Alice Hegan Rice Quotes

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!

There ain't no use in dyin' 'fore yer time. Lots of folks is walkin' 'round jes' as dead as they'll ever be.

Happiness is a duty, not only because of its effect upon us but because of its influence upon others.

Half of our sorrows come from setting exalted standards for people and then breaking our hearts when they fail to live up to them.

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.

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.

Some folks goes right under when trouble comes, but I carry mine fur an' easy.

Mrs. Wiggs was a philosopher, and the sum and substance of her philosophy lay in keeping the dust off her rose-colored spectacles.

Metaphysicians tell us that it is easier to get the body well than to get the mind to realize its wellness.

The discovery that it is in our power to change our lives by the thoughts we think is the first step toward spiritual mastery.

When one has a famishing thirst for happiness, one is apt to gulp down diversions wherever they are offered.

Solitude, if rightly used, becomes not only a privilege but a necessity. Only a superficial soul fears to fraternize with itself.

Any pursuit of happiness contrary to the common good is doomed to failure.

It is a terrifying as well as hopeful truth that we tend to bring into being in form whatever we fashion in thought.

Somehow, I never feel like good things b'long to me till I pass 'em on to somebody else.

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.

The hardest grief is often that which leaves no trace.

It is not what we have but what we do with what we have that constitutes the value of life.

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.

There is an invariable law that the only way to keep the real things of life is by sharing them or giving them away.

The fact that beauty is at one and the same time without cost and above price, robs it of the curse of possessiveness.

What can people not accomplish if they will but master the secret of steadfast perseverance.

Even though disease and sorrow are all about us, health and happiness are the normal state of man.