Robert Louis Stevenson ~ click HERE for a nice wikepedia summary
Robert Louis Stevenson ~ click HERE for a "scathing open letter"
which so reveals this man's values & literary skill ...
Robert Louis Stevenson ~ click HERE for more information on the Molokai Leper Colony
Robert Louis Stevenson ~ click HERE for a "scathing open letter"
which so reveals this man's values & literary skill ...
Robert Louis Stevenson ~ click HERE for more information on the Molokai Leper Colony
And now for the awesome quotes ~ be inspired!
- Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.
- Keep your fears to yourself but share your courage with others.
- A friend is a gift you give yourself.
- No man is useless who has a friend, and if we are loved we are indispensable.
- Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.
- For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.
- You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.
- To know what you prefer, instead of humbly saying "Amen" to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to keep your soul alive.
- To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.
- The world is full of a number of things, I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings.
and there are many more in the comments if you'd like to click through ...
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There is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect.
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.
There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy.
There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.
There is no progress whatever. Everything is just the same as it was thousands, and tens of thousands, of years ago. The outward form changes. The essence does not change.
There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last.
To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.
Of what shall a man be proud, if he is not proud of his friends?
Once you are married, there is nothing for you, not even suicide, but to be good.
I am in the habit of looking not so much to the nature of a gift as to the spirit in which it is offered.
I never weary of great churches. It is my favourite kind of mountain scenery. Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.
Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.
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.
If a man loves the labour of his trade, apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him.
When it comes to my own turn to lay my weapons down, I shall do so with thankfulness and fatigue, and whatever be my destiny afterward, I shall be glad to lie down with my fathers in honor. It is human at least, if not divine.
Wine is bottled poetry.
You cannot run away from weakness; you must some time fight it out or perish; and if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?
All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.
Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a mighty bloodless substitute for life.
Everyone lives by selling something, whatever be his right to it.
If your morals make you dreary, depend upon it they are wrong. I do not say "give them up," for they may be all you have; but conceal them like a vice, lest they should spoil the lives of better and simpler people.
He who sows hurry reaps indigestion.
I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion.
If we take matrimony at it's lowest, we regard it as a sort of friendship recognised by the police.
It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves.
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.
It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.
Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.
Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage them from ambitious attempts, and generally console them in their mediocrity.
Nothing like a little judicious levity.
Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business is only to be sustained by neglect of many other things.
Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.
Quiet minds can't be perplexed or frightened, but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm.
The body is a house of many windows: there we all sit, showing ourselves and crying on the passers-by to come and love us.
The cruelest lies are often told in silence.
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.
The obscurest epoch is today.
The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty.
The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.
The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical, an elegant and pregnant texture: that is style, that is the foundation of the art of literature.
Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.
We all know what Parliament is, and we are all ashamed of it.
We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.
We live in an ascending scale when we live happily, one thing leading to another in an endless series.
You could read Kant by yourself, if you wanted; but you must share a joke with some one else.
I'm glad I gave myself YOU!!
(Another sleepless night!)
Sandy
My dear friend Sandy - I am SOO thankful that we gave each other the gift of going to the Women of Faith conference this past weekend... what a blessing in our lives! I will be praying for you these next 3 weeks as you go serve our Lord and the precious souls in Niger on your medical mission trip. Safe travels, warm hearts, much love my dear! Sherrie
I love all these quotes--beautiful stuff! Glad you shared them.
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