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When one has a famishing thirst for happiness, one is apt to gulp down diversions wherever they are offered.
Alice Hegan Rice
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Alice Hegan Rice
Age: 72 †
Born: 1870
Born: January 11
Died: 1942
Died: February 10
Novelist
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Shelbyville
Kentucky
Alice Caldwell Hegan
Gulp
Diversions
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Thirst
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Wherever
Happiness
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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.
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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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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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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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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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It is a terrifying as well as hopeful truth that we tend to bring into being in form whatever we fashion in thought.
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The hardest grief is often that which leaves no trace.
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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.
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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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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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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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What can people not accomplish if they will but master the secret of steadfast perseverance.
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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.
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The fact that beauty is at one and the same time without cost and above price, robs it of the curse of possessiveness.
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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.
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There is an invariable law that the only way to keep the real things of life is by sharing them or giving them away.
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any pursuit of happiness contrary to the common good is doomed to failure.
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It ain't no use putting up your umbrella till it rains.
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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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even though disease and sorrow are all about us, health and happiness are the normal state of man.
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