Ella Wheeler Wilcox Quotes About Life

Quotes about: Life

• It is easy to be pleasant when life flows by like a song, but the man worth while is the one who will smile when everything goes dead wrong. For the test of the heart is trouble, and it always comes with years, and the smile that is worth the praises of earth is the smile that shines through the tears.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Life, Smile, Song

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox (2012). “Leafs On An Idle Breeze - My Inspirational Poems (Annotated Edition)”, p.477, Jazzybee Verlag

• 'Tis easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows along like a song; But the man worth while is the one who will smile when everything goes dead wrong.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Life, Happiness, Smile

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox, “Worth While”

• One ship drives east and another drives west With the selfsame winds that blow. Tis the set of the sails And not the gales Which tells us the way to go. Like the winds of the seas are the ways of fate, As we voyage along through the life: Tis the set of a soul That decides its goal, And not the calm or the strife.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Life, Fate, Blow

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox, “The Winds Of Fate”

• The man who radiates good cheer, who makes life happier wherever he meets it, is always a man of vision and faith.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Life, Faith, Gratitude

• With every deed you are sowing a seed, though the harvest you may not see.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Inspirational, Life, Helping Others

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox (2012). “Leafs On An Idle Breeze - My Inspirational Poems (Annotated Edition)”, p.74, Jazzybee Verlag

• It has ever been since time began, and ever will be, till time lose breath, that love is a mood - no more - to man, and love to a woman is life or death.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Love, Life, Women

• All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon the sand.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Love, Life, Friendship

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox (2013). “Poems of Ella Wheeler Wilcox: Passion”, p.9, eBookIt.com

• With every rising of the sun
  Think of your life as just begun.
  The past has shrived and buried deep
  All yesterdays— there let them sleep,
  Nor seek to summon back one ghost
  Of that innumerable host.
  Concern yourself with but today;
  Woo it and teach it to obey
  Your wish and will. Since time began
  Today has been the friend of man.
  But in his blindness and his sorrow
  He looks to yesterday and tomorrow.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Life, Sleep, Past

  "Complete Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox".

• Give of thy love, nor wait to know the worth
  Of what thou lovest; and ask no returning.
  And wheresoe'er thy pathway leads on earth,
  There thou shalt find the lamp of love-light burning.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Life, Light, Giving

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox (2012). “Leafs On An Idle Breeze - My Inspirational Poems (Annotated Edition)”, p.1120, Jazzybee Verlag

• Divine the Powers that on this trio wait.
  Supreme their conquest, over Time and Fate.
  Love, Work, and Faith - these three alone are great.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Life, Fate, Waiting

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1917). “The Collected Poems”

• I detect more good than evil in humanity.
  Love lights more fires than hate extinguishes,
  And men grow better as the world grows old.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Life, Hate, Men

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox (2016). “Complete Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Delphi Classics)”, p.556, Delphi Classics

• There is no sudden entrance into Heaven.
  Slow is the ascent by the path of Love.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Life, Heaven, Path Of Love

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox (2012). “Leafs On An Idle Breeze - My Inspirational Poems (Annotated Edition)”, p.1121, Jazzybee Verlag

• Look in; and learn the wrong, and right,
  From your own soul's unwritten laws.
  And when you question, or demur,
  Let Love be your Interpreter.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Life, Love Is, Law

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox (2012). “Leafs On An Idle Breeze - My Inspirational Poems (Annotated Edition)”, p.1116, Jazzybee Verlag

• There is no language that love does not speak.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Life, Doe, Language

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox (2016). “Complete Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Delphi Classics)”, p.1506, Delphi Classics

• Between the finite and the infinite
  The missing link of Love has left a void.
  Supply the link, and earth with Heaven will join
  In one continued chain of endless life.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Life, Missing, Heaven

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox (2016). “Complete Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Delphi Classics)”, p.1367, Delphi Classics

• Hell is wherever Love is not, and Heaven
  Is Love's location. No dogmatic creed,
  No austere faith based on ignoble fear
  Can lead thee into realms of joy and peace.
  Unless the humblest creatures on the earth
  Are bettered by thy loving sympathy
  Think not to find a Paradise beyond.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Life, Love Is, Thinking

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox (2012). “Leafs On An Idle Breeze - My Inspirational Poems (Annotated Edition)”, p.1121, Jazzybee Verlag

• Life is a garden forever in flower.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Life, Flower, Garden

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox (2016). “Complete Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Delphi Classics)”, p.585, Delphi Classics

• Life is too short for aught but high endeavor.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Life, Too Short, Endeavor

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox (2016). “Complete Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Delphi Classics)”, p.493, Delphi Classics

• This world is a vaporous jest at best, Tossed off by the gods in laughter, And a cruel attempt at wit were it, If nothing better came after.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Life, Laughter, World

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox (2016). “Complete Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Delphi Classics)”, p.595, Delphi Classics

• Life is a Shylock; always it demands The fullest userer's interest for each pleasure. Gifts are not freely scattered by its hands; We make returns for every borrowed treasure.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Life, Hands, Treasure

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox (2016). “Complete Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Delphi Classics)”, p.571, Delphi Classics

• The days grow shorter, the nights grow longer,
  The headstones thicken along the way;
  And life grows sadder, but love grows stronger
  For those who walk with us day by day.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Life, Night, Stronger

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox (2012). “Leafs On An Idle Breeze - My Inspirational Poems (Annotated Edition)”, p.602, Jazzybee Verlag

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