65 Heartwarming Photos
The year 2015 have come to an end and we have ushered in a new year. During times like these, we often look back what has happened in the previous year, and we have seen some tragedies that affected the lives of many. However, while we feel melancholy for the tragedies that happened, we should not forget about the good things too.
This is a very heartwarming article that I have came across recently and I wish to share this with all of you, so you may have a positive beginning this year. It is always very nice to see people from different walks of life, living together peacefully and harmoniously, and that include animals too. There is no act of kindness too small to go unnoticed as it is an act generated out of love and care for others. An action where we are not just to focused on ourselves, but instead are aware of what’s happening around us, is a wonderful way to develop selflessness… and every spontaneous act of selflessness bring us closer to achieving Bodhicitta.
I hope you enjoy the heartwarming pictures. May 2016 be filled with more small and big acts of kindness, generosity and care.
Tsem Rinpoche
65 Photos That Prove 2015 Wasn’t The Worst Year After All
Posted By MMK on Jan 2, 2016
2015 is over, and while many in the media have focused on the negative, readers of A&D know that there were many good things that happened this year. Yes, politicians continue to start new wars, but it’s up to us, regular, everyday people to make the world a better place, and we believe that the stories below prove this to be true.
So take a look back at some of the touching stories that we covered in 2015. Which one was your favorite? Vote below, or if you think we’ve missed a story, upload a photo and brief description below! (H/T: Bored Panda)
1. Entire Neighbourhood Secretly Learns Sign Language To Surprise Deaf Neighbor
2. Man Buys Turtles From Food Market And Releases Them Back To The Sea
3. McDonald’s Employee Helped Elderly Disabled Man With His Food
4. Turkish Bride & Groom Spend Their Wedding Day Feeding 4,000 Refugees
5. Heart Surgeon Calms Weeping 2-Year-Old Girl Before Heart Operation
6. Donkey Smiles From Ear To Ear After Being Rescued From Flood In Ireland
7. The Young Guy Sitting Down Was Struggling With His Tie When The Older Gentleman Moved Without Hesitation And Gave Him A Step-By-Step Tutorial
8. Mom Adopts All 4 Of Her Best Friend’s Daughters After She Died Of Brain Cancer
9. This Guy Has This Dog, And She Can’t Walk Anymore. So He Takes Her Out For A Walk Every Day In A Wheelchair
10. When A Student’s Baby Started Crying In Class, This Professor Had The Best Response Ever
11. This Coffee Shop Lets Stray Dogs Sleep Inside Every Night When The Customers Leave
12. Man Has Heart Attack While Mowing Lawn; Firefighters Finish Mowing Lawn After Saving Him
13. These Kids In Canada Tied Coats To Street Poles To Help Homeless Prepare For Winter
14. Anonymous Spiderman Feeds Homeless At Night, Shows Everyone Can Be A Hero
15. Hungarians Bring Their Shoes To The Budapest Train Station For Arriving Migrants
16. Baby Deer Refuses To Leave The Human Who Saved Her Life
17. Soaked Dad Protecting His Schoolboy From Rain Shows What Parenting Is
18. 9-Year-Old Girl Builds Shelters For The Homeless And Grows Food For Them, Too
19. 92-Year-Old Meets Her 2-Day-Old Great-Granddaughter For The First Time
20. 80-Year-Old Man Builds A Dog Train To Take Rescued Stray Dogs On Adventures
21. Bride’s Dad Stops Wedding To Invite Her Stepfather To Walk Down The Aisle With Them
22. 97-Year-Old Cries Tears Of Joy After She Finally Gets Her High School Diploma
23. This Shop Owner Who Promised To Help Those In Need
24. Barber Goes Extra Mile To Conquer Autistic Boy’s Fear Of Haircuts
25. Quincy’s Been Waiting All Week To Show The Garbage Men His Garbage Truck. But, In The Moment, He Was Overwhelmed In The Presence Of His Heroes
26. This 8-Year-Old Boy Was Bullied For 2 Years While Growing His Hair Long To Make Wigs For Kids With Cancer
27. Family ‘Resurrects’ Frozen Kitten They Found Under The Snow, Named Him ‘Lazarus’
28. Boy Wanted To Be Elsa For Halloween And His Dad Had The Best Response Possible
29. This Boy Offering A Bottle Of Water To A Policeman During A Hot Day In Baltimore
