Maurice Maeterlinck Quotes About Soul
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To be happy is only to have freed one's soul from the unrest of unhappiness.
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Above all, let us never forget that an act of goodness is in itself an act of happiness. It is the flower of a long inner life of joy and contentment; it tells of peaceful hours and days on the sunniest heights of our soul.
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We 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. To this end we may sacrifice even the passion for sacrifice, for sacrifice never should be the means of ennoblement, but only the sign of being ennobled.
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And on this earth of ours there are but few souls that can withstand the dominion of the soul that has suffered itself to become beautiful.
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The souls of all our brethren are ever hovering about us, craving for a caress, and only waiting for the signal.
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We can never judge a soul above the high water mark of our own.
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There comes no adventure but wears to our soul the shape of our everyday thoughts.
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There is no soul that does not respond to love, for the soul of man is a guest that has gone hungry these centuries back.
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Nothing in the whole world is so athirst for beauty as the soul, nor is there anything to which beauty clings so readily.
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