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There is no soul that does not respond to love, for the soul of man is a guest that has gone hungry these centuries back.
— Maurice Maeterlinck
How strangely do we diminish a thing as soon as we try to express it in words.
— Maurice Maeterlinck
We can never judge a soul above the high water mark of our own.
— Maurice Maeterlinck
The hour of justice does not strike On the dials of this world.
— Maurice Maeterlinck
Each progressive spirit is opposed by a thousand mediocre minds appointed to guard the past.
— Maurice Maeterlinck
To disdain today is to prove that yesterday has been misunderstood.
— Maurice Maeterlinck
No great inner event befalls those who summon it not.
— Maurice Maeterlinck
Our reason may prove what it will: our reason is only a feeble ray that has issued from Nature.
— Maurice Maeterlinck
At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future tradition has placed 10 000 men to guard the past
— Maurice Maeterlinck
A truth that disheartens because it is true is of more value than the most stimulating of falsehoods.
— Maurice Maeterlinck
Sacrifice may be a flower that virtue will pluck on its road, but it was not to gather this flower that virtue set forth on its travels.
— Maurice Maeterlinck
To be good we must needs have suffered; but perhaps it is necessary to have caused suffering before we can become better.
— Maurice Maeterlinck
The true sage is not he who sees, but he who, seeing the furthest, has the deepest love for mankind.
— Maurice Maeterlinck
Maurice Maeterlinck's play The Blue Bird.
— Gretchen Rubin
Remember that happiness is as contagious as gloom. It should be the first duty of those who are happy to let others know of their gladness.
— Maurice Maeterlinck
To have known how to change the past into a few saddened smiles-is this not to master the future?
— Maurice Maeterlinck
Can we conceive what humanity would be if it did not know the flowers?
— Maurice Maeterlinck
If you love yourself meanly, childishly, timidly, even so shall you love your neighbor.
— Maurice Maeterlinck
The value of ourselves is but the value of our melancholy and our disquiet.
— Maurice Maeterlinck
Physical suffering apart, not a single sorrow exists that can touch us except through our thoughts.
— Maurice Maeterlinck
We are never the same with others as when we are alone. We are different, even when we are in the dark with them.
— Maurice Maeterlinck
An act of goodness is of itself an act of happiness. No reward coming after the event can compare with the sweet reward that went with it.
— Maurice Maeterlinck
Men's weaknesses are often necessary to the purposes of life.
— Maurice Maeterlinck
It is the evil that lies in ourselves that is ever least tolerant of the evil that dwells within others.
— Maurice Maeterlinck
The thoughts you think will irradiate you as though you are a transparent vase.
— Maurice Maeterlinck
And on this earth of ours there are but few souls that can withstand the dominion of the soul that has suffered itself to become beautiful.
— Maurice Maeterlinck
The living are just the dead on holiday
— Maurice Maeterlinck
What man is there that does not laboriously, though all unconsciously, himself fashion the sorrow that is to be the pivot of his life.
— Maurice Maeterlinck
At every crossroad on the way that leads to the future, each progressive spirit is opposed by a thousand men appointed to guard the past.
— Maurice Maeterlinck
I have never for one instant seen clearly within myself. How then would you have me judge the deeds of others?
— Maurice Maeterlinck
Bees will not work except in darkness;Thought will not work except in Silence;
neither will Virtue Work except in secrecy. — Maurice Maeterlinck
Do we not all spend the greater part of our lives under the shadow of an event that has not yet come to pass?
— Maurice Maeterlinck
He who sees without loving is only straining his eyes in the darkness.
— Maurice Maeterlinck
Many a happiness in life, as many a disaster, can be due to chance, but the peace within us can never be governed by chance.
— Maurice Maeterlinck
It's good to slowly come to the realization that you understand nothing.
— Maurice Maeterlinck
I count only the hours that are serene.
— Maurice Maeterlinck
It is only in the space that our thoughts and our feelings enclose that our happiness can breathe in freedom.
— Maurice Maeterlinck
I am moved by the light.
— Maurice Maeterlinck
They believe that nothing will happen because they have closed their doors.
— Maurice Maeterlinck
Happiness is rarely absent; it is we that know not of its presence.
— Maurice Maeterlinck
We can be born thus more than once; and each birth brings us a little nearer to our God.
— Maurice Maeterlinck
We possess only the happiness we able to understand.
— Maurice Maeterlinck
The dog who meets with a good master is the happier of the two.
— Maurice Maeterlinck
To be happy is only to have freed one's soul from the unrest of unhappiness.
— Maurice Maeterlinck
It is not from reason that justice springs, but goodness is born of wisdom.
— Maurice Maeterlinck
Nothing in the whole world is so athirst for beauty as the soul, nor is there anything to which beauty clings so readily.
— Maurice Maeterlinck
All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than the animals that know nothing.
— Maurice Maeterlinck
Isolate her, and however abundant the food or favourable the temperature, she will expire in a few days not of hunger or cold, but of loneliness.
— Maurice Maeterlinck
It is death that is the guide of our life, and our life has no goal but death.
— Maurice Maeterlinck
When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.
— Maurice Maeterlinck
Happiness will never be any greater than the idea we have of it.
— Maurice Maeterlinck
To learn to love, one must first learn to see.
— Maurice Maeterlinck
You do well to have visions of a better life than of every day, but it is the life of every day from which the elements of a better life must come.
— Maurice Maeterlinck
The souls of all our brethren are ever hovering about us, craving for a caress, and only waiting for the signal.
— Maurice Maeterlinck
Wisdom requires no form; her beauty must vary, as varies the beauty of flame. She is no motionless goddess, for ever couched on her throne.
— Maurice Maeterlinck
I have done what I could do in life, and if I could not do better, I did not deserve it. In vain I have tried to step beyond what bound me.
— Maurice Maeterlinck
But cannot we live as though we always loved? It was this that the saints and heroes did; this and nothing more.
— Maurice Maeterlinck
A single hour snatched from death outweighs a whole existence of tortures.
— Maurice Maeterlinck
There comes no adventure but wears to our soul the shape of our everyday thoughts.
— Maurice Maeterlinck
If the bee disappeared off the face of the earth, man would only have four years left to live.
— Maurice Maeterlinck
Justice is the very last thing of all wherewith the universe concerns itself. It is equilibrium that absorbs its attention.
— Maurice Maeterlinck
We possess only the happiness we are able to understand.
— Maurice Maeterlinck