When one is working out a problem ... life becomes duality. One's ego transacts the ordinary routine of things, as if the mind had an upper and lower story and the regular performance of the day's duties moved and motivated on the upper floor, while down below the all-absorbing problem toils silently, forcefully, toward its solution.
Alice Foote MacDougallSuccess of life depends upon keeping one's mind open to opportunity and seizing it when it comes.
Alice Foote MacDougallLife means opportunity, and the thing men call death is the last wonderful, beautiful adventure.
Alice Foote MacDougallfor the poor the whole world is a self-constituted critic; your smallest action is open to debate. No secret place of your soul is safe from invasion.
Alice Foote MacDougall