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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.

Alice Hegan Rice

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Alice Hegan Rice
Age: 72 †
Born: 1870
Born: January 11
Died: 1942
Died: February 10
Novelist
Writer
Shelbyville
Kentucky
Alice Caldwell Hegan
Half
Settings
Live
Setting
Fail
Come
Expectations
Heart
Hearts
People
Standards
Sorrows
Sorrow
Exalted
Failing
Breaking

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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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