The most beautiful adventures are not those we go to seek.
"Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson" was a Scottish novelist, poet, essayist, and Travel writing/travel writer. His most famous works are Treasure Island, Kidnapped (novel)/Kidnapped, and Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde.
A literary celebrity during his lifetime, Stevenson now ranks among the 26 most translated authors in the world. His works have been admired by many other writers, including Jorge Luis Borges, Bertolt Brecht, Marcel Proust, Arthur Conan Doyle, Henry James, Cesare Pavese, Ernest Hemingway, Rudyard Kipling, Jack London, Vladimir Nabokov, J. M. Barrie, and G. K. Chesterton, who said of him that he "seemed to pick the right word up on the point of his pen, like a man playing spillikins."
If you enjoy these quotes, be sure to check out other famous writers! More Robert Louis Stevenson on Wikipedia.To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming is the only end of life.
So long as we love, we serve; so long as we are loved by others, I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.
There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy.
We are all travelers in the wilderness of the World, and the best that we can find in our travels is an honest friend.
Wine is bottled poetry.
That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.
A friend is a gift you give yourself.
Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business, is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.
The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.
The cruelest lies are often told in silence.
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?
No man is useless while he has a friend.
It is not much for its beauty that makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanates from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.
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.
I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.
The world is so full of a number of things I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings.
To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.
Marriage: a long conversation chequered by disputes.
It is perhaps a more fortunate destiny to have a taste for collecting shells than to be born a millionaire.
If your morals make you dreary, depend on it , they are wrong.
Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.
...for no man lives in the external truth among salts and acids, but in the warm, phantasmagoric chamber of his brain, with the painted windows and the storied wall.
Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.
You can't touch pitch and not be mucked.
You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us.
There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.
To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.
To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.
The friendly cow all red and white, I love with all my heart: She gives me cream with all her might; to eat with apple tart.
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