To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.

Quote by Robert Louis Stevenson

Topics: Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes

He who sows hurry reaps indigestion.

He who sows hurry reaps indigestion.

Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.

Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.

I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The...

I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The...

You can kill the body but not the spirit.

You can kill the body but not the spirit.

So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost...

So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost...

I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion.

I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion.

To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.

To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.

To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.

To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.

Even if the doctor does not give you a year, even if he hesitates about...

Even if the doctor does not give you a year, even if he hesitates about...

We are all travelers in the wilderness of the world, and the best that we...

We are all travelers in the wilderness of the world, and the best that we...

When I am grown to man's estate I shall be very proud and great. And...

When I am grown to man's estate I shall be very proud and great. And...

When a torrent sweeps a man against a boulder, you must expect him to scream,...

When a torrent sweeps a man against a boulder, you must expect him to scream,...

We are all travellers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can...

We are all travellers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can...

It's a pleasant thing to be young, and have ten toes.

It's a pleasant thing to be young, and have ten toes.

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

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

Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism, yet we make the same impression on...

Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism, yet we make the same impression on...

Some people swallow the universe like a pill; they travel on through the world, like...

Some people swallow the universe like a pill; they travel on through the world, like...

It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon...

It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon...

Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning...

Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning...

I think that I shall never see A poem lovely as a tree

I think that I shall never see A poem lovely as a tree