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Do not be bewildered by the surfaces: in the depths all becomes law. — Rainer Maria Rilke

There are no classes in life for beginners: right away you are always asked to deal with what is most difficult. — Rainer Maria Rilke

Do not allow yourself to be misled by the surfaces of things — Rainer Maria Rilke

All professions are ... filled with demands. — Rainer Maria Rilke

I think of you often, dear, and with such concentrated wishes that it really must help you in some way. — Rainer Maria Rilke

Some day when I lose you, will you still be able to sleep, without me to whisper over you like a crown of linden branches? — Rainer Maria Rilke

For my second and third pictures, I won Academy Awards. Nothing worse could have happened to me. — Luise Rainer

Draw near to Nature. Then try like some first human being to say what you see and experience and love and lose. — Rainer Maria Rilke

Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition. — Rainer Maria Rilke

Winning does not tempt that man. This is how he grows: by being defeated, decisively, by greater and greater beings. — Rainer Maria Rilke

Love consists in leaving the loved one space to be themselves while providing the security within which that self may flourish — Rainer Maria Rilke

Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart.
... live in the question. — Rainer Maria Rilke

Our task is to take this earth so deeply and wholly into ourselves that it will resurrect within our being. — Rainer Maria Rilke

You darkness, that I come from, I love you more than all the fires that fence in the world. — Rainer Maria Rilke

The grief, too, passes. — Rainer Maria Rilke

It is good to say it aloud: 'Nothing has happened.' Once again: 'Nothing has happened.' Does that help? — Rainer Maria Rilke

Irony: Don't let yourself be controlled by it, especially during uncreative moments. — Rainer Maria Rilke

Strange / to wish wishes no longer. / Strange / to see things / that seemed to / belong together / floating in every / direction. — Rainer Maria Rilke

More belongs to marriage than four legs in a bed. — Rainer Maria Rilke

To be loved means to be consumed. To love is to give light with inexhaustible oil. To be loved is to pass away, to love is to endure. — Rainer Maria Rilke

It is spring again. The earth is like a child that knows poems by heart. — Rainer Maria Rilke

The knowledge of impermanence that haunts our days is their very fragrance. — Rainer Maria Rilke

Then draw near to nature. Pretend you are the very first man and then write what you see and experience, what you love and lose. — Rainer Maria Rilke

In the depths all becomes law. — Rainer Maria Rilke

Better a street-sweeper in Mexico than a filmmaker in Germany! — Rainer Werner Fassbinder

you are ever again the wave sweeping through all things RAINER MARIA RILKE, BOOK OF HOURS — Ram Dass

Never believe fate is more than the condensation of childhood. — Rainer Maria Rilke

The most visible joy can only reveal itself to us when we've transformed it, within. — Rainer Maria Rilke

Every angel is terrible. — Rainer Maria Rilke

You are not too old
and it is not too late
to dive into your increasing depths
where life calmly gives out
it's own secret — Rainer Maria Rilke

The future stands still dear Mr Kappus, but we move in infinite space. — Rainer Maria Rilke

Your doubt can become a good quality if you train it. It must become knowing, it must become criticism. — Rainer Maria Rilke

Someday you will name me,
then gently place those burning
holy roses in my hair.
[Songs of Longing] — Rainer Maria Rilke

Our own heart always exceeds us. — Rainer Maria Rilke

The best imitation in the world is not half as good as a poor original. — Luise Rainer

Speaking of August Rodin: He raised his world above us in an immense arc, and made it a part of nature. — Rainer Maria Rilke

When the church is engaged in meaningful prayer, it becomes both the cause and the result of greater church health. — Thom S. Rainer

Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems. — Rainer Maria Rilke

Let everything happen to you
Beauty and terror
Just keep going
No feeling is final — Rainer Maria Rilke

Success, which is something so simple in the end, is made up of thousands of things, we never fully know what. — Rainer Maria Rilke

Take a person like Julia Roberts: she does what she wants. — Luise Rainer

Like a tree which does not hurry the flow of its sap and stands at ease in the spring gales without fearing that no summer may follow. — Rainer Maria Rilke

Which so incorruptibly reduced a reality to its color content that it resumed a new existence in a beyond of color, without any previous memories. — Rainer Maria Rilke

Life is cut to allow for growth ... one may vigorously put on weight before one fills it out entirely. — Rainer Maria Rilke

To be here is immense. — Rainer Maria Rilke

I am touched by your beautiful anxiety about life ... — Rainer Maria Rilke

But this press of time - take it as a little thing next to what endures. All this hurrying soon will be over. Only when we tarry do we touch the holy. — Rainer Maria Rilke

He who understands one thing understands everything, for the same laws are in all. — Rainer Maria Rilke

The artist's task consists of making one thing of many, and a
world from the smallest part of a thing. — Rainer Maria Rilke

There is time only to work slowly
There is no time not to love — Rainer Maria Rilke

