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All Quotes Happiness Sorrow
even though disease and sorrow are all about us, health and happiness are the normal state of man.

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

Alice Hegan Rice
Happiness, Health, Men

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
Alice Hegan Rice (2013). “My Pillow Book”, p.32, Read Books Ltd

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
Fashion, Expectations, Hopeful
Alice Hegan Rice (2013). “My Pillow Book”, p.87, Read Books Ltd

Some people act as if there were a penalty for carrying concealed troubles. They exhibit them at every opportunity, begging for sympathy, even condescending to accept pity. Such persons never realize that the very ones to whom they are complaining are often struggling under a burden greater than their own.

Alice Hegan Rice
Struggle, Opportunity, People

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
Cheer, Heart, Rushing

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

Alice Hegan Rice
Beauty, Cost, Facts

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

Alice Hegan Rice
Mind, Body, Wellness
Alice Hegan Rice (2013). “My Pillow Book”, p.75, Read Books Ltd

No teaching that is not based on reason can be tolerated by critical minds, but the belief that an accident of blind force produces this highly organized world is far more fantastic than the theory that a Super Intelligence devised its ordered evolution.

Alice Hegan Rice
Teaching, Mind, World

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

Alice Hegan Rice
Fur, Trouble, Easy
Alice Hegan Rice (2015). “Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch”, p.121, University Press of Kentucky

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

Alice Hegan Rice
Long, Ems, Good Things

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
Wrestling, Men, Careers

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.

Alice Hegan Rice
Happiness, Men, People
Alice Hegan Rice (2013). “My Pillow Book”, p.38, Read Books Ltd

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