We must accept life for what it actually is - a challenge to our quality without which we should never know of what stuff we are made, or grow to our full stature.
More Quotes from Robert Louis Stevenson:
The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.Robert Louis Stevenson
A friend is a gift you give yourself.
Robert Louis Stevenson
My love was warm; for that I crossed
The mountains and the sea,
Nor counted that endeavour lost
That gave my love to me.
Robert Louis Stevenson
When a torrent sweeps a man against a boulder, you must expect him to scream, and you need not be surprised if the scream is sometimes a theory.
Robert Louis Stevenson
There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Marriage is like life - it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses.
Robert Louis Stevenson
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