Perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave.
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.
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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.
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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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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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All the soarings of my mind begin in my blood.
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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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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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The ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
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Everything is blooming most recklessly; if it were voices instead of colors, there would be an unbelievable shrieking into the heart of the night.
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Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.
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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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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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Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue.
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Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.
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The deepest experience of the creator is feminine, for it is experience of receiving and bearing.
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