Ella Wheeler Wilcox

It is easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows by like a song, But the man worth while is the one who can smile, When everything goes dead wrong. For the test of the heart is troubled, And it always comes with the years. And the smiles that is worth the praises of earth Is the smile that shines through tears.

— Ella Wheeler Wilcox life

Love much. Earth has enough of bitter in it.

— Ella Wheeler Wilcox love

There is no chance, no destiny, no fate, that can circumvent or hinder or control the firm resolve of a determined soul.

— Ella Wheeler Wilcox soul

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

— Ella Wheeler Wilcox love

There is no satisfaction that can compare with looking back across the years and finding youve grown in self-control, judgment, generosity, and unselfishness.

— Ella Wheeler Wilcox men

Talk happiness; talk faith; talk health. Say you are well, and all is well with you, and God shall hear your words and make them true.

— Ella Wheeler Wilcox happiness

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

— Ella Wheeler Wilcox love

Always continue the climb. It is possible for you to do whatever you choose, if you first get to know who you are and are willing to work with a power that is greater than ourselves to do it.

— Ella Wheeler Wilcox power

ConversationGod and I in space alone . . . and nobody else in view . . . And where are all the people, Oh Lord I said, the earth below and the sky overhead and the dead that I once knew? That was a dream, God smiled and said: The dream that seemed to be true; there were no people living or dead; there was no earth, and no sky overhead, there was only myself in you. Why do I feel no fear? I asked, meeting you here in this way? For I have sinned, I know full well and is there heaven and is there hell, and is this Judgement Day? Nay, those were but dreams the Great God said, dreams that have ceased to be. There are no such things as fear and sin; there is no you . . . you never have been. There is nothing at all but me.

— Ella Wheeler Wilcox god

You may choose your words like a connoisseur, And polish it up with art, But the word that sways, and stirs, and stays, Is the word that comes from the heart

— Ella Wheeler Wilcox art

Tis the set of the sail that decides the goal, and not the storm of life

— Ella Wheeler Wilcox life

The splendid discontent of God With chaos made the world. And from the discontent of man The worlds best progress springs.

— Ella Wheeler Wilcox god

The truest greatness lies in being kind, the truest wisdom in a happy mind.

— Ella Wheeler Wilcox wisdom

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

When we tire of well-worn ways, we seek for new. This restless craving in the souls of men spurs them to climb, and to seek the mountain view.

— Ella Wheeler Wilcox soul

With care, and skill, and cunning art, She parried Times malicious dart, And kept the years at bay, Till passion entered in her heart and aged her in a day!

— Ella Wheeler Wilcox time

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

— Ella Wheeler Wilcox you

A pat on the back is only a few vertebrae removed from a kick in the pants, but is miles ahead in results.

— Ella Wheeler Wilcox

And the smile that is worth the praises of earth is the smile that shines through tears.

— Ella Wheeler Wilcox art

For an actress to be a success, she must have the face of Venus, the brains of a Minerva, the grace of Terpsichore, the memory of a Macaulay, the figure of Juno, and the hide of a rhinoceros.

— Ella Wheeler Wilcox success

Let there be many windows to your soul, that all the glory of the world may beautify it.

— Ella Wheeler Wilcox soul

One ship drives east and other drives west by the same winds that blow. Its the set of the sails and not the gales that determines the way they go.

— Ella Wheeler Wilcox win

So many gods, so many creeds, so many paths that wind and wind while just the art of being kind is all the sad world needs.

— Ella Wheeler Wilcox god

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

The spark divine dwells in thee: let it grow.

— Ella Wheeler Wilcox divine

Change is the watchword of progression

— Ella Wheeler Wilcox change

Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books

— Ella Wheeler Wilcox life

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

A weed is but an unloved flower.

— Ella Wheeler Wilcox love

Give us that grand word woman once again, And lets have done with lady; ones a term Full of fine force, strong, beautiful, and firm, Fit for the noblest use of tongue or pen; And ones a word for lackeys.

— Ella Wheeler Wilcox man

Laugh and the world laughs with you, Weep, and you weep alone; For this brave old earth must borrow its mirth, But has trouble enough of its own.

— Ella Wheeler Wilcox art

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

— Ella Wheeler Wilcox love

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