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Rainer Maria Rilke quotes: Wishes are recollections coming from the future. Wishes are recollections coming from the future.
Rainer Maria Rilke quotes: I have patience for centuries in me and will live as though my time were very big. I have patience for centuries in me and will live as though my time were very big.
Rainer Maria Rilke quotes: You needed your whole self; and so you went and broke yourself, out of its grip, in pieces,painfully, because your need was great. You needed your whole self; and so you went and broke yourself, out of its grip, in pieces,painfully, because your need was great.
Rainer Maria Rilke quotes: When we are only victorious over small things, it leaves us feeling small. When we are only victorious over small things, it leaves us feeling small.
Rainer Maria Rilke quotes: Go on loving what is good, simple, and ordinary. Go on loving what is good, simple, and ordinary.
Rainer Maria Rilke quotes: It is part of the nature of every definitive love that sooner or later it can reach the beloved only in infinity. It is part of the nature of every definitive love that sooner or later it can reach the beloved only in infinity.
Rainer Maria Rilke quotes: I think of you often, dear, and with such concentrated wishes that it really must help you in some way. I think of you often, dear, and with such concentrated wishes that it really must help you in some way.
Rainer Maria Rilke quotes: We are unutterably alone essentially, especially in the things most intimate and most important. We are unutterably alone essentially, especially in the things most intimate and most important.
Rainer Maria Rilke quotes: The future stands firm ... but we move in infinite space. The future stands firm ... but we move in infinite space.
Rainer Maria Rilke quotes: If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow
Rainer Maria Rilke quotes: Art is childhood. Art is childhood.
Rainer Maria Rilke quotes: Nearly everything that matters is a challenge, and everything matters. Nearly everything that matters is a challenge, and everything matters.
Rainer Maria Rilke quotes: Draw near to Nature. Then try like some first human being to say what you see and experience and love and lose. 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 quotes: Winning does not tempt that man. This is how he grows: by being defeated, decisively, by greater and greater beings. Winning does not tempt that man. This is how he grows: by being defeated, decisively, by greater and greater beings.
Rainer Maria Rilke quotes: When you go to bed, don't leave bread or milkon the table: it attracts the dead.[sonnet 6] When you go to bed, don't leave bread or milk
on the table: it attracts the dead.
[sonnet 6]
Rainer Maria Rilke quotes: What batters you becomes your strength. What batters you becomes your strength.
Rainer Maria Rilke quotes: Every happiness is the child of a separation it did not think it could survive. Every happiness is the child of a separation it did not think it could survive.
Rainer Maria Rilke quotes: The grief, too, passes. The grief, too, passes.
Rainer Maria Rilke quotes: Strange / to wish wishes no longer. / Strange / to see things / that seemed to / belong together / floating in every / direction. Strange / to wish wishes no longer. / Strange / to see things / that seemed to / belong together / floating in every / direction.
Rainer Maria Rilke quotes: It is spring again. The earth is like a child that knows poems by heart. It is spring again. The earth is like a child that knows poems by heart.
Rainer Maria Rilke quotes: Be out of sync with your times for just one day, and you will see how much eternity you contain within you. Be out of sync with your times for just one day, and you will see how much eternity you contain within you.
Rainer Maria Rilke quotes: For we, when we feel, evaporate: oh, webreathe ourselves out and away: from ember to ember,yielding us fainter fragrance. For we, when we feel, evaporate: oh, we
breathe ourselves out and away: from ember to ember,
yielding us fainter fragrance.
Rainer Maria Rilke quotes: Think: the hero prolongs himself, even his fallingwas only a pretext for being, his latest rebirth. Think: the hero prolongs himself, even his falling
was only a pretext for being, his latest rebirth.
Rainer Maria Rilke quotes: I am a house gutted by fire where only the guilty sometimes sleep before the punishment that devours them hounds them out in the open. I am a house gutted by fire where only the guilty sometimes sleep before the punishment that devours them hounds them out in the open.
