The best Quotes by Robert Louis Stevenson

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The best Quotes by Robert Louis Stevenson

Robert Louis Stevenson (born Robert Lewis Balfour Stevenson; 13 November 1850 – 3 December 1894) was a Scottish novelist, essayist, poet and travel writer. He is best known for works such as Treasure Island, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Kidnapped and A Child's Garden of Verses.

I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.

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Traveling Wanderlust

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Traveling is like flirting with life. It's like saying "I would stay and love you, but I have to go".

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The world is like a book. Those who don't travel read only one page.

Aurelius Augustinus

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Books Traveling World

Because sometimes, even when you know how something's gonna end, that doesn't mean you can't enjoy the ride.

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I'm in love with cities I've never been to and people I've never met.

John Green in Paper Towns

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I'm in love with cities I have never been to and with people I have never met.

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Home can only be discovered abroad.

Siegfried Lenz

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Home Wanderlust

After all, you still need time to just sit there and take a look around.

Astrid Lindgren

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"Oh yes, time flies and before you know it you're old," said Pippi. "Come autumn I'll be ten, and I suppose I'll be past my prime then."

Astrid Lindgren in Pippi Longstocking

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Love can be learned. And there's no better learners than children.

Astrid Lindgren

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Love Children & Childhood

It's real, Six. You can't get mad at a real ending. Some of them are ugly. It's the fake happily ever afters that should piss you off.

Colleen Hoover in Hopeless

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I want you to help them open... because I need you to watch me give you the very last piece of my heart.

Colleen Hoover in Hopeless

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The sky is always beautiful. Even when it's dark or rainy or cloudy, it's still beautiful to look at... it'll be there no matter what... and I know it'll always be beautiful.

Colleen Hoover in Hopeless

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What other people think of you is none of your business.

Paulo Coelho

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Self-Confidence Gossip & Rumors

If you're brave enough to say goodbye, life will reward you with a new hello.

Paulo Coelho

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Change Beginning

Love is what makes you smile when you're tired.

Paulo Coelho

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This is the true measure of love: When we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved so before us, and that no one will ever love in the same way after us.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Children & Childhood Family Parents

Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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The Light failed; but the Darkness that followed was more than loss of light.

J.R.R. Tolkien in The Silmarillion

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The Elves made many rings; but secretly Sauron made One Ring to rule all the others, and their power was bound up with it.

J.R.R. Tolkien in The Silmarillion

And for a great deal it seemed good to him, for in the music there were no flaws.

J.R.R. Tolkien in The Silmarillion

Whether you come back by page or by the big screen, Hogwarts will always be there to welcome you home.

Joanne K. Rowling

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I do believe something very magical can happen when you read a good book.

Joanne K. Rowling

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If you don't like to read you haven't found the right book.

Joanne K. Rowling

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The first time you fall in love, it changes you forever and no matter how hard you try, that feeling just never goes away.

Nicholas Sparks in The Notebook

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Falling in love

Every girl is beautiful. Sometimes it just takes the right guy to see it.

Nicholas Sparks in The Notebook

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Love Beauty Valentine's Day

I am nothing special, of this I am sure. I am a common man with common thoughts and I've led a common life. There are no monuments dedicated to me and my name will soon be forgotten, but I've loved another with all my heart and soul, and to me, this has always been enough.

Nicholas Sparks in The Notebook

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She was beautiful, but not like those girls in the magazines. She was beautiful, for the way she thought. She was beautiful, for the sparkle in her eyes when she talked about something she loved. She was beautiful, for her ability to make other people smile, even if she was sad. No, she wasn't beautiful for something as temporary as her looks. She was beautiful, deep down to her soul.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

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Beauty Love declerations

The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly.

F. Scott Fitzgerald in The Great Gatsby

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Solitude & Loneliness

He looked at her the way all women wanted to be looked at by a man.

F. Scott Fitzgerald in The Great Gatsby

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Hope is like a shard of glass. Tread on it, and you'll end up wincing with every step. The best policy is to tweezer it out. Sure, it will hurt like billy-o and the wound will take a while to heal, but after that you can walk again.

Sebastian Fitzek in Therapy

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Hope Breakup Grief & Condolence

"Lost something?"
"Yes, my mind."

Sebastian Fitzek in Splinter

The end justifies the means. Sometimes you have to do the wrong thing to get the right result.

Sebastian Fitzek in Splinter

The dead are dead, and talking won't bring them back to life.

Otfried Preußler in Krabat

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"It's no use fretting for what you can't get," croaked the raven. "Does being angry make any difference? Be sensible! What can you do about it?"

Otfried Preußler in Krabat

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Kasperl and Seppel soon discover that even the best-laid plans can be foiled, especially when Hotzenplotz enlists the help of his wicked magician friend Petrosilius Zackleman, a gluttonous villain with a weakness for fried potatoes.

Otfried Preußler in The Robber Hotzenplotz

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There are so many magical places in books that you can't go to, like Hogwarts and Middle Earth, so I wanted to set a story in a place where children can actually go.

Cornelia Funke

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The night breathed through the apartment like a dark animal. The ticking of a clock. The groan of a floorboard as he slipped out of his room. All was drowned by its silence. But Jacob loved the night. He felt it on his skin like a promise. Like a cloak woven from freedom and danger.

Cornelia Funke in Reckless

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Nobody loves only once.

Cornelia Funke in Reckless

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That's the thing about pain. It demands to be felt.

John Green in The Fault in Our Stars

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If you want the rainbow, you have to deal with the rain.

John Green in The Fault in Our Stars

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Without Pain, How Could We Know Joy?

John Green in The Fault in Our Stars

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"How do you spell 'love'?" - "You don't spell it... you feel it."

A.A. Milne in Winnie the Pooh

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Love Valentine's Day

If you live to be hundred, I hope i live to be hundred minus one day. So I never have to live without you.

A.A. Milne in Winnie the Pooh

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Friendship Love declerations

"What day is it?"
"It's today," squeaked Piglet.
"My favorite day," said Pooh.

A.A. Milne in Winnie the Pooh

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There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.

Jane Austen in Northanger Abbey

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If I could but know his heart, everything would become easy.

Jane Austen in Sense and Sensibility

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To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love.

Jane Austen

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Dancing Falling in love

I fled out of the deep night - the deep night of the protected child-life , and tugged into the bright Day - the bright day of being-grownup

Stephen King in It

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