And if a man reads very hard, as the old anecdote reminds us, he will have little time for thought. Robert Louis Stevenson More Quotes by Robert Louis Stevenson More Quotes From Robert Louis Stevenson You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us. Robert Louis Stevenson doganimalthinking It takes hard writing to make easy reading. Robert Louis Stevenson readingeasywriting A friend is a gift you give yourself. Robert Louis Stevenson real-friendsholidayfriendship To be truly happy is a question of how we begin, and not how we end, of what we want and not what we have. Robert Louis Stevenson endswanthappiness The bold may not live long, but the timid never live at all. Robert Louis Stevenson maylong Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies. Robert Louis Stevenson gracemindgiving The spirit of delight comes in small ways. Robert Louis Stevenson delightspiritway I consider the success of my day based on the seeds I sow, not the harvest I reap. Robert Louis Stevenson reapseedsharvest All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer. Robert Louis Stevenson preparedspeechlanguage The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not to affect your reader, but to affect him precisely as you wish. Robert Louis Stevenson writingmeanbook You seem to me to be a pretty lucky young man; keep your eyes open to your mercies. That part of piety is eternal; and the man who forgets to be grateful has fallen asleep in life. Robert Louis Stevenson gratitudethankfullife There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world. Robert Louis Stevenson benefitsyogahappiness To be feared of a thing and yet to do it, is what makes the prettiest kind of a man. Robert Louis Stevenson kindfearmen The most beautiful adventures are not those we go to seek. Robert Louis Stevenson beautifuladventuretravel That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much. Robert Louis Stevenson motivationallovelife And this shall be for music when no one else is near, Robert Louis Stevenson musicfiresong To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life. Robert Louis Stevenson inspirationalfriendshiplife We consume the carcasses of creatures of like appetites, passions and organs with our own, and fill the slaughterhouses daily with screams of pain and fear. Robert Louis Stevenson passionpainanimal 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 divorceacceptancelife I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move. Robert Louis Stevenson inspirational-lifetravelmoving
