Robert Louis Stevenson Happiness Quotations

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

It is a great thing if you can persuade people that they are somehow or other partakers in a mystery. It makes them feel bigger.

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.

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

We can only know others by ourselves.

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

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.

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