Quotes by "Henry Van Dyke"

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.

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.

To 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; to be satisfied with your possessions, but not contented with yourself until you have made the best of them; to despise nothing in the world except falsehood and meanness, and to fear nothing except cowardice; to be governed by your admirations rather than by your disgusts; to covet nothing that is your neighbor's except his kindness of heart and gentleness of manners; to think seldom of your enemies, often of your friends, and every day of Christ; and to spend as much time as you can, with body and with spirit, in God's out-of-doors- these are little guideposts on the footpath to peace.

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.

Heaven is blessed with perfect rest but the blessing of earth is toil.

The Sun-Dial at Wells College The shadow by my finger cast Divides the future from the past: Before it, sleeps the unborn hour In darkness, and beyond thy power: Behind its unreturning line, The vanished hour, no longer thine: One hour alone is in thy hands,-- The NOW on which the shadow stands.

Many a treasure besides Ali Baba's is unlocked with a verbal key.

There is only one way to get ready for immortality, and that is to love this life and live it as bravely and faithfully and cheerfully as we can.

There is no personal charm so great as the charm of a cheerful temperament.

As long as habit and routine dictate the pattern of living, new dimensions of the soul will not emerge.

Half of the secular unrest and dismal, profane sadness of modern society comes from the vain ideas that every man is bound to be a critic for life.

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.

To desire and strive to be of some service to the world, to aim at doing something which shall really increase the happiness and welfare and virtue of mankind - this is a choice which is possible for all of us; and surely it is a good haven to sail for.

In the progress of personality, first comes a declaration of independence, then a recognition of interdependence.

Happiness is inward, and not outward; and so, it does not depend on what we have, but on what we are.

Love is the best thing in the world, and the thing that lives the longest.

Look around for a place to sow a few seeds.

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

A peace that depends on fear is nothing but a suppressed war.

Gratitude is the inward feeling of kindness received. Thankfulness is the natural impulse to express that feeling. Thanksgiving is the following of that impulse.