There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last. 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 dog animal thinking It takes hard writing to make easy reading. Robert Louis Stevenson reading easy writing A friend is a gift you give yourself. Robert Louis Stevenson real-friends holiday friendship 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 ends want happiness The bold may not live long, but the timid never live at all. Robert Louis Stevenson may long 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 grace mind giving The spirit of delight comes in small ways. Robert Louis Stevenson delight spirit way I consider the success of my day based on the seeds I sow, not the harvest I reap. Robert Louis Stevenson reap seeds harvest All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer. Robert Louis Stevenson prepared speech language 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 writing mean book 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 gratitude thankful life 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 benefits yoga happiness To be feared of a thing and yet to do it, is what makes the prettiest kind of a man. Robert Louis Stevenson kind fear men The most beautiful adventures are not those we go to seek. Robert Louis Stevenson beautiful adventure travel That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much. Robert Louis Stevenson motivational love life And this shall be for music when no one else is near, Robert Louis Stevenson music fire song To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life. Robert Louis Stevenson inspirational friendship life 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 passion pain animal 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 divorce acceptance life 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-life travel moving
