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Category: Henry Van Dyke

Culture is the habit of being pleased with the best and knowing why.

Culture, Why, Knowing

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

Wisdom, Woods, Birds

A friend is what the heart needs all the time.

Friendship, Heart, Friend

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

Progress, Personality

Genius is talent set on fire by courage.

Courage, Fire, Talent

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.

Good, Service, World

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

Depend, Inward, Does

Some people are so afraid to die that they never begin to live.

People, Live, Die

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

Love, Life, Stars

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

Us, Belongs, Becomes

Love is the best thing in the world, and the thing that lives the longest.

Best, Love Is, World

There is a loftier ambition than merely to stand high in the world. It is to stoop down and lift mankind a little higher.

Ambition, World, Lift