Rainer Maria Rilke quotes: What is needed is, in the end, simply this: solitude, great inner solitude. What is needed is, in the end, simply this: solitude, great inner solitude.
Rainer Maria Rilke quotes: Who speaks of victory? To endure is all. Who speaks of victory? To endure is all.
Rainer Maria Rilke quotes: But there is much beauty here, because there is much beauty everywhere. But there is much beauty here, because there is much beauty everywhere.
Rainer Maria Rilke quotes: 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. 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 quotes: Life + a cat ... adds up to an incalculable sum. Life + a cat ... adds up to an incalculable sum.
Rainer Maria Rilke quotes: Just keep going - no feeling is final. Just keep going - no feeling is final.
Rainer Maria Rilke quotes: Tolerating is the gift from God to women! Tolerating is the gift from God to women!
Rainer Maria Rilke quotes: For even the best err in words when they are meant to mean most delicate and almost inexpressible things. For even the best err in words when they are meant to mean most delicate and almost inexpressible things.
Rainer Maria Rilke quotes: Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack. Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
Rainer Maria Rilke quotes: Life is heavier than the weight of all things. Life is heavier than the weight of all things.
Rainer Maria Rilke quotes: There are quantities of human beings, but there are many more faces, for each person has several. There are quantities of human beings, but there are many more faces, for each person has several.
Rainer Maria Rilke quotes: Who speaks of conquering? To endure is everything. Who speaks of conquering? To endure is everything.
Rainer Maria Rilke quotes: The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things. The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.
Rainer Maria Rilke quotes: I implore those who love me to love my solitude. I implore those who love me to love my solitude.
Rainer Maria Rilke quotes: Yet, no matter how deeply I go down into myself, my God is dark, and like a webbing made of a hundred roots that drink in silence. Yet, no matter how deeply I go down into myself, my God is dark, and like a webbing made of a hundred roots that drink in silence.
Rainer Maria Rilke quotes: I could give you no advice but this: to go into yourself and to explore the depths where your life wells forth. I could give you no advice but this: to go into yourself and to explore the depths where your life wells forth.
Rainer Maria Rilke quotes: Perhaps somewhere, someplace deep inside your being, you have undergone important changes while you were sad. Perhaps somewhere, someplace deep inside your being, you have undergone important changes while you were sad.
Rainer Maria Rilke quotes: Not since Moses has anyone seen a mountain so greatly. Not since Moses has anyone seen a mountain so greatly.
Rainer Maria Rilke quotes: Every angel is terrifying. Every angel is terrifying.
Rainer Maria Rilke quotes: Be indulgent toward those who ... are afraid of the aloneness that you trust. Be indulgent toward those who ... are afraid of the aloneness that you trust.
Rainer Maria Rilke quotes: Poetic power is great, strong as a primitive instinct; it has its own unyielding rhythms in itself and breaks out as out of mountains. Poetic power is great, strong as a primitive instinct; it has its own unyielding rhythms in itself and breaks out as out of mountains.
Rainer Maria Rilke quotes: Angels often do now know whether they walk among the dead or living. Angels often do now know whether they walk among the dead or living.
Rainer Maria Rilke quotes: 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. 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 quotes: Dying is strange and hard if it is not our death, but a death that takes us by storm, when we've ripened none within us. Dying is strange and hard if it is not our death, but a death that takes us by storm, when we've ripened none within us.
Rainer Maria Rilke quotes: I believe in all that has never yet been spoken. I believe in all that has never yet been spoken.
Rainer Maria Rilke quotes: Nowhere, beloved, can world be but within us. Our life passes in transformation. And the external dwindles away. Nowhere, beloved, can world be but within us. Our life passes in transformation. And the external dwindles away.
Rainer Maria Rilke quotes: Thus we live, forever taking leave. Thus we live, forever taking leave.
Rainer Maria Rilke quotes: Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always. Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.
Rainer Maria Rilke quotes: Books inviting us to read, on the bookshelves stand.Piers for bridges that will lead, into Fairyland Books inviting us to read, on the bookshelves stand.
