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Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Consequences, Life Choices, Accountability, Fate, Personal Responsibility, Action Impact

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Everybody soon or late sits down to a banquet of

Everybody soon or late sits down to a banquet of

Robert Louis Stevenson’s Quotes On Topics

Selling | Memories Apart | Oh Man | Tongue | Art Simplicity | Fiction | Fairy Armies | Persistence | Tea Time | Style Web | Suffering | Rest | Wickedness | Judgments | Goodness | Closely Mown | Wind | Good | Good Actions | Starting Journey | More

More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes

“Once you are married, there is nothing left for you, not even suicide.”

Robert Louis Stevenson

Marital Realities, Dark Humor, Commitment, Life’s Irony, Consequences, Union

“Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.”

Robert Louis Stevenson

Books Vs Life, Living Experience, Reality Vs Fiction, Life, Books, Reality

“There is no greater wonder than the way the face of a young woman fits in a man’s mind, and stays there, and he could never tell you why; it just seems it was the thing he wanted. She had wonderful bright eyes like stars, and I daresay the eyes had a part in it; but what I remember the most clearly was the way her lips were a trifle open as she turned. And, whatever was the cause, I stood there staring like a fool.”

Robert Louis Stevenson

Romantic Memory, Captivating Beauty, Lasting Impression, Memory, Beauty, Impression

“Pieces of eight! Pieces of eight!”

Robert Louis Stevenson

Treasure Pirate, Adventure Wealth, Myth Discovery, Treasure, Pirate

“To forget oneself is to be happy.”

Robert Louis Stevenson

Selflessness Happiness, Inner Peace, Joyful Life, Happiness, Peace, Clarity

“Make up your mind to be happy. Learn to find pleasure in simple things.”

Robert Louis Stevenson

Happiness Choice, Simple Pleasure, Mindset Joy, Simplicity, Joy, Happiness

“Don’t ever confuse motion with progress.”

Robert Louis Stevenson

Motion Vs Progress, True Progress, Personal Growth, Movement, Success, Clarity

“Give to me the life I love, Let the lave go by me, Give the jolly heaven above And the byway nigh me. Bed in the bush with the stars to see, Bread I dip in the river There’s the life for a man like me, There’s the life for ever.”

Robert Louis Stevenson

Simple Life, Nature Love, Freedom Joy, Life, Nature, Happiness

“The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.”

Robert Louis Stevenson

Suppressed Truth, Enemy Weapon, Friends Honesty, Truth, Friends, Enemies

“Make the most of the best and the least of the worst.”

Robert Louis Stevenson

Positive Perspective, Optimism, Choices, Balance, Success, Resilience

“Every man has a sane spot somewhere.”

Robert Louis Stevenson

Human Nature, Personal Growth, Inner Balance, Sanity, Individual Differences, Self-awareness

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

Robert Louis Stevenson

Daily Success, Seed Sowing, Harvest Reflection, Effort, Patience, Perspective

“We fall in love, we drink hard, we run to and fro upon the earth like frightened sheep.”

Robert Louis Stevenson

Frightened Sheep, Earth Run, Hard Drinking, Love, Earth, Drinking

“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.”

Robert Louis Stevenson

Generous Spirit, Thoughtful Gifts, Perspective, Kindness, Intention, Generosity

“I cannot tell if I was more tired or more grateful. Both at least, I was: tired as I never was before that night; and grateful to Gd as I trust I have been often, though never with more cause.”

Robert Louis Stevenson

Tired Grateful, Night Reflection, Cause Trust, Gratitude, Reflection, Trust

“With the half of a broken hope for a pillow at night That somehow the right is the right And the smooth shall bloom from the rough: Lord, if that were enough?”

Robert Louis Stevenson

Hopeful Reflection, Broken Dreams, Faithful Appeal, Resilience, Inner Strength, Longing

“When we look into the long avenue of the future, and see the good there is for each one of us to do, we realize, after all, what a beautiful thing it is to work, and to live, and to be happy.”

Robert Louis Stevenson

Future Avenue, Beautiful Work, Life Happiness, Future, Work, Happiness

“Fiction is to the grown man what play is to the child; it is there that he changes the atmosphere and tenor of his life.”

Robert Louis Stevenson

Fiction Play, Child Imagination, Escape Story, Life, Fiction

“It was thus rather the exacting nature of my aspirations than any particular degradation in my faults, that made me what I was, and, with even a deeper trench than in the majority of men, severed in me those provinces of good and ill which divide and compound man’s dual nature.”

Robert Louis Stevenson

Aspirations Conflict, Moral Struggle, Dual Nature, Identity, Growth, Conflict

“Age may have one side, but assuredly Youth has the other. There is nothing more certain than that both are right, except perhaps that both are wrong.”

Robert Louis Stevenson

Youth Vs Age, Generational Differences, Personal Growth, Wisdom, Youth, Time