#dee

How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a weary world. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#goodness #humanity #inspirational #life #light

Every time you do a good deed you shine the light a little farther into the dark. And the thing is, when you're gone that light is going to keep shining on, pushing the shadows back. ↗

— Charles de Lint

#good-deeds #inspirational #inspirational

The things we do outlast our mortality. The things we do are like monuments that people build to honor heroes after they've died. They're like the pyramids that the Egyptians built to honor the pharaohs. Only instead of being made of stone, they're made out of the memories people have of you. ↗

— R.J. Palacio

#honor #inspiration #memories #inspirational

Be in this world as if you were a stranger or a wayfarer. ↗

— Prophet Muhammad

#command #directive #hadeeth #hadith #inspirational

At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us. ↗

— Albert Schweitzer

#cause #deep #each #flame #goes

What you do is what matters, not what you think or say or plan. ↗

— Jason Fried

#deeds #inspirational #work-ethic #inspirational

The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself. ↗

— Anais Nin

#beyond #deeply #expands #into #itself

O love, O fire! once he drew With one long kiss my whole soul through My lips, as sunlight drinketh dew. ↗

— Alfred Tennyson

#elegant #emotional #inspirational #literature #moving

When you reach for the stars, you are reaching for the farthest thing out there. When you reach deep into yourself, it is the same thing, but in the opposite direction. If you reach in both directions, you will have spanned the universe. ↗

— Vera Nazarian

#aim-high #deep #effort #far-reaching #goal