Quotes from Robert Louis Stevenson

The saints are the sinners who keep on trying.

To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.

To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming is the only end of life.

You cannot run away from a weakness; you must sometimes fight it out or perish. And if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?

I sat in the sun on a bench; the animal within me licking the chops of memory; the spiritual side a little drowsed, promising subsequent penitence, but not yet moved to begin.

To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.

We can only know others by ourselves.

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!

We live in an ascending scale when we live happily, one thing leading to another in an endless series.

If this is death, it is easier than life.

When Christ came into my life, I came about like a well-handled ship.

Life is not a matter of holding good cards

That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.

You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition; but to find your wife laughing when you had tears in your eyes, or staring when you were in a fit of laughter, would go some way towards a dissolution of the marriage.

Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.

Do not measure success by today's harvest. Measure success by the seeds you plant today.

I consider the success of my day based on the seeds I sow, not the harvest I reap.

Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.

Live life to the fullest.

Is there anything in life so disenchanting as achievement?

A great part of this life consists in contemplating what we cannot cure.

Everyday life is a stimulating mixture of order and haphazardry. The sun rises and sets on schedule but the wind bloweth where it listeth.

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.

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