"An act of goodness is of itself an…" — Maurice Maeterlinck

An act of goodness is of itself an act of happiness. - Maurice Maeterlinck

"An act of goodness is of itself an act of happiness."

— Maurice Maeterlinck

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66 Quotes by Maurice Maeterlinck

Maurice Maeterlinck has 66 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

All mothers are rich when they love their children. There are no poor mothers, no ugly ones, no old ones.…
The living are just the dead on holiday
It is not from reason that justice springs, but goodness is born of wisdom.
Can we conceive what humanity would be if it did not know the flowers?
We possess only the happiness we able to understand.
The value of ourselves is but the value of our melancholy and our disquiet.
The souls of all our brethren are ever hovering about us, craving for a caress, and only waiting for the…
The true sage is not he who sees, but he who, seeing the furthest, has the deepest love for mankind.
To disdain today is to prove that yesterday has been misunderstood.
Remember that happiness is as contagious as gloom. It should be the first duty of those who are happy to…
Many a happiness in life, as many a disaster, can be due to chance, but the peace within us can…
There comes no adventure but wears to our soul the shape of our everyday thoughts.

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Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think. — Hannah Arendt
It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has… — Hannah Arendt
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
Quality is not an act, it is a habit. — Aristotle
Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence,… — Aristotle
Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last. — Aristotle
Storytelling is fine as long as you can encourage people to act on the stories. — Karen Armstrong
Music is the social act of communication among people, a gesture of friendship, the strongest there is. — Malcolm Arnold
Criticize the act, not the person. — Mary Kay Ash
We like to engage in a normal publishing effort, which is to act in a responsible manner and make sure… — Julian Assange
Gardening is not a rational act. — Margaret Atwood
All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of… — Wystan Hugh Auden

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