"Everybody can be great…because anybody can serve," Martin Luther King, Jr. said. "You don't have to have a college degree to serve… You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love."

And, often it's the simple things that we do in our everyday lives that make the biggest impact on others.

Here are five stories that illustrate how the smallest things can make a world of difference.

(READ the FULL story on Brad Aronson's Blog)  / Photo credit: Dominique Cappronnier (CC)