...

Don't Rely On Motivation For Anything

By Dr Drangle on August 17, 2015 / 5,349 views

Don't rely on motivation for anything. It is fleeting and unreliable. Discipline, however, is unyielding. Force yourself to follow through. Things are going to come up in life that get in the way of your goals but that's no reason to let them stop you completely. Can't do a whole run? Do half of one. Don't have time to go to the gym to lift? Do pushups. Any action is better than...

How Heavy Is This Glass Of Water?

By Chris on August 17, 2015 / 2,315 views

A psychologist walked around a room while teaching stress management to an audience. As she raised a glass of water, everyone expected they'd be asked the "half empty or half full" question. Instead, with a smile on her face, she inquired: "How heavy is this glass of water?" Answers called out ranged from 8 oz. to 20 oz. She replied, "The absolute weight...

My Window

By Suditi Srivastava on August 15, 2015 / 5,305 views

Being back home brings me so many memories, especially when I sit by my room's window. The sunlight still falls exactly the way it used to, forming the identical patterns on the wall adjacent to my window. I feel the same birds have stayed here for all these years, as the chirping still sounds familiar and the street children around have never grown up because their endless noise and rattles...

My Rules

By Prachi on August 14, 2015 / 5,513 views

"People think that they can judge anyone." How foolish they are! We always copy others' life because we think they are much better than us. It's not true. Just think about ourselves, what you are??? What is your skill ??? What makes u different from others? When you think this you will get success. When any successful person gives his speech, we try to copy him. Because...

A Year Ago Today - Some Thoughts On Perspective

By Anon on August 13, 2015 / 5,360 views

Almost exactly a year ago, I thought my previous relationship was over. After months of crippling anxiety and depression, my partner of 3.5 years finally let me know he'd had enough. I was devastated, I was broken. After about 48 hours, we reconciled, each vowing to do better for each other in the future. In the months that followed, I was stagnant in a constant state of fear and uncertainty...

Fishing

By Joseph J. Mazzella on August 11, 2015 / 7,540 views

I was a young boy sitting on a big rock by a river with a pole in my hands. My Dad was next to me trying to show me the fine art of fishing. Being an impatient boy I wasn't a very good student. I hated just sitting there and longed to be playing ball or riding my bike. After a few more attempts my Dad finally gave up and let me go play so he could fish in peace. It wasn't until I was older...

Nobody Can Hurt Me

By C M Reddy on August 10, 2015 / 6,439 views

'Nobody can hurt me' as long as I accept people as they are, I perceive things around me as in their original form and I rejoice the beauty of Mother Nature in its pure form. We interact with people from our own perception and make all the impressions what our mind manifest from its past learning and experiences. Everyone has equal good & bad emotions. We judge people and things according to our...

Story Of Ego

By Chandramouli Reddy on August 06, 2015 / 7,510 views

"Ego", the natural Human psychological trait that changes everything in its way and makes everyone fall prey to undesirable consequences in their life. The pride & self esteem if they are overrated in our mind it manifest in the form of Ego. We forget to remember the only truth in the Universe is all the living and non living objects and their existence is under the control of the Supreme Power...

A Reputation To Call Mine

By Nana Yaw Otwey on August 06, 2015 / 5,282 views

I was present at a friend’s birthday party last weekend and in the course of the party friends and family were asked to say anything about the friend ever since she came into our lives. It could be good or bad. Everyone spoke giving individual accounts of how we knew her. In as much as we all tried not repeat what someone had already said, two words were inexorable; discipline and hardworking. She earned...