Category Happiness & Hope

Need a pick-me-up? These feel-good tales of people changing the world for the better will restore your confidence in humanity and put a spring in your step.

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Creative Growth Art Center: Where Artists with Disabilities Thrive

Creative Growth is a space where artists can hone their crafts, express themselves, and share their work with the public. This is one nonprofit making us rethink where our community focus actually is.

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Here’s How to Talk to Strangers

There are a lot of great people out there that you don't know! If you'd like to change that, or at least make your introductions easier, here are a few tips.

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Solving Big Problems with Simple Solutions: Practical Compassion and The Shoe That Grows

Have you seen The Shoe That Grows? This genius idea is changing lives across the globe and it didn't come from a millionaire or a world-renowned inventor but a real person just like us! Here's his story!

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This 90-Year-Old Figure Skater Proves You’re Never Too Old To Do What You Love

Let's let the magnificent, 90 year old figure skater, Yvonne Dowlen, skate into our hearts and leave us with wisdom about balance, joy and the unfolding of life.

How Ripe Bananas Can Shift Perspectives: Wisdom from Oliver Sacks

Here's some wisdom from Oliver Sacks on how green bananas and an old H.G. Wells story helped him learn about valuing perspectives outside of the "norm".

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To Chase a Cheese

The Cooper's Hill Cheese Rolling Festival might be one of the strangest annual events in the world. This is what happens when thousands of people cram onto a hillside to watch brave souls chase a wheel of cheese down an almost vertical incline...

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