Motivational stories that inspire us every day
I was torn apart when my wife's water broke, and I dashed to my car to take her to the hospital. I got a call from my mother's nurse, who told me my mom was dying.
When an older farmer saw his neighbor's kid crying about his mom missing his birthday, he decided to celebrate with the last of his money. A few days later, a bus full of soldiers gave him a surprise he had never imagined.
A poor boy spent the last $3 he had to pay for an unknown woman's bus fare. The next day, she unexpectedly met him in his school & took him to the principal, moving him to tears by revealing something he never imagined...
A man battling the grief of losing his family adopts a girl with Down's syndrome. Nine years later, he gets a call from a stranger that the girl he adopted is a millionaire.
After buying an old crib at the thrift store with her remaining money, Sharon discovered an envelope. The return address was shockingly near her house, but upon opening the envelope, she saw a big wad of cash that could change her baby's life. Suddenly, doing the right thing was not so simple.
10-year-old Steve didn't mind getting his arm broken while standing up to a group of bullies at school. What he didn't expect was for a dozen policemen to come looking for him at the hospital.
A poor woman adopted an old day she met at the homeless shelter because she recognized the scar on her face. Then after taking her home, she remembered the woman's harrowing past.
Jack returned to his hometown and passed a flower shop when he heard a kid begging the owner to give her some flowers. He took pity on the boy and bought the bouquet. The next day, he saw the same flowers on his late high school sweetheart's grave, and something clicked in his brain.
A blind man holds his wife's hand to "support" her during childbirth. After the delivery is successful, he shows his true colors and asks for a DNA test to be performed to confirm he is the twins' father, leaving his wife shocked.
When Patrick turned 18, he finally got to see his late grandmother's will, which included a piñata for his birthday celebration. He gathered his friends to break it, and an old key fell out, surprising his guests. He knew exactly where it led but had no idea what he would discover inside.
While everyone ignores a passed-out homeless man in the middle of the road, a teen girl comes to his aid and performs CPR on him, saving his life. A few days after this, a limo comes to her house, and she discovers something shocking about the man's identity.
A man foregoes a paid vacation to his favorite holiday spot in order to care for his colleague's newborn baby. When he returns to work after his break, his boss pays him a surprise visit and has something special in store for him.
A son helps his busy mom by cleaning the house, and one day, while he's at it, he finds a secret safe inside the pantry. He tries his birth date for the password, and it works, and what he finds inside the safe leaves both him and his mother shocked.
A woman who always wanted to be a mother adopts a baby boy she found abandoned in his stroller. Later, his biological mother demands his return in a court of law
A young boy spends the money he had saved for a much-desired toy on a birthday present for his best friend's grandmother. Years later, his kindness is rewarded
A widowed dad helps a poor woman who can't pay for her stuff at a grocery store and is frozen in place when she faces him. She's a carbon copy of his late wife.
Venessa thought she had failed at her job and at being a good parent to her son. But her son began a mission to change himself - and it ended up creating another unexpected change in the process.
Stanley was in no mood to celebrate his milestone birthday without his daughter. But he didn't expect his day to take a strange turn, starting with a uniformed visitor showing up at his door.
After finding out that their mother couldn't leave the hospital until she settled her medical bills, a pair of siblings decided to sell lemonade to earn money. One day, police cars arrive on their driveway for something the two kids never expected.
A single mom celebrating her 50th b'day waited for her three sons to show up to wish her despite knowing they had never visited her for almost a decade...
My granddaughter, Tina, decided to skip the lavish birthday party her father had organized and spent the day with me, gardening and learning to sew. But my son, Gary, stormed into my house and made a scene until he saw something shocking that changed everything for him.
When Simon learned that his teacher, Ms. Jenkins, didn't get anything for Mother's Day, he ran home, broke his piggy bank, and got a nice bouquet to bring the next day. She became a dear person to his family and was there for them when something awful happened later.
Reese didn't care about the money. But she cared about why her mother had cut her out of the will. She was shocked to learn the lie her mother had been living.
A boy brings chicken soup to an old lady daily after she falls sick, and one day, he finds a group of 4 men on her doorstep, trying to enter her house. He gets scared and decides to run to his mom for help until the old woman invites the men inside.
