Inspiration

With summer coming around in full swing, kids all over the nation are putting up lemonade stands for some extra cash. One kid who is doing just that thing is having a successful season, even having his favorite celebrity visit for a special cause. New Jersey native Mario Carpino got the surprise of a lifetime […] More

Imagine not being able to speak your thoughts for pretty much all of your life only to find yourself speaking in front of your entire graduating class at commencement – wild, isn’t it?! That’s exactly what happened to Dillan Barmache! At his Woodland Hills, California school, 14-year-old Barmache was able to find his voice, thanks […] More

Imagine randomly receiving a stack of lost love letters from over 90 years ago.  Love letters from your grandfather to your grandmother from World War I. It’s a story you hear only in history books, but this one is a love story come to life – just ask Lisa Byrd Adajian! Byrd Adajian is the granddaughter […] More

There are a lot of things in this world that can easily get us down, like all of the negative, sad stories we hear on the news, day in and day out. Luckily, there are also those stories that can outshine all of the negative stories and – instead of making us sad about humanity […] More

The Internet isn’t always the nicest of places, with online bullying being all-too-common and rude comments often filling the World Wide Web. Sometimes, though, it can actually be a place of universal kindness. After all, thanks to the kind-hearted ways of total strangers, a broke father was given the opportunity to attend his oldest son’s […] More

After making a miraculous recovery from near fatal brain injuries in 2011, Sam Schmid made international headlines after being injured in a serious car accident in Tucson, Arizona. The then-21-year-old junior was studying at the University of Arizona when after one fateful December night, he found himself in a hospital overcoming some very serious injuries. Referred […] More

Say what you will about NFL player Robert Griffin III’s field performance, but when it comes to being a good human, he downright wins at it. Case in point: when a Virginia high school student asked the Washington Redskins quarterback to assist in asking a classmate to the prom, he happily obliged. Morgan Assel sought […] More

It’s tough enough for someone to accomplish difficult feats that are seemingly impossible when people are almost rooting for you to fail. Malavath Poorna knows it all too well as a member of the Dalits, India’s lowest caste and better known as the “untouchables.” Poorna has said, “For a tribal girl like me, opportunities are very rare […] More

We always hear about firefighters doing something heroic for the public, like risking their lives during massive fires to save the homes and lives of others, or even saving our beloved pet cats from running up a tree. While it is so courageous and wonderful to have them do what they do, sometimes you just […] More

It was a sad day for a Jacksonville mother when their car was burglarized on March 26 this year. The mother, who was the owner of the car, was extremely upset not only just because her belongings were taken from the vehicle, but because the thieves took away her son’s birthday present. Distraught, the struggling […] More

The world was truly devastated when acting and dancing legend Patrick Swayze passed away at age 57 from pancreatic cancer in September 2009. Fans were so sad to have their fantasy heartthrob Johnny Castle leave this world and everyone felt terribly for Swayze’s widow, Lisa Niemi. The pair had been married for 34 years prior to […] More