Quotes About Mary Mackillop

#1. The whole work of man really seems to consist in nothing but proving to himself every minute that he is a man and not a piano key.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#2. Whatever troubles may be before you, accept them bravely, remembering Whom you are trying to follow. Do not be afraid. Love one another, bear with one another, and let charity guide you all your life. God will reward you as only He can.

Mary MacKillop

#3. Let us all resign ourselves into His hands, and pray that in all things He may guide us to do His Holy Will ... When thoughts of this or that come I turn to Him and say: "Only what you will, my God. Use me as You will".

Mary MacKillop

#4. I have always emphasized the willingness to discard.

Daniel Kahneman

#5. We should put our trust not in the crowd, who say that only free men can be educated, but rather in the philosophers, who say that none but the educated can be free.

Epictetus

#6. Be eager in your desires but humbly patient in their accomplishment.

Mary MacKillop

#7. Find happiness in making others happy.

Mary MacKillop

#8. I always treat myself to one meal on Sundays when I can have whatever I want. Usually it's pizza, which is my favorite indulgence.

Beyonce Knowles

#9. Neither your family nor your culture gave you your personality. You created it yourself.

Wayne Dyer

#10. never see a need without doing something about it

Mary MacKillop

#11. Remember we are all but travelers here.

Mary MacKillop

#12. All the worry people expend over not existing after they die, yet nary a one ever seems to spare a moment to worry about not having existed before they were conceived. Or at all. After all, one sperm over and we would have been our sisters, and we'd never have been missed.

Lois McMaster Bujold

#13. We must teach more by example than by word.

Mary MacKillop

#14. Believe in the whisperings of God to your own heart.

Mary MacKillop