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.
RAINER MARIA RILKEPerhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave.
More Rainer Maria Rilke Quotes
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There are quantities of human beings, but there are many more faces, for each person has several.
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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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Surely all art is the result of one’s having been in danger, of having gone through an experience all the way to the end, where no one can go any further.
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Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue.
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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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The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.
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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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For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks.
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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.
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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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Believe that with your feelings and your work you are taking part in the greatest.
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Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.
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The only journey is the one within.
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One had to take some action against fear when once it laid hold of one.
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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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