Henry Van Dyke Quotes About Giving

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

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  Henry Van Dyke (2007). “Counsels by the Way”, p.5, Wildside Press LLC

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• Every country-or at least every country that is fit for habitation-has its own rivers; and every river has its own quality; and it is the part of wisdom to know and love as many as you can, seeing each in the fairest possible light, and receiving from each the best that it has to give.

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  Henry Van Dyke (2015). “Little Rivers”, p.15, eKitap Projesi

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• Love is not getting, but giving. Not a wild dream of pleasure and madness of desire - oh, no - love is not that! It is goodness and honor and peace and pure living - yes, love is that and it is the best thing in the world and the thing that lives the longest.

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  Henry Van Dyke (2000). “The Upward Path: Daily Inspirations from the Works of Henry Van Dyke”, Harold Shaw Pub

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• What is Friendship? Something deep That the heart can spend and keep: Wealth that greatens while we give, Praise that heartens us to live.

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  Henry Van Dyke (1920). “The works of Henry Van Dyke”

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• be glαd of life, becαuse it gives you the chαnce to love αnd to work αnd to plαy αnd to look up αt the stαrs; to be sαtisfied with your posessions, to despise nothing in the world except fαlsehood αnd meαnness αnd to feαr nothing except cowαrdice; to be governed by your αdmirαtions rαther thαn by your disgusts, to covet nothing thαt is your neighbour's except his kindness of heαrt αnd gentleness of mαnners; to think seldom of your enemies, often of your friends and to spend αs much time αs you cαn with body αnd with spirit.

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• Love is not about getting - but giving.

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• There are many kinds of love, as many kinds of light, And every kind of love makes a glory in the night. There is love that stirs the heart, and love that gives it rest, But the love that leads life upward is the noblest and the best.

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  Henry Van Dyke (1920). “The works of Henry Van Dyke”

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• Christ never asks us to give up merely for the sake of giving up, but always in order to win something better.

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  Henry Van Dyke (2009). “Joy & Power: Three Messages with One Meaning”, p.8, The Floating Press

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• Love is not getting, but giving; It is goodness, and honor, and peace and pure living.

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  Henry Van Dyke (2000). “The Upward Path: Daily Inspirations from the Works of Henry Van Dyke”, Harold Shaw Pub

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• Come, my friend, forget your foes, and leave your fears behind, And wander forth to try your luck, with cheerful, quiet mind; For be your fortune great or small, you take what God will give, And all the day your heart will say, "'Tis luck enough to live.

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  Henry Van Dyke (1920). “The works of Henry Van Dyke”

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