Inspiration Soup

BarlowGirl- Sing Me a Love Song: A song for anyone who is going through anything. Positively inspiring. Click here to listen.

PureNRG- Ain't No Mountain High Enough: This song is an old hymn, remade by these kids to uplift and hopefully describe your closest friend. Click  here to listen. 

American Authors- Best Day of My Life: A more current song, but still one that is inspiring. I like to listen to this one on road trips or when I wake up in the morning. Click here to listen. 

Journey- Don't Stop Believin': An old classic, but still a favorite. Click here to listen.

Holly Starr- Don't Have Love: This song might not necessarily be considered inspirational, but its a fun song with truth tied around it nonetheless. Click here to listen.

Britt Nicole- Still That Girl: I consider this song the story of my life. Does it describe you? Click here to listen.

Bridget Mendler- Postcard: Have you ever been told that you can't do something because of your gender or the color of your skin? Then this song is for you. Click here to listen.

PureNRG- Get Up: If at first you can't succeed, try, try again. Click here to listen.

Jump5- Love Ya Too Much: A slower song, If you are in need of one of those. Click here to listen. 

Lemonade Mouth- She's So Gone and More Than a Band: Two of my favorites, maybe they describe you? Click here and also click here. :)

BarlowGirl- Time For You To Go: Have you ever been put down because of media messages? Maybe these rocker girls will help. Click here to listen. 

Francesca Battestelli- It's Your Life: A song about decisions. Click here to listen. 

BarlowGirl- One More Round: Don't even think about quitting until you hear this song. Click here to listen.

Mandisa- I Hope You Dance: This song is about dancing. Figuratively. Give it a listen here. 

Jump5- Its a Beautiful World: A song about the roller coaster of Life. Click here to listen. 

Superchic(k)- 5 Minutes at a time: A song about how to play this game called life. Click here to listen. 

Maddie and Tae- Fly: A song about how you can learn to find the beauty in the mess. If you like country music, click here. 

Kate Voegele- It's only Life: To make everything look so small... here.

Marie Digby- Beauty in Walking Away: Do you need to let something go? Click here for someone who has also experienced that. 

The Piano Guys- It's Gonna Be Okay: The truth. Need some encouragement too continue on with your day? Click here.

 "Happiness is not a destination.... it's a way of life." -Plaque on my wall-

"The tide recedes but leaves bright seashells on the sand. the sun goes down but leaves it's warmth upon the land. The music stops but leaves it's sweet refrain. For everything that passes, something beautiful remains." -Author Unknown- 

I will rise 
After every fall 
I will rise 
and stand even more tall 

I will rise 
over the wall 
I will rise 
above them all 

Like the sun 
which never dies 
though sets every night 
every day it does rise 

Like the ocean 
whose tides 
many times they are down 
but invariably they rise 

Like the trees 
from seeds they arise 
and heights great 
they rise and rise 

After falling once, 
twice and thrice 
Again and again 
I will rise and rise 

I will rise 
after every fall 
After every fall 
I will rise

If the puppy can do it, so can you. 

God has you here for a reason. And He's got you. He knows how much it hurts. 

You can do anything. 

The story of your life- as told by jelly beans.

The story of Jesus- as told by plates. 

Temple Grandin is a professor at The University of Colorado. She's also won several awards for her work in the cattle industry, and changed the way our livestock is handled forever. She's also autistic. Have you ever thought that you couldn't do something just because of something that makes you different? Or has someone told you that you can't do something because of something that makes you different? Well, as Temple has figured out, whatever it might be makes you different, but not less. Watch her Ted Talk, and be inspired to do something crazy. 

“What am I supposed to do with this?” grumbled the motorist as the police clerk handed him a receipt for his traffic violation.

“Keep it,” the clerk advises. “When you get four of them, you get a bicycle.”

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A man is recovering from surgery when the Surgical Nurse appears and asks him how he is feeling. 

"I'm O. K. but I didn't like the four letter-words the doctor used in surgery," he answered. 

"What did he say," asked the nurse. 

"Oops!" 

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A lawyer defending a man accused of burglary tried a creative defense to get his client off the hook. "My client merely inserted his arm into the window and removed a few paltry items. His arm is not himself, so I fail to see how you can punish the whole individual for an offense committed soley by his arm."

"Well put," the judge replied with a grin. "Using that same logic, I sentence the defendant's arm to one year's imprisonment. Your client can accompany the arm or not, as he chooses."

The defendant smiled. With his lawyer's help, he detatched his artificial limb, laid it on the bench and walked out.

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A vertically challenged psychic was arrested one day. He escaped from jail and the newspaper headline read, "SMALL MEDIUM AT-LARGE." 

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A young executive was leaving the office late one evening when he found the CEO standing in front of a shredder with a piece of paper in his hand.

"Listen," said the CEO, "this is a very sensitive and important document here, and my secretary has gone for the night. Can you make this thing work for me?"

"Certainly," said the young executive. He turned the machine on, inserted the paper, and pressed the start button.

"Excellent, excellent!" said the CEO, as his paper disappeared inside the machine. "I just need one copy..." 

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Two brothers were always getting into trouble in their neighborhood. The people in the neighborhood started complaining to the parents about the boys. So the boys parents decided to have their priest talk to the boys. The priest asks to speak to the boys alone, requesting to see the youngest first. The young boy comes in and sits at a large table across the room from the priest. The priest looks at the boy, points at him and, trying to emphasize that God is in everyone, asks, "Where is God?" The boy looks around the room and back at the priest and says nothing. Again, the priest points at the boy and in a louder voice asks, "Where is God?" The boy says nothing. The priest walks around the table, pointing inches from the boy’s face and asks again, "Where is God?" The boy jumps out of his chair and runs out the door. The boy runs right home, grabs his older brother and says to him, "We are in BIG trouble!" His brother replies, "We haven't done anything!" The younger brother replies, "God's missing, and they think we did it!"

