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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Make up your mind to be happy. Learn to find pleasure in simple things. — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“An imperturbable demeanour comes from perfect patience. Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened, but go on in fortune or misfortune at… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
A little amateur painting in water colors shows the innocent and the quiet mind. — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
When I say writing, O believe me, it is rewriting that I have chiefly in mind. — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
There is no music like a little river's . . . It takes the mind out-of-doors . . . and . .… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
Youth is the time to go flashing from one end of the world to the other, both in mind and body. — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
“I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in. As I walked, my mind was busy… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
Strange indeed is the attraction of the forest for the minds of men. — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 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
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 Copy Share Image
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 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
