An aspiration is a joy forever, a possession as solid as a landed estate. — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
“The day returns and brings us the petty round of irritating concerns and duties. Help us to play the man, Help us… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
“The young demand joy like a right - the old only wish to be spared unbearable pain.” — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
And the true realism, always and everywhere, is that of the poets: to find out where joy resides, and give it a… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
We are not content to pass away entirely from the scenes of our delight; we would leave, if but in gratitude, a… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
A Morning Prayer The day returns and brings us the petty round of irritating concerns and duties. Help us to play the… — 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
[T]he kingdom of heaven is of the childlike, of those who are easy to please, who love and who give pleasure. Mighty… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
An aspiration is a joy forever, a possession as solid as a landed estate, a fortune which we can never exhaust and… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
“In anything fit to be called by the name of reading, the process itself should be absorbing and voluptuous; we should gloat… — 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
“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