Love Quotes Quote by Robert Louis Stevenson — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

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

“Wine is bottled poetry.”

“REQUIEM”

“The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.”

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

“Make the most of the best and the least of the worst.”

““But when I think of you, I want to be alone together. I want to strive against and for. I want to live in contact. I want to be a context for you, and you for me.”

“I just...I just miss him. And I hate being so alone.”

““Jessica. For god's sake," he said. "Allow me to do at least one common courtesy for you. In spite ow what 'women's lib' teaches you, chivalry does not imply that women are powerless. On the contrary, chivalry is an admission of women's superiority. An acknowledgment of”

“And I can fight only for something that I love, love only what I respect, and respect only what I at least know.”

“The capacity to be alone is the capacity to love. It may look paradoxical to you, but it's not. It is an existential truth: only those people who are capable of being alone are capable of love, of sharing, of going into the deepest core of another person--without possessing the other, without becoming dependent on the other, without reducing the other to a thing, and without becoming addicted to the other. They allow the other absolute freedom, because they know that if the other leaves, they will be as happy as they are now. Their happiness cannot be taken by the other, because it is not given by the other.”