"The value of ourselves is but the value……" — Maurice Maeterlinck
"The value of ourselves is but the value of our melancholy and our disquiet."
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66 Quotes by Maurice Maeterlinck
Maurice Maeterlinck has 66 quotes on this site.
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All mothers are rich when they love their children. There are no poor mothers, no ugly ones, no old ones.…
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The living are just the dead on holiday
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It is not from reason that justice springs, but goodness is born of wisdom.
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Can we conceive what humanity would be if it did not know the flowers?
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We possess only the happiness we able to understand.
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The souls of all our brethren are ever hovering about us, craving for a caress, and only waiting for the…
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The true sage is not he who sees, but he who, seeing the furthest, has the deepest love for mankind.
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To disdain today is to prove that yesterday has been misunderstood.
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Remember that happiness is as contagious as gloom. It should be the first duty of those who are happy to…
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Many a happiness in life, as many a disaster, can be due to chance, but the peace within us can…
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There comes no adventure but wears to our soul the shape of our everyday thoughts.
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At every crossroad on the way that leads to the future, each progressive spirit is opposed by a thousand men…
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More Disquiet Quotes
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The world is a mirror of infinite beauty, yet no man sees it. It is a Temple of Majesty, yet…
— Thomas Traherne
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Sweating bullets to line up the Bible with our exhausting expectations, to make the Bible something it’s not meant to…
— Peter Enns
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When I left Europe in 1987 I did so with the thought that my relevance as a composition teacher would…
— Brian Ferneyhough
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We must do our business faithfully, without trouble or disquiet, recalling our mind to God mildly, and with tranquility, as…
— Brother Lawrence
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This is what I see, and what troubles me. I look on all sides, and everywhere I see nothing but…
— Blaise Pascal
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Some people read business books looking for confirmation. I read them in search of disquiet. Confirmation is cheap, easy and…
— Seth Godin
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Things can never touch the soul, but stand inert outside it, so that disquiet can arise only from fancies within.
— Marcus Aurelius
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Give me those days with heart in riot, The depths of bliss that touched on pain, The force of hate,…
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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These pictures possibly give rise to questions of political content or historical truth. Neither interests me in this instance. And…
— Gerhard Richter
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The film is ambiguous, an ambiguity that reflects on Japan today, and a world in which nothing is clear. Once…
— Takeshi Kitano
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A feeling of disquiet continues to haunt me. As a youth one dreams of love; by the time one wakes,…
— Sandra Gulland
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In the first few seconds an aching sadness wrenched his heart, but it soon gave way to a feeling of…
— Mikhail Bulgakov
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