Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes on Life

Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.

Every man has a sane spot somewhere.

Even if the doctor does not give you a year, even if he hesitates about a month, make one brave push and see what can be accomplished in a week.

Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.

Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.

If your morals make you dreary, depend on it, they are wrong.

The world has no room for cowards.

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

You can read Kant by yourself, if you wanted to; but you must share a joke with someone else.

Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism, yet we make the same impression on Buddhists and vegetarians, for we feed on babies, though not our own.

There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.

There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last.

It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves.

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.

To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.

The correction of silence is what kills; when you know you have transgressed, and your friend says nothing, and avoids your eye.

All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.

Everyone lives by selling something.

You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.

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?