The only journey is the one within.
RAINER MARIA RILKEThere are so many things about which some old man ought to tell one while one is little; for when one is grown one would know them as a matter of course.
More Rainer Maria Rilke Quotes
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There are so many things about which some old man ought to tell one while one is little; for when one is grown one would know them as a matter of course.
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Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant day into your answers.
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There may be good, but there are no pleasant marriages.
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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.
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For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks.
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Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.
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No great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger.
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One had to take some action against fear when once it laid hold of one.
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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.
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If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches; for the Creator, there is no poverty.
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There are no classes in life for beginners; right away you are always asked to deal with what is most difficult.
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Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.
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Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
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The more strongly you cultivate this belief, the more will reality and the world go forth from it.
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Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue.
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