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
Nothing in the whole world is so athirst for beauty as the soul, nor is there anything to which beauty clings so… — Maurice Maeterlinck Copy Share Image
It is death that is the guide of our life, and our life has no goal but death. — Maurice Maeterlinck Copy Share Image
The thoughts you think will irradiate you as though you are a transparent vase. — Maurice Maeterlinck Copy Share Image
At every crossroad on the way that leads to the future, each progressive spirit is opposed by a thousand men appointed to… — Maurice Maeterlinck Copy Share Image
It is the evil that lies in ourselves that is ever least tolerant of the evil that dwells within others. — Maurice Maeterlinck Copy Share Image
It is far more important that one's life should be perceived than that it should be transformed; for no sooner has it… — Maurice Maeterlinck Copy Share Image
The dog who meets with a good master is the happier of the two. — Maurice Maeterlinck Copy Share Image
To be good we must needs have suffered; but perhaps it is necessary to have caused suffering before we can become better. — Maurice Maeterlinck Copy Share Image
Happiness is rarely absent; it is we that know not of its presence. — Maurice Maeterlinck Copy Share Image
He who sees without loving is only straining his eyes in the darkness. — Maurice Maeterlinck Copy Share Image
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 Image
“I believe that poems die the moment they are outwardly expressed.” — Maurice Maeterlinck Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
It is not from reason that justice springs, but goodness is born of wisdom. — Maurice Maeterlinck Copy Share Image
