Janet Erskine Stuart, also known as Mother Janet Stuart, (11 November 1857, Cottesmore, Rutland, England – 21 October 1914, Roehampton, England) was a Roman Catholic nun and educator.
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.
it is in middle age that the interest of a life attains its highest point.
Simplicity of life is an essential for greatness of 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.
Egypt is full of dreams, mysteries, memories.
Love gives a sense of rest.
You must grow like a tree, not like a mushroom
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.
Every friendship with God and every love between Him and a soul is the only one of its kind.
There ought to be so many who are excellent, there are so few.
It is not so much what we say or do that educates; what really educates is who we are.
All sorts of spiritual gifts come through privations, if they are accepted.
It is better to begin a great work than to finish a small one.
We must never try to escape the obligation of living at our best.
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.
The less event and action there is in a scene the more I can enter into it.
To aim at the best and to remain essentially ourselves is one and the same thing.
We can sanctify ourselves in common things. We must do so.