30. This Customer Who Tipped A Waitress $200 On A $9.00 Meal After He Overheard Her Talking Quietly To A Coworker About Missing Her Son
31. Hospital Makes Exception And Allows Couple Married 68 Years To Be Together In Same Room
32. An Elderly Man In My Neighborhood Had A Heart Attack While Shoveling His Driveway. Paramedics Took Him To The Hospital, Then Returned To Finish Shoveling His Driveway For Him
33. Badass Barber Gives Free Haircuts To Homeless While Battling His Own Addiction
34. Dad Gets Tattoo So His 6-year-old Daughter Wouldn’t Feel Different
35. Unwanted Cat Becomes This Little Boy’s Guardian, Following Him Everywhere
36. Son With No Arms Spoon-Feeds His Paralyzed Mom Using His Teeth
37. This Muslim Woman Donates $1 For Every Hate Tweet She Receives
38. Teen Shaved Head To Surprise His Date Battling Cancer When She Came Back From Hospital
39. 103-Year-Old Celebrates Birthday By Dressing Up As Wonder Woman And Volunteering At Senior Center
40. Dutch Guy Was Annoyed By The Trash On His Way To Work So He Cleaned Up A Heavily Polluted Waterfront
41. Man Takes His Taxi Driver To The Theme Park With Him Since He (the Driver) had Never Been To One
42. Celebrating First Day As Father And Son After Adoption
43. This Restaurant Will Give Free Food To Lonely People On Thanksgiving
44. Loving Husband Lists All The Reasons He Loves His Wife Who Is Battling Depression
45. Man Built Custom Kayak So He Could Take His Dogs On Adventures
46. Girl Surprised To Receive 3D-Printed Arm From Designer Who Is Also Missing His Left Arm
47. Alden Kain, 16 Y.o., Invented A Stroller Wheelchair For A Mom-to-be Whose Legs Were Paralyzed.
48. Man With Down Syndrome Fulfills His Dream By Becoming A Body-Builder
49. Woman Knits Tiny Sweaters For Rescued Chickens To Keep Them Warm
50. Someone Hung These Around My City
51. I Saved A Dog From Euthanasia And Now She Happily Runs In A Wheelchair
52. 18 Year Old Madeline Stuart, A Model With Down Syndrome, Got To Walk The Runway At Fashion Week
53. This Man Proposed To His Boyfriend In Their Church As They Weren’t Allowed To Get Married Inside. They Were Greeted With Standing Ovations
54. Mom Makes Disney Princess Wigs For Kids With Cancer
55. Parents Tattoo Their Legs With Daughter’s Birthmark So She Won’t Feel Different
56. Bikers Patrol Flood-hit Yorkshire Towns To Deter Looters, And Bring Groceries To The Elderly.
57. Mom Updated Her Tattoo To Support Transgender Son
58. Koko The Gorilla Gets Two New Kittens Of Her Own
59. Woman Quit Her Job To Knit Sweaters For Cold Abandoned Greyhounds
60. The 62-Year-Old Repairman Spends Almost 40% Of His Income To Feed Parakeets From His Home
61. 3 Old Greek Ladies In Lesvos, Feed, Sooth And Sing To Crying Refugee Baby, While Mother Smiles
62. My 12 Year Old Son Ran A Cake Stall To Raise Money For Cancer Research. He Raised £79.
63. This Baseball Coach Offered His Own Kidney To Save His Littlest Player’s Life.
64. St. George, Ontario Celebrates Christmas Early For 7 Year Old Boy With Terminal Brain Cancer.
65. These Retired Builders Volunteer Their Time To Build Homes For Washington Wildfire Survivors.
Source: http://www.architecturendesign.net/photos-that-prove-2015-wasnt-the-worst-year-after-all/
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Unsung heroes!
There are many more out there who willing to do more, who does not seek to be worshipped, honoured nor glorified at all. A Boddhisatva way of Life. I like the surgeon who comforted the young girl before her surgery the most. Hopefully she is ok by now. Thank you Rinpoche for keep inspiring us and letting us know that actually we can do more.
Thank you Rinpoche for sharing these heartwarming and touching photos. My fav is, 36. Son With No Arms Spoon-Feeds His Paralyzed Mom Using His Teeth. Makes us wake up and realized that there is nothing that we cannot do with arms and legs and normal functioning brains.
Thank you Rinpoche for sharing all the heartwarming photos. Sometimes we just need to pause or stop to think all the good things that have and be grateful. We need to be kind and help one another. These pictures are such inspiration for us to practice compassion and generosity. With this, the world will be a better place to live.
