{"author":"Maurice Maeterlinck","author_id":"Maurice+Maeterlinck","total_quotes":80,"quotes":[{"text":"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, one day to fling open wide the portals of joy and of truth.","author":"Maurice Maeterlinck","tags":["courage","devotion-to-life","joy-and-truth","love","thoughtfulness"],"id":8,"author_id":"Maurice+Maeterlinck"},{"text":"Remember 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.","author":"Maurice Maeterlinck","tags":["happy","remember","know "],"id":18222,"author_id":"Maurice+Maeterlinck"},{"text":"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 to love. Love is the food of wisdom; wisdom the food of love; a circle of light within which those who love, clasp the hands of those who are wise.","author":"Maurice Maeterlinck","tags":["love","wisdom"],"id":19374,"author_id":"Maurice+Maeterlinck"},{"text":"An act of goodness is of itself an act of happiness.","author":"Maurice Maeterlinck","tags":["helping","people"],"id":20031,"author_id":"Maurice+Maeterlinck"},{"text":"It is only too evident that the invisible agitations of the kingdoms within us are arbitrarily set on foot by the thoughts we shelter. Our myriad intuitions are the veiled queens who steer our course through life, though we have no words in which to speak of them. How strangely do we diminish a thing as soon as we try to express it in words!","author":"Maurice Maeterlinck","tags":["intuitions","thoughts","words"],"id":39464,"author_id":"Maurice+Maeterlinck"},{"text":"In all truth might it be said that beauty is the unique aliment of our soul, for in all places does it search for beauty, and it perishes not of hunger even in the most degraded of lives. For indeed nothing of beauty can pass by and be altogether unperceived. Perhaps does it never pass by save only in our unconsciousness, but its action is no less puissant in gloom of night than by light of day; the joy it procures may be less tangible, but other difference there is none.","author":"Maurice Maeterlinck","tags":["beauty","joy","perception","soul","truth"],"id":39951,"author_id":"Maurice+Maeterlinck"},{"text":"When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough. If we always had smiled on the one who is gone, there would be no despair in our grief; and some sweetness would cling to our tears, reminiscent of virtues and happiness. For our recollections of veritable love—which indeed is the act of virtue containing all others—call from our eyes the same sweet, tender tears as those most beautiful hours wherein memory was born.","author":"Maurice Maeterlinck","tags":["despair","grief","loss","memory","tears","veritable-love"],"id":39996,"author_id":"Maurice+Maeterlinck"},{"text":"For it is our most secret desire that governs and dominates all. If your eyes look for nothing but evil, you will always see evil triumphant; but if you have learned to let your glance rest on sincerity, simpleness, truth, you will ever discover, deep down in all things, the silent overpowering victory of that which you love.","author":"Maurice Maeterlinck","tags":["love","secret-desire","simpleness","sincerity","truth","victory"],"id":43394,"author_id":"Maurice+Maeterlinck"},{"text":"For what are in reality the things we call ‘Wisdom,’ ‘Virtue,’ ‘Heroism,’ ‘sublime hours,’ and ‘great moments of life,’ but the moments when we have more or less issued forth from ourselves, and have been able to halt, be it only for an instant, on the step of one of the eternal gates whence we see that the faintest cry, the most colourless thought, and most nerveless gestures do not drop into nothingness; ….","author":"Maurice Maeterlinck","tags":["eternal-gates","great-moments-of-life","heroism","sublime-hours","virtue","wisdom"],"id":53042,"author_id":"Maurice+Maeterlinck"},{"text":"It is not from reason that justice springs, but goodness is born of wisdom.","author":"Maurice Maeterlinck","tags":["justice","goodness","born "],"id":59580,"author_id":"Maurice+Maeterlinck"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":80,"pages":8,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}