A poor woman caring for her lonesome former teacher is alarmed after finding two first-class flight tickets to Los Angeles from an anonymous sender...
After sheltering a family in his trailer during a rainstorm, a poor man thought he would never meet them again. But the next day, he was startled to find a stack of heavy boxes on his doorstep...
After losing her job as a cleaning lady at the mall, Megan's debit card was declined at the grocery store. She was about to leave in shame, but a sweet voice said, "You dropped this," and pointed to $500 on the floor. She never imagined what would happen next.
When a poor older woman had no money to pay for her groceries, a cashier settled her bills, unaware he would be called to meet his boss the next day...
An elderly woman is shocked when a woman calls her and tells her she is the child she thought had died at birth forty-six years before when she was very young
A little boy befriends a stray puppy and is confused when he leads him to a dumpster. But when they arrive, the boy notices a movement behind the trash bins and finds a baby there, realizing the dog was trying to guide him to the baby.
Adrian heard his mother on the phone with his grandfather and changed his plans to help the older man with his gardening. While digging through the soil, the boy discovered a stash of old photos, and his granddad shockingly started crying and told Adrian what had happened so many years ago.
Two brothers spend all their money & invite their single mom on a surprise blind date with a man, unaware of how things would take a shocking dimension...
A poor young boy who runs a hot-dog stand for a living feeds a lonely old woman at a park for free daily. In return, she takes him to his own cafe one day, and he is shocked, to say the least.
A single mom decided to return home to her parents after her boyfriend left her with their newborn child. On the plane, a poor old lady assisted her the entire time, only to get 100 roses after landing at their destination.
To everyone's dismay, Master Oogway passed away in the first "Kung Fu Panda" film. Luckily, before he went, he left behind him a massive pool of wisdom from which to draw.
David wanted his father to adopt the new girl in hid class who felt like a sister. When his father met the little girl, their shocking deeper connection from the past came to light.
A kind police officer rushes a pregnant woman in labor on the street to the hospital and remains by her side throughout the delivery. But right after the baby is born, he learns something unexpected and ends up fathering the child.
A lonely older woman rented a room to an orphaned young boy from a gang who transformed her late husband's treasured house into something nobody could recognize...
Former teacher, Mrs. Norris, believed her 85th birthday would be as insignificant as the last few years. An unexpected guest from the past made her birthday special.
A poor girl who comforted a rich boy grieving his dad's battle for life in a coma arrived on his doorstep 19 years later begging for help. She assumed he would not turn her away, knowing little of what would happen...
While at the nursing home, I wrote letters to my son every day to tell him how much I missed him. He never replied to any of my letters until one day, a stranger came to pick me up and take me home.
14-year-old Zoe helped an old lady on a cold day. After connecting with her she was surprised t find a note and a box in her jacket. Her act of kindness unexpectedly opened up doors to self-healing.
While a veteran is being disrespected by a rude cashier, a homeless man steps in to aid him. Before he leaves the store, the manager asks the homeless man why he helped the elderly veteran, and his response wins the manager's heart.
Eleanor wanted to throw a party for her two children, but she didn't have much money, so she decided to sell her dress by listing it online. The buyer was surprisingly someone she knew, and what this woman did next was even more astonishing.
A wealthy old woman's granddaughter was the only one from her entire family to visit her grandmother after her death. One day, she met her late grandmother's lawyer at the cemetery, where an important piece of information is revealed to her, which changes her life forever.
A childless couple took a DNA test with their adopted daughter to trace her relatives & ultimately discovered the wife's "secret" child in the same town...
An old man fears he'll die soon and ends up calling the cops so he isn't alone on his 101st birthday. Little does the man know his life will never be the same after that day.
Elizabeth's granddaughter started treating her differently after her brother left home for college. She takes her grandmother to a nursing home, much to the surprise of her brother, who took his granny away as soon as he discovered the news.
It was a matter of life and death. Wendy left an important envelope at the coffee shop. When she went back for it, she was in for the biggest surprise of her life.
A kind nurse looks after an elderly patient, unaware he is someone special from her mother's past. A day after finding out about it and discovering her mother's picture in his bag, she receives a call from his lawyer, and to her surprise, all of his inheritance.