Quotes by Henry Ward Beecher

“As for the future, your task is not to foresee it, but to enable it.”

“We never know the love of our parents for us till we have become parents.”

“The love of a family is lifes greatest blessing”

“If you look deeply into the palm of your hand, you will see your parents and all generations of your ancestors. All of them are alive in this moment. Each is present in your body. You are the continuation of each of these people.”

“Treat your family like friends and your friends like family.”

“The simple act of paying positive attention to people has a great deal to do with productivity”

“There is tonic in the things that men do not love to hear. Free speech is to a great people what the winds are to oceans ... and where free speech is stopped miasma is bred, and death comes fast.”

“They do not love that do not show their love.”

“Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself.”

“Absence is the enemy of love”

“Loves best habit is a soothing tongue”

“Whoever loves, if he do not propose the right true end of love, hes one that goes to sea for nothing but to make him sick”

“Love fed fat soon turns to boredom”

“Flowers have an expression of countenance as much as men and animals. Some seem to smile; some have a sad expression; some are pensive and diffident; others again are plain, honest and upright, like the broad-faced sunflower and the hollyhock.”

“There is something beautiful about all scars of whatever nature. A scar means the hurt is over, the wound is closed and healed, done with.”

“What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along lifes pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.”

“Sink the Bible to the bottom of the sea, and mans obligation to God would be unchanged. He would have the same path to tread, only his lamp and his guide would be gone; he would have the same voyage to make, only his compass and chart would be overboard.”

“The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one often comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong wont.”

“The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.”

“God asks no man whether he will accept life. That is not the choice. You must take it. The only choice is how.”