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.
friendship holiday real-friends
A friend is a gift you give yourself.
luck aversion indifference
I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion.
girl men boys
When I am grown to man's estate I shall be very proud and great. And tell the other girls and boys Not to meddle with my toys.
dog animal thinking
You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us.
views years use
To hold the same views at forty as we held at twenty is to have been stupefied for a score of years, and take rank, not as a prophet, but as an unteachable brat, well birched and none the wiser. It is as if a ship captain should sail to India from the Port of London; and having brought a chart of the Thames on deck at his first setting out, should obstinately use no other for the whole voyage.
sorry games play
and he began to understand what a wild game we play in life; he began to understand that a thing once done cannot be undone nor changed by saying "I am sorry!
being-thankful thankfulness fallen
The person who has stopped being thankful has fallen asleep in life.
love life motivational
That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.
book writing mean
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.
attitude business failure
Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.
gratitude real hands
We should wipe two words from our vocabulary: gratitude and charity. In real life, help is given out of friendship, or it is not valued; it is received from the hand of friendship, or it is resented.
office nautical boat
For will anyone dare to tell me that business is more entertaining than fooling among boats? He must have never seen a boat, or never seen an office, who says so.
friendship best-friend travel
We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.