Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes about Happiness

Make up your mind to be happy. Learn to find pleasure in simple things.

Make up your mind to be happy. Learn to find pleasure in simple things.

Happiness, Simple, Mind

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

Robert Louis Stevenson

Happiness, Yoga, Benefits

'Virginibus Puerisque' (1881) 'An Apology for Idlers'

Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Happiness, Hope, Gratitude

Robert Louis Stevenson (2014). “Memories, Portraits, Essays and Records (Annotated Edition)”, p.637, Jazzybee Verlag

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 Stevenson

Happiness, Want, Ends

Robert Louis Stevenson (2015). “The Complete Works of Robert Louis Stevenson: Novels, Short Stories, Poems, Plays, Memoirs, Travel Sketches, Letters and Essays (Illustrated Edition): The Entire Opus of Scottish novelist, poet, essayist and travel writer, containing Treasure Island, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Kidnapped, Catriona and A Child's Garden of Verses”, p.4599, e-artnow

Being happy enables you to be free from domination by the outside world.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Happiness, World, Domination

We can only know others by ourselves.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Life, Happiness, Knows

Robert Louis Stevenson (1999). “The Lantern-Bearers and Other Essays”, p.232, Cooper Square Press

The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Happiness, Being Happy, Humor

When your toil has been a pleasure, you have not earned money merely, but money, health, delight, and moral profit, all in one.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Happiness, Entrepreneur, Toil

Robert Louis Stevenson (2016). “Familiar Studies of Men and Books: Stevenson's Vol. 16”, p.65, VM eBooks

The world is so full of a number of things, I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Happiness, Kings, Famous Inspirational

A Child's Garden of Verses "Happy Thought" l. 1 (1885)

I know what happiness is, for I have done good work.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Happiness, Done, Good Work

Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Happiness, Perspective, Entrepreneur

Robert Louis Stevenson (2013). “Dreams of Elsewhere”, p.162, Neil Wilson Publishing

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

Robert Louis Stevenson

Life, Happiness, Joy

Robert Louis Stevenson (2014). “Memories, Portraits, Essays and Records (Annotated Edition)”, p.638, Jazzybee Verlag

It is in virtue of his own desires and curiosities that any man continues to exist with even patience, that he is charmed by the look of things and people, and that he wakens every morning with a renewed appetite for work and pleasure. Desire and curiosity are the two eyes through which he sees the world in the most enchanted colours...and the man may squander his estate and come to beggary, but if he keeps these two amulets he is still rich in the possibilities of pleasure.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Happiness, Morning, Eye

Robert Louis Stevenson (1926). “Virginibus Puerisque ; And, Across the Plains”

A happy man or woman is a better thing to find than a five-pound note. He or she is a radiating focus of goodwill; and their entrance into a room is as though another candle had been lighted.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Happiness, Men, Focus

Robert Louis Stevenson (2015). “The Complete Works of Robert Louis Stevenson: Novels, Short Stories, Poems, Plays, Memoirs, Travel Sketches, Letters and Essays (Illustrated Edition): The Entire Opus of Scottish novelist, poet, essayist and travel writer, containing Treasure Island, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Kidnapped, Catriona and A Child's Garden of Verses”, p.4583, e-artnow

In every part and corner of our life, to lose oneself is to be a gainer; to forget oneself is to be happy.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Happiness, Forget, Oneself

Robert Louis Stevenson (2015). “The Complete Works of Robert Louis Stevenson: Novels, Short Stories, Poems, Plays, Memoirs, Travel Sketches, Letters and Essays (Illustrated Edition): The Entire Opus of Scottish novelist, poet, essayist and travel writer, containing Treasure Island, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Kidnapped, Catriona and A Child's Garden of Verses”, p.4651, e-artnow