"When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.
To learn to love, one must first learn to see.
~ Maurice Maeterlinck ~
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To learn to love, one must first learn to see.
More Maurice Maeterlinck quotes
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"Death has come and atoned for all. I have no grievance against the soul of the man before me. Instinctively do I recognise that it soars high above th...
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"To love one’s neighbour in the immovable depths means to love in others that which is eternal; for one’s neighbour, in the truest sense of the term, i...
"It is the disaster of our entire existence that we live thus away from our soul, and stand in such dread of its slightest movement. Did we but allow i...
"… it is that such of us as have loved deeply have learnt many secrets that are unknown to others; for thousands and thousands of things quiver in sile...
"Thousands of channels there are through which the beauty of your soul may sail even unto our thoughts. Above all is there the wonderful, central chann...
"May it not be the supreme aim of life thus to bring to birth the inexplicable within ourselves; and do we know how much we add to ourselves when we aw...
"To love thus is to love according to the soul; and there is no soul that does not respond to this love. For the soul of man is a guest that has gone h...
"Wisdom is the lamp of love, and love is the oil of the lamp. Love, sinking deeper, grows wiser; and wisdom that springs up aloft comes ever the nearer...
"It is well to believe that there needs but a little more thought, a little more courage, more love, more devotion to life, a little more eagerness, on...