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

Henry Van Dyke · Happiness

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Henry Van Dyke

Gratitude is the inward feeling of kindness received. Thankfulness is the natural impulse to express that feeling. Thanksgiving is the following of that impulse.

Thanksgiving

Henry Van Dyke

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

Best

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.

Death

Henry Van Dyke

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.

Happiness