Quotes from 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 other people happy. By being happy we confer untold benefits upon our fellow men.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

There is an invariable law that the only way to keep the real things of life is by sharing them or giving them away.

there ain't no use in dyin' 'fore yer time. Lots of folks is walkin' 'round jes' as dead as they'll ever be.

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

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

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.

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.