Quote#Happiness
In every part and corner of our life, to lose oneself is to be a…
Quote byRobert Louis Stevenson · 1850–1894
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Old Mortality (1884)..
English (original)
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
More from Robert Louis Stevenson
For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.
Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.
Every man is his own doctor of divinity, in the last resort.
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.
To know what you prefer, instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.
For there is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect.