If you're measuring the kindness at the Corner Perk in Bluffton, S.C., it's safe to say their cup runneth over. It's a cycle of generosity that started two years ago when an anonymous customer gave the barista $100 to pay the bills for the next customers in line.
Good Samaritans are undoubtedly the reason three children who were trapped in a car submerged in the Logan River are alive to experience the New Year. About eight men jumped into the icy water to try to free the children.
Jenna Norton is not your typical medical school applicant. In fact, until two years ago, she had never considered a career in medicine. It took Jenna seven years to graduate with a degree in Theatre, while working as a waitress and acting on the side. The death of her father, Henry, who passed away after a brief battle with cancer, also delayed her graduation. But his death later propelled Jenna's future in a direction never imagined -- a tribute to the man who owned a hardware store and supported his daughter's passion for Shakespeare.
When one of the nation's 15,000 air traffic controllers does something wrong, you always hear about it. When one of them does something right, it's called a save. After just completing a class on recognizing the symptoms of oxygen-deprivation, a Denver-based controller averted disaster by talking to the wife of a pilot who had passed out from the condition.
Austrian millionaire Karl Rabeder is giving away every penny of his $4.6 million fortune after realizing his riches were making him unhappy. His entire proceeds are going to charities he set up for and Latin America.
Disappointment turned into celebration and happiness after a group of manufacturing plant employees in Ottawa won $7 million in the lottery a day after their company announced massive layoffs.
The sixth annual Happiness and Its Causes conference in Brisbane, Australia featured four days of lectures and workshops featuring some of the world's best known happiness gurus, including the Dalai Lama. The successful conference, attended by 2000 people paying big bucks, is just the latest evidence of the recent boom in all things happiness.
A growing band of British economists, politicians and academics is thinking seriously about happiness — and they are putting theory into practice by starting a "mass movement for a happier society." Action for Happiness launched Tuesday in London, encouraging hugging, meditation and random acts of kindness.
Native-American Alaskans hosted a traditional potlatch on Tuesday for about 400 soldiers and officers getting ready to deploy to Iraq and Afghanistan. Donations of moose meat and fish came from throughout the area. Although food was a highlight, the troops also enjoyed traditional songs and dances.
Last August, Renee Varela's 18-year-old son was killed by a drunk driver and she donated his heart to a father who needed a transplant. Recently Varela held a stethoscope to his chest and heard her son's heart beating. Tragedy brought the two families together -- an extended family now bound by an act of grace.
A South Carolina retiree is doing his part to help California close its massive budget deficit. More than four decades after Dennis Ferguson received unemployment benefits from the state, he wrote a $10,000 check to the treasury to pay back the money, plus interest.
2010 was a year of disasters -- Haitian earthquake, Gulf oil spill and Pakistani flooding -- yet it was also a year of stunning generosity, technological prowess, and compassion. These are our top ten picks to highlight the seriously good news that deserves pondering as we move into 2011
We've seen a lot of media stories featuring the wonders of Facebook. But these amazing outcomes will cheer even the surliest of social media critics. From the past year, the Good News Network chooses these six tales as the most inspiring.
The same TV news helicopter pilot who four years ago pushed a deer on an icy pond to safety using the wind from his rotors, has once again made national news saving a trapped calf -- pushing with the same big wind gust, after the animal lost all footing and was stuck on the ice.
After he had a lonely birthday, a little boy in Arkansas said, "I cried a little bit because I was so happy that they did that for me."
Sweet little George poses for a portrait with 4 generations of British royals for new postage stamps honoring the queen's 90th birthday on Thursday.
Local governments will no longer be allowed to ticket or shut down kids' lemonade stands, thanks to a unanimous vote by state lawmakers.
Students took to the streets, handing out free hugs to police officers and strangers at a time when all Americans could use a hug.
A 14-year-old from Rhode Island, Nicholas Lowinger, was chosen as a 2012 Huggable Hero, winning $10,000 for outstanding work in public service. His foundation, Gotta Have Sole, donates new footwear to children living in homeless shelters. New shoes not only provide the perfect fit for a child, but they also instantly increase a child's self-esteem. To date, Nicolas has purchased 5,000 pairs of shoes for homeless kids by raising tens of thousands of dollars.
This beautiful photo epitomizes thankfulness. Here is what I am grateful for on this Thanksgiving day.
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