Mind Quotes by Robert Louis Stevenson

Make up your mind to be happy.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

Give us courage and gaiety and the quient mind . . .

— Robert Louis Stevenson

When I say writing, O believe me, it is rewriting that I have chiefly in mind.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

A man should stop his ears against paralyzing terror and run the race that is set before him with a single mind.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

Strange indeed is the attraction of the forest for the minds of men.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

Youth is the time to go flashing from one end of the world to the other, both in mind and body.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

A little amateur painting in water colors shows the innocent and the quiet mind.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

Make up your mind to be happy. Learn to find pleasure in simple things.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

When I suffer in mind, stories are my refuge; I take them like opium; and consider one who writes them as a…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

“The thoughts of his mind, besides, were of the gloomiest dye; and when he glanced at the companion of his drive, he…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

The saddest object in civilization, and to my mind the greatest confession of its failure, is the man who can work, who…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

There is a certain frame of mind to which a cemetery is, if not an antidote, at least an alleviation. If you…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

“He himself slept peacefully and snored aloud, yet my heart was sore for him, wicked as he was, to think on the…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

There is no music like a little river's . . . It takes the mind out-of-doors . . . and . .…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

“Scared by the thought , brooded awhile on his own past, groping in all the corners of memory, lest by chance some…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

These are my politics: to change what we can; to better what we can; but still to bear in mind that man…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

It is the habitual carriage of the umbrella that is the stamp of Respectability. Robinson Crusoe was rather a moralist than a…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

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

As if a man's soul were not too small to begin with, they have dwarfed an narrowed theirs by a life of…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

Under the strain of this continually impending doom and by the sleeplessness to which I now condemned myself, ay, even beyond what…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

The seeming significance of nature's appearances, their unchanging strangeness to the senses, and the thrilling response which they awaken in the mind…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety, and the quiet mind. Spare to us…

— Robert Louis Stevenson