Inspiring Stories

Since Eddie Murphy burst onto the comedy scene in the 1980s, he’s been connected to numerous women and cultivated a very large and loving family. Today, the comedy legend is going on 60 years old, and has 10 children from 5 different baby mamas. If that’s not fodder for a quality standup routine, I don’t

For a decade, Greg Dunston and Marie Mckinzie were among the 8,000 people experiencing homelessness on the streets of San Francisco. At least they were, until millionaire Terry McGrath invited them to stay with him in his home. Down on their luck San Francisco has an infamous issue with homelessness. While being the richest city

Adhara Pérez Sánchez is eight years old with a higher iQ than Einstein, and her accomplishments are destroying misconceptions about disabilities. An impressive life Sanchez has gone through a lot in her young life, and she remains and an inspiration. At just eight years old, she is studying toward two engineering degrees, and her dream is

A tear-jerker of a Humans of New York post has gone viral, sharing the story of a dying mother’s last words of wisdom. She walked gracefully toward death When doctors checked on Karen, they “found nothing but cancer,” begins a post from the highly popular social media account Humans of New York. “But even then

When a boss got an email pleading for an employee to be fired over a Twitter spat, he did something extraordinary — he took his employee’s side. Emotions running hot When a customer has a problem with an employee, the usual thing to do is to ask to speak to a manager. Sometimes the manager

Adam Sandler has made a career and massive fortune (think $420 million) thanks to his willingness to do anything for a laugh — The Guardian once called him a “goofy chipmunk known for fart jokes” — but the Brooklyn native has a serious side too. He’s shown it off on the big screen only a

While most drive by the scene of an accident thankful they weren’t the ones at the wheel, one man threw himself onto the scene to save a life. A surreal scene Joe Hylton was driving his big rig for Perdue farms when he noticed a horrible accident on Delaware’s route 1. Both cars involved were nearly

When an Orlando server saw a boy forbidden from eating by his guardians and with a scratch between his eyes, she decided to act. ‘Do you need help?’ Waitress Flavaine Carvalho was serving a table in Orlando when something strange happened — the two adults said their child wouldn’t be ordering anything from the restaurant.

Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson lets no good deed go unappreciated. Johnson had just $7 in his pocket While he might be a world-famous Hollywood hunk and legendary wrestler, Dwayne Johnson started from humble beginnings. After being evicted from his home in Hawaii, Johnson was sent to Nashville, Tennessee to live with his father, but someone

Jessica Alba is best known for being a successful actress (she got her big break in the 2000 TV series Dark Angel and followed that up with hit movies like Sin City) and entrepreneur (The Honest Company, which she co-founded, received a whopping $1.7 billion valuation back in 2015), but her personal life is just