Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes, Thoughts and images
Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.
Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.
The person who has stopped being thankful has fallen asleep in life.
You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.
Make up your mind to be happy. Learn to find pleasure in simple things.
Be what you are, and become what you are capable of becoming.
The cruellest lies are often told in silence.
The bold may not live long, but the timid never live at all.
Keep busy at something: a busy person never has time to be unhappy.
Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.
It takes hard writing to make easy reading.
A friend is somebody who loves us with understanding, as well as emotion.
There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.
The saints are the sinners who keep on trying.
No man is useless while he has a friend.
The most beautiful adventures are not those we go to seek.
A friend is a gift you give yourself.
Everyone lives by selling something.
Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.
That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.
The spirit of delight comes in small ways.
Everyone who got where he is has had to begin where he was.
Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.
Wine is bottled poetry.
The essence of love is kindness.
I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in.
To miss the joy is to miss everything.
We can only know others by ourselves.
Let any man speak long enough, he will get believers.
All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.
When Christ came into my life, I came about like a well-handled ship.
To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.
I consider the success of my day based on the seeds I sow, not the harvest I reap.