Fame is the sum of the misunderstanding that gathers about a new name. — Rainer Maria Rilke

Not numbering and counting, but ripening like a tree. — Rainer Maria Rilke

Only those sadnesses are dangerous and bad which one carries about among people in order to drown them out. — Rainer Maria Rilke

I remember once Robert Taylor invited me to lunch. I asked him, 'What is your ambition?' He said, 'I want to have 10 very good suits.' — Luise Rainer

I would much rather be a bad Luise Rainer than a second someone else. — Luise Rainer

A world will come over you, the happiness, the wealth, the inconceivable greatness of a world. — Rainer Maria Rilke

Particularly in the deepest and most important things, we are unutterably alone, — Rainer Maria Rilke

Is not impermanence the very fragrance of our days? — Rainer Maria Rilke

I am much too alone in this world, yet not alone enough — Rainer Maria Rilke

Fame is finally only the sum total of all the misunderstanding that can gather around a new name. — Rainer Maria Rilke

Around everything that is perfected, the unfinished ascends and intensifies. — Rainer Maria Rilke

To work is to live without dying. — Rainer Maria Rilke

Beauty is only the start of bearable terror. — Rainer Maria Rilke

The 'total overpaintings' developed ... through incessant reworking. The original motif peeped through the edges. Gradually it vanished completely. — Arnulf Rainer

This isn't how sickness was in childhood. A postponement. An excuse to grow up. — Rainer Maria Rilke

I am sensitive to life, and somehow acting comes to me. I can't explain it. — Luise Rainer

Passion is hard to define, but I know it when I see it. — Thom S. Rainer

Make your ego porous. Will is of little importance, complaining is nothing, fame is nothing. Openness, patience, receptivity, solitude is everything. — Rainer Maria Rilke

This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love: the more they give, the more they possess. — Rainer Maria Rilke

In the room ... they are inside the books. They move sometimes within the pages, like sleepers turning over between two dreams. — Rainer Maria Rilke

Perform no miracles for me, But justify Thy laws to me Which, as the years pass by me. All soundlessly unfold. — Rainer Maria Rilke

But your solitude will be your home and haven even in the midst of very strange conditions, and from there you will discover all your paths. — Rainer Maria Rilke

I learn it daily, learn it with painto which I am grateful: patience is everything! (Letter Three) — Rainer Maria Rilke

In one creative thought a thousand forgotten nights of love revive, filling it with sublimity and exaltation. — Rainer Maria Rilke

Membership in the church is not country club membership. It's not about paying your dues and getting perks. — Thom S. Rainer

Thus we live, forever taking leave. — Rainer Maria Rilke

Perhaps the same bird echoed through both of us yesterday, seperate, in the evening. — Rainer Maria Rilke

All emotions are pure which gather you and lift you up; that emotion is impure which seizes only one side of your being and so distorts you. — Rainer Maria Rilke

Faith and optimism are contagious. — Thom S. Rainer

Perhaps somewhere, someplace deep inside your being, you have undergone important changes while you were sad. — Rainer Maria Rilke

A carefree letting go of oneself, not a caution, but a wise blindness. — Rainer Maria Rilke

For the creator must be a world for himself, and find everything within himself, and in Nature to which he has attached himself. — Rainer Maria Rilke

Our deepest fears are like dragons, guarding our deepest treasure. — Rainer Maria Rilke

Your life will no doubt find its own paths. That they be good ones, and rich and expansive, that I wish for you more than I can say. — Rainer Maria Rilke

Those doves below, the ones utterly cared for, never endangered ones, cannot know tenderness. — Rainer Maria Rilke

Your preparation for the real world is not in the answers you've learned, but in the questions you've learned how to ask yourself. — Rainer Maria Rilke

I have faith in nights. — Rainer Maria Rilke

Angels often do now know whether they walk among the dead or living. — Rainer Maria Rilke

Since I've learned to be silent, everything has come so much closer to me. — Rainer Maria Rilke

Take your well-disciplined strengths, stretch them between the two great opposing poles, because inside human beings is where God learns. — Rainer Maria Rilke

So if we approach church membership from the perspective of entitlement, we have it upside down. You always ask first what you can do for your church. — Thom S. Rainer

Just keep going - no feeling is final. — Rainer Maria Rilke

Don't take my devils away, because my angels may flee too — Rainer Maria Rilke

Where I create, there I am true. — Rainer Maria Rilke

If your everyday life seems poor, don't blame it; blame yourself; admit to yourself that you are not enough of a poet to call forth its riches — Rainer Maria Rilke

I implore those who love me to love my solitude. — Rainer Maria Rilke

Tolerating is the gift from God to women! — Rainer Maria Rilke

Learn to love the questions themselves. — Rainer Maria Rilke

And now we welcome the new year, full of things that have never been — Rainer Maria Rilke

When somebody builds me a time machine, I'm taking a trip back in time to find the inventor of the necktie and strangle him with one. — Marc Rainer