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A student comes to a young professor's office hours. She glances down the hall, closes his door, and kneels pleadingly."I would do anything to pass this exam," she says.She leans closer to him, flips back her hair, and gazes meaningfully into his eyes. "I mean," she whispers, "I would do anything..."He returns her gaze, "Anything?""Anything."His voice softens, "Anything?""Anything," she repeats again. His voice turns to a whisper. "Would you ... study?"

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Farmer Joe was in his car when he was hit by a truck. He decided his injuries from the accident were serious enough to take the trucking company (responsible for the accident) to court. In court the trucking company's fancy lawyer was questioning farmer Joe. "Didn't you say, at the scene of the accident, 'I'm fine'?" said the lawyer.

Farmer Joe responded, "Well I'll tell you what happened. I had just loaded my favorite mule Bessie into the...." "I didn't ask for any details," the lawyer interrupted, "just answer the question."

"Did you not say, at the scene of the accident, 'I'm fine'!"

Farmer Joe said, "Well I had just got Bessie into the trailer and I was driving down the road...."

The lawyer interrupted again and said, "Judge, I am trying to establish the fact that, at the scene of the accident, this man told the Highway Patrolman on the scene that he was just fine. Now several weeks after the accident he is trying to sue my client. I believe he is a fraud. Please tell him to simply answer the question."

By this time the Judge was fairly interested in Farmer Joe's answer and said to the lawyer, "I'd like to hear what he has to say about his favorite mule Bessie."

Joe thanked the Judge and proceeded, "Well as I was saying, I had just loaded Bessie, my favorite mule, into the trailer and was driving her down the highway when this huge semi-truck and trailer ran the stop sign and smacked my truck right in the side. I was thrown into one ditch and Bessie was thrown into the other.

I was hurting real bad and didn't want to move. However, I could hear ole Bessie moaning and groaning. I knew she was in terrible shape just by her groans.

Shortly after the accident a Highway Patrolman came on the scene. He could hear Bessie moaning and groaning so he went over to her. After he looked at her, he took out his gun and shot her between the eyes.

Then the Patrolman came across the road with his gun in his hand and looked at me. He said, "Your mule was in such bad shape I had to shoot her. How are you feeling?" 

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An old man lived alone in Idaho. He wanted to spade his potato garden, but it was very hard work. His only son, Bubba, who used to help him, was in prison. The old man wrote a letter to his son and described his predicament.

Dear Bubba:

I am feeling pretty bad because it looks like I won't be able to plant my potato garden this year. I'm just getting too old to be digging up a garden plot. If you were here, all my troubles would be over. I know you would dig the plot for me.

Love, Dad

A few days later, he received a letter from his son.

Dear Dad:

For heaven's sake, Dad, don't dig up that garden. That's where I buried the BODIES.

Love, Bubba

At 4 a.m. the next morning, FBI agents and local Police showed up and dug up the entire area without finding any bodies. They apologized to the old man and left.

That same day, the old man received another letter from his son.

Dear Dad:

Go ahead and plant the potatoes now. It's the best I could do under the circumstances.

Love, Bubba

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Two hunters had rented an airplane to get to a distant hunting zone where they could hunt buffalo. After a couple of weeks, the pilot returned to take them back. After looking at their hunting trophies, he said, "The plane won't carry both buffalo. You will have to leave one here."

"But last year, the pilot agreed to take both buffalos!" The hunters protested. The pilot thought about it and said, " Okay, well, if it worked last year, it'll work this year." The plane tried to take off with two passengers and two buffalos on board, but it was not able to meet the required height. The plane crashed into a hill. 

After getting out of the wreckage, the hunters looked around. One of them said to the other, "Where do you think we are?" His pal examined the surroundings. 

"I think that we are two miles south of where we crashed last year. "

There was an old mule. One day accidentally he fell into the farmer’s well. The farmer evaluated the situation and decided that neither the well nor the old mule were worth the efforts to save them. Thus he decided to haul dirt to bury the old mule in the well.

So the farmer called his neighbours and together they started shoveling dirt into the well. The old mule was terrified and hysterical, but soon a hopeful idea came to his mind – every time when a shovel of dirt landed on his back, he would shake it off and step up! 

He repeated these words to himself again and again: "Shake it off and step up“. This way he could use the stress to his advantage. After some time, the mule got to where he could step up over the well‘s wall. Although terribly tired, he was the winner, he saved his own life. He decided to face his adversity positively and not to give up, and so he won.

What seemed at first like it would bury him actually saved him, and he owed it to his confidence and unresting efforts. 

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Once, during a flood, there were a lot of sea-stars brought to the shore. The low tide came and a big amount of them started drying up in the sun. A boy, walking down the shore, started throwing the sea-stars into the sea, so that they could continue their lives.

A person came up to him and asked:

Why are you doing this? Look around! There are millions of sea-stars; the shore is covered with them. Your attempts won’t change anything! The boy picked up a sea-star, thought for a moment, threw it into the sea and said:

No, my attempt will change a lot…for this sea-star.

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A man bought a beautiful house with an orchard. Nearby, an envious man lived in an old house. He was constantly trying to ruin the mood of his new neighbor. He threw garbage and other nasty things over the fence onto his property. 

One day, the man woke up in a good mood as usual, went out on the porch and saw a bucket of pig slops there. The man fed the slops to his pigs, and then cleaned out the bucket and put his ripest and prettiest apples in it. He went next door to his neighbor's house and knocked on the door. The neighbor thought, "Finally! I did it!"

He opened the door, expecting a quarrel. Instead, his neighbor gave him the bucket of apples and said,

"A man who is rich with something shares it with others."

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