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Your Inspirational Stories
These stories were written by people like you. Read how their lives were changed for the better by adopting positive values. Be inspired by them.
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A Life of Giving
My Grandmother had lived her life of more than ninety years without taking a breath to think of herself and her needs. Rather, she found her love and grace in tending to the needs of others and in giving of herself to anyone in need of love, comfort or understanding.
Having survived the great depression with her family on a cattle farm in rural Nova Scotia (Canada), Jennie made many sacrifi... MORE
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Miracle in Disguise
A 66-year-old male in relatively good health and no risk factors for heart disease came to me with a sudden onset of signs and symptoms of a heart problem. After he was diagnosed and treated, walked past me and hesitated, as if he wanted to say something more.
I asked him what he had on his mind that he wanted me to know. He said six months ago his grandson who lives out of state and who... MORE
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Beautiful
I came to work in the operating room after nursing school was completed. I was so excited about my new job that I would alternate between being exhausted and not being able to sleep properly. Like many jobs, the newness and excitement wore off and I found myself in drudgery. One night (when I was staying late, yet again) I was feeling aggravated. I didn't like my surgeon, my feet hurt, it... MORE
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In this moment, what is most important?
With the daily frustrations, busy lifestyles, desires of success, and the expectation to be and do everything, we sometimes forget what is most important at this moment. Everyone has heard the sayings, "Live in the moment," "Live as if today could be your last." You don't know when your last day will be. Or the last day of your spouse, child, friend, mother or father. ... MORE
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A Lesson To Us All
My senior year was supposed to be the “best” year yet. I anticipated being “cool” and having younger students look up to me. Now 23-years-old, however, I look back on my senior year in high school and the thing I remember most vividly wasn’t being “cool” or having underclassmen admirers. The day I remember is September 11, 2001, and it taught me a le... MORE
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An Old Dutchman Teaches Me Work Ethic
Being from a well-to-do family didn't excuse me from work in the summer. My Dad, raised during the Great Depression, realized the benefits and discipline of hard work. He didn't want me to grow up soft. When I was sixteen, he sent me to work with Martin Brock, a sixty-something farmer. It was early June in central Minnesota. Martin contracted himself out to my Dad to clear some land for him, f... MORE
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