“Should we not invariably act in this life as though the God whom our heart desires with its highest desire were watching… — 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… — 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… — Maurice Maeterlinck Copy Share Image
“We all live in the sublime. Where else can we live? That is the only place of life.” — Maurice Maeterlinck Copy Share Image
Most creatures have a vague belief that a very precarious hazard, a kind of transparent membrane, divides death from love; and that… — 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
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
Each man has to seek out his own special aptitude for a higher life in the midst of the humble and inevitable… — 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
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 death that is the guide of our life, and our life has no goal but death. — 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
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 well to believe that there needs but a little more thought, a little more courage, more love, more devotion to… — Maurice Maeterlinck Copy Share Image
All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than the animals that know nothing. A day will come… — Maurice Maeterlinck Copy Share Image
No living creature, not even man, has achieved, in the centre of his sphere, what the bee has achieved in her own:… — Maurice Maeterlinck Copy Share Image
You do well to have visions of a better life than of every day, but it is the life of every day… — Maurice Maeterlinck Copy Share Image
I have done what I could do in life, and if I could not do better, I did not deserve it. In… — Maurice Maeterlinck Copy Share Image
“Why not admit that it is not our paramount duty to weep with all those who are weeping, to suffer with all… — 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
