If You’re Feeling Down, These 105 Wholesome Posts Might Lift You Up (New Pics)

September 17, 2021

When life gives you lemons... you do what? Make limoncello! This attitude is what we’re all about in this post. In times of the pandemic, political turmoil and soaring real estate prices that feel like yet another economic crash is somewhere around the corner (not like we care, most millennials have come to terms with the fact that they won’t be able to afford a house in this lifetime, so we find comfort in a $10 avocado toast instead), we need to lift ourselves up and balance out all the negativity.

So please, make yourself a warm cup of tea, bring on those biscuits, and tuck yourself in with a warm blanket, because we prepared you a good news-only compilation with some heart-soothing and emotionally recharging posts.

Because the truth is, no matter what, there are always good people who bring back hope when we need it the most. And some more good news awaits in our previous post right here.

#1 Inspirational

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#2 The Last Two Runners In The Pittsburgh Marathon Not Letting Each Other Quit. Whoever These Two Runners Are, They Totally Made My Day

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#3 Woman With Down Syndrome Opens Her Own Bakery After Getting Rejected From Every Bakery She Applied To

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#4 My Grandmom Is Legally Blind And Made Me This Blanket. She Told That She Had To Keep Calling Her Friend To Come To Look At It And Make Sure The Pattern Was Correct. I Love It

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#5 I Was An Addict For Over 10 Years Of My Life But My Son Came Into This World With A Sober Dad

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#6 What A Strong Relationship

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#7 After My Parents Never Vaccinating Me And Raising Me To Not Believe In Vaccines I Decided Enough Was Enough And Got My Pfizer Covid Vaccine

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#8 This Gentleman Buying His First House

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#9 It's Never Too Late

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#10 Beating Anorexia - 2-Year Transformation

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#11 Jax Is 13 Years Young, He Can’t Walk Very Far Nowadays But Would Be Heartbroken If We Didn’t Take Him For A Walk. So We Pull Him In His Wagon

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#12 One Year Being Myself

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#13 My Son Was Born Today. I Don't Have Anyone Else To Share It With

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#14 I Think He Did Great At Announcing Our Pregnancy

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#15 A Journey

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#16 Please Stop Throwing Kittens Out In The Road, Mkay? I'm Running Out Of Names. Here's Cheese

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#17 Lost My Mom Recently After Being Her Caretaker For 20+ Years. I Have Been Going Through Her House And She Has Left Me Notes All Over In Drawers And On Paperwork

It makes me forget about the last 5 years of her dementia and the struggles. She was a sweet loving woman and knew I'd need this.

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#18 You Go, Girl

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#19 The Levels Of Cute Here. I Cannot

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#20 My Wife Is On Her Way Home Right Now And Probably Thinks She's Going To Have To Immediately Take Over Taking Care Of The Kids. This Is What I Have Waiting For Her Instead

She got up at 2 AM this morning to hike a mountain with some friends.

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#21 A Little Boy About 3 Came Up To Me And Asked If My Head Was Cold. I Said Yes A Little Bit (Melbourne Weather) He Took His Beanie Off And Said That I Could Have It

I thanked him with tears in my eyes and said back to him that he would get cold. He came back with I have another one.

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#22 Now His Teacher Will Not Complain

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#23 This Father And Son Were Treated By The Same Nurse At NICU More Than 30 Years Apart

So as many of you may know, our son was born 10 weeks early at St. Peters hospital and has been in the NICU ever since (he's doing amazing btw!). What some of you may not know is that his father (my amazing fiancee) was also born about 6 weeks early at the same hospital! Last Sunday, he dug out his baby book to show me. As I was looking through, I came across a picture of him as a baby and a lady holding him. I knew that lady!! I immediately asked him who she was and he confirmed that she was the nurse who took care of him during his stay in the NICU and his mom loved her so much that she needed a photo of the two of them on the day he was discharged! Well, the reason I know her is because I swore she was the nurse that had been taking care of our baby boy for the past three days! David didn't believe me. We brought the picture to the hospital where 3 other nurses confirmed it was her! Yesterday (Valentine's Day) she was back at work and taking care of our little nugget again so we had to recreate the picture! The past 2 weeks have been filled with worries and uncertainty but we can breathe easy knowing my lil nuggets nurse is the same one that helped the man I love when he was in the same situation.

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#24 One Year Since My Wife Brought A Flea Ridden, Tiny Baby Back To Life With A Blood Transfusion

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#25 Jennifer Rocha Took Her Graduation Pictures In The California Fields Where She Has Worked Along Her Immigrant Farmworker Parents Harvesting Vegetables, For Many Years

She is the first member of her family ever to attain a high school degree.

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#26 My Mom Is On Hospice And Her Little Chihuahua Stays At Her Side 24/7. My Dad Feeds Him Dinner In Her Lap Every Night And Then Brings His Water Over To Him

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#27 Absolute King

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#28 My Friends And I Organized A Skirt Day For All To Fight Against Gender Norms

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#29 A Customer Canceled An Order Of 5 Dozen Cookies Because They Saw An Image Of A Rainbow Cookie. The Bakery Asked If Anyone Wanted To Buy The Extra Cookies

That's a line of people wrapped around the block waiting to buy cookies in this bakery in Lufkin, TX. Happy pride month.

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#30 This Is The Kind Of True Love I Want

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#31 Randall Champion Accidentally Touched A High-Voltage Line, Electrifying Himself And Stopping His Heart

A fellow linemen J.D. Thompson performed mouth-to-mouth CPR until paramedics arrived. Champion survived. This famous photo is known as "The Kiss of Life." (1967)

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#32 Guy Spots The Most Adorable Little Squirrels Napping Just Outside His Window

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#33 Jellybean Does Not Like The Cone Of Shame. He Tolerates The Flower Of Protection

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#34 I’ve Been A Full Time Single Dad Since November, And Today I Took My Girls To Get Our Nails Done. It Was My First Time And I Love It

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#35 Father Brad Lewis Saved His Youngest Son From Falling Off A Balcony By Jumping After Him

His youngest had very little injury's as a result of his father cradling him to his chest and taking the blunt of the hit. Lewis survived with a fractured skull, bruising and other injuries.

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#36 Every Dog Owner Ever

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#37 It’s Things Like This That People Will Never Forget

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#38 Dude Offering To Just Listen To Anyone Who Wants To Talk On A Road By My Parents' House

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#39 Todd, The Saviour

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#40 I’m Not Sure Who This Man Is. We Took All 6 Kids To Eat At Fernandos And All Brekken Wanted Was To Eat With Him

I’m sure this man just wanted to eat his meal in peace but Brekken had other plans. He was continuously crying and as I got up to take him to the car this man asked to get him. Brekken instantly stopped crying and sat and ate chips and salsa and had a conversation with him until he was ready to go. Brekken was completely content and told him bye like he had known him his whole life. It’s the small things! So, if you know him, please tell him again I said thank you. He didn’t have to do what he did but completely made Brekken’s whole day.

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#41 Creator Of Courage The Cowardly Dog Being Awesome

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#42 Got The Covid-19 Vaccine Behind My Anti-Vax Parents Backs

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#43 Outside My Hotel

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#44 Lovely Friendship

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#45 Sebastian Vettel Wears Rainbow Rainbow Mask And T-Shirt During The Drivers Parade To Support LGBT Community

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#46 Made My Delivery Driver’s Night By Showing Him VR For The First Time

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#47 Need To Be Prepared

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#48 I’m Two Years Sober Today

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#49 Two Best Friends

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#50 A Swedish Engineer Has Invented A Suit That Will Change The Lives Of People With Parkinson's And Stroke. With The Help Of Electrical Stimulation, It Helps To Get Rid Of Tremors

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#51 Mother Donates Her Deceased Sons Heart To A 4 Year Old Girl And Takes A Listen

"Amid the unthinkable grief of losing her son Lukas, Heather made a decision that saved three lives. Jordan received Lukas' precious heart when she was just 18 months old. Yesterday, Heather heard her son's heartbeat for the first time in nearly three years."

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#52 Saw That Every Time I Watered The Plants There Were Bees Drinking From The Ground So I Made A Bee Bath Out Of A Bowl And Rocks

Every day when I get home there are a bunch of them drinking and buzzing around. They are my cute little friends now.

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#53 Don't Have Someone With Whom I Can Celebrate So I Thought To Celebrate With My Online Homies, Guys I Am One Year Sober

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#54 Also Important For Parents Of Small Children

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#55 My “Brother” Turned 14 Years Old Today! He Enjoyed A Long Car Ride, Swimming In The Ocean And Some Cheeseburgers! Everyone Wish Dakota A Happy Birthday

We’ve had him since he was a puppy!

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#56 These Two Are Melting Everyone's Hearts

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#57 Single Mother Dressed Up As A Dad, So The Kid Wouldn’t Miss Donuts With Dad Day

Today at my son Elijah's school, as I was dropping him off, I asked him why there were so many cars. He said "donuts with dad", so we quickly went back home because I wasn't about to let him miss out. I know seeing other dads with their kids isn't easy for mine but its life, at least I can do whatever it takes to put a smile on that face, so here it goes.

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#58 Here’s My Autistic Brother Playing With Some Cats That Wandered Onto Our Deck. God I Love This Image

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#59 This Connects To A Lot Of People

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#60 Lieutenant Dangle, Thomas Lennon, Working At Walmart To Raise Money For A Hospital Today

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#61 You Guys, I Struggle With Severe Anxiety And I Took Myself To The Fair And Even Won A Dolphin! I’m Gonna Name Him Charlie

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#62 Milk Pup Doin A Cuddle

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#63 This Is Comet. He Loves Car Rides

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#64 It Was A Picture Day At Doggy Daycare Today

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#65 Why It's Important To Support Small Businesses

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#66 I Have A Disability But I Didn’t Let That Stop Me From Publishing My First Book

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#67 A 5-Week-Old Sleeping Next To His 101-Year-Old Great-Grandfather

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#68 Perfectly Written

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#69 Hunched Over, Letting My 10 Month Old "Walk" To The Truck, I Saw This Outside An Albertsons, Under A Bush, Completely Blank

As a struggling stay at home dad, we could have really used this. Turned it into the counter, turns out it's an old man's rent $ and he'd been stressing all day about it.