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“Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer.”
-- Rainer Maria Rilke
#Love #Inspirational #Life
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“And now we welcome the new year, full of things that have never been”
-- Rainer Maria Rilke
#New Year #Nature #New Beginnings
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“Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart. ...live in the question.”
-- Rainer Maria Rilke
#Heart #Inner Peace #Relaxation
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“The highest form of love is to be the protector of another person’s solitude.”
-- Rainer Maria Rilke
#Love #Solitude #Introvert
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“Believe in a love that is being stored up for you like an inheritance, and have faith that in this love there is a strength and a blessing so large that you can travel as far as you wish without having to step outside it.”
-- Rainer Maria Rilke
#Love #Strength #Faith
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“For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.”
-- Rainer Maria Rilke
#Love #Life #Inspiring
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“Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.”
-- Rainer Maria Rilke
#Life #Believe #Let Me
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“But your solitude will be a support and a home for you, even in the midst of very unfamiliar circumstances, and from it you will find all your paths.”
-- Rainer Maria Rilke
#Home #Support #Solitude
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“You darkness, that I come from, I love you more than all the fires that fence in the world.”
-- Rainer Maria Rilke
#Love You #Fire #Darkness
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“This is what the things can teach us: to fall, patiently to trust our heaviness. Even a bird has to do that before he can fly.”
-- Rainer Maria Rilke
#Fall #Bird #Teach
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“The only journey is the one within.”
-- Rainer Maria Rilke
#Life #Beautiful #Journey
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“Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love.”
-- Rainer Maria Rilke
#Love #Depression #Princess
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“Ah, how good it is to be among people who are reading!”
-- Rainer Maria Rilke
#Reading #Book #People
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“Perhaps creating something is nothing but an act of profound remembrance.”
-- Rainer Maria Rilke
#Creating #Profound #Remembrance
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“And your doubt can become a good quality if you train it. It must become knowing, it must become criticism. Ask it, whenever it wants to spoil something for you, why something is ugly, demand proofs from it, test it, and you will find it perhaps bewildered and embarrassed, perhaps also protesting. But don't give in, insist on arguments, and act in this way, attentive and persistent, every single time, and the day will come when, instead of being a destroyer, it will become one of your best workers-perhaps the most intelligent of all the ones that are building your life.”
-- Rainer Maria Rilke
#Intelligent #Knowing #Giving
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“Earth, my dearest, oh believe me, you no longer need your springtimes to win me over...Unspeakably, I have belonged to you, from the flush.”
-- Rainer Maria Rilke
#Believe #Winning #Earth
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“The work of the eyes is done. Go now and do the heart-work on the images imprisoned within you.”
-- Rainer Maria Rilke
#Eye #Heart #Done
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“Do not assume that he who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and quiet words that sometimes do you good. His life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that remains far beyond yours. Were it otherwise, he would never have been able to find these words.”
-- Rainer Maria Rilke
#Sadness #Simple #Simplicity
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“And isn't the whole world yours? For how often you set it on fire with your love and saw it blaze and burn up and secretly replaced it with another world while everyone slept. You felt in such complete harmony with God, when every morning you asked him for a new earth, so that all the ones he had made could have their turn. You thought it would be shabby to save them and repair them; you used them up and held out your hands, again and again, for more world. For your love was equal to everything.”
-- Rainer Maria Rilke
#Life #Morning #Hands
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“This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love: the more they give, the more they possess.”
-- Rainer Maria Rilke
#Love #Marriage #Loving Life
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“Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart...”
-- Rainer Maria Rilke
#Love #Heart #Patient
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“Make your ego porous. Will is of little importance, complaining is nothing, fame is nothing. Openness, patience, receptivity, solitude is everything.”
-- Rainer Maria Rilke
#Patience #Solitude #Ego
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“Shattered people are best represented by bits and pieces.”
-- Rainer Maria Rilke
#People #Pieces #Shattered
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“Why should you want to give up a child's wise not-understanding in exchange for defensiveness and scorn, since not-understanding is, after all, a way of being alone, whereas defensiveness and scorn are a participation in precisely what, by these means, you want to separate yourself from.”
-- Rainer Maria Rilke
#Wise #Giving Up #Children
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“Someday you will name me, then gently place those burning holy roses in my hair.”
-- Rainer Maria Rilke
#Names #Hair #Rose
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“Right in the difficult we must have our joys, our happiness, our dreams: there against the depth of this background, they stand out, there for the first time we see how beautiful they are.”
-- Rainer Maria Rilke
#Beautiful #Uplifting #Dream
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“a good marriage is that in which each appoints the other guardian of his solitude”
-- Rainer Maria Rilke
#Inspirational #Anniversary #Marriage
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“I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other.”
-- Rainer Maria Rilke
#Friendship #Relationship #Marriage
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“Verses are not, as people think, feelings (those one has early enough) -- they are experiences. For the sake of a verse one must see many cities, men, and things, one must know the animals feel how birds fly, and know the gesture with which the little flowers open in the morning.”
-- Rainer Maria Rilke
#Morning #Flower #Men
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“I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone.”
-- Rainer Maria Rilke
#Loneliness #Solitude #Secret
