Maurice Maeterlinck Life Quotations

An act of goodness is of itself an act of happiness. No reward coming after the event can compare with the sweet reward that went with it.

A truth that disheartens because it is true is of more value than the most stimulating of falsehoods.

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.

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.

We can never judge a soul above the high water mark of our own.

Each man has to seek out his own special aptitude for a higher life in the midst of the humble and inevitable reality of daily existence. Than this, there can be no nobler aim in life.