The future is a world limited by ourselves-in it we discover only what concerns us.
– Maurice Maeterlinck
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- Can we conceive what humanity would be if it did not know the flowers? – Maurice Maeterlinck
- It is not from reason that justice springs, but goodness is born of wisdom. – Maurice Maeterlinck
- When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough. – Maurice Maeterlinck
- 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. – Maurice Maeterlinck
- We owe at least this much to future generations, from whom we have borrowed a fragile planet called Earth. – Maurice Strong
- A number of countries around the world, and indeed the E.U. as a whole, have chosen not to allow the import from the U.S. of beef from cows fed a diet that includes the hormone ractopamine, because of the fairly grave health concerns. – Zac Goldsmith
- Your work is to discover your world and then with all your heart give yourself to it. – Buddha
- You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you’ll discover will be wonderful. What you’ll discover is yourself. – Alan Alda
- A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay, it would give us hopes of eternal youth in a better world. – Maurice Chevalier
- Prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue. – Francis Bacon