The deepest experience of the creator is feminine, for it is experience of receiving and bearing.
RAINER MARIA RILKELet life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.
More Rainer Maria Rilke Quotes
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It is a tremendous act of violence to begin anything.
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One had to take some action against fear when once it laid hold of one.
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The ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
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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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It is good to be solitary, for solitude is difficult; that something is difficult must be a reason the more for us to do it.
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Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.
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The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.
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I am not able to begin. I simply skip what should be the beginning.
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The future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us, long before it happens.
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Believe that with your feelings and your work you are taking part in the greatest.
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A wonderful living side by side can grow, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky.
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He reproduced himself with so much humble objectivity, with the unquestioning, matter of fact interest of a dog who sees himself in a mirror and thinks: there’s another dog.
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There may be good, but there are no pleasant marriages.
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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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