Happiness will never be any greater than the idea we have of it. — Maurice Maeterlinck Copy Share Image
Happiness is rarely absent; it is we that know not of its presence. — Maurice Maeterlinck Copy Share Image
To be happy is only to have freed one's soul from the unrest of unhappiness. — Maurice Maeterlinck Copy Share Image
The dog who meets with a good master is the happier of the two. — Maurice Maeterlinck Copy Share Image
Many a happiness in life, a many a disaster, is due to chance alone; but the peace within us can never be… — Maurice Maeterlinck Copy Share Image
An act of goodness is of itself an act of happiness. No reward coming after the event can compare with the sweet… — Maurice Maeterlinck Copy Share Image
It is only in the space that our thoughts and our feelings enclose that our happiness can breathe in freedom. — Maurice Maeterlinck Copy Share Image
Remember that happiness is as contagious as gloom. It should be the first duty of those who are happy to let others… — Maurice Maeterlinck Copy Share Image
Many a happiness in life, as many a disaster, can be due to chance, but the peace within us can never be… — Maurice Maeterlinck Copy Share Image
Above all, let us never forget that an act of goodness is in itself an act of happiness. It is the flower… — Maurice Maeterlinck Copy Share Image
We should tell ourselves once and for all that it is the first duty of the soul to become as happy, complete,… — Maurice Maeterlinck Copy Share Image
“Before we can bring happiness to others, we first must be happy ourselves; nor will happiness abide within us unless we confer… — Maurice Maeterlinck Copy Share Image
“We are not wrong, perhaps, to be heedful of justice in the midst of a universe that heeds not at all; as… — Maurice Maeterlinck Copy Share Image
He who sees without loving is only straining his eyes in the darkness. — Maurice Maeterlinck Copy Share
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 Copy Share
“Should we not invariably act in this life as though the God whom our heart desires with its highest desire were watching our every… — Maurice Maeterlinck Copy Share
“At every crossway on the road that leads to the future, each progressive spirit is opposed by a thousand men appointed to guard the… — Maurice Maeterlinck Copy Share
“Our lives must be spent seeking our God, for God hides; but His artifices, once they be known, seem so simple and smiling! From… — Maurice Maeterlinck Copy Share
“The angels that dry our eyes bear the form and the features of all we have said and thought—above all, of what we have… — Maurice Maeterlinck Copy Share
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 Copy Share
“For it is our most secret desire that governs and dominates all. If your eyes look for nothing but evil, you will always see… — Maurice Maeterlinck Copy Share
It is not from reason that justice springs, but goodness is born of wisdom. — Maurice Maeterlinck Copy Share
At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard the past. — Maurice Maeterlinck Copy Share
“Niemand is waarlijk mijn vriend, voordat we geleerd hebben in elkanders tegenwoordigheid te zwijgen.” — Maurice Maeterlinck Copy Share
