Inspirational articles about people and events that make our world a better place to live in. Heart-warming stories and positive news that will revive your belief in the good in people.
What is true happiness? Since the beginning of humanity, this question has been probably asked millions of times. No matter where and in what time period, human beings always tried to find the key to happiness and understand what the sense of being is. But in the end, any person who tends to reflect on life and themselves realizes that true happiness can…
It's not every day that you stumble across something that really changes your outlook on the world or maybe even just reaffirms what you already thought about the world – let alone in the form of a cartoon. Don't be fooled into thinking that cartoons are just for kids, cartoonist Steve Cutts has proved that adults can enjoy cartoons as well and even…
It is probable that you will have read numerous articles about how yoga/veganism/moving to a new country etc. “changed my life”, this is not one of those stories. Yoga didn’t change my life, it changed me. I have been practicing yoga since I was 16 (I even taught some school friends what I knew). 4 years ago I began a new style of…
Andalusia is a beautiful province in Spain. It's calm, picturesque, and filled with greenery, wheat fields, and acres of olive trees, like many areas in southern Europe, home of the Mediterranean people, as Italians, Spaniards, and Greeks are often called. But these regions, and especially Andalusia, located on the far south of Spain, have had their limits and morale severely tested for more…
The idea of true love is attractive. The thing is, it’s not always about perfection and fancy meals. Sometimes true love revolves around the simplest of pleasures. After all, true love lasts a lifetime and during an entire life, some things shared by those who are meant to be together may be quiet and uneventful. That’s the beauty of it, really. True love is…
Oh, those fall feelings... Growing up, I hated Fall, with a passion. Really. Worst. Season. Ever. Anyone else shares my childhood repulsion of those times when the weather turned cold, pools closed for the season and then there was that dreaded first day back to school? Yet, as the calendar pages have flipped many times over, a switch in me has also flipped,…
There is no contest between spending time indoors as opposed to spending time outdoors, at least not to me. Spending time in nature can be one of the most fulfilling and healthy activities. The Japanese practice that’s called Shinrin-Yoku, which is the art of “forest bathing”, is one way to immerse yourself in nature. To objective is to become renewed. The Scandinavians have…
Bordalo II is a promising artist trying to change the world through street art. His works are a way of condemning the “throwaway culture” that dominates the world we live in and transmitting the message of recycling. What a mission, and what an amazing way to achieve it! Bordalo II goes against the flow of overconsumption and rapid obsolescence. Animal suffering due to…
These days when you ask someone how they are feeling a likely response is “stressed out”. In a world where personal debt is high, jobs have been difficult to come by and chronic illness on the rise we find that stress levels are at an all-time high. How do we escape? You may have noticed the “Tiny House Movement” has experienced a huge…
In the late 90's, electrical engineer Bruce Campbell spent approximately $100,000 for an aircraft. The Boeing 727 was used, scrapped of valuable parts, and destined to become a project spanning decades and costing more than $200K. In Campbell's opinion, the retired jetliner would be an ideal home, much better than the conventional “stick homes” that most of us live in. The aircraft is…