The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONIf a man loves the labour of his trade, apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.
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You can read Kant by yourself, if you wanted to; but you must share a joke with someone else.
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To forget oneself is to be happy.
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Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.
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So 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.
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The world is full of a number of things, I’m sure we should all be as happy as kings.
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Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.
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We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.
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So long as we love, we serve; so long as we are loved by others.
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Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.
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To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.
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Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.
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The body is a house of many windows: there we all sit, showing ourselves and crying on the passers-by to come and love us.
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Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.
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It’s a pleasant thing to be young, and have ten toes.
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