"To be happy is only to have freed……" — Maurice Maeterlinck
"To be happy is only to have freed one's soul from the unrest of unhappiness."
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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 value of ourselves is but the value of our melancholy and our disquiet.
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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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More Freed Quotes
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The use of refined petroleum as fuel, which began in the 1850s, freed hundreds of millions of people from the…
— James Buchan
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I was a little girl in World War II and I'm used to being freed by Americans.
— Madeleine Albright
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This man is freed from servile bands, Of hope to rise, or fear to fall; Lord of himself, though not…
— Lord Byron
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Washington, not Jefferson, freed his slaves upon his death.
— Stephen Ambrose
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The last few centuries have seen the world freed from several scourges-slavery, for example; death by torture for heretics; and,…
— Luis Walter Alvarez
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To love is not a passive thing. To love is active voice. When I love I do something, I function,…
— Bernard Iddings Bell
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Humility does not mean believing oneself to be inferior, but to be freed from self-importance. It is a state of…
— Matthieu Ricard
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It is natural for every man uninstructed to murmur at his condition, because, in the general infelicity of life, he…
— Samuel Johnson
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If none were to have Liberty but those who understand what it is, there would not be many freed Men…
— E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax
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Through it [Science] we believe that man will be saved from misery and degradation, not merely acquiring new material powers,…
— Ray Lankester
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The choicest believers, who are assuredly freed from the condemning power of sin, ought yet to make it their business…
— John Owen
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The vigour, and power, and comfort of our spiritual life depends on the mortification of the deeds of the flesh...The…
— John Owen
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