Henry Van Dyke Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“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.”

“What you possess in the world will be found at the day of your death to belong to someone else. But what you are will be yours forever.”

“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 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.”

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

“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.”

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

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

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