To become what we are capable of becoming is the only end in life. — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
The person who has stopped being thankful has fallen asleep in life. — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life. — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
Restfulness is a quality for cattle; the virtues are all active, life is alert. — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
One more touch of the bow, smell of the virginal Green - one more, and my bosom Feels new life with an… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a mighty bloodless substitute for life. — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well. — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
And my heart springs up anew, Bright and confident and true, And the old love comes to meet me, in the dawning… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
Away with funeral music-set The pipe to powerful lips- The cup of life's for him that drinks And not for him that… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last. — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
“...in my own perilous position, and above all, in the remarkable game that I saw Silver now engaged upon-keeping the mutineers together… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
I have done my fiddling so long under Vesuvius that I have almost forgotten to play, and can only wait for the… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
Give to me the life I love, Let the lave go by me, Give the jolly heaven above And the byway nigh… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
Anyone can carry his burden, however heavy, until nightfall. Anyone can do his work, however hard, for one day. Anyone can live… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
Death is given in a kiss; the dearest kindnesses are fatal; and into this life, where one thing preys upon another, the… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
Anyone can carry his burden, however hard, until nightfall. Anyone can do his work, however hard, for one day. Anyone can live… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
I who all the Winter through, Cherished other loves than you And kept hands with hoary policy in marriage-bed and pew; Now… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
A knowledge that another has felt as we have felt, and seen things not much otherwise than we have seen them, will… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
But we are so fond of life that we have no leisure to entertain the terror of death. It is a honeymoon… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
“I feel very strongly about putting questions; it partakes too much of the style of the day of judgement. You start a… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
“One generation after another falls like honeybees upon this memorable forest, rifle its sweets, pack themselves with vital memories, and when the… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
The cruelest lies are often told in silence. A man may have sat in a room for hours and not opened his… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
“In his own life, then, a man is not to expect happiness, only to profit by it gladly when it shall arise;… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
“With a little more patience and a little less temper, a gentler and wiser method might be found in almost every case;… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
“The veil of self-indulgence was rent from head to foot. I saw my life as a whole.” — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
To believe in immortality is one thing, but it is first needful to believe in life. — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life. — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits. — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life. — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
Here then, as I lay down the pen and proceed to seal up my confession, I bring the life of that unhappy… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
Fear is the strong passion; it is with fear that you must trifle, if you wish to taste the intensest joys of… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
In every part and corner of our life, to lose oneself is to be the gainer; to forget oneself is to be… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
“In many ways an artistic nature unfits a man for a practical existence.” — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
By the time a man gets well into his seventies his continued existence is a mere miracle. — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
The existence of a man is so small a thing to take, so mighty a thing to employ — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
Keep your eyes open to your mercies. The man who forgets to be thankful has fallen asleep in life. — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
“For marriage is like life in this—that it is a field of battle, and not a bed of roses.” — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
But that is the object of long living, that man should cease to care about life. — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
“Half a capital and half a country town, the whole city leads a double existence; it has long trances of the one… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
To the old our mouths are always partly closed; we must swallow our obvious retorts and listen. They sit above our heads,… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
“We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best that we find is an honest friend. He is a fortunate… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share
The little rift between the sexes is astonishingly widened by simply teaching one set of catchwords to the girls and another to the boys. — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share
The problem of education is twofold: first to know, and then to utter. Everyone who lives any semblance of an inner life thinks more… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share
“For thirty years," he said, "I've sailed the seas and seen good and bad, better and worse, fair weather and foul, provisions running out,… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share
Jealousy is the most radical primeval and naked form of admiration in war paint, so to speak. — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share
It is the property of things seen for the first time, or for the first time after long, like the flowers in spring, to… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share
You have no idea, unless you have tried it, how endlessly long is a summer's day, that you measure out only by hunger, and… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share
Do not measure success by today's harvest. Measure success by the seeds you plant today. — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share
Loving God, help us remember the birth of Jesus, that we may share in the song of the angels, the gladness of the shepherds,… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share
The friendly cow, all red and white, I love with all my heart; She gives me cream with all her might, To eat with… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share