With folded palms,
Vivian
These photos are indeed very heartwarming. Truly heartwarming.
My personal favourite photo was number 41. This really stood out to me. So many foreign workers come to European countries for work. And many of the jobs they do do not give much pay or respect. Because of this many workers are racially abused and discriminated in these various countries. Therefore, seeing this picture of a man who took his taxi driver to a theme park stood out to me as it shows how we should really treat these foreign workers. Many of them come from a poor background and have not experienced many of the luxuries we have. They come to our developed countries from their less developed countries to see all the attractions and locations which they cannot afford. This must be quite upsetting for them and i think that this man felt the need to do something about it.
All the photos were very heartwarming, but number 46 just really stood out for me.
These photos are like the Crack cocaine of compassion lol. Wow. Helps my feelgoods so much. And I needed it. 😉
Every one of these 65 stories is so touching and so full of compassion and care that you wish you could take each of them , one by one, and highlight it. These stories of spontaneous selfless acts transcend the mundane self-absorption of most of us, as we go about mindlessly performing our daily routine tasks, unaware of others needs.
I am drawn to the stories of care that transcend the self-created boundaries between man and animals. I love those heartwarming pictures like “I Saved A Dog From Euthanasia ad Now She happily Runs in A Wheelchair”, “Koko the Gorilla Gets 2 New Kittens of Her Own”, “Woman Knits Tiny Sweaters For Rescued Chickens To Keep Them Warm”.
I like especially stories of young people who show compassion at their young tender age. Such picures like the following tell of a love and care beyond their tender years – “This Little Boy Was Bullied for Two Years While Growing His Hair Long To Make Wigs for Kids with Cancer”.
Thank you, Rinpoche,for sharing these heartwarming oictures, to which many of us will return to have yet another and another look.
As Rinpoche have mentioned in the blog, ” There is no act of kindness too small to go unnoticed as it is an act generated out of love and care for others.” How very true and realistic it is in today’s world. One must practice the things which produce or give people happiness, since if that is present we have everything – and if it is absent we do everthing to get it! The desire for being happy is essential for all being. It is a motivator of all our actions. “Our very nature requires it of us” as an expert once said. That very nature of desire inspires our every act, our everyword, our every thought, like the air we breathe without thinking about it! Thank you Rinpoche for always bringing us gladness, and many of them bring tears to our eyes, but not of sadness, but of joy, comfort and harmony to our heart! Om Mani Padme Hung.
Thank you Rinpoche for sharing these heartwarming photos. In each and every photo there is a touching and inspiring message behind it. True happiness come from bringing happiness and caring for others. It sure make my day by looking at these pictures.
This is a beautiful article on humanity. Of Love, Kindness, Compassion, Giving, Heroism, Dream, Acceptance.
What a beautiful heartwarming picture thank you for sharing Rinpoche . I think everybody longs to be loved, and longs to know that he or she is lovable. And, consequently, the greatest thing that we can do is to help somebody know that they’re loved and capable of loving..
Thank you Rinpoche for sharing these heartwarming pictures.
Seeing these pictures, i feel touched, love, warm, peace, strength and positive energy. It’s a page that I will come again and again as there are so much for me to learn from all the Buddhisattvas here.
All the pictures are so inspiring and touching. In fact, by looking at these pictures, I felt guilty that I have not been doing much to reach out to others.. and by people circulating these heartwarming pictures on social media, it actually helps us to develop an urge to join them and do some good deeds for others starting now. After all, by reaching out to those in need, is what the Buddha taught us – to be selfless and compassionate.
Thank you Rinpoche for posting up all these heartwarming picture !looking at all these picture it actually remind us that in order for us to live in a very fulfilling life is not about how rich of ourselves is how much we give to others by doing so it make our life more meaningful.
Dear Rinpoche,
These are a very good pictures for all walks of life. The common on these pictures is about caring, compassion that the other person have for another people or animals. And also they fulfilled the dream that seem like not possible to fulfilled. Their strength , courage , determination have got me to think on it. Looking at these pictures it got me to think that this new year resolution, should be – be more mindful on peoples needs around me, including animals. Dare to pursue the dream i wanted and for this year, go for it.
Thank you Rinpoche for the encouragement.
With Folded hand,
Freon
Thank you Rinpoche for sharing these photographs taht capture heartwarming moments. Happiness, sadness, loneliness, love – it’s all out there. These photos protray genuine human emotions.
