Inspired

A high school wrestler from Walnut Creek, California, who was paralyzed due to a spinal cord injury during a match in January, is determined to walk again. “I’m not going to die in this chair,” he told KTVU. But the task in front of him was overwhelming. When Ryan Joseph, 16, started his rehabilitation at […]

The actions of a Utah bus driver have deeply touched a father and his daughter after they lost their wife and mother to a rare illness two years ago. Every morning, the driver has been helping 11-year-old Isabella Pieri to style her hair before school. Father Philip Pieri told KSL he was grateful for the driver’s selflessness, […]

A 9-year-old boy in North Carolina who has been running a pop-up style coffee business has opened his first storefront and he has hired students with special needs to work behind the counter. Camden Myers suffered a traumatic brain injury that caused cognitive and physical delays, which makes it difficult for him to do simple tasks […]

A father-of-six did not expect the overwhelming amount of attention when he replied to a text message which was sent to his phone by mistake. Tony Wood from Tennessee received messages with photos attached asking for fashion advice from an unknown number back in February. A young woman sent the photos of herself in a black […]

Chris Koch is a motivational speaker and he is about to compete in his fourth marathon. Oh, and he was also born without arms and legs. That never stopped him, however. In fact, it motivated him. “If anything, it has given me the excuse to want to do more, and accomplish more and push myself,” he […]

Danny Marz was always the first one to help, locals say. He promoted concerts, raised money for and supported local charities, and everybody remembered his smile. On Thursday, March 8, Danny Marz suddenly passed away. His family announced on Friday they would close their business, Pit Stop Car Wash and Coffee in Tooele, Utah, to allow time to […]

Andreas Graf was moved to tears when he learned what his colleagues had done for him. “Without this tremendous support, I would be without a job now,” said the 36-year-old assembly worker from Fronhausen, Germany, who went through one tribulation after another over the past year. In January 2017, Graf’s 3-year-old son, Julius, was diagnosed […]

A Wisconsin military veteran says he immediately knew his new service dog Tango was the right match. “When we first met, he just kind of threw himself at me and I just knew,” said Dalton, according to WRAL. Tango was trained by Custom Canines, a non-profit which provides service dogs for people with disabilities. Sixty […]

A woman rescued a dog that fell through the ice covering Trout Lake, in Vancouver’s John Hendry Park, on Friday, Feb. 23. Footage of the incident was captured by Ben West, who described the woman’s act as “the most heroic thing” he’d ever seen in a Youtube post. The dog is seen in the video […]

A mom who lost her newborn baby chose to donate her breast milk to a mom in need. Jenny Rogers lost her newborn daughter Everly six days after she was born. Intrauterine growth restriction caused the complications that eventually led to Everly’s death. Everly wasn’t even expected to live long enough to be born, Rogers told […]

On the afternoon of Wednesday, Jan. 3, Arthur Belyeu had just passed the intersection of 43rd Avenue and Roosevelt in Phoenix, Arizona, when he heard a car crash. Immediately, he took action. “As soon as I see that, I threw my soda down, rolled over to the scene, got the back hatch down and went […]

Shoveling snow in the Detroit Metro area can get daunting as it easily gets several feet of the white stuff every winter. That’s where Jason Sherman comes in with his one-man cleanup business. He makes a point of giving discounts to those in need and for $15 he removes snow for veterans, seniors, and single […]

Will Avila was in and out of jail between 16 and 27. He reached a point where he wanted to start anew, but his past wouldn’t leave him so easily. “I went through 22 job applications and got rejected 22 times,” he said. He was facing a decision: go back to his old ways, or […]

Alastair McAlpine is a paediatrician from Cape Town, South Africa. He works at Paedspal Cape Town, a program that cares for children with life-threatening and terminal illnesses. On Thursday, Feb. 1, he decided to ask his patients about life and the responses he got went viral. “I asked some of my terminal pediatric palliative care […]

A nine-year-old girl that President Donald Trump joined in asking people to pray for before a risky brain surgery has been recovering “at a lightning pace.” Sophia Marie Campa-Peters of Brownfield, Texas, underwent the surgery on Friday, Jan. 26, but the day after she was already able to stand up and walk, according to a […]

By conventional wisdom, Denise Dickerson shouldn’t even be here. She had almost every bone from waist down crushed in a car accident on an icy Oklahoma road and stopped breathing before even reaching the hospital. But, for some reason, she clung to life. “It’s amazing. And you got to think that there’s some higher power […]

More than three decades ago, a 21-year-old soldier pawned a stack of savings bonds, figuring he would rather have cash right away than thirty-five years later when his bonds matured. Now, that soldier, Woodrow Wilson Jr., 58, is living on the streets of Chicago. Even recently, Wilson had been sleeping outdoors in the arctic weather as all […]

Tucked away in an inconspicuous building in a Steel Valley suburb, southeast of Pittsburgh, there lies the Nancy B’s Bakery. Inside, Nancy Bertram and her son, Michael Runco, bake cookies that can, just for a moment, melt the world’s trouble away in peanut butter, dough, and chocolate pleasure. “Some of the best cookies that are […]

A heartbreaking final letter of advice has been shared by the grieving family of a woman who has just died of cancer. Holly Butcher of Grafton, Australia, penned insights about life as death closed in. The 27-year-old died on Thursday, Jan. 4, after a battle with Ewing’s sarcoma—a cancer in and around the bones. And […]

The tabloids are making much of revelations that a teenager born with Ambras Syndrome, which causes excessive hair growth, has been photographed with a man reported to be her new husband and is now presenting a new, shaved look. But the story of Supatra ‘Natty’ Susuphan, 17, from Bangkok, Thailand, is one that merits a […]

On Christmas Eve, Andrea Reid was on her way to Cape Coral, Florida, to celebrate Christmas with her family. As they were driving southbound on I-75 between then the Osprey and North Port exits, they noticed something on the side of the road. “We’re like, what was that?” Reid told NBC2. It was a bag […]

California resident Lois Knudson grew up in New York City admiring firefighters—all the more so after terrorists attacked the World Trade Center in 2001. “I don’t think firefighters get the recognition that they’re due,” Knudson told The New York Post. “9/11 was so devastating and so huge. But they are always risking their lives. You don’t […]

Brian Junk has always been a kind and helpful man. At least that was the impression of some students at Garden City High School in Michigan, where Junk works as a custodian. One such student, Andrew Cordes, approached another student, Kenna Hermanson, 18, with an idea to do something nice for Junk in return for […]

Brian Junk has always been a kind and helpful man. At least that was the impression of some students at Garden City High School in Michigan, where Junk works as a custodian. One such student, Andrew Cordes, approached another student, Kenna Hermanson, 18, with an idea to do something nice for Junk in return for […]

Sophia Reed was in a tough spot. She’s just moved to Oklahoma City. Her husband had left her and she was now the sole carer for four children in a completely new place. She had a sparsely furnished apartment but no money. “There was nothing under the Christmas tree,” she told WCVB. “I couldn’t afford the […]

A generous mom from the United Kingdom who scored a free supermarket shop after complaining about a missing fruit smoothie carton from a packet has decided to donate her entire haul to a food bank. Gylisa Jayne’s generosity has gone viral and inspired many others to pass on the Christmas spirit. Last month, the 25-year-old wrote […]

Lillian Havenga was about to go blind. Due to her condition, she needs eye injections every four weeks to preserve her vision. She was scheduled to receive the treatment on Dec. 14, but missed the appointment as she was hospitalized for a different health issue. That was a big problem. “If she goes longer than […]