Piers for bridges that will lead, into Fairyland
Rainer Maria Rilke quotes: In the night, I wish to speak with the angel to find out if she recognizes my eyes, if she will ask me: do you see Eden? And I'll reply: In the night, I wish to speak with the angel to find out if she recognizes my eyes, if she will ask me: do you see Eden? And I'll reply: Eden burns.
Rainer Maria Rilke quotes: In one creative thought a thousand forgotten nights of love revive, filling it with sublimity and exaltation. In one creative thought a thousand forgotten nights of love revive, filling it with sublimity and exaltation.
Rainer Maria Rilke quotes: Our deepest fears are like dragons, guarding our deepest treasure. Our deepest fears are like dragons, guarding our deepest treasure.
Rainer Maria Rilke quotes: You are the deep innerness of all things,the last word that can never be spoken. You are the deep innerness of all things,
the last word that can never be spoken.
Rainer Maria Rilke quotes: Perform no miracles for me, But justify Thy laws to me Which, as the years pass by me. All soundlessly unfold. Perform no miracles for me, But justify Thy laws to me Which, as the years pass by me. All soundlessly unfold.
Rainer Maria Rilke quotes: Space for the Spirit to breathe. Space for the Spirit to breathe.
Rainer Maria Rilke quotes: We lead our lives so poorly because we arrive in the present always unprepared, incapable, and too distracted for everything. We lead our lives so poorly because we arrive in the present always unprepared, incapable, and too distracted for everything.
Rainer Maria Rilke quotes: Fame is finally only the sum total of all the misunderstanding that can gather around a new name. Fame is finally only the sum total of all the misunderstanding that can gather around a new name.
Rainer Maria Rilke quotes: Who has not sat before his own heart's curtain? It lifts: and the scenery is falling apart. Who has not sat before his own heart's curtain? It lifts: and the scenery is falling apart.
Rainer Maria Rilke quotes: Strangely, I heard a stranger say, I am with you. Strangely, I heard a stranger say, I am with you.
Rainer Maria Rilke quotes: We, hurt by ourselves, keento be hurters and keento be hurt back deep inside.We, like weapons laidbeside anger asleep. We, hurt by ourselves, keen
to be hurters and keen
to be hurt back deep inside.
We, like weapons laid
beside anger asleep.
Rainer Maria Rilke quotes: Particularly in the deepest and most important things, we are unutterably alone, Particularly in the deepest and most important things, we are unutterably alone,
Rainer Maria Rilke quotes: Stand up during supper and walk outdoors, and keep on walking. Stand up during supper and walk outdoors, and keep on walking.
Rainer Maria Rilke quotes: May you find in yourself enough patience to endure and enough simplicity to have faith ... May you find in yourself enough patience to endure and enough simplicity to have faith ...
Rainer Maria Rilke quotes: Death is the side of life which is turned away from us. Death is the side of life which is turned away from us.
Rainer Maria Rilke quotes: I believe that one is never more just than at those moments when one admires unreservedly and with absolute devotion. I believe that one is never more just than at those moments when one admires unreservedly and with absolute devotion.
Rainer Maria Rilke quotes: What would you do, God, if I died? What would you do, God, if I died?
Rainer Maria Rilke quotes: It is good to be alone, for solitude is difficult; that something is difficult should be one more reason to do it. It is good to be alone, for solitude is difficult; that something is difficult should be one more reason to do it.
Rainer Maria Rilke quotes: But those tasks that have been entrusted to us are difficult; almost everything serious is difficult; and everything is serious. But those tasks that have been entrusted to us are difficult; almost everything serious is difficult; and everything is serious.
Rainer Maria Rilke quotes: One moment your life is a stone in you, and the next moment a star! One moment your life is a stone in you, and the next moment a star!
Rainer Maria Rilke quotes: Ah, how good it is to be among people who are reading. Ah, how good it is to be among people who are reading.
