The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONYou think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.
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Keep your eyes open to your mercies. The man who forgets to be thankful has fallen asleep in life.
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Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm.
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The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
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Marriage is like life – it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses.
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There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.
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To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.
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I am in the habit of looking not so much to the nature of a gift as to the spirit in which it is offered.
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Nothing like a little judicious levity.
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Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.
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All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.
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To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.
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The obscurest epoch is today.
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Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism.
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Well, well, Henry James is pretty good, though he is of the nineteenth century, and that glaringly.
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