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.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONTo 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.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONIt is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men’s hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONYet we make the same impression on Buddhists and vegetarians, for we feed on babies, though not our own.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONOur business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONSooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONThe price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONKeep your eyes open to your mercies. The man who forgets to be thankful has fallen asleep in life.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONMarriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONI am in the habit of looking not so much to the nature of a gift as to the spirit in which it is offered.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONWe must accept life for what it actually is – a challenge to our quality without which we should never know of what stuff we are made, or grow to our full stature.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONThe mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONSo long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONSo long as we love, we serve; so long as we are loved by others.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONThere is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONWe live in an ascending scale when we live happily, one thing leading to another in an endless series.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONThe habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions.
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