"We possess only the happiness we are able to understand." ― Maurice Maeterlinck Topic(s): Happiness More From Maurice Maeterlinck "It is not from reason that justice springs, but goodness is born of wisdom." "All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing." "When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough." More In Happiness "The one happiness is to shut one’s door upon a little room, with a table before one, and to create; to create life in that isolation from life."― Eleanora Duse "My mother was electric onstage, and I vividly recall the extraordinary power she had over her audiences."― Lorna Luft "Your destiny is my destiny. Your happiness is my happiness."― Islom Karimov