Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly.

The spirit cannot endure the body when overfed, but, if underfed, the body cannot endure the spirit.

Be who you are and do that well.

Let us think only of spending the present day well. Then when tomorrow shall have come, it will be called today, and then we will think about it.

Work hard every day at increasing your purity of heart, which consists in appraising things and weighing them in the balance of God's will.

If after all your efforts you cannot succeed, you could not please our Lord more than by sacrificing to Him your will, and remaining in tranquility, humility, and devotion, entirely conformed and submissive to His divine will and good pleasure.

Professions of humility are the very cream, the very essence of pride; the really humble person wishes to be, and not to appear so. Humility is timorous, and starts at her shadow; and so delicate that if she hears her name pronounced it endangers her existence.