“Before we can bring happiness to others, we first must be happy ourselves; nor will happiness abide within us unless we confer it on others. If there be a smile upon our lips, those around us will soon smile too; and our happiness will become the truer and deeper as we see that these others are happy. "It is not seemly that I, who, willingly, have brought sorrow to none, should permit myself to be sad," said Marcus Aurelius, in one of his noblest passages.”
Maurice Maeterlinck“It is sad to love and be unloved, but sadder still to be unable to love.”
Maurice Maeterlinck, Maurice Maeterlinck - Wisdom and Destiny, & The Wrack of the Storm“At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard the past.”
Maurice Maeterlinck“It is not from reason that justice springs, but goodness is born of wisdom.”
Maurice Maeterlinck“Many a happiness in life, as many a disaster, can be due to chance, but the peace within us can never be governed by chance.”
Maurice Maeterlinck“We possess only the happiness we are able to understand.”
Maurice Maeterlinck“Remember that happiness is as contagious as gloom. It should be the first duty of those who are happy to let others know of their gladness.”
Maurice Maeterlinck“All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing.”
Maurice Maeterlinck“Do we not all spend the greater part of our lives under the shadow of an event that has not yet come to pass?”
Maurice Maeterlinck“To disdain today is to prove that yesterday has been misunderstood.”
Maurice Maeterlinck“You do well to have visions of a better life than of every day but it is the life of every day from which the elements of a better life must come.”
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