Top 24 Henry Van Dyke Quotes



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.

 

He that planteth a tree is a servant of God, he provideth a kindness for many generations, and faces that he hath not seen shall bless him.

 

But this I know. Those who seek Him will do well to look among the poor and the lowly, the sorrowful and the oppressed.

 

Who seeks for heaven alone to save his soul,May keep the path, but will not reach the goal;While he who walks in love may wander far,Yet God will bring him where the blessed are.

 

Some people are so afraid to die that they never begin to live.

 

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.

 

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.

 

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 not.

 

Self is the only prison that can ever bind the soul.

 

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

 

Oh, London is a man’s town, there’s power in the air;And Paris is a woman’s town, with flowers in her hair;And it’s sweet to dream in Venice, and it’s great to study Rome;But when it comes to living, there is no place like home.

 

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

 

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

 

What we do belongs to what we are and what we are is what becomes of us.

 

Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love, to work, to play, and to look up at the stars.

 

Some people are so afraid to die that they never begin to live.

 

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

 

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

 

Use what talents you possess the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best.

 

Culture is the habit of being pleased with the best and knowing why.

 

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

 

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

 

Use what talents you possess the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best.

 

 

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