What did Maurice Maeterlinck mean by: To be happy is only to have freed one’s soul from the unrest of unhappiness. Maurice Maeterlinck Playwright · Belgium Copy
+ No great inner event befalls those who summon it not Author, June 21, 2023January 2, 2025, Maurice Maeterlinck, Manifestation, Self-responsibility, Transformation, 0 Maurice Maeterlinck Playwright · Belgium
The value of ourselves is but the value of our melancholy and our disquiet. Author, January 16, 2024January 9, 2025, Maurice Maeterlinck, Melancholy, Value, 0 Maurice Maeterlinck Playwright · Belgium
The true sage is not he who sees, but he who, seeing the furthest, has the deepest love for mankind. Author, January 16, 2024January 9, 2025, Maurice Maeterlinck, Compassion, Humanity, Wisdom, 0 Maurice Maeterlinck Playwright · Belgium
+ We possess only the happiness we able to understand. Author, July 10, 2023January 2, 2025, Maurice Maeterlinck, Happiness, Possession, Understanding, 0 Maurice Maeterlinck Playwright · Belgium
If the bee disappeared off the face of the earth, man would only have four years left to live. Author, January 16, 2024January 9, 2025, Maurice Maeterlinck, Environment, Interdependence, Survival, 0 Maurice Maeterlinck Playwright · Belgium
The dog who meets with a good master is the happier of the two. Author, January 16, 2024January 9, 2025, Maurice Maeterlinck, Connection, Happiness, Ownership, 0 Maurice Maeterlinck Playwright · Belgium
He who sees without loving is only straining his eyes in the darkness. Author, January 16, 2024January 9, 2025, Maurice Maeterlinck, Darkness, Love, Perception, 0 Maurice Maeterlinck Playwright · Belgium
Physical suffering apart, not a single sorrow exists that can touch us except through our thoughts. Author, January 16, 2024January 9, 2025, Maurice Maeterlinck, Sorrow, Suffering, Thoughts, 0 Maurice Maeterlinck Playwright · Belgium
One is either judge or accused. The judge sits, the accused stands. Live on your feet. Jean Cocteau Artist · France
I’m not willing just to be tolerated. That wounds my love of love and of liberty. Read explanation Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Most men spend the best part of their lives making the remaining part wretched. Read explanation Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
Grief at the absence of a loved one is happiness compared to life with a person one hates. Read explanation Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