A picture paints a thousand words and all these pictures are so heartwarming to look at. We hear and read much negative news daily and these beautiful actions from this lovely people are so uplifting and refreshing.
The world would be a better place to live in if we choose a positive life with positive vibes and share loving kindness to others. We are inspired by these photos; let’s start by setting a good example by doing something selfless.
Thank you, Rinpoche, for your selfless actions and untiring efforts in benefiting sentient beings! Happy New Year!
Oh wow! It’s such an uplifting post and a great way to spend the new years! It is heartwarming and inspiring to see these wonderful pictures and stories of real life people doing small and big acts of kindness. I love that very much and I think such examples are lacking in today’s media where it is always about something bad or about self indulgence and materialism. I think such pictures and stories should be shared and be made more common place. That people the world over can be kind, selfless and compassionate. Such a message needs to reach out to people…
The news on the TV, in the newspaper, on the internet are always very negative, disasters, murder, war, fight, etc.. It is indeed very refreshing to see all these heart-warming images and the stories behind them.
Heartwarming pictures that reminded us that there are many ways to show humanity, loving kindness, and compassion. Some people have the capacity to offer more, some can only do it to their loved ones ; but aa long as each and everyone reach out without agenda, we will make an positive impact in somebody’s life..
They are people like us, with a heart of gold.
I enjoy reading the short description of each photo. It sort of bring home the point of “we can do it too”…
Thank you Rinpoche for this wonderful sharing at the beginning of 2016. Every little good deeds count.
Sincerely,
Stella Cheang
These pictures are extremely touching and it’s such a joy to see that there are still some sort of humanity in our society. It really brought tears to my eyes while I was looking through the pictures and reading the captions slowly, one by one.
That one picture that really stood out to me was the picture of an old man helping a young man with his tie. It’s very sweet and heartwarming, we are often too busy with ourselves, our work, our family, how we feel, how we look etc and forget to open our hearts to help those around us.
These pictures are very inspiring and they really inspire people to do more, they inspired me to not just think of myself but to also care about others too. Thank You so much for sharing this Rinpoche, our society is not such a bad influence after all.
These pictures are very heartwarming and a joy to look at. I noticed that when we see or hear of others going our of their way to help others or overcome their own fears and or limitations, we often feel happy and inspired. I guess this is because most of us are caught up in doing things that serve ourselves.
As Rinpoche once told me, our authentic self is altruistic and selfless in nature. When we operate in this natural state of mind, we experience calmness and peace. However, when we operate from a state of mind that is selfish, which is not the natural state of mind, we ultimately become unhappy and many afflictive emotions arise such as anger, depression, stress, low self esteem and so on.
In a nutshell, these pictures remind me that we always have a choice in life. We can forever look at these pics and be inspired or we do something selfless to inspire others.
Thank You for your article, very very beautifull; this explain how wonderfull is our world! The article shows by images all the things I’ve written in more than 40 years, being human, female and male, are very similar at the One Creator wherever name He has…Female and male are able to materializer the feels that move their heart!
How much precious is the life! from TRANI Italy
Dear Rinpoche,
Thank you for sharing these wonderful stories and beautiful photos… A good start for the year to remind ourselves kindness to others can be easily extended around us by the choices we make. These beautiful people chose to do something to make others happy in different ways. Let’s be inspired by their efforts and put in ours to be kind to at least one everyday!
Really nice sharing. There are some pictures that I particularly like such as the Muslim woman who donates $1 for every hate mail she received lol! I think that’s a really nice way to look positively into the hate mails we receive, something which many of us can relate to as Shugden practitioners
Agreed Sarah! It catches my eyes too. What a brilliant ideas to response to hatred!
These kind of photos restore my faith in humanity because there are also many stories about how heartless people have become in many parts of the world. I really like the pictures because most of them are about helping the less fortunate and they are about compassionate people that are willing to have less to give others more when they have even less.
This is how we should be to each other. We are one species, it makes sense. We are all built the same way and we should see each other that way. I am one in 7 billion, that is how big we are in numbers. So we should have peace together instead of killing each other and having internal problems. That is what I was thinking while reading this.
Thank you for sharing Rinpoche.
Dear Rinpoche,
Thank you for posting these wonderful photos. Heartwarming and many made my day brighter. Great way to start the week! Here’s to an amazing year ahead!
Thank you so much for these beautiful pictures with beautiful stories. They have really brightened up my day!