The strength of your life is measured by the strength of your will. — Henry Van Dyke Copy Share Image
Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love, to work, to play, and to look up at the… — Henry Van Dyke Copy Share Image
“ Be glad of life because it gives you a chance to love and to work and to play and to look… — Henry Van Dyke Copy Share Image
I shall grow old, but never lose life's zest, because the road's last turn will be the best. — Henry Van Dyke Copy Share Image
How fascinating is death, the extinction of life. One moment here and the next gone. The light put out and only the… — Henry Van Dyke Copy Share Image
Half of the secular unrest and dismal, profane sadness of modern society comes from the vain ideas that every man is bound… — Henry Van Dyke Copy Share Image
O' who will walk with me along lifes merry way? A comrade blithe and full of glee, who dares to laugh out… — Henry Van Dyke Copy Share Image
The simple life which blandly ignores all care and conflict, soon becomes flabby and invertebrate, sentimental and gelatinous. — Henry Van Dyke Copy Share Image
There is only one way to get ready for immortality, and that is to love this life and live it as bravely… — Henry Van Dyke Copy Share Image
Of all the things that man has made, no is so full of interest and charm, none possesses so distinct a life… — Henry Van Dyke Copy Share Image
The worlds in which we live at heart are one, The world "I am," the fruit of "I have done"; And underneath… — Henry Van Dyke Copy Share Image
A flawless cup: how delicate and fine The flowing curve of every jewelled line! Look, turn it up or down, 'tis perfect… — Henry Van Dyke Copy Share Image
Are you willing to believe that love is the strongest thing in the world - stronger than hate, stronger than evil, stronger… — Henry Van Dyke Copy Share Image
A river is the most human and companionable of all inanimate things. It has a life, a character, a voice of its… — Henry Van Dyke Copy Share Image
There are many kinds of love, as many kinds of light, And every kind of love makes a glory in the night.… — Henry Van Dyke Copy Share Image
Memory is a capricious and arbitrary creature. You never can tell what pebble she will pick up from the shore of life… — Henry Van Dyke Copy Share Image
And you will remember that love is not getting, but giving; not a wild dream of pleasure, and a madness of desire… — Henry Van Dyke Copy Share Image
“He knew that all was well, because he had done the best that he could, from day to day. He had been… — Henry van Dyke Copy Share Image
be glαd of life, becαuse it gives you the chαnce to love αnd to work αnd to plαy αnd to look up… — Henry Van Dyke Copy Share Image
This is the soldier brave enough to tellThe glory-dazzled world that "war is hell":Lover of peace, he looks beyond the strife,And rides… — Henry Van Dyke Copy Share Image
Like water spilt upon the ground--alas, Our little lives flow swiftly on and pass; Yet may they bring rich harvests and green… — Henry Van Dyke Copy Share Image
No amount of energy will take the place of thought. A strenuous life with its eyes shut is a kind of wild… — Henry Van Dyke Copy Share Image
I thank God for the honesty and virility of Jesus religion which makes us face the facts and calls us to take… — Henry Van Dyke Copy Share Image
Love is not getting, but giving; It is goodness, and honor, and peace and pure living. — Henry Van Dyke Copy Share Image
The more keenly we are awake to the perils of life, the higher and grander is the possibility of being truly brave. — Henry Van Dyke Copy Share Image
As long as habit and routine dictate the pattern of living, new dimensions of the soul will not emerge. — Henry Van Dyke Copy Share Image
Be grateful for the tiny details of your life and make room for unexpected and beautiful blessings. — Henry Van Dyke Copy Share Image
Life is an arrow, therefore you must know What mark to aim at, how to use the bow-- Then draw it to… — Henry Van Dyke Copy Share Image
Subjection to fear is weakness, bondage, feverish unrest. To be afraid is to have no soul that we can call our own;… — Henry Van Dyke Copy Share Image
Love is not getting, but giving. Not a wild dream of pleasure and madness of desire - oh, no - love is… — Henry Van Dyke Copy Share Image
If all the skies were sunshine Our faces would be fain To feel once more upon them The cooling splash of rain.… — Henry Van Dyke Copy Share Image
I know that Europe's wonderful, yet something seems to lack;The Past is too much with her, and the people looking back. — Henry Van Dyke Copy Share Image
The Bible does not profess to make men omniscient, but simply to tell them enough to make them happy and good, if they will… — Henry Van Dyke Copy Share Image
So in the heart, When, fading slowly down the past, Fond memories depart, And each that leaves it seems the last; Long after all… — Henry Van Dyke Copy Share Image
It is with rivers as it is with people: the greatest are not always the most agreeable nor the best to live with. — Henry Van Dyke Copy Share Image
A little while the rose, And after that the thorn; An hour of dewy morn, And then the glamour goes. Ah, love in beauty… — Henry Van Dyke Copy Share Image
Favorite People, Favorite Places, Favorite Memories of the past ... These are the joys of a lifetime Those are the things that last — Henry Van Dyke Copy Share Image
Religion? Yes, I know it well; I've heard its prayers and creeds, And seen men put them all to shame with poor, half-hearted deeds.… — Henry Van Dyke Copy Share Image
It is better to desire the things we have than to have the things we desire. — Henry Van Dyke Copy Share Image
Lord, when my spirit shall return to thee, At the foot of a friendly tree let my body be buried, That this dust may… — Henry Van Dyke Copy Share Image
