Robert Louis Stevenson
Robert Louis Stevenson
Robert Louis Balfour Stevensonwas a Scottish novelist, poet, essayist, and travel writer. His most famous works are Treasure Island, Kidnapped, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and A Child's Garden of Verses...
NationalityScottish
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth13 November 1850
happiness simple mind
Make up your mind to be happy. Learn to find pleasure in simple things.
happiness perspective entrepreneur
Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm.
understanding emotion wells
A friend is somebody who loves us with understanding, as well as emotion.
achievement anything-in-life
Is there anything in life so disenchanting as achievement?
heartbreak truth lying
The cruelest lies are often told in silence.
leisure saddles
Sit loosely in the saddle.
proud be-proud ifs
Of what shall we be proud of if we are not proud of our friends?
not-afraid ifs
I am not afraid of the truth, if any one could tell it me, but I am afraid of parts of it impertinently uttered.
plant harvest seeds
Really don't choose every day from the harvest you experience but from the seeds you plant
travel ocean hands
When we have discovered a continent, or crossed a chain of mountains, it is only to find another ocean or another plain upon the further side. . . . O toiling hands of mortals! O wearied feet, travelling ye know not whither! Soon, soon, it seems to you, you must come forth on some conspicuous hilltop, and but a little way further, against the setting sun, descry the spires of El Dorado. Little do ye know your own blessedness; for to travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
orange culinary
And every day when I've been good, I get an orange after food.
happiness men focus
A happy man or woman is a better thing to find than a five-pound note. He or she is a radiating focus of goodwill; and their entrance into a room is as though another candle had been lighted.
happiness people mystery
It is a great thing if you can persuade people that they are somehow or other partakers in a mystery. It makes them feel bigger.
stones jekyll hills
You start a question, and it's like starting a stone. You sit quietly on the top of a hill; and away the stone goes, starting others...