Selected quotes · 20
№ 01
“That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.”
Robert Louis StevensonHappiness
№ 02
“You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.”
Robert Louis StevensonLove
№ 03
“Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures. It costs nothing in money, it is all profit, it completes our education, founds and fosters our friendships, and can be enjoyed at any age and in almost any state of health.”
Robert Louis StevensonFriendship
№ 04
“To forget oneself is to be happy.”
Robert Louis StevensonHappiness
№ 05
“To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.”
Robert Louis StevensonWisdom
№ 06
“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 StevensonCreativity
№ 07
“I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in.”
Robert Louis StevensonWisdom
№ 08
“Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.”
Robert Louis StevensonCourage
№ 09
“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 StevensonFriendship
№ 10
“I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.”
Robert Louis StevensonJustice
№ 11
“There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last.”
Robert Louis StevensonLife
№ 12
“Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.”
Robert Louis StevensonLife
№ 13
“To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.”
Robert Louis StevensonLife
№ 14
“Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.”
Robert Louis StevensonFailure
№ 15
“Marriage is like life - it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses.”
Robert Louis StevensonLife
№ 16
“Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.”
Robert Louis StevensonWisdom
№ 17
“An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.”
Robert Louis StevensonLife
№ 18
“Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.”
Robert Louis StevensonWisdom
№ 19
“The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.”
Robert Louis StevensonFriendship
№ 20
“Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.”
Robert Louis StevensonMindset