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

- Henry Van Dyke

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

- Henry Van Dyke

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

- Henry Van Dyke

The strength of your life is measured by the strength of your will.

- Henry Van Dyke

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

- Henry Van Dyke

We measure success by accumulation. The measure is false. The true measure is appreciation. He who loves most has most.

- Henry Van Dyke

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.

- Henry Van Dyke

A river is the most human and companionable of all inanimate things. It has a life, a character, a voice of its own; and it is as full of good fellow…

- Henry Van Dyke

There is no conflict between the Old and the New; the conflict is between the False and the True.

- Henry Van Dyke