Motivational

Anja Ringgren Loven, co-founder of African Children’s Aid Education and Development Foundation based in Uyo, Nigeria, saw a two-year-old boy wandering in the street. He was incredibly thin and not being taken care of by anyone. The reason for his abandonment? His parents believed he was a witch. Anja stopped to give this boy some

For three years, Dan and his wife Leah tried to get pregnant. And for three years, the couple from the Cincinnati, Ohio found themselves caught in a seemingly endless cycle of struggle and perseverance. There were hormones for Leah. Intrauterine insemination, needles, and anxiety-ridden ultrasounds. Insurance issues. Financial strain. The fact Dan and Leah were in their late 30s, and “clocks

There is no doubt about it — your heart does beat faster when you are about to meet a famous electrical scientist, one of the foremost in the world. Before you go you don’t think so. It didn’t beat a second faster when you entered the outer office, perhaps; but as I stood on the

A fan of the Scottish synthpop band Chvrches got a bit more than he bargained for when he yelled to the stage. “Marry me!” an unidentified man yelled out during a pause between songs. “Pardon?” Chvrches singer Lauren Mayberry responded, prompting the man to shout out, “Marry me! Now!” Mayberry told the guy off, which led

Last Friday, Joanne Barnaby went mushroom picking in a forest near Fort Smith in the Canadian Northwest Territories. It was an inauspicious beginning to what would end up being a 12-hour ordeal, one involving a desperate wolf, swarms of mosquitoes, an unwitting bear cub—and a can of beer. Barnaby, along with her dog, Joey, and

In the year 2000, Sant Balbir Singh Seechewal decided that it was time to clean up a sacred part of the Hoshiarpur district of Punjab, the Kali Bein river. For centuries, city governments along the river had been dumping their human waste and garbage into this sacred Sikh waterway. After unsuccessfully attempting to convince the governments

Einstein said: School failed me, and I failed the school. It bored me. The teachers behaved like Feldwebel (sergeants). I wanted to learn what I wanted to know, but they wanted me to learn for the exam. What I hated most was the competitive system there, and especially sports. Because of this, I wasn’t worth

When I got home that night my wife served dinner, I held her hand and said, I’ve got something to tell you. She sat down and ate quietly. Again I observed the hurt in her eyes. Suddenly I didn’t know how to open my mouth. But I had to let her know what I was

At age 5 his Father died. At age 16 he left school. At age 17 he had already lost four jobs. At age 18 he got married. Between ages 18 and 22, he was a railroad conductor and failed. He joined the army and washed out there. He applied for law school he was rejected.

Children find joy and wonder from unexpected sources — and heroes can take equally unexpected forms. On June 22, 2013 Martha and her husband Rob welcomed triplets — identical twin boys, Heaton and Wilder, and a little girl named Holden. When they were still infants, the triplets met Martha’s sanitation engineers. Every day, Martha would