More belongs to marriage than four legs in a bed.
RAINER MARIA RILKEIf 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.
More Rainer Maria Rilke Quotes
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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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I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone.
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Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.
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Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.
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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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Who has not sat before his own heart’s curtain? It lifts: and the scenery is falling apart.
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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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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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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 more strongly you cultivate this belief, the more will reality and the world go forth from it.
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Perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave.
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I am not able to begin. I simply skip what should be the beginning.
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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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Believe that with your feelings and your work you are taking part in the greatest.
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Truly to sing, that is a different breath.
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