200 Quotes by Henry Van Dyke

The restless, deep, dividing sea that flows and foams from shore to shore calls to its sunburned chivalry push out, set sail, explore!

Glowing through the ranks of pine, / Clear along the mountain-crest! / Long, long, long the trail / Out of sorrow's lonely vale; / But at last the traveler sees / Light between the trees!

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 grateful for the tiny details of your life an make room for unexpected and beautiful blessings.

We cannot find happiness until we forget to seek for it.

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

Oh, it's home again, and home again, America for me! / Our hearts are turning home again and there we long to be, / In our beautiful big country beyond the ocean bars, / Where the air is full of sunlight and the flag is full of stars.

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

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