“For it is our most secret desire that governs and dominates all. If your eyes look for nothing but evil, you will… — 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
“Truly they who know still know nothing if the strength of love be not theirs; for the true sage is not he… — 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
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
All mothers are rich when they love their children. There are no poor mothers, no ugly ones, no old ones. Their love… — Maurice Maeterlinck Copy Share Image
The thoughts you think will irradiate you as though you are a transparent vase. — Maurice Maeterlinck Copy Share Image
There is no soul that does not respond to love, for the soul of man is a guest that has gone hungry… — Maurice Maeterlinck Copy Share Image
“Wisdom is the lamp of love, and love is the oil of the lamp. Love, sinking deeper, grows wiser; and wisdom that… — 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
“It is sad to love and be unloved, but sadder still to be unable to love.” — Maurice Maeterlinck Copy Share Image
“Of what avail are my loftiest thoughts if I have ceased to exist?” there are some will ask; to whom others, it… — Maurice Maeterlinck Copy Share Image
If you love yourself meanly, childishly, timidly, even so shall you love your neighbor. — Maurice Maeterlinck Copy Share Image
“When we lose someone we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.” — Maurice Maeterlinck Copy Share Image
The true sage is not he who sees, but he who, seeing the furthest, has the deepest love for mankind. — Maurice Maeterlinck Copy Share Image
When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough. — Maurice Maeterlinck Copy Share Image
“When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.… — 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
