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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 {view}
  • The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things... Rainer Maria Rilke {view}
  • Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.... Rainer Maria Rilke {view}
  • A good marriage is that in which each appoints the other guardian of his solitude... Rainer Maria Rilke {view}
  • More belongs to marriage than four legs in a bed.... Rainer Maria Rilke {view}
  • This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more they possess.... Rainer Maria Rilke {view}
  • Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart. Try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books written in a foreign language. Do not now look for the answers. They cannot now be given to you because you could not live them. It is a question of experiencing everything. At present you need to live the question. Perhaps you will gradually, without even noticing it, find yourself experiencing the answer, some distant day. Letters to a Young Poet... Rainer Maria Rilke {view}
  • Who if I cried out, would hear me among the angel's hierarchies?and even if one of them pressed me suddenly against his heart:I would be consumed in that overwhelming existenceFor beauty is nothing but the beginning of terror which we are still just able to endure.and we are so awed because it serenely disdains to annihilate us.... Rainer Maria Rilke {view}
  • There may be good, but there are no pleasant marriages.... Rainer Maria Rilke {view}
  • I'm so glad you're here. . .it helps me realize how beautiful my world is.... Rainer Maria Rilke {view}