any pursuit of happiness contrary to the common good is doomed to failure. Alice Hegan Rice More Quotes by Alice Hegan Rice More Quotes From Alice Hegan Rice Solitude, if rightly used, becomes not only a privilege but a necessity. Only a superficial soul fears to fraternize with itself. Alice Hegan Rice privilege solitude soul I can think of no habit, kept up through the years, that binds a married couple more than that of reading good books together. Domestic problems and personal problems are for the time forgotten, and an intellectual intimacy is established that can be maintained in few other ways. Alice Hegan Rice marriage couple book What can people not accomplish if they will but master the secret of steadfast perseverance. Alice Hegan Rice perseverance secret people there ain't no use in dyin' 'fore yer time. Lots of folks is walkin' 'round jes' as dead as they'll ever be. Alice Hegan Rice folks use death Just as a pool of water cannot reflect the sky overhead when it is restless and disturbed, so we can never get a perfect vision of the Divine, and show it to others when we are disturbed with human thoughts and personal problems. It is only when we are quite still and receptive that God can think His thoughts into us and use us for His purposes. Alice Hegan Rice god peace thinking It is not what we have but what we do with what we have that constitutes the value of life. Alice Hegan Rice values value-of-life life Half of our sorrows come from setting exalted standards for people and then breaking our hearts when they fail to live up to them. Alice Hegan Rice expectations heart people 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. Alice Hegan Rice higher ends adventure When one has a famishing thirst for happiness, one is apt to gulp down diversions wherever they are offered. Alice Hegan Rice diversion thirst happiness It ain't no use putting up your umbrella till it rains. Alice Hegan Rice use rain worry There is an invariable law that the only way to keep the real things of life is by sharing them or giving them away. Alice Hegan Rice real law giving It is a terrifying as well as hopeful truth that we tend to bring into being in form whatever we fashion in thought. Alice Hegan Rice hopeful fashion expectations 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! Alice Hegan Rice berries ems feelings In this noisy, restless, bewildering age, there is a great need for quietness of spirit. Even in our communion with God we are so busy presenting our problems, asking for help, seeking relief that we leave no moments of silence to listen for God's answers. By practice we can learn to submerge our spirits beneath the turbulent surface waves of life and reach that depth of our being where all is still, where no storms can reach us. Here only can we forget the material world and its demands on us. Alice Hegan Rice asking-for-help wave-of-life practice 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. Alice Hegan Rice creating intelligent believe 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. Alice Hegan Rice next desire littles Mrs. Wiggs was a philosopher, and the sum and substance of her philosophy lay in keeping the dust off her rose-colored spectacles. Alice Hegan Rice dust philosophy reality There is no doubt about it that it is more difficult for a woman to follow a career than for a man. Through the centuries his time has been considered more valuable, and he has consequently been excused from wrestling with many of 'life's minor damnabilities. Alice Hegan Rice careers men wrestling Somehow, I never feel like good things b'long to me till I pass 'em on to somebody else. Alice Hegan Rice ems good-things long 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. Alice Hegan Rice rushing cheer heart
