Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes

Close the day with prayer so that you may have a peaceful night free from dreams and nightmares.

If there is nothing you can share with other people, try to be close to Things, they will not abandon you; and the nights are still here and the winds that move through the trees and across many lands; everything in the world of Things and animals is still filled with happening, which you can take part in.

Tall oaks branch charmed by the earnest stars Dream and so dream all night without a stir.

When the storm is over and night falls and the moon is out in all its glory and all you're left with is the rhythm of the sea, of the waves, you know what God intended for the human race, you know what paradise is.

From toil he wins his spirits light, From busy day the peaceful night; Rich, from the very want of wealth, In heaven's best treasures, peace and health.

the house protects the dreamer; the houses that are important to us are the ones that allow us to dream in peace. Guests we've had stop in for a night or two all come down the first morning, ready to tell their dreams.

I am in constant bliss, day and night, egotism has been dispelled from within me.

I only want sweet peace and kindliness when I awaken -- but there's always some finger pointing, telling me some terrible deed I committed during the night. It seems I make a lot of mistakes and it seems that I am not allowed any.

So dear night the half of life is, And the fairest half indeed.

At the moment they vanished they were everywhere, the cool benediction of the night descended, the stars sparkled, and the whole universe was a hill.

The Lord stands above the new day, for God has made it. All restlessness, all worry, and anxiety flee before him.

The first thing he noticed was how quiet it was. This was nothing like the kind of quiet he heard when he woke up in the middle of the night after a bad dream. When that happened, there were always strange, unidentifiable sounds seeping into his room from the tiny gaps where the windowpanes weren't sealed together correctly. At those moments he could always tell there was life outside, even if all that life was fast asleep. It was a silence that wasn't silence at all.

Fear nothing! Have peace until the morning! Heed no nightly noises!

It is the place of renewal and of safety, where for a little while there will be no harm or attack and, while every sense is nourished, the soul rests.

Your house is your larger body. It grows in the sun and sleeps in the stillness of the night; and it is not dreamless. Does not your house dream, and dreaming, leave the city for grove or hilltop?

Take me and cast me where you will; I shall still be possessor of the divinity within me, serene and content.

Better, Cilla thought, to be alone on a quiet night than to be alone in a crowd. Much better.

Be calm. God awaits you at the door.

In the corridors under tehre is nothing but sleep. And stiller than ever on orchard boughs they keep Tryst with the moon, and deep is the silence, deep On moon-washed apples of wonder.

Long days and pleasant nights

In the fury of the moment/ I can see the Master's hand In every leaf that trembles, in/ every grain of sand.

God's in His heaven, alls right with the world', whispered Anne softly.