Inspiring Stories

Brazilian actor and former ballerina Carol Nakamura has many privileges in her life thanks to her career success. So she tries to give back to the community whenever she can. That’s what she was doing one day when she encountered a little boy who would forever change her life. An Unexpected Meeting Instagram/@euguileonel In 2019,

From a young age, Zandile Ndhlovu knew she belonged in the water. She was irresistibly drawn to the ocean: the sand, the sun and the pounding waves. Even now, she describes it as “an incredible world filled with wonder.” It hasn’t lost that feeling of discovery and adventure for Ndhlovu, and it probably never will.

Little changes can have big impacts. It was on a December day in the year 2017 when a girl named Brooke walked into a Sheetz gas station in Butler, PA, hoping to get something sweet to eat. She had her heart set on some donut holes, but she soon found she had not brought enough

We never really know what other people are going through, which is why it’s always a good idea to be kind to everyone. Sometimes people just need others to be gracious to them, and it can make a big difference in their lives. Well, a bus driver named Kathy Neves may not have realized how

Pushing through and keeping a positive attitude when times get tough can be really hard. But some people manage to do it in amazing ways. Take the single mom in this story, for example. Even when facing financial hardships and a sick daughter, she managed to make each one of her kindergarten students feel special

If you won the lottery, what would you do? Would you pay off your house and car? Perhaps you’d go on a nice trip or blow some cash on something fancy. Many people out there would probably help out their loved ones or pursue a new passion. But how many of us would give all

*Featured image contains photo by Jonathan Borba Weddings can be very emotional, especially if you have loved ones you wish could be there to celebrate with you. But there’s a whole other layer of emotion to factor in when you get married to someone new after losing your first love. That’s when you realize just

Don’t you just love it when a social media influencer uses their fame for good? That’s exactly what TikTok star Brian Arya has been doing! “To turn your head away from people who are out in the street is the opposite of what we should be doing,” said Brian Arya, whose TikTok videos have led

It wasn’t long after his son’s birth in 2011 that the talented TV writer behind Kung Fu Panda and Shark Tale, Jeremy Shipp, started to play extra close attention to the faces of cartoon characters. There was one face that was especially dear to him that he didn’t see represented in the media. That was

Lorraine, a senior policy officer from Glasgow, was 20 weeks along when the doctors gave her the grave news, her pregnancy was “no longer viable.” Her placenta stopped working and wasn’t providing the oxygen and nutrients needed for her baby to grow. The doctors warned that her baby wouldn’t make it and they offered to