Alice Hegan Rice

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

— Alice Hegan Rice

The fascinating thing about ideals is that no sooner have we gained a desired peak than we find farther and higher peaks…

— Alice Hegan Rice

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…

— Alice Hegan Rice

Just as a pool of water cannot reflect the sky overhead when it is restless and disturbed, so we can never get…

— Alice Hegan Rice

we sometimes forget the influence of action upon thought. ... Smile, whistle, sing, play the part you want to be until you…

— Alice Hegan Rice

Cheerfulness is a debt we owe to society, in the paying of which we receive a generous discount. We can not open…

— Alice Hegan Rice

I can think of no habit, kept up through the years, that binds a married couple more than that of reading good…

— Alice Hegan Rice

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

— Alice Hegan Rice

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

— Alice Hegan Rice

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

— Alice Hegan Rice

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

— Alice Hegan Rice

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

— Alice Hegan Rice

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

— Alice Hegan Rice

The hardest grief is often that which leaves no trace.

— Alice Hegan Rice

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

— Alice Hegan Rice

It seems a strange fact that it is almost more important for us to be happy ourselves than to try to make…

— Alice Hegan Rice

No teaching that is not based on reason can be tolerated by critical minds, but the belief that an accident of blind…

— Alice Hegan Rice

Joy is at its keenest when contrasted with sorrow, courage at its height when it follows fear, faith at its noblest when…

— Alice Hegan Rice

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

— 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

In this noisy, restless, bewildering age, there is a great need for quietness of spirit. Even in our communion with God we…

— Alice Hegan Rice

I believe in the immortality of the soul because I cannot conceive of an intelligent First Cause creating human beings through long…

— Alice Hegan Rice

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

— Alice Hegan Rice

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

— Alice Hegan Rice

Taking friendships for granted is one of the surest ways of ending them. Unless nourished, they tend to wither and die. Unless…

— Alice Hegan Rice