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.

Quote by Robert Louis Stevenson

Topics: Gifts Quotes, Habit Quotes

The cruelest lies are often told in silence.

The cruelest lies are often told in silence.

So long as we love, we serve; so long as we are loved by others,...

So long as we love, we serve; so long as we are loved by others,...

Everybody, sooner or later, sits down to a banquet of consequences.

Everybody, sooner or later, sits down to a banquet of consequences.

There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.

There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.

Keep your fears to yourself, but share your inspiration with others

Keep your fears to yourself, but share your inspiration with others

To forget oneself is to be happy.

To forget oneself is to be happy.

Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage...

Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage...

To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells...

To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells...

A faculty for idleness implies a catholic appetite and a strong sense of personal identity.

A faculty for idleness implies a catholic appetite and a strong sense of personal identity.

Wine is bottled poetry.

Wine is bottled poetry.

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

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

Fiction is to the grown man what play is to the child; it is there...

Fiction is to the grown man what play is to the child; it is there...

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

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

You can kill the body but not the spirit.

You can kill the body but not the spirit.

It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes...

It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes...

Peace is the one condition of survival in this nuclear age.

Peace is the one condition of survival in this nuclear age.

The saints are the sinners who keep on going

The saints are the sinners who keep on going

Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.

Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.

He who sows hurry reaps indigestion.

He who sows hurry reaps indigestion.

To become what we are capable of becoming is the only end in life.

To become what we are capable of becoming is the only end in life.