Alice Hegan Rice Quotes

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

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  Life, Value Of Life, Values

  Alice Hegan Rice (2013). “My Pillow Book”, p.82, Read Books Ltd

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• 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.

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  Marriage, Couple, Book

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

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  Soul, Solitude, Privilege

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

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  Heart, People, Expectations

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• It ain't no use putting up your umbrella till it rains.

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  Rain, Worry, Use

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• 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.

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  Happiness, Play, Want

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• 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

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• Taking friendships for granted is one of the surest ways of ending them. Unless nourished, they tend to wither and die. Unless we earnestly desire its continuance we should never start a friendship any more than we would a love affair.

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  Friendship, Desire, Way

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• 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

  Death, Use, Folks

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• 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.

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  Adventure, Ends, Higher

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• 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.

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  Justice, Liberty, Belief

  Alice Hegan Rice (2013). “My Pillow Book”, p.59, Read Books Ltd

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

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  Perseverance, People, Secret

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• 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.

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  Death, Uncles, Died

  Alice Hegan Rice (2015). “Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch”, p.68, University Press of Kentucky

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• 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.

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  Wave Of Life, Asking For Help, Practice

  Alice Hegan Rice (2013). “My Pillow Book”, p.29, Read Books Ltd

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• 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.

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  Desire, Littles, Next

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• 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!

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  Feelings, Berries, Ems

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• 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.

  Alice Hegan Rice

  Joy, Doubt, Sorrow

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

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  Spiritual, Thinking, Discovery

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• The hardest grief is often that which leaves no trace.

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  Grief, Hardest

  Alice Hegan Rice (2015). “Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch”, p.27, University Press of Kentucky

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

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  Happiness, Influence, Duty

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• 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.

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  Believe, Intelligent, Creating

  Alice Hegan Rice (2013). “My Pillow Book”, p.10, Read Books Ltd

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

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  Happiness, Thirst, Diversion

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

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  Philosophy, Reality, Dust

  Alice Hegan Rice (2015). “Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch”, p.3, University Press of Kentucky

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• 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.

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  Teaching, Mind, World

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

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  Mind, Body, Wellness

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

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