Author of quotes: Henry Van Dyke

The best rose bush is not the one with the least thorns, but the one with the most beautiful flowers.

There are many kinds of love as many kinds of light, but every form of love shines in the night earth.

Born in the East and clothed in Oriental form and imagery, the Bible goes around the world in the usual steps, and included in, country by country, to everywhere to find her. She learned to speak to the human heart in hundreds of languages. Children listen to its stories with wonder and delight, and wise men ponder them as parables of life. Deceitful and the proud dread of her warnings, and to the wounded heart and a contrite she speaks the language of the mother... no One should consider themselves poor and alone, who have enriched themselves with this wealth.

Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best.
Use the talent possessed in the woods would be very quiet if only those singing birds who can do it better than others.

Some people are so afraid to die that they never begin to live.
Some people are so afraid to die, just not moving.