Photos: Inspirational messages are popping up everywhere during pandemic
Inspiration is contagious, too.
The coronavirus pandemic has brought an outpouring of messages from stranger to stranger — in windows, on front doors, across walls, and colored onto driveways and sidewalks.
Some messages offer encouragement: “Strong Together.” “Always Look at the Bright Side of Life.”
Others are spiritual: “Have Faith.” “Jesus Loves You Always.”
Some offer humor: “United We Stand — 6 Feet Apart.” “Send Toilet Paper!”
And there are rainbows. So many rainbows.
Here are some inspirational messages shared around the world:
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FILE - In this Thursday, April 16, 2020 file photo, a passerby photographs a message reading "WE ARE ALL IN THIS TOGETHER" painted on the side of a building in Homewood, Ala., during the cornovavirus outbreak. (AP Photo/Jay Reeves)
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FILE - In this Tuesday, April 14, 2020 file photo, a mural reads "Stay Home, Life is Beautiful' in Los Angeles. Murals with themes centered around the Coronavirus have been popping up on the walls of businesses in the California city. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)
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FILE - In this Wednesday, March 8, 2020 file photo, Amber Dodd, 7, makes chalk art with uplifting messages on her driveway in Salem, Va. Residents have have been making chalk drawings on their driveways to connect with one another. (Heather Rousseau/The Roanoke Times via AP)
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FILE - In this Saturday, April 18, 2020 file photo, a man wears a face mask while walking past signs posted over windows of a store in the Haight-Ashbury district in San Francisco. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)
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FILE - In this Wednesday, April 22, 2020 file photo, a roadway sign reads "THIS TOO SHALL PASS" as cars pass the entrance leading to the Encore Boston casino in Everett, Mass. The casino, which opened to the public in June 2019, was closed on March 15th due to the COVID-19 virus outbreak. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)
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FILE - In this Wednesday, April 8, 2020 file photo, Sam Mawhinney does his best to bring a moments of joy to motorists as spreads his message of love while walking in Cape Elizabeth, Maine. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)
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FILE - In this Monday, April 20, 2020, file photo, a thank you note hangs in the kitchen of the Prairie Queen Elementary School in Oklahoma City as lunches and instructional packets are distributed. Oklahoma City Schools are operating remotely through the end of the school year due to COVID-19 concerns. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki)
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FILE - In this Thursday, April 16, 2020 file photo, a pedestrian walks past artwork painted on plywood covering a business closed during the coronavirus outbreak in Seattle. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)
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The Apollo Theater is closed due to the coronavirus pandemic but carries the message "Be Well," Thursday, April 16, 2020, in the Harlem neighborhood of New York. Most entertainment venues nationwide are closed during the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)
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FILE - In this Wednesday, April 1, 2020 file photo, a chalk message and rainbow decorate a driveway outside a Bloomington, Minn. home during the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic. (AP Photo/Jim Mone)
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A pedestrian wearing personal protective equipment to protect against the spread of coronavirus, passes EMS station 26, the Tinhouse" Thursday, April 23, 2020 in the Bronx borough of New York. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)
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Momo Nikaido applies masking tape to a mural that reads "wash hands, be kind," Wednesday, April 1, 2020, on boards over windows of the Capitol Lounge, which is owned by her father in Seattle's Capitol Hill neighborhood. Most stores and businesses in the area are closed or only offering take-out food as a result of the outbreak of the new coronavirus, and state-wide stay-at-home orders from government officials. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)
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A mural that reads "There's No Place Like Home" is visible as a woman wearing a mask walks down 14th Street, Tuesday, April 14, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)
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A woman and two children admire the mural of a nurse in a mask painted on the side of a building on East Colfax Avenue as efforts to contain the new coronavirus continue Wednesday, April 15, 2020, in Denver. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)
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A woman sorts out useful clothes for her family in an outdoor charity 'Wall of Kindness' with mural of Pakistan's greatest humanitarian worker Abdul Sattar Edhi in Rawalpindi, Pakistan, Sunday, April 19, 2020. "Walls of Kindness" is a charity work to invite passers-by to leave clothes if they could spare them or take clothes if they need them. (AP Photo/Anjum Naveed)
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A mother and her child are reflected as they pass a mural by artist FAKE, titled "Super Nurse", paying tribute to all healthcare and medical professionals in times of the coronavirus, in Amsterdam, Netherlands, Sunday, April 19, 2020. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)
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A construction worker passes a mural by artist Casper Cruse, showing a woman with a face mask holding a heart in the colors of the dutch flag as a statement of support for those suffering from the effects of the coronavirus, in The Hague, Netherlands, Friday, April 24, 2020. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)
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A man and child wearing protective masks pass an encouraging message 'Chicago Stay Strong,' chalked outside on a Roscoe Village neighborhood pub by artist Heather Gentile Collins, while people continue to contract COVID-19 in Chicago, Saturday, April 11, 2020. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh)
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