There is no duty we so underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.Robert Louis Stevenson
“To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.”
“To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.”
— ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON
Novelist and essayist · 1850 – 1894
Robert Louis Stevenson was a Scottish novelist and travel writer, author of Treasure Island, Kidnapped and the Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. Plagued by ill health, he travelled restlessly and settled at last in Samoa, where he died at forty-four.
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