"A friend is a present you give yourself." ~Robert Louis Stevenson
"A happy man or woman is a better thing to find than a five-pound note." ~Robert Louis Stevenson
"Anyone can live sweetly, patiently, lovingly, purely, till the sun goes down." ~Robert Louis Stevenson
"Do the things you enjoy doing but stay out of debt." ~Robert Louis Stevenson
"Don't hold postmortems. Don't spend your time brooding over sorrows or mistakes. Don't be one who never gets over things." ~Robert Louis Stevenson
"Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant." ~Robert Louis Stevenson
"Don't let your neighbor set your standards. Be yourself." ~Robert Louis Stevenson
"Don't take yourself too seriously. Don't think that somehow you should be protected from misfortune that befalls other people." ~Robert Louis Stevenson
"Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world and bettered the tradition of mankind." ~Robert Louis Stevenson
"Everyone lives by selling something." ~Robert Louis Stevenson
"Find out where joy resides, and give it a voice far beyond singing. For to miss the joy is to miss all." ~Robert Louis Stevenson
"Give us grace and strength to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind. Spare to us our friends and soften to us our enemies. Give us the strength to encounter that which is to come, that we may be brave in peril, constant in tribulation, temperate in wrath and in all changes of fortune, and down to the gates of death, loyal and loving to one another." ~Robert Louis Stevenson
"Have many interests. If you can't travel, read about new places." ~Robert Louis Stevenson
"I have a little shadow that goes in and out with me, And what can be the use of him is more than I can see." ~Robert Louis Stevenson
"I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move." ~Robert Louis Stevenson
"It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit." ~Robert Louis Stevenson
"It is one of the worst things of sentiment that the voice grows to be more important than the words, and the speaker than that which is spoken." ~from The Master of Ballantrae, by Robert Louis Stevenson
"Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others." ~Robert Louis Stevenson
"Let first the onion flourish there,
Rose among the roots, the maiden-fair
Wine scented and poetic soul
of the capacious salad bowl."
~Robert Louis Stevenson
"Make the best of your circumstances. No one has everything, and everyone has something of sorrow intermingled with gladness of life. The trick is to make the laughter outweigh the tears." ~Robert Louis Stevenson
"Make up your mind to be happy. Learn to find pleasure in simple things." ~Robert Louis Stevenson
"The best things in life are nearest: Breath in your nostrils, light in your eyes, flowers at your feet, duties at your hand, the path of right just before you. Then do not grasp at the stars, but do life’s plain, common work as it comes, certain that daily duties and daily bread are the sweetest things in life." ~Robert Louis Stevenson
"The world is so full of a number of things, I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings." ~Robert Louis Stevenson, Garden of dreams
"There are, indeed, few merrier spectacles than that of many windmills bickering together in a fresh breeze over a woody country; their halting alacrity of movement, their pleasant business, making bread all day with uncouth gesticulation; their air, gigantically human, as of a creature half alive, put a spirit of romance into the tamest landscape." ~Robert Louis Stevenson
"There is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect." ~Robert Louis Stevenson from Tim Cox Fine Art
"There is an idea abroad among moral people that they should make their neighbours good. One person I have to make good; myself. But my duty to my neighbour is much more nearly expressed by saying that I have to make him happy - if I may." ~Robert Louis Stevenson
"To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end in life." ~Robert Louis Stevenson, Scottish Novelist and Poet (1850-1894)
"We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend." ~Robert Louis Stevenson
"We must accept life for what it actually is - a challenge to our quality without which we should never know of what stuff we are made, or grow to our full stature."
~Robert Louis Stevenson
"When a torrent sweeps a man against a boulder, you must expect him to scream, and you need not be surprised if the scream is sometimes a theory." ~Robert Louis Stevenson
"Wine is bottled poetry." ~Robert Stevenson
"You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving." ~Robert Louis Stevenson
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