Rainer Maria Rilke quotes: And I circle ten thousand years long; And I still don't know if I'm a falcon, a storm, or an unfinished song And I circle ten thousand years long; And I still don't know if I'm a falcon, a storm, or an unfinished song
Rainer Maria Rilke quotes: Let everything happen to youBeauty and terrorJust keep goingNo feeling is final Let everything happen to you
Beauty and terror
Just keep going
No feeling is final
Rainer Maria Rilke quotes: We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen. We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
Rainer Maria Rilke quotes: A person isn't who they are during the last conversation you had with them - they're who they've been throughout your whole relationship. A person isn't who they are during the last conversation you had with them - they're who they've been throughout your whole relationship.
Rainer Maria Rilke quotes: Works of art are of an infinite solitude, and no means of approach is so useless as criticism. Only love can touch and hold them and be fair to them. Works of art are of an infinite solitude, and no means of approach is so useless as criticism. Only love can touch and hold them and be fair to them.
Rainer Maria Rilke quotes: Think... of the world you carry within you. Think... of the world you carry within you.
Rainer Maria Rilke quotes: I want to love the things as no one has thought to love them. I want to love the things as no one has thought to love them.
Rainer Maria Rilke quotes: Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant day into your answers. Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant day into your answers.
Rainer Maria Rilke quotes: Who has not sat, afraid, before his heart's curtain? Who has not sat, afraid, before his heart's curtain?
Rainer Maria Rilke quotes: Then suddenly you're left all alonewith your body that can't love youand your will that can't save you. Then suddenly you're left all alone
with your body that can't love you
and your will that can't save you.
Rainer Maria Rilke quotes: Everything is blooming most recklessly; if it were voices instead of colors, there would be an unbelievable shrieking into the heart of the night. Everything is blooming most recklessly; if it were voices instead of colors, there would be an unbelievable shrieking into the heart of the night.
Rainer Maria Rilke quotes: No, my life is not this precipitous hourthrough which you see me passing at a run. No, my life is not this precipitous hour
through which you see me passing at a run.
Rainer Maria Rilke quotes: Across the moment, aeons speak with aeons.More than we experienced has gone by. Across the moment, aeons speak with aeons.
More than we experienced has gone by.
Rainer Maria Rilke quotes: Every angel is terrible. Every angel is terrible.
Rainer Maria Rilke quotes: Never believe fate is more than the condensation of childhood. Never believe fate is more than the condensation of childhood.
Rainer Maria Rilke quotes: No one can advise and help you, no one. There is only one way: go within. No one can advise and help you, no one. There is only one way: go within.
Rainer Maria Rilke quotes: He who understands one thing understands everything, for the same laws are in all. He who understands one thing understands everything, for the same laws are in all.
Rainer Maria Rilke quotes: What we do battle with is so small, what battles us is so large ... What we do battle with is so small, what battles us is so large ...
Rainer Maria Rilke quotes: The main thing was to be living. That was the main thing. The main thing was to be living. That was the main thing.
Rainer Maria Rilke quotes: How he loved and yetwished to leave you: always both, at once. How he loved and yet
wished to leave you: always both, at once.
Rainer Maria Rilke quotes: Now I come to you full of future. And from habit we begin to live our past. Now I come to you full of future. And from habit we begin to live our past.
Rainer Maria Rilke quotes: To have a childhood means to live a thousand lives before the one. To have a childhood means to live a thousand lives before the one.
Rainer Maria Rilke quotes: 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. 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 quotes: Not numbering and counting, but ripening like a tree. Not numbering and counting, but ripening like a tree.
Rainer Maria Rilke quotes: Trees do not force their sap, nor does the flower push its bloom. Trees do not force their sap, nor does the flower push its bloom.
Rainer Maria Rilke quotes: And you suddenly know: It was here!You pull yourself together, and therestands an irrevocable yearof anguish and vision and prayer. And you suddenly know: It was here!
You pull yourself together, and there
stands an irrevocable year
of anguish and vision and prayer.

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