Alice Hegan Rice Quotes
All the higher forms of life have evolved from some one's ideal of justice, liberty or beauty; and the belief that nothing is too good to be true.
It is not what we have but what we do with what we have that constitutes the value of life.
Solitude, if rightly used, becomes not only a privilege but a necessity. Only a superficial soul fears to fraternize with itself.
What can people not accomplish if they will but master the secret of steadfast perseverance.
there ain't no use in dyin' 'fore yer time. Lots of folks is walkin' 'round jes' as dead as they'll ever be.
The fascinating thing about ideals is that no sooner have we gained a desired peak than we find farther and higher peaks beyond. The thrilling adventure never ends.
Half of our sorrows come from setting exalted standards for people and then breaking our hearts when they fail to live up to them.
When one has a famishing thirst for happiness, one is apt to gulp down diversions wherever they are offered.
Mrs. Wiggs was a philosopher, and the sum and substance of her philosophy lay in keeping the dust off her rose-colored spectacles.
Joy is at its keenest when contrasted with sorrow, courage at its height when it follows fear, faith at its noblest when it grows from doubt.
It is a terrifying as well as hopeful truth that we tend to bring into being in form whatever we fashion in thought.
The fact that beauty is at one and the same time without cost and above price, robs it of the curse of possessiveness.
happiness is a duty, not only because of its effect upon us but because of its influence upon others.
even though disease and sorrow are all about us, health and happiness are the normal state of man.
It seems a strange fact that it is almost more important for us to be happy ourselves than to try to make other people happy. By being happy we confer untold benefits upon our fellow men.
Metaphysicians tell us that it is easier to get the body well than to get the mind to realize its wellness.
Somehow, I never feel like good things b'long to me till I pass 'em on to somebody else.
Cheerfulness is a debt we owe to society, in the paying of which we receive a generous discount. We can not open our hearts to give out cheer without more cheer rushing in to take its place.
There is an invariable law that the only way to keep the real things of life is by sharing them or giving them away.
we sometimes forget the influence of action upon thought. ... Smile, whistle, sing, play the part you want to be until you become the part you play.
It'll be with me like it was with Uncle Ned's ole ox, I reckon; he kep' a-goin' an' a-goin' till he died a-standin' up, an' even then they had to push him over.
Yer feelin's is like ras'berry vinegar: if you're skeered to use 'em an' keep on savin' 'em, first thing you know they've done 'vaporated!
I believe in the immortality of the soul because I cannot conceive of an intelligent First Cause creating human beings through long process of evolution in this world only to destroy them.
Life is made up of desires that seem big and vital one minute, and little and absurd the next. I guess we get what's best for us in the end.
The discovery that it is in our power to change our lives by the thoughts we think is the first step toward spiritual mastery.