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Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant. 
--Robert Louis Stevenson
 
You cannot run away from a weakness; you must some time fight it out 
or perish; and if that be so, why not now, and where you stand. 
--Robert Louis Stevenson The Amateur Emigrant 

There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us, 
that it behooves all of us not to talk about the rest of us 
--Robert Louis Stevenson 

The best things in life are nearest: Breath in your nostrils, 
light in your eyes, flowers at your feet, duties at your hand, 
the path of right just before you. Then do not grasp at the stars, 
but do life's plain, common work as it comes, certain that daily duties 
and daily bread are the sweetest things in life. 
--Robert Louis Stevenson 

To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, 
is the only end of life. 
--Robert Louis Stevenson 

There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. 
By being happy, we sow enormous benefits upon the world. 
--Robert Louis Stevenson 

The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, 
from domination of outside conditions. 
--Robert Louis Stevenson 

A friend is a gift you give yourself. 
--Robert Louis Stevenson