01c. 1905 ADSilence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together ... Speech is too often ... the act of quite stifling and suspending thought, so that there is none to conceal ... Speech is of Time, silence is of Eternity ... It is idle to think that, by means of words, any real communication can ever pass from one man to another ...Maurice Maeterlinck / quote ↗
02c. 1905 ADWe should tell ourselves, once and for all, that it is the first duty of the soul to become as happy, complete, independent, and great as lies in its power. Herein is no egoism, or pride. To become effectually generous and sincerely humble there must be within us a confident, tranquil, and clear comprehension of all that we owe to ourselves.Maurice Maeterlinck / quote ↗
03c. 1905 ADOur reason may prove what it will: our reason is only a feeble ray that has issued from Nature.Maurice Maeterlinck / quote ↗
04c. 1905 ADOf what avail are my loftiest thoughts if I have ceased to exist?” there are some will ask; to whom others, it may be, will answer, “What becomes of myself if all that I love in my heart and my spirit must die, that my life may be saved?” And are not almost all the morals, and heroism, and virtue of man summed up in that single choice?Maurice Maeterlinck / quote ↗
05c. 1905 ADI believe that poems die the moment they are outwardly expressed.Maurice Maeterlinck / quote ↗
06c. 1905 ADThe angels that dry our eyes bear the form and the features of all we have said and thought—above all, of what we have done, prior to the hour of misfortune.Maurice Maeterlinck / quote ↗
09c. 1905 ADJustice is the very last thing of all wherewith the universe concerns itself. It is equilibrium that absorbs its attention; and what we term justice is truly nothing but this equilibrium transformed, as honey is nothing but a transformation of the sweetness found in the flower. Outside man there is no justice; within him injustice cannot be.Maurice Maeterlinck / quote ↗
10c. 1905 ADWe are not wrong, perhaps, to be heedful of justice in the midst of a universe that heeds not at all; as the bee is not wrong to make honey in a world that itself can make none. But we are wrong to desire an external justice, since we know that it does not exist. Let that which is in us suffice. All is for ever being weighed and judged in our soul. It is we who shall judge ourselves; or rather, our happiness is our judge.Maurice Maeterlinck / quote ↗
11c. 1905 ADThere is a courage of happiness as well as a courage of sorrow.Maurice Maeterlinck / quote ↗
12c. 1905 ADHappiness will never be any greater than the idea we have of it.Maurice Maeterlinck / quote ↗
14c. 1905 ADRemember 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 / quote ↗
15c. 1905 ADNothing befalls us that is not of the nature of ourselves. There comes no adventure but wears to our soul the shape of our everyday thoughts.Maurice Maeterlinck / quote ↗
16c. 1905 ADThere comes no adventure but wears to our soul the shape of our everyday thoughts.Maurice Maeterlinck / quote ↗
17c. 1905 ADI have done what I could do in life and if I could not do better I did not deserve it. In vain I have tried to step beyond what bound me.Maurice Maeterlinck / quote ↗
18c. 1905 ADWhat 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 / quote ↗
19c. 1905 ADThe future is a world limited by ourselves-in it we discover only what concerns us.Maurice Maeterlinck / quote ↗
20c. 1905 ADTo disdain today is to prove that yesterday has been misunderstood.Maurice Maeterlinck / quote ↗
21c. 1905 ADYou 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.Maurice Maeterlinck / quote ↗
22c. 1905 ADDo 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 / quote ↗
23c. 1905 ADAll our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing.Maurice Maeterlinck / quote ↗
