Henry van Dyke quotes and words of wisdom

"Happiness is inward, and not outward; and so, it does not depend on what we have, but on what we are."
Found in the topic Happiness.

"Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity."
Found in the topic Love.

"Some people are so afraid to die that they never begin to live."
Found in the topic Death.

"Weather means more when you have a garden. There"s nothing like listening to a shower and thinking how it is soaking in and around your lettuce and green beans."
Found in the topic Unsorted.

"Culture is the habit of being pleased with the best and knowing why."
Found in the topic Culture.

"There is a loftier ambition than merely to stand high in the world. It is to stoop down and lift mankind a little higher."
Found in the topic Down.

"Faith is an adventure; it is the courage of the soul to face the unknown. But that courage springs from the hope and confidence of the soul that its adventure will succeed."
Found in the topic Faith.

"There are two good rules which ought to be written on every heart ? never to believe anything bad about anybody unless you positively know it to be true; never to tell even that unless you feel that it is absolutely necessary, and that God is listening while you tell it."
Found in the topic Gossip.

"Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at the stars."
Found in the topic Life.

"Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best."
Found in the topic Sick.

"Tact is the unsaid part of what you think; its opposite, the unthought part which you say."
Found in the topic Opposite.

Interesting Quotes

War is like love; it always finds a way.Bertolt Brecht - German Communist & dramatist (1898 - 1956)

Finally, in conclusion, let me say just this.Peter Sellers - English comic movie actor (1925 - 1980)