Inspiration stories

That phrase has come to me recently…I recalled my eighteenth when I felt myself the most confident. I was in a good shape, involved into the students’ activities, my grades were high....

On a flight to Brisbane I watched a number of TED Talks, including the inspiring Candy Chang who shared her story of converting an abandoned house in...

I am greeted by a million twinkling stars glistening on the sunlit sea. Blue sky above me, ocean before me, coastal forest behind me, beach sand bene...

They sit across from each other, both visibly uncomfortable. In the silence all the stories they wanted to tell each other could be heard; that quiet scream beneath the hum that nothingness makes....

One’s life is in part shaped by people we meet, whether we realize it or not, and in an average lifetime of 25,000 to 30,000 days we will meet a lot of people....

Huddled haphazardly on the outskirts of Pietermaritzburg, South Africa, there is a sprawling slum where about 55 000 people squash into 5000 mostly one-room "houses"....