The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions. — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
Make up your mind to be happy. Learn to find pleasure in simple things. — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
The very flexibility and ease which make men's friendships so agreeable while they endure, make them the easier to destroy and forget.… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
To be truly happy is a question of how we begin, and not how we end, of what we want and not… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
“The world is so full of a number of things, I ’m sure we should all be as happy as kings.” — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
It is in virtue of his own desires and curiosities that any man continues to exist with even patience, that he is… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
A happy man or woman is a better thing to find than a five-pound note. He or she is a radiating focus… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
It is a great thing if you can persuade people that they are somehow or other partakers in a mystery. It makes… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
We look for some reward of our endeavors and are disappointed that not success, not happiness, not even peace of conscience, crowns… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
In every part and corner of our life, to lose oneself is to be a gainer; to forget oneself is to be… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outside conditions. — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
When your toil has been a pleasure, you have not earned money merely, but money, health, delight, and moral profit, all in… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
“Happiness and goodness, according to canting moralists, stand in the relation of effect and cause. There was never anything less proved or… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
Being happy enables you to be free from domination by the outside world. — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
“There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy.” — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
Happiness, eternal or temporal, is not the reward that mankind seeks, Happinesses are but his wayside companions. His soul is in the… — 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
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
Jealousy is the most radical primeval and naked form of admiration in war paint, so to speak. — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
Do not measure success by today's harvest. Measure success by the seeds you plant today. — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
