To be truly happy is a question of how we begin, and not how we end, of what we want and not what we have.
Robert Louis StevensonSo 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 StevensonOur business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.
Robert Louis StevensonUnder the strain of this continually impending doom and by the sleeplessness to which I now condemned myself, ay, even beyond what I had thought possible to man, I became, in my own person, a creature eaten up and emptied by fever, languidly weak both in body and mind, and solely occupied by one thought: the horror of my other self.
Robert Louis Stevenson