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Travel4 quotes
There are no foreign land; it is the traveller only that is foreign. — Robert Louis Stevenson · 1883We are all travellers in what John Bunyan calls the wilderness of this world....and the best that we find in our travels is an honest friend. — Robert Louis Stevenson · 1879To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive. — Robert Louis Stevenson · 1881For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move. — Robert Louis Stevenson · 1879Human nature2 quotes
All human beings, as we meet them, are commingled out of good and evil. — Robert Louis Stevenson · 1886These are my politics: to change what we can; to better what we can; but still to bear in mind that man is but a devil weakly fettered by some generous beliefs and impositions; and for no word however nobly sounding, and no cause however just and pious, to relax the stricture of these bonds. — Robert Louis Stevenson · 1885The human condition2 quotes
Old and young, we are all on our last cruise. — Robert Louis Stevenson · 1881Every one lives by selling something. — Robert Louis Stevenson · 1892The open road2 quotes
The untented Kosmos my abode,
I pass, a willful stranger;
My mistress still the open road
And the bright eyes of danger. — Robert Louis Stevenson · 1894Wealth I ask not, hope nor love,
Nor a friend to know me;
All I ask, the heaven above
And the road below me. — Robert Louis Stevenson · 1894Adventure1 quote
The untented Kosmos my abode,
I pass, a willful stranger;
My mistress still the open road
And the bright eyes of danger. — Robert Louis Stevenson · 1894Authenticity1 quote
To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life. — Robert Louis Stevenson · 1882Books1 quote
Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a mighty bloodless substitute for life. — Robert Louis Stevenson · 1881Cheese1 quote
Many's the long night I've dreamed of cheese-toasted, mostly. — Robert Louis Stevenson · 1882Death1 quote
It is better to be a fool than to be dead. — Robert Louis Stevenson · 1881Downsides of marriage1 quote
Marriage is like life in this-that it is a field of battle, and not a bed of roses. — Robert Louis Stevenson · 1876Duality of man1 quote
All human beings, as we meet them, are commingled out of good and evil. — Robert Louis Stevenson · 1886Existential solitude1 quote
We are all travellers in what John Bunyan calls the wilderness of this world....and the best that we find in our travels is an honest friend. — Robert Louis Stevenson · 1879Falling in love1 quote
Falling in love is the one illogical adventure, the one thing of which we are tempted to think as supernatural, in our trite and reasonable world. — Robert Louis Stevenson · 1881Food1 quote
Many's the long night I've dreamed of cheese-toasted, mostly. — Robert Louis Stevenson · 1882Fools1 quote
It is better to be a fool than to be dead. — Robert Louis Stevenson · 1881Friends1 quote
We are all travellers in what John Bunyan calls the wilderness of this world....and the best that we find in our travels is an honest friend. — Robert Louis Stevenson · 1879Good and evil1 quote
All human beings, as we meet them, are commingled out of good and evil. — Robert Louis Stevenson · 1886Helping others1 quote
So long as we love we serve; so long as we are loved by others, I would almost say that we are indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend. — Robert Louis Stevenson · 1872Home1 quote
Be it granted me to behold you again in dying,
Hills of home! — Robert Louis Stevenson · 1893Indifference1 quote
I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion. — Robert Louis Stevenson · 1882Inevitability of death1 quote
Old and young, we are all on our last cruise. — Robert Louis Stevenson · 1881Journey vs. destination1 quote
To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive. — Robert Louis Stevenson · 1881Lies1 quote
The cruellest lies are often told in silence. — Robert Louis Stevenson · 1881Life1 quote
Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a mighty bloodless substitute for life. — Robert Louis Stevenson · 1881Life and death1 quote
It is better to be a fool than to be dead. — Robert Louis Stevenson · 1881Love1 quote
Falling in love is the one illogical adventure, the one thing of which we are tempted to think as supernatural, in our trite and reasonable world. — Robert Louis Stevenson · 1881Making a living1 quote
Every one lives by selling something. — Robert Louis Stevenson · 1892Man as social animal1 quote
So long as we love we serve; so long as we are loved by others, I would almost say that we are indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend. — Robert Louis Stevenson · 1872Marriage1 quote
Marriage is like life in this-that it is a field of battle, and not a bed of roses. — Robert Louis Stevenson · 1876Personal growth1 quote
To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life. — Robert Louis Stevenson · 1882