Quote

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

Henry Ward Beecher

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Henry Ward Beecher
Journalist
Minister
Politician
Theologian
Litchfield (town)
Connecticut
Power
Positive
Things
Joy
Life
Lying
Common
Happiness
Happy
Extracting
Inspirational
Fabulous
Art
Lies

More quotes by Henry Ward Beecher

Image
God's men are better than the devil's men, and they ought to act as though they thought they were.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
Interest works night and day in fair weather and in foul. It gnaws at a man's substance with invisible teeth.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
There is not on earth so base a knave as the man who wins the love of a woman when he knows that he cannot or ought not to requite it.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
That state of mind in which a man is impressed with invisible things is faith.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
But there have been human hearts, constituted just like ours, for six thousand years. The same stars rise and set upon this globe that rose upon the plains of Shinar or along the Egyptian Nile and the same sorrows rise and set in every age.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
Newspapers are to the body politic what arteries are to the human body, their function being to carry blood and sustenance and repair to every part of the body.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
So we fall asleep in Jesus. We have played long enough at the games of life, and at last we feel the approach of death. We are tired out, and we lay our heads back on the bosom of Christ, and quietly fall asleep.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
Liberty is the soul's right to breathe and, when it cannot take a long breath, laws are girdled too tight.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
Men strengthen each other in their faults. Those who are alike associate together, repeat the things which all believe, defend and stimulate their common faults of disposition, and each one receives from the others a reflection of his own egotism.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
True elegance becomes the more so as it approaches simplicity.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
Every man should use his intellect, not as he uses his lamp in the study, only for his own seeing, but as the lighthouse uses its lamps, that those afar off on the seas may see the shining, and learn their way.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
Sometimes fear is wholesome and rational it is well to swing fear as a mighty battle-axe over men's heads when no other motive will move them.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
There is no faculty of the human soul so persistent and universal as that of hatred.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
And now we beseech of Thee that we may have every day some such sense of God's mercy and of the power of God about us, as we have of the fullness of the light of heaven before us.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
No emotion, any more than a wave, can long retain its own individual form.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
Religion is using everything for God.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
Very few men acquire wealth in such a manner as to receive pleasure from it.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
Think of a man in a chronic state of anger!
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
If a man has come to that point where he is no content that he says I do not want to know any more, or do any more or be any more, he is in a state in which he ought to be changed into a mummy.
Henry Ward Beecher