JANET ERSKINE STUART

To aim at the best and to remain essentially ourselves is one and the same thing.

The hard thing is to stick to things when you have outlived the first interest, and not yet got the second which comes with a sort of mastery.

You must grow like a tree, not like a mushroom.

All sorts of spiritual gifts come through privations, if they are accepted.

The great thing and the hard thing is to stick to thing when you have outlived the first interest and not yet the second which comes with a sort of mastery.

There ought to be so many who are excellent, there are so few.

Simplicity of life is an essential for greatness of life.

I wish that Christmas may be happy and heavenly, and the holidays glow with the gifts of the inner life that God will give to each one.

This world is not the sum total of God's resources -- on the contrary, it is only the 'dream,' the probation, the prelude of the true world, the true life.

Do not wait for ideal circumstances, nor the best opportunities; they will never come.

In no order of things is adolescence the time of the simple life.

It is not so much what we say or do that educates; what really educates is who we are.

Every friendship with God and every love between Him and a soul is the only one of its kind.

Egypt is full of dreams, mysteries, memories.

Are democracy and poetry exclusive of one another and, if so, why?

Isn't it wonderful that two of the most sacred and symbolic plants, the olive and the vine, live on almost nothing, a terrace of limestone, sun and rain.

The less event and action there is in a scene the more I can enter into it.

What a misfortune it would be, religiously speaking and educationally speaking, if we could only work happily with those who saw things as we do.

Life is a solitude.

We must never try to escape the obligation of living at our best.

Our spiritual life is a venture in the dark, between the soul and God, and no spiritual life is worth the name unless it is so.

It is better to begin a great work than to finish a small one.

The way to do much in a short time is to love much. People will do great things if they are stirred with enthusiasm and love.

Love gives a sense of rest.

it is in middle age that the interest of a life